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Four Qualms About Legal Pragmatism
Martin J. Stone
An invitation from Professors Graham Hubbs and Douglas Lind to participate in a panel on “Legal Pragmatism” left me feeling gratefully surprised: surprised, because I have never called myself a “legal pragmatist” or found inspiration in the jurisprudential work that embraces that label; but grateful, too, because I welcomed the opportunity to formulate my sense of why “legal pragmatism” is mostly useless in thinking about law, and to do so, moreover, against the background of statements from colleagues I admire concerning what they find significant in pragmatist thought. The following remarks are the upshot of that occasion. I will try to identify my basic qualms about legal pragmatism under four headings: (1) empty eclecticism, (2) reductive instrumentalism, (3) “the primacy of practice,” and (4) the metaphysically preservative recoil.
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Tax Reform Paul McDaniel Style : the Repeal of the Grantor Trust Rules
Laura E. Cunningham and Noël B. Cunningham
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Breaking the Tradition: The Case for the 640 Detainees in Guantanamo
David Rudenstine
Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.
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Gaining/Losing Perspective on the Law, or Keeping Visual Evidence in Perspective
Christopher Buccafusco
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Story of Tufts : the "Logic" of Taxing Nonrecourse Transactions
Laura E. Cunningham and Noël B. Cunningham
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