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Outlaw Blues
(Michigan Law Review, 1989-05)
Mark Tushnet's new book ("Red, White, and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law") is an example of how too many layers of theoretical detachment can obscure truly innovative scholarship. His fervent insistence ...
An Overview of the Uniform Land Transactions Act and the Uniform Simplification of Land Transfers Act
(Stetson Law Review, 1980)
The Uniform Land Transactions Act (ULTA) and the Uniform Simplification of Land Transfers Act (USLTA) recently were approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and recommended to the several ...
Democratic Education
(Texas Law Review, 1988)
Amy Gutmann's Democratic Education might equally well be entitled Republican Education, for its central theme is how to produce true republican citizens-citizens who possess both the ability and the motivation
to participate ...
The Historical Origins, Founding, and Early Development of Student-Edited Law Reviews
(The Hastings Law Journal, 1985)
Most accredited law schools in the United States publish a student-edited law review containing scholarly writing about recent court decisions, unresolved issues of law, and other topics of interest to the legal
community. ...
The Structure and Enforcement of Job Safety Regulation
(Law & Contemporary Problems, 1986)
For more than a decade, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has been regulating the technology and work
practices of employers. This governmental function is relatively new and is
quite different ...
Civic Virtue and the Feminine Voice in Constitutional Adjudication
(Virginia Law Review, 1986)
What is true of women's writing is also true of women's jurisprudence. This article contends that modern men and women, in general, have distinctly different perspectives on the world and that, while the masculine vision ...
The Third-Party Defense to Hazardous Waste Liability: Narrowing the Contractual Relationship Exception
(South Texas Law Review, 1987)
This article focuses on one of the defenses to CERCLA liability, specifically, the third-party defense set forth in section 107(b)(3) of the Act [CERCLA § 107(b)(3), 42 U.S.C. § 9607(b)(3) (1982)] ... The particular concern ...
Issue Manipulation by the Burger Court
(Minnesota Law Review, 1986)
Members of the dominant faction of the current Supreme Court are apparently trying to have their cake and eat it, too. In some contexts, the Court uses constitutionally grounded notions of judicial restraint to deny ...
Perspectives: Law in the Grand Manner
(Constitutional Commentary, 1985)
Being a Supreme Court justice must have been more fun in the eighteenth century than it is today. The caseload was lighter, and the Court was a social as well as a political center., The justices also apparently felt ...
The Implications of Prison Privatization on the Conduct of Prisoner Litigation Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1987)
Prisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of action brought under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for violations of their constitutional rights caused by the overall condition of their confinement or by one ...