Challenging the Rule of Law Universalism: Why Marxist Legal Thought Still Matters

Why Florence Nightingale still matters.

THIS YEAR WE CELEBRATE the International Year of the Nurse to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Florence Nightingale' s death. On August 15, 1910, her obituary in The New York Times concluded with this observation: " Perhaps the greatest good that has resulted from her noble life has been the setting in motion of a force which has led thousands of women to devote themselves to systematic ...

The Pure Theory of Law: Demythologizing Legal Thought

Clinical neurology: why this still matters in the 21st century

This review argues that even with the tremendous advances in diagnostic neuroimaging that the clinical skills involved in clinical neurology (ie, history, examination, localisation and differential diagnosis) remain key. Yet a number of recent audits suggest that large numbers of patients are failing to be assessed properly with a risk of patient harm, costly, unnecessary or inappropriate inves...

What Postformal Thought Is, and Why It Matters

The four stages of postformal thought are Systematic, Metasystematic, Paradigmatic, and Cross-Paradigmatic. Each successive stage is more hierarchically complex than the one that precedes it. Each stage uses the elements formed at the previous stage to construct more hierarchically complex elements (e.g., metasystems, paradigms). An actual instrument constructed using the Model of Hierarchical ...

Doctrinal Categories, Legal Realism, and the Rule of Law

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 1889 I. THE REALIST CONCEPTION OF LAW .................................................. 1891 II. THE ROLE OF DOCTRINE AND THE RULE OF LAW ........................... 1898 III. DOCTRINAL CATEGORIES, REALISTICALLY RECONSTRUCTED ........... 1905 IV. A CASE STUDY: ON PROPERTY AND PROPERTY INSTITUTI...