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Cornell University Library
E.F. Roberts 
Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emeritus
Books
McCormick on Evidence (cont. ed., with Kenneth S. Broun, gen. ed.) (St. Paul, Minn.:  Thomson/West, 6th ed. 2006) (Practitioner Treatise Series).
McCormick on Evidence (editor with John W. Strong) (St. Paul: West Publishing, 5th ed. 2003) (Practitioner Treatise Series).
McCormick on Evidence (editor with John W. Strong) (St. Paul: West Publishing, 5th ed. 1999) (Practitioner Treatise Series).
McCormick on Evidence (with others) (St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 4th ed. 1992) (Hornbook Series).
McCormick on Evidence (with others) (St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 4th ed. 1992) (Practitioner Treatise Series).
McCormick on Evidence (with others) (St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 3d ed. 1984) (Hornbook Series).
McCormick on Evidence (with others) (Lawyer's edition) (St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 3d ed. 1984).
The Law and the Preservation of Agricultural Land (Ithaca: Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, 1982).
Teacher’s Manual for Land Use Planning (New York: Matthew Bender, 1976).
McCormick's Handbook of the Law of Evidence (with others) (St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 2d ed. 1972).
Public Regulation of Title Insurance Companies and Abstracters (with Francis E.Holahan, William H. Painter, and Donald A. Giannella) (Philadelphia: Villanova University Press, 1961).
Casebooks
Land-Use Planning: Cases and Materials (New York: Matthew Bender, 2d ed. 1975).
Land-Use Planning: Cases and Materials (New York: Matthew Bender, 1971).
Contributions to Books
Law and the Environment 134-65 (New York: Walker and Co., Malcolm F. Baldwin and James K. Page, Jr., eds. 1970).
"The Right to a Decent Environment; E=MC²: Environment Equals Man Times Courts Redoubling Their Efforts," in Environmental Law 251-83 (Greenvale, N.Y.: Research and Documentation Corporation, 1970).
Articles
"The World Turned Upside Down," 21 Cornell Law Forum 13-14 (March 1995).
"Bats and Owls and the Insane Moon: The Search for the Republic's Unwritten Constitution," 36 Villanova Law Review 1559-68 (1991).
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"Real Property," 41 Syracuse Law Review 489-97 (1990).
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"1989 Faculty Conclave," 16 Cornell Law Forum 12-15 (1990).
"Evidence: Decline and Fall," 15 Cornell Law Forum 15-16 (1989).
"Reregulation, the Global Environment, and Ignorance Equals Pessimism: A Tory Perspective," 45 Washington and Lee Law Review 1345-54(1988).
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"Judicial Notice: An Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding," 61 Washington Law Review 1435-47 (1986).
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"Mining With Mr. Justice Holmes," 39 Vanderbilt Law Review 287-304 (1986).
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"Property," 34 Syracuse Law Review 371-80 (1983).
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"Property," 33 Syracuse Law Review 441-56 (1982).
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"Property," 32 Syracuse Law Review 455-66 (1981).
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"The New Frontier," 31 Syracuse Law Review 685-718 (1980).
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"Property," 31 Syracuse Law Review 403-11 (1980).
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"Nil Sine Prudenti Fecit Ratione Vetustas," 6 Cornell Law Forum 5-7 (1979).
"Property," 30 Syracuse Law Review 367-84 (1979).
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"Property," 29 Syracuse Law Review 421-39 (1978).
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"The New Segregation," 4 Cornell Law Forum 2-5 (1977).
"An Easterner's Reflections on Colorado Land Use Issues," 48 University of Colorado Law Review 399-417 (1977).
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"Property," 28 Syracuse Law Review 353-65 (1977).
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"Property," 27 Syracuse Law Review 387-99 (1976).
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"The Right to a Decent Environment: A Premature Construct," 1 Environmental Policy and Law 185-88 (1975/76).
"Land Use Planning Down on the Farm," 2 Cornell Law Forum 2-5 (1975).
"Judicial Notice: An Exercise in Exorcism" 19 New York Law Forum 745-59 (1974).
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"The Demise of Property Law," 57 Cornell Law Review 1-50 (1971).
"An Environment Lawyer Urges: Plead the Ninth Amendment!" 79 Natural History 18-26 (1970).
"The Right to a Decent Environment; E=MC²: Environment Equals Man Times Courts Redoubling Their Efforts," 55 Cornell Law Review 674-706 (1970).
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"Consumer Protection and New Houses: The American Story," 32 The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 21-27 (1968).
"A Eulogy for the Old Property," 20 Maine Law Review 15-48 (1968).
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"From Common Law Logic-Chopper to Land-Use Planner: Eulogy for the Lawyer as Social Engineer," 53 Cornell Law Review 957-1008 (1968).
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"The Case of the Unwary Home Buyer: The Housing Merchant Did It," 52 Cornell Law Quarterly 835-70 (1967).
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"Preliminary Notes Toward a Study of Judicial Notice," 52 Cornell Law Quarterly 210-38 (1967).
"Natural Law Demythologized: A Functional Theory of Norms for a Revolutionary Epoch," 51 Cornell Law Quarterly 656-77 (1966).
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"The Reapportionment Cases: Cognitive Lag, The Malady and Its Cure," 27 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 633-52 (1966).
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"Negligence: Blackstone to Shaw to ? An Intellectual Escapade in a Tory Vein," 50 Cornell Law Quarterly 191-216 (1965).
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"A Rule is a Rule Because it is the Rule: Intellectual Crises in Conflict of Laws," 9 Villanova Law Review 200-10 (1964).
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"Title Insurance: State Regulation and the Public Perspective," 39 Indiana Law Journal 1-28 (1963).
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"Urban Conveyancing Techniques in America: The Story Behind Title Insurance," 27 The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 240-49 (1963).
"Law and Literature: The Contemporary Image of the Lawyer," 6 Villanova Law Review 451-79 (1961).
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"Paradoxes in Law Enforcement," 52 The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science 224-28 (1961).
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"Presumptions: Phenomena on the Periphery," 6 Villanova Law Review 159-78 (1960/61).
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"Bible Reading in Public Schools," 102 America 737-40 (1960).
"An Introduction to the Study of Presumptions, Con't," 4 Villanova Law Review 475-97 (1958/59).
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"An Introduction to the Study of Presumptions," 4 Villanova Law Review 1-36 (1958/59).
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Book Reviews
Review of Alan Watson, Sources of Law, Legal Change and Ambiguity, 3 Law and History Review 214-15 (1985).
Review of Fernand Braudel, The Perspective of the World, 70 Cornell Law Review 1213-26 (1985).
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Review of Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition, 69 Cornell Law Review 1119-28 (1984).
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Review of Neal Alison Roberts, The Reform of Planning Law and Robert G. Healy, Land Use and the States, 62 Cornell Law Review 202-10 (1976).
Review of Barry Commoner, The Poverty of Power, 1976 Natural History Magazine 128-31 (1976).
Review of Curtis J. Berger, Land Ownership and Use: Cases, Statutes and Other Materials, 54 Cornell Law Review 314-22 (1969).
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Review of David Cowan Bayne, S.J., Conscience, Obligation, and the Law, 66 Michigan Law Review 416-21 (1967).
Review of W. Barton Leach, Property Law Indicted!, 53 Cornell Law Review 163-70 (1967).
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Review of F.S.C. Northrop, The Complexity of Legal and Ethical Experience, 6 Villanova Law Review 109-20 (1960).
Miscellaneous
"The Education of Theodore Ursus: A Story," Commonweal 11-14 (13 Aug. 1993)(short story).
"Hudson River Basin, Level B: Water and Related Land Resources Study: Present Legal Institutional Structures for Water Resources Management," (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 1978).
"Remarks," in The Severe Restriction of Development - Conference Proceedings & Selected Articles, 1-9 (1977).
"Rural Land Use - Problems & Possibilities," Publications 12:2 Primer on Land Use Control Law: Evolution of Zoning; 12:3 Primer on Land Use Law: The Legal Bounds of Zoning; 12:4: Primer on Land Use Law The Legal Bounds of Zoning,(Ithaca: Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, 1976).
"A Basic Introduction to Land Use Control and Doctrine," 13-53 (Ithaca: Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, 1975).
"A Basic Introduction to Land Use Control Law and Doctrine," (Ithaca: Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, 1975).
"Public Values and Public Benefit," 21-26 (Madison: Wisconsin American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1974).
"Implied Warranty Doctrine as Applied to the Sale of New Housing," State of New York Law Revision Commission, 37-77 (Legislative Document No. 65(A) (1967)).