Owen M Fiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5202378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen M Fiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fiss |
| SIGNATURE | FISS O M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pillars of Justice
Trebilcock's Heresy
Michael Trebilcock is passionately committed to improving the lives of the poor. As part of this project, he has written extensively on the effort to bolster the rule of law in developing countries and to improve the legal institutions found in these countries. Through an analysis of his recent book on this subject, Rule of Law Reform and Development (written with Ron Daniels), this essay examines Trebilcock's method and philosophic orientation a…
A Way Out
Preface BY JOSHUA COHEN, JEFFERSON DECKER, AND JOEL ROGERS ix PART I: What Should Be Done for Those Who Have Been Left Behind? by OWEN FISS 3 PART II: Down by Law BY RICHARD FORD 47 Communities, Capital, and Conflicts BY TRACEY L. MEARES 51 Better Neighborhoods? BY ROBERT COLES 57 Beyond Moralizing BY J. PHILLIP THOMPSON 60 Creating Options BY JENNIFER HOCHSCHILD 68 Exit and Redevelopment BY GARY ORFIELD 74 Relocation Works BY JAMES E.ROSENBAUM 7…
The State of Free Speech
Money and Politics
Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910
Journal Article Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888–1910 Get access Fiss Owen M., Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888–1910. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise: History of the Supreme Court of the United States, vol. VII. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1994. xix, 426 pp. $75.00. William G. Ross William G. Ross Cumberland School of Law of Samford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Humboldt Research Award
Owen Fiss, Mary O’Connell, Ryszard Sarkowicz; Humboldt Research Award, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 41, Issue 3, 1 July 1993, Pages 534
Teaching Procedures
Democracy and the Mass Media
In this volume a group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how to reconcile our values concerning freedom of the press with the enormous power of the media - especially television - to shape opinions and values. The policy issues treated concern primarily the extent of justifiable government regulation of the media and the justification for regulating television differently from newspapers. The volume …
The Awkwardness of the Criminal Law
The criminal law is the strong arm of the law, and derives its strength from two different sources. One is the severity of its sanctions: fines, imprisonment, and in some countries, execution. Another source of strength is the social opprobrium that comes from being convicted of a crime and thus being labeled a criminal. Implicit in every criminal conviction is the judgment that the individual has engaged in conduct that is sufficiently wrongful …
Coda
Against Settlement
Objectivity and Interpretation
Adjudication is interpretation: Adjudication is the process by which a judge comes to understand and express the meaning of an authoritative legal text and the values embodied in that text.Interpretation, whether it be in the law or literary domains, is neither a wholly discretionary nor a wholly mechanical activity.It is a dynamic interaction between reader and text, and meaning the product of that interaction.It is an activity that affords a pr…
Objectivity and Interpretation
Adjudication is interpretation: Adjudication is the process by which a judge comes to understand and express the meaning of an authoritative legal text and the values embodied in that text.Interpretation, whether it be in the law or literary domains, is neither a wholly discretionary nor a wholly mechanical activity.It is a dynamic interaction between reader and text, and meaning the product of that interaction.It is an activity that affords a pr…
The State of Free Speech
Teaching Procedures
Objectivity and Interpretation
Adjudication is interpretation: Adjudication is the process by which a judge comes to understand and express the meaning of an authoritative legal text and the values embodied in that text.Interpretation, whether it be in the law or literary domains, is neither a wholly discretionary nor a wholly mechanical activity.It is a dynamic interaction between reader and text, and meaning the product of that interaction.It is an activity that affords a pr…
Against Settlement
Coda
The Awkwardness of the Criminal Law
The criminal law is the strong arm of the law, and derives its strength from two different sources. One is the severity of its sanctions: fines, imprisonment, and in some countries, execution. Another source of strength is the social opprobrium that comes from being convicted of a crime and thus being labeled a criminal. Implicit in every criminal conviction is the judgment that the individual has engaged in conduct that is sufficiently wrongful …
Democracy and the Mass Media
In this volume a group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how to reconcile our values concerning freedom of the press with the enormous power of the media - especially television - to shape opinions and values. The policy issues treated concern primarily the extent of justifiable government regulation of the media and the justification for regulating television differently from newspapers. The volume …
Teaching Procedures
Humboldt Research Award
Owen Fiss, Mary O’Connell, Ryszard Sarkowicz; Humboldt Research Award, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 41, Issue 3, 1 July 1993, Pages 534
Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910
Journal Article Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888–1910 Get access Fiss Owen M., Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888–1910. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise: History of the Supreme Court of the United States, vol. VII. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1994. xix, 426 pp. $75.00. William G. Ross William G. Ross Cumberland School of Law of Samford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Money and Politics
The State of Free Speech
A Way Out
Preface BY JOSHUA COHEN, JEFFERSON DECKER, AND JOEL ROGERS ix PART I: What Should Be Done for Those Who Have Been Left Behind? by OWEN FISS 3 PART II: Down by Law BY RICHARD FORD 47 Communities, Capital, and Conflicts BY TRACEY L. MEARES 51 Better Neighborhoods? BY ROBERT COLES 57 Beyond Moralizing BY J. PHILLIP THOMPSON 60 Creating Options BY JENNIFER HOCHSCHILD 68 Exit and Redevelopment BY GARY ORFIELD 74 Relocation Works BY JAMES E.ROSENBAUM 7…
Trebilcock's Heresy
Michael Trebilcock is passionately committed to improving the lives of the poor. As part of this project, he has written extensively on the effort to bolster the rule of law in developing countries and to improve the legal institutions found in these countries. Through an analysis of his recent book on this subject, Rule of Law Reform and Development (written with Ron Daniels), this essay examines Trebilcock's method and philosophic orientation a…
Pillars of Justice
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Comparative and International Law Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works)