Shaping Responsible Behavior: Lessons from the AIDS Front

Imagine that you are from the planet Saturn and are visiting the UnitedStates on vacation. You are eager to figure out what makes these earthlings(or at least the subset homo sapiens americanus) tick. Whatmatters to them?Whatthrills them? Whattroubles them? What moves them to action? Whatrenders them inert? How do they deal with the stresses and strains of dailylife? How do they sift throughthe barrage ofinfonnation that confronts themevery day? How do they handle uncertainty? How do they deal with ambiguity?How do they address their conflicting needs and desires

Shaping Responsible Behavior: Lessons from the AIDS Front

Imagine that you are from the planet Saturn and are visiting the UnitedStates on vacation. You are eager to figure out what makes these earthlings(or at least the subset homo sapiens americanus) tick. Whatmatters to them?Whatthrills them? Whattroubles them? What moves them to action? Whatrenders them inert? How do they deal with the stresses and strains of dailylife? How do they sift throughthe barrage ofinfonnation that confronts themevery day? How do they handle uncertainty? How do they deal with ambiguity?How do they address their conflicting needs and desires

Taking the Right to Appeal (More or Less) Seriously

I start with the proposition that if the right to appeal has any bottom at all, its demise ought not be predicated on caseload concerns alone. I fear that if the issue first arises in the context of an administrative response to a perceived caseload crisis in our appellate system, we will never, as a practical matter, be able to consider it whole. And so I propose that now, while we remain just outside baying range, we take the time to explore what it is we seem bent on eviscerating, even as we clutch it reverently to our collective breast

The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection

Bruce Allen Murphy\u27s book about the relationship between Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter and about their secret political activities bears roughly the same relationship to penetrating legal biography as does a coloring book to a pointillistic painting

The Clouded Prism

I\u27d like to open with a brief passage from Bob Gordon\u27s sensitive essay entitled New Developments in Legal Theory which appears in The Politics of Law. The essay begins by assaying the relationship between theorists and practitioners,or, more precisely, the tendency of people who attend Critical Legal Studies (CLS) conferences to sort themselves into two categories: theorists and practitioners