{"title":"[Book Review: Federal Jurisdiction: Tensions in the Allocation of Judicial Power Martin H. Redish]","authors":"J. Block","doi":"10.1086/491938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491938","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"6 1","pages":"571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60355376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Book Review: The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System Charles Rembar]","authors":"S. Meyerowitz","doi":"10.1086/491939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"6 1","pages":"579"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60355384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Book Review: The Process Is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court Malcolm M. Feeley]","authors":"J. Skolnick","doi":"10.1086/491929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"15 1","pages":"283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60355368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lawyers as Philosophers: Ackerman and Others","authors":"R. Posner","doi":"10.1086/491926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491926","url":null,"abstract":"Bruce Ackerman's new book, Social Justice in the Liberal State, provides an occasion for examining a certain style of argument in legal and political philosophy in which venerable terms such as \"liberalism\" and \"equality\" are given new meanings and the analyst then endeavors to deduce policy recommendations from his definitions. I shall illustrate this style of argument mainly from Ackerman's book,' but also from an essay by Ronald Dworkin on reverse discrimination. An initial curiosity about both Ackerman's book and my article should be noted: Ackerman and I are both law professors, and this article is being published in a law journal, but Ackerman's book and my discussion of it are not about law but about political philosophy. Ackerman states that the book \"has taken up much of my time, and more of my energy, for the past ten years.\"2 Yet the Dean of the Yale Law School (where Ackerman teaches), far from objecting to his devoting such effort to a field that is not law, has \"Over the past five years . . . provided invaluable moral as well as material support.\"3 And make no mistake about it: Ackerman's is not a book about law, or about justice in any sense directly relevant to the concerns of lawyers and judges; it is a book-consciously in the tradition of political philosophy that starts with Plato and Aristotle and runs through Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and many more to Rawls and Nozick and others in our day-on the legitimate role of government in regulating private conduct and providing services; it is, in other words, a normative theory of the state.","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"1981 1","pages":"231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60355313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"H. N. Hirsch, The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1981. Pp. x+253.","authors":"P. Kurland","doi":"10.1111/J.1747-4469.1981.TB00449.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1747-4469.1981.TB00449.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"6 1","pages":"1167-1171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1747-4469.1981.TB00449.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63268252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computerizing Client Services in the Law School Teaching Clinic: An Experiment in Law Office Automation (with James A. Sprowl)","authors":"Ronald W. Staudt","doi":"10.1086/491943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"1981 1","pages":"699"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60354944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA) in Operation: Two Reports","authors":"S. J. Brakel, D. M. McIntyre","doi":"10.1086/491899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491899","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"3 1","pages":"555"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60355276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Book Review: Supreme Court Policy Making: Explanation and Prediction Harold J. Spaeth]","authors":"J. Block","doi":"10.1086/491902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"5 1","pages":"617"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60355303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Book Review: Quantitative Methods in Law: Studies in the Application of Mathematical Probability and Statistics to Legal Problems Michael O. Finkelstein; Statistics and Public Policy William B. Fairley, Frederick Mosteller]","authors":"D. Baldus","doi":"10.1086/491895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491895","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"5 1","pages":"409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60355262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Book Review: Congressional Staffs: An Invisible Force in American Lawmaking Harrison W. Fox, Jr., Susan Webb Hammond]","authors":"J. Curlin","doi":"10.1086/491887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/491887","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80417,"journal":{"name":"American Bar Foundation research journal. American Bar Foundation","volume":"5 1","pages":"153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60355217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}