This fall’s James McCormick Mitchell Lecture will be delivered by UB professor John Henry Schlegel, whose talk, “Reflections ...

During my law school years, one of the courses I took was jurisprudence. Unlike most other classes, which taught the “nuts and bolts” of the legal system, jurisprudence was more philosophical, ...

In the previous installment in this two-part series, I surveyed how the theory of “legal realism” came to displace the traditional views of law shared by Anglo-American attorneys and judges. I ...

Vol. 42, No. 4, School Desegregation: Lessons of the First Twenty-Five Years: Part 2 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 57-110 (54 pages) Published By: Duke University School of Law Established in 1933, Law and ...

May 10 (Reuters) - During his four decades as a civil litigator in Chicago, Alan Barinholtz estimates he’s appeared before hundreds of judges. The 70-year-old lawyer told me he channeled them all -- ...

WASHINGTON -- In a lecture at a Boston law school in 1996, Judge Sonia Sotomayor cited Judge Jerome Frank, the author of the 1930 book that turned American legal thinking upside down. Judge Frank ...

In the canon of Legal Realism, there are two classic treatments of the subject of intellectual property. The first is Felix Cohen's brief but fierce attack, in the midst of his most famous article, on ...

What's in a Trade Name? The divorce of legal reasoning from questions of social fact and ethical value is no a product of crusty legal fictions inherited from darker ages. Even in the most modern ...

Longtime UB professor John Henry Schlegel's talk promises a deeply personal and historically rich exploration of how American ...