• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship
    • Faculty Scholarship Series
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship
    • Faculty Scholarship Series
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of openYLSCommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    Alex Bickel's Law School and Ours

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Alex_Bickel_s_Law_School_and_O ...
    Size:
    1.307Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Download
    Author
    Burt, Robert
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/5096
    Abstract
    One generation succeeds another almost without acknowledgment. Or so it seems in universities where students, who come and go recurrently, are always the same age and teachers scarcely notice that they alone are growing older. This inclination to ignore the passage of time is especially strong in law schools and legal institutions generally. When my first-year students begin our Constitutional Law course with Marbury v. Madison,' as when the Supreme Court cites the authority of Marbury, we all speak of the decision as vital, informative, and binding as if it had been decided only yesterday. And when, in the next breath, we criticize Marbury, identify its begged questions, and unmask its pretensions-the delight of every first-year Con. Law course-we are reciting a favorite folktale and entering into a great tradition. Thus Alex Bickel began his most important book, The Least Dangerous Branch, with Marbury on the first page followed on the second page by the assertion that "the opinion is very vulnerable" and citations to a continuous lineage of skeptical readers from "the late Judge Learned Hand," to Thomas Reed Powell, to Oliver Wendell Holmes, to James Bradley Thayer.
    Collections
    Faculty Scholarship Series

    entitlement

     
    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2025)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.