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Book Review By:
Jamie
Fletcher
The problem with redemption history is that its goal is immediately apparent. In Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform,[1] Bernstein has a clear ambition: to return the case of Lochner v. New York[2
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Book Review By:
Corey S.
Shdaimah
Problem Solving Courts: A Measure of Justice[1] draws on the complementary insights of a social scientist and a practitioner. Donald Johnson is a judge who has presided over a problem solving court[2] and, therefore, has first-hand
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Book Review By:
Lolita Buckner
Inniss
I. Introduction
Because racism is inimical to our founding ideals, the black struggle for civil rights spurred public debate for decades and helped to shape much of twentieth-century jurisprudence.
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Book Review By:
Benjamin Thomas
Greer
Many of us traverse our lives focused on our mundane daily tasks, eagerly awaiting the upcoming weekend when we can enjoy free time with friends and family. Unbeknownst to many, there is a growing segment of the United States population without
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Book Review By:
Joel
Newman
J. Paul Getty loved to purchase antiquities, especially if they were cheap. Over the years, he amassed quite a collection.[1] He would pay bargain prices all right,[2] but most of the antiquities were second-rate.[3] Even so, they
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Book Review By:
John T.
Parry
In recent years, and especially with the advent of the War on Terror, academics and policy makers have paid increasing attention to the ways in which liberal states respond to emergencies. Much of this writing has taken the form of relatively
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Book Review By:
Brannon P.
Denning
Railing against the “the conventional academic wisdom . . . that constitutional adjudication is simply politics by another name,”[1] Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry’s new book, Judgment Calls: Principle and Politics in
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Book Review By:
Guha
Krishnamurthi
For better or worse, Law and Economics is a part of our law and here to stay. Some of our most famous jurists—Guido Calabresi, Frank Hoover Easterbrook, and Richard Allen Posner—battle under the Law and Economics banner.
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Book Review By:
John
Parry
Law depends on the existence of a sovereign government with power over a defined territorial space. Most of the time, this assumption functions as an unacknowledged baseline. As with many assumptions, however, a closer look reveals
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