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Rights Talk: Must We Mean What We Say?
(Law and Social Inquiry, 1992)
Mary Ann Glendon has written a powerful and persuasive diagnosis of the ills besetting modern American society. Unlike many other commentators, Glendon refuses to lay the blame on any single group or institution but spreads ...
Using and Misusing History
(Reviews in American History, 1997)
Since Alfred Kelly coined the term "law-office history" in 1965, been added-except ever-multiplying examples-to the perennial about how lawyers and legal academics use history. Laura Kalman's ing new book about legal ...
Don't Answer That!
(Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, 2013)
Forget hard cases: "bad" cases make bad law. DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Bauman, which never should have been filed in a California federal court, has the potential to make very bad law. It is a paradigmatic example of egregious ...
Original Sin
(Northwestern University Law Review, 1990)
Approximately one-third of Robert Bork's new book, "The Tempting of America," is devoted to attacking "the bloody crossroads" that were his confirmation hearings. A careful reading of the book as a whole, however, serves ...
The Imaginary Constitution
(Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2019)
How many ways can conservatives spin an originalist tale to support their deregulatory, small-government vision? The answer is apparently infinite. In a new book, Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman are the latest in a long line ...