Supra-culture and Anarchy

Natural Law & Lawlessness: Modern Lessons from Pirates, Lepers, Eskimos, and Survivors

“…342 When the San Francisco Vigilance Committee was in control of the city, they would send letters to people who they concluded were criminals, telling them to leave the city. 343 The wagon trains ejected members for some types of misbehavior. 344 Some pirate groups adopted rules that specified various forms of abandonment.…”

Marching to a Different Drummer? Are Lower Courts Faithfully Implementing the Evolving Due Process Guideposts to Catch and Correct Excessive Punitive Damages Awards?

“…204 Unlike other punitive damages cases to reach the Supreme Court, the case involved the narrowest of issues-the questionable phrasing of a single jury instruction. 205 Even Justice Breyer's majority opinion in Williams II was somewhat unclear as to whether the issue was a procedural irregularity or an error of substantive law.…”

Lawyers and family life: New directions for the 1990's

“…This inaccessibility dramatizes how the structure of wage labour constantly recreates male gender privilege. 21 Like Williams, others have linked the solution to the work and family dilemma with the legal profession 's current search for renewal and personal satisfaction. In David Chambers' study of male and female graduates of the University of Michigan Law School, for example, he reported that those members of the profession who experienced the highest level of stress were also those who expressed the greatest level of satisfaction with their lives overa11; 22 interestingly, this group of lawyers was composed of women with children, and their satisfaction levels were higher than women lawyers without children and than men lawyers with or without children.…”