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INTRODUCTION I. THREE FEDERAL RULES A. Rule 56 B. Rule 8 C. Rule 23 II. THREE COMMON CHARACTERISTICS A. Innovative Interpretation B. Practical Impact C. Social Congruence III. "THE WHOLE [...]

INTRODUCTION The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) (1) was the product of an extended and well-organized political campaign. In Congress, its passage required a grinding eight-year effort, several [...]

In the article, the author discusses the issues of race in the law and the legal professions in the U.S. Other topics include how American law accepted racial discrimination from the Civil War to World War II, the equal protection rulings of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren, and the opposition to the civil rights movement since the 1970s.

The article presents the discussion on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the centerpiece of modern procedural reform eliminating arcane technicalities and getting to the substantive issues. Topics include varying research of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and psychologists; and committing to racial equality and sincerely convincing themselves harboring no racial prejudice.

The 100th anniversary of Judge Learned Hand's opinion in Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten1 invites us to look back on its author's long career and to consider his contributions to American law and his significance in the nation's history. Spanning more than fifty years from the presidency of William Howard Taft to the presidency of John F. Kennedy, Hand's judicial career presents an exceptionally rich subject for such reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressive Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. By Kieran Egan. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 204. $16.00.) [...]

The article discusses American constitutionalism in relation to the author's views about the judicial legacy of the late U.S. Supreme Court (USSC) Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. According to the article, Brandeis is also known for his work as a lawyer, political activist, and presidential advisor. American judicial opinions are assessed, along with U.S. constitutional law-based cases such as Muller v. Oregon. Brandeis' role in the USSC's constitutional jurisprudence is examined.

The article focuses on the risk, concept and ideologies of capitalism and the relationship between capitalism and democracy. It mentions that racial and cultural characteristics required for success contracts, credit, insurance, private property, purchased labor, mass production, and expanding commercial markets. It also mentions that individuals should use property to create commodities for sale and profit rather than for their own consumption.

The article focuses on the study of legal history. Topics discussed include the court centered legal history that focuses on courts, judges, as well as judge-made law, the processes of judicial decision-making and the paradoxes of court centered legal history. It mentions the ideal images of constitutionalism and the rule of law undermined by the court-centered legal history.

The article focuses on theories of democracy, constitutionalism and legal positivism in the U.S. Topics discussed include the impact of the theory of legal positivism of British jurist John Austin in the U.S after the Civil War, the book "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined," "Lectures on Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Law" by Austin and the history of Nazism, World War II and the Cold War.

The author reflects on the role of the March on Washington, that was called for civil rights of African Americans in 1963, on the introduction of the civil rights. Topics discussed include the speech 'I have a dream' delivered by American activist Martin Luther King, Junior at the event; history of race relations and civil rights campaigns in America; and introduction of the Civil Rights Act in the U.S. It mentions the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case 'Shelby County v. Holder.'

The article presents general discussion on law professor James F. Simon's books on issues related to the U.S. constitutional history. It informs that Simon's books examine the relationship between executives and judges and those that compose the inner workings of courts. The book "In His Own Image" depicts the efforts of former U.S. President Richard Nixon in substituting a chief justice and three associate justices at a Warren Court and judicial behavior of several new appointees.

In this article the author discusses the constitutional history of the U.S., with reference to the book "The Will of the People," by Barry Friedman. According to the author, the book examines the U.S. constitutional history from a realistic perspective; and it considers constitutional doctrine as a set of adaptive rules that have been developed, changed, and sometimes discarded over the years in response to changing political conditions, problems, and values.

The article discusses the concept of federalism in the U.S. It examines the changes in ideas about the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the federal system. Moreover, it deals with the shifts in understanding the nature of federalism as a structure of government. Finally, it places the changes in the broader context of evolving ideas about the nature and the meaning of the Constitution itself.

Focuses on the relationship between U.S. Justice Louis D. Brandeis' opinion in the 'Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins' Supreme Court case and the New Deal constitutional revolution. Nature and significance of constitutional revolution; Causal connection of revolution with New Deal; Congressional power.