The hazards of making public schooling a private business
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Privatization of public education as a strategy for educational reform and improvement would undermine the ideals associated with free public schools open to all. Market-oriented, profit-driven reforms would also do nothing to improve the lot of the segments of society most disadvantaged by the current system's deficiencies. Reforms which seek to eliminate those deficiencies while retaining government delivery of educational services would be more compatible with traditional US ideals.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1999
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Foreword: a cave drawing for the ages
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Lon L. Fuller created a remarkable piece of literature in his 1949 essay, 'The Case of the Speluncean Explorers'. In his tale of a group of people facing starvation unless they kill and eat one of their own, Fuller successfully raised several legal dilemmas for debate. The nature of law, the role of the judiciary, and positivism are all questioned by his essay.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1999
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The end of the market: a psychoanalysis of law and economics
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The idea of the perfect market is a largely nonanalyzed focal point in the area of law and economics which is rooted in classical price theory. Analysis reveals that the perfect market is inherently impossible to realize. Use of feminist and psychoanalytic theory illuminate the problematic and misleading ideal .
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1998
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