Digging Them Out Alive

From 2013-2018, we taught a collection of interrelated law and social work clinical courses, which we call “the Unger clinic.” This clinic was part of a major, multi-year criminal justice project, led by the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. The clinic and project responded to a need created by a 2012 Maryland Court of Appeals decision, Unger v. State. It, as later clarified, required that all Maryland prisoners who were convicted by juries before 1981—237 older, long-incarcerated prisoners—be given new trials. This was because prior to 1981 Maryland judges in criminal trials were required to instruct the jury that they—the jury—had the ultimate right to determine the law. Our clinic helped to implement Unger by providing a range of legal services and related social services to many of these prisoners. Through the five years, the great majority of the Unger group were released by agreements, on probation, and not retried. In all, approximately 85% of the 237—that is, 85% of all state prisoners in Maryland convicted by juries of violent crimes before 1981—were released. This article describes why and how we created the Unger Clinic; why we made it interdisciplinary; what the students and we learned in it and from our clients; and what we would do differently. We believe the clinical education model we developed—an interdisciplinary clinic working in partnership with a major legal services provider and a citizens’ advocacy group—can be used effectively to address other significant access-to-justice problems nationally. In the end, the Unger Project has been a criminal justice laboratory. The qualitative experiences support many criminal justice reforms with the overriding lesson being that the continued incarceration of older, long incarcerated prisoners convicted of violent crimes serves no public safety purpose

A Computer Program for Simplifying Incompletely Specified Sequential Machines Using the Paull and Unger Technique

This report presents a description of a computer program mechanized to perform the Paull and Unger process of simplifying incompletely specified sequential machines. An understanding of the process, as given in Ref. 3, is a prerequisite to the use of the techniques presented in this report. This process has specific application in the design of asynchronous digital machines and was used in the design of operational support equipment for the Mariner 1966 central computer and sequencer. A typical sequential machine design problem is presented to show where the Paull and Unger process has application. A description of the Paull and Unger process together with a description of the computer algorithms used to develop the program mechanization are presented. Several examples are used to clarify the Paull and Unger process and the computer algorithms. Program flow diagrams, program listings, and a program user operating procedures are included as appendixes

Piaristák történelemtankönyvei, piaristák tankönyvválasztása. Gondolatok a Horthy-korszak tankönyvhasználat-történetéhez

Unger Mátyás 1976-ban megjelent tankönyvtörténeti összefoglalását (Unger, 1976) a hazai történelem tankönyvtörténettel foglalkozó szakmunkák napjainkig is viszonyítási pontnak tekintik. Unger a klebelsbergi időszak középiskolai történelem tankönyvhasználatáról a dualizmus kori helyzethez viszonyítva azt írja, hogy „az engedélyezett tankönyvek száma erősen lecsökkent, de bizonyos fokú szabad versengés azért továbbra is fennmaradt.” (Unger, 1976, 155. o.). Majd pár sorral később így folytatja:„A tényleges választási lehetőség mégis erősen leszűkült a felekezeti kérdés kiéleződése miatt. Különösen szigorúan megszabott volt a » döntés« a katolikus iskolák esetében, amelyek mind a Szent István Társulat könyveit használták.” (Unger, 1976, 155. o.). Az 1931–32-es iskolai év1 katolikus fiú középiskolai értesítőinek áttekintése után – Ungerrel ellentétben – árnyaltabb következtetések megfogalmazására jutunk

On The Critical Legal Studies Movement

The present study critically examines the account of legal thought developed in Roberto Unger\u27s very long article, The Critical Legal Studies Movement (1983), and tests it against Unger\u27s own account of certain exemplary difficulties in the Anglo-American law of Contract. These scrutinies reveal that Unger\u27s account fundamentally misunderstands the ways of legal thought, and disguises its misunderstanding behind equivocations on (in)determinate and (un)justified

Unger\u27s Philosophy: A Critical Legal Study

Of all the scholars associated with the Critical Legal Studies movement, none has garnered greater attention or higher praise than Roberto Unger of Harvard Law School. In this Article, William Ewald argues that Professor Unger\u27s reputation as a brilliant philosopher of law is undeserved. Despite the seeming erudition of his books, Professor Unger\u27s work displays little familiarity with the basic philosophical literature, and the philosophical, legal, and political analysis in those works-in particular, the celebrated critique of liberalism in Knowledge and Politics-is so riddled with logical and historical errors as to be unworthy of serious scholarly attention

Unger\u27s Philosophy: A Critical Legal Study

Of all the scholars associated with the Critical Legal Studies movement, none has garnered greater attention or higher praise than Roberto Unger of Harvard Law School. In this Article, William Ewald argues that Professor Unger\u27s reputation as a brilliant philosopher of law is undeserved. Despite the seeming erudition of his books, Professor Unger\u27s work displays little familiarity with the basic philosophical literature, and the philosophical, legal, and political analysis in those works-in particular, the celebrated critique of liberalism in Knowledge and Politics-is so riddled with logical and historical errors as to be unworthy of serious scholarly attention