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Holmes and Dissent, The Journal Jurisprudence (2011)

Holmes saw the dissent as a mechanism to advance and preserve arguments and as a...

 

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Holmes and Dissent, The Journal Jurisprudence (2011)

Holmes saw the dissent as a mechanism to advance and preserve arguments and as a...

 

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Holmes and Dissent, The Journal Jurisprudence (2011)

Holmes saw the dissent as a mechanism to advance and preserve arguments and as a...

 

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America Giveth, and America Taketh Away: The Fate of Article 9 after the Futenma Base Dispute, Michigan State International Law Review (2011)

This Article considers how the Obama administration’s policies toward Japan implicate Article 9 of the...

 

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"Flourishing and Synthesis" (review essay), The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (2011)

Edward W. Younkins's book, Flourishing and Happiness in a Free Society, is a welcome contribution...

 

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'Mass of Madness': Jurisprudence in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Modernist Cultures (2011)

Law-and-literature scholars have paid scant attention to E. M. Forster’s oeuvre, which abounds in legal...

 

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Shakespeare's Place in Law-and-Literature, Journal of Liberty and Society (2011)

Nearly every Anglo-American law school offers a course called Law-and-Literature. Nearly all of these courses...

 

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Transnational Law: An Essay in Definition with a Polemic Addendum, An Occasional Paper of the Libertarian Alliance (2011)

What is transnational law? Various procedures and theories have emanated from this slippery signifier, but...

 

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Jefferson's "Laws of Nature": Newtonian Influence and the Dual Valence of Jurisprudence and Science, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence (2010)

Jefferson appears to have conceived of natural law rather differently from his predecessors - namely,...

 

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Moundsville Penitentiary Reconsidered: Second Thoughts on a Small Town Prison Tour, Libertarian Papers (2010)

In 2007, I toured Moundsville Penitentiary, a tourist spectacle that was once - and fairly...

 

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The Oft-Ignored Mr. Turton: The Role of District Collector in A Passage to India, Libertarian Papers (2010)

E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India presents Brahman Hindu jurisprudence as an alternative to British...

 

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Haunted by History's Ghostly Gaps: A Literary Critique of the Dred Scott Decision and Its Historical Treatments, Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives (2009)

In his opinion for the majority, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney eliminates Dred Scott the...

 

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Moundsville Penitentiary, Model & Symptom of Hyperreality, The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (2009)

The current self-portrayal of Moundsville Penitentiary (WV) makes light of the prison’s actual history and...