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Stanley Surrey, The Code And The Regime, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Nir Fishbien Jan 2021
Stanley Surrey, The Code And The Regime, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Nir Fishbien
Stanley Surrey (1910-1984) was arguably the most important tax scholar of his generation. Surrey was a rare combination of an academic (Berkeley and Harvard law schools, 1947-1961 and 1969-1981) and a government official (Tax Legislative Counsel, 1942-1947; Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, 1961-1969). Today he is mostly remembered for inventing the concept of tax expenditures and the tax expenditure budget. This paper will argue that while Surrey was influential in shaping domestic tax policy for a generation and had an impact after his death on the Tax Reform Act of 1986, his longest lasting contributions were in shaping the international …
Nicholas C. Howson's Tribute To Professor William P. Alford, Nicholas C. Howson Sep 2020
Nicholas C. Howson's Tribute To Professor William P. Alford, Nicholas C. Howson
Winks, Whispers, And Prosecutorial Discretion In Rural Iowa, 1925-1928, Emily Prifogle Jul 2020
Winks, Whispers, And Prosecutorial Discretion In Rural Iowa, 1925-1928, Emily Prifogle
Through the eyes of Charles Pendleton's memoirs, this article walks through a rural community with a county attorney to consider how race, religion, gender, and sexuality influenced rural prosecutorial discretion in the early twentieth century. Rural communities like those in Buena Vista County, Iowa, where the article is centered, experienced "the law" through distinctly isolated geographies and social networks that lacked anonymity and thus shaped available methods of conflict resolution. But anonymity did not mean homogeneity. Ethnic, racial, and religious diversity created divisions within a community where social distance between individuals was small. Both onymity and diversity shaped who should …
D. Benjamin Beard: A Law Professor For All Seasons, Richard Henry Seamon Jan 2020
D. Benjamin Beard: A Law Professor For All Seasons, Richard Henry Seamon
Mark D. Anderson: A Teacher's Teacher And A Scholar's Scholar, Wendy Gerwick Couture Jan 2020
Mark D. Anderson: A Teacher's Teacher And A Scholar's Scholar, Wendy Gerwick Couture
Leading Through Collaboration: A Tribute To Distinguished Professor Barbara Cosens, Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely Jan 2020
Leading Through Collaboration: A Tribute To Distinguished Professor Barbara Cosens, Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely
Festschrift In Honor Of University Of Idaho Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dale Goble, Barbara Cosens Jan 2020
Festschrift In Honor Of University Of Idaho Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dale Goble, Barbara Cosens
A Tribute To Maureen Laflin, Elizabeth Brandt Jan 2020
A Tribute To Maureen Laflin, Elizabeth Brandt
Leading Through Collaboration: A Tribute To Distinguished Professor Barbara Cosens, Donald L. Burnett Jr. Jan 2020
Leading Through Collaboration: A Tribute To Distinguished Professor Barbara Cosens, Donald L. Burnett Jr.
A Tribute To Don Burnett, Maureen Laflin Jan 2020
A Tribute To Don Burnett, Maureen Laflin
Harry Flechtner--A True Teacher/Scholar, With Rhythm, Ronald A. Brand Jan 2019
Harry Flechtner--A True Teacher/Scholar, With Rhythm, Ronald A. Brand
This is a tribute to Professor Emeritus Harry Flechtner upon his retirement from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Professor Flechtner was a leading scholar on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), a stellar teacher, a musician who used that skill in the classroom as well as the Vienna Konzerthaus, and a genuinely nice person.
Cardozo On The Supreme Court: Meeting High Expectations, Richard D. Friedman Oct 2018
Cardozo On The Supreme Court: Meeting High Expectations, Richard D. Friedman
President Trump announced his nomination of Neil Gorsuch — the sixth most senior judge on a federal appellate court in the hinterland—for a seat on the Supreme Court in a formal, nationally televised ceremony. Judge Gorsuch squeezed the shoulder of his wife, a gesture that signaled not only his thrill at the nomination but his joy at being able to share it with her. There followed a bitterly partisan process, featuring hearings at which the nominee testified and deflected questions about his substantive views. A change in the Senate rules, ending the possibility of a filibuster, was necessary to bring …
The Life And Legacy Of Professor Calvin R. Massey: A Select Annotated Bibliography, Nicholas Mignanelli Jan 2017
The Life And Legacy Of Professor Calvin R. Massey: A Select Annotated Bibliography, Nicholas Mignanelli
Foreword: A 'Coyote Warrior' And The 'Great Paradoxes,' The Scholarship Of Professor Raymond Cross, Monte Mills Jan 2017
Foreword: A 'Coyote Warrior' And The 'Great Paradoxes,' The Scholarship Of Professor Raymond Cross, Monte Mills
This Foreword to the Public Land and Resources Law Review special issue republishing and celebrating the scholarship of Professor Raymond Cross provides a context and framework for understanding and appreciating the issue's articles. The Foreword reviews Professor Cross' legacy of work as a tribal attorney on behalf of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) of the Fort Berthold Reservation and discusses the important contributions his scholarly work continue to make to the field of Federal Indian Law. As noted at the conclusion of the Foreword, "[i]t is a true honor to introduce and present some of his important …
From Integrationism To Equal Protection: Tenbroek And The Next 25 Years Of Disability Rights, Samuel R. Bagenstos Sep 2016
From Integrationism To Equal Protection: Tenbroek And The Next 25 Years Of Disability Rights, Samuel R. Bagenstos
If there is one person who we can say is most responsible for the legal theory of the disability rights movement, that person is Jacobus tenBroek. Professor tenBroek was an influential scholar of disability law, whose writings in the 1960s laid the groundwork for the disability rights laws we have today. He was also an influential disability rights activist. He was one of the founders and the president for more than two decades of the National Federation of the Blind, one of the first-and for many years undisputedly the most effective-of the organizations made up of people with disabilities that …
On Legal Scholarship: Questions For Judge Harry T. Edwards, Ronald K.L. Collins Jan 2016
On Legal Scholarship: Questions For Judge Harry T. Edwards, Ronald K.L. Collins
The life of Judge Harry T. Edwards is one very much steeped in writing. His passion dates back at least to his years at Uniondale High School when he was the editor of the school newspaper. In the legal realm, that passion traces back to 1964 and his days on the Michigan Law Review when he published two student Notes. In the half-century since then, Judge Edwards has authored six books and more than 90 scholarly articles or essays. As a lawyer, educator, administrator, arbitrator, and now jurist, Harry Edwards has put his ideas into print concerning an array of …
Jack Sammons As Therapist, Jospeh Vining Jan 2015
Jack Sammons As Therapist, Jospeh Vining
Jack Sammons is well known as a pioneer in making the practice of law a field of academic study and teaching. He is also an original and penetrating analyst of law as such. This essay comments on his recent work, especially his putting the way we understand law and the way we understand music side by side and drawing out the parallels between them. Many will find his work a revelation.
Pivoting To Progressivism: Justice Stephen J. Chadwick, The Washington Supreme Court And Change In Early Twentieth Century Judicial Reasoning And Rhetoric, Hugh D. Spitzer Jan 2014
Pivoting To Progressivism: Justice Stephen J. Chadwick, The Washington Supreme Court And Change In Early Twentieth Century Judicial Reasoning And Rhetoric, Hugh D. Spitzer
Relatively little attention has been paid to the part played by state judges in upholding progressive legislation in the early twentieth century in a period when the United States Supreme Court often overturned reform measures on constitutional grounds. In contrast, between 1910 and 1913, the Washington State Supreme Court rapidly changed its doctrinal analysis and its stance on judicial deference to elected lawmakers, aligning the state's constitutional law with the public's new views on the responsibility of government in addressing social and economic challenges. A fascinating window on the progressive period and changes in judicial reasoning and rhetoric is provided …
Reading John Noonan, Jospeh Vining Jan 2014
Reading John Noonan, Jospeh Vining
John Noonan is a giant in American law and legal practice -- a distinguished legal historian and a true judge. His reflections on the nature of law have a special importance. This essay is a comment on basic elements in his thought.
Justice Stevens's Black Leather Arm Chair, Kathryn A. Watts Jan 2012
Justice Stevens's Black Leather Arm Chair, Kathryn A. Watts
As a law clerk to Justice Stevens in the October Term 2002, I felt that the very best part of the job came almost every afternoon. Without any advance warning, the Justice would get up from his desk and walk through chambers to the law clerks' main office and plop down into a well-worn black leather arm chair that formed part of a cozy seating area flanked by tall bookshelves filled with volumes of case reporters and the United States Code.
As soon as the Justice started settling himself into his arm chair, my co-clerks and I all knew …
Craig Callen: Tributes From The Evidence Community, Richard D. Friedman Dec 2011
Craig Callen: Tributes From The Evidence Community, Richard D. Friedman
At the wonderful memorial service for Craig Callen held at MSU shortly after his death in April, I had the honor, by reason of proximity, to appear in effect as the representative of nationwide, and even worldwide, community of scholars that has felt his death very deeply. I am grateful for the opportunity to perform this same function in print.
Dores Mccree, Theodore J. St. Antoine Jan 2011
Dores Mccree, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Dores McCree had an unusual combination of great qualities. She was totally dedicated to her role as a career advisor to students at the Law School and relentlessly persistent in pursuing opportunities for them among her large, nationwide group of lawyer friends. Yet she could be very hard-headed and realistic in appraising the qualifications of an individual candidate for a particular position. "John or Mary," she would say in that warm, disarming, and totally persuasive voice of hers, "I just don't think that job is the right fit for you. Let's find something better."
Eric Stein, Theodore J. St. Antoine Jan 2011
Eric Stein, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Eric Stein was one of the wisest, shrewdest, most broadly knowledgeable, and most benign human beings I have ever known. Since others can speak more authoritatively about Eric's scholarship and his contributions to international law, I am going to concentrate on him personally and on his relationships with his Michigan Law School colleagues.
Tribute: Dores Mccrary Mccree, David L. Chambers Jan 2011
Tribute: Dores Mccrary Mccree, David L. Chambers
Dores McCree made your day a little better whenever she walked into a room. When you talked with her, you knew her goal was simply to enjoy your company, not to get something out of you, and not to show herself off. She was good at talking and good at listening. She'd cock her head slightly and ask questions to which she really cared about the answers. On more than one occasion, I had to jockey with others to be able to sit with her at a dinner.
In Memoriam: David P. Leonard, Richard D. Friedman Jan 2010
In Memoriam: David P. Leonard, Richard D. Friedman
In all significant respects but longevity, David Leonard was - and I am confident that he believed himself to be - a lucky man. Saddened as I am that our association was cut so terribly short, I feel lucky that we had it for as long as we did. And I am sure that his family, his students, his colleagues, and those in the wider legal world who were graced not only by his wisdom but also by his essential goodness, feel the same way.
The Filaments Of The Vicarious, Jospeh Vining Jan 2010
The Filaments Of The Vicarious, Jospeh Vining
Forty years is the unit of work in focus here. You have or will have units of forty years of your own, a unit of work like this. I hope what you are doing for me is also for you and your work and your encourage-ment about the decades behind you or to come. I can best respond to your generosity with a look back at the course of this effort of mine and its internal and external connections over time, to illustrate and help us keep in mind the way we mutually influence each other in our thought and …
In Memoriam: Professor Richard E. Speidel; 1933-2008, James J. White Jan 2009
In Memoriam: Professor Richard E. Speidel; 1933-2008, James J. White
I first met Dick Speidel in 1968 when he, Bob Summers, and I started work on the first edition of our Commercial Transactions casebook. Work on the several editions of that casebook was the excuse for many wonderful, bibulous meetings in Charlottesville, Ithaca, and Ann Arbor. Those meetings were filled with exuberant debate in which Dick always favored the underdog. Only grudgingly did Bob and I succumb to Dick's insistence that we include a new topic called "consumer law"; I am certain that we forced Dick to swallow many formalist cases and rightwing notes, but he was too charitable to …
I Remember Professor Wechsler, Yale Kamisar Jan 2009
I Remember Professor Wechsler, Yale Kamisar
This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Professor Herbert Wechsler, one of the greatest criminal law scholars in American history. When I first met Professor Wechsler (in the spring of 1951, in my first year of law school), I was struck by how old he seemed at the time and how young he actually was (forty-two). One reason he appeared to be much older than his age was that he was such a stem, imposing figure. Another reason was that he had already accomplished so much. At the age of twenty-eight, he had co-authored (with his …
Giants Of A Golden Age: An Appreciation Of Professors Dennis Colson And Craig Lewis, Donald L. Burnett Jr. Jan 2008
Giants Of A Golden Age: An Appreciation Of Professors Dennis Colson And Craig Lewis, Donald L. Burnett Jr.
Hon. Larry M. Boyle Retires As Chief Magistrate Judge For The United States District Court For The District Of Idaho, Katie Ball Jan 2008
Hon. Larry M. Boyle Retires As Chief Magistrate Judge For The United States District Court For The District Of Idaho, Katie Ball
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