Milner S. Ball Collection: Professor Ball

Box 1

Folders

1 - Milner S. Ball, Curriculum Vitae
2 - American Law Course, Argentina
3 - American Law Course, France
4 - AppalReD
5 - Articles - local publications
6 - Introduction of Justice Benham
7 - Bush v. Gore
8 - Calvin's Sermons
9 - Constitutional Law class
10 - Educating the Capcity for the Other
11 - 8th Century B.C. Prophets
12 - Ha 'Aretz Interview
13 - Hawaii

• Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli, The Peoples' International Tribunal Hawai'i 1993
• Pro-Hawaiian Sovereignty Working Group

14 - Hip-Hop, Rap, Popular Culture
15 - Iceland
16 - Jurisprudence class
17 - Lawyer's Responsibilities
18 - Jackson Lecture, Albany 1987
19 - Jean-Francois Lyotard

• A Postmodern Fable
• La Mainmise

20 - Indian Law class
21 - Maps, articles
22 - Matthews Lecture 1996
23 - Metaphor
24 - Miscellaneous articles [generally drafts]

• Relections on the South African government's charge against Allan Boesak, June 5, 1986
• Notes for pan - OAM - Philadelphia - April 2-4, 1987
• Introduction of Mark Hatfield
• Tribute to Dean Rusk
• "First, what Republicans have done, Second, what Democrats need to do." 11/06/86
• "Political voicelessness drove me to law." 08/04/98
• SDI, FYI, CIA, DOD, GOD: Research and Responsibility, 08/06/84
• "According to the 1990 census, the United States is in the midst of a striking shift toward a population made up of minorities."
• "Lawyers have made reputations and profits from Federal Indian law."
• Federalism, Free Speech and the State Constitution 09/13/96
• Cardozo 4/26/01

25 - Miscellaneous correspondence

• Dean Rusk, photograph; Abram Chayes;Howard H. Baker, Jr.; Maurice F. Strong; Louis Lusky

26 - Donald Mosley
27 - "Moses" article, R. Alter comments
28 - Native Americans, Unitarian Universalist
29 - Newspapers clippings
30 - Phi Beta Kappa initiation
31 - Roe, Doe and the Status of Abortion 1973
32 - Senate testimony 1993
33 - Theology and Human Rights, Trinity Retreat
34 - Theology and Indian Law Symposium 1990
35 - United States v. Holmes 1970

Box 2 - Maxim Rice lawsuit

ARTICLES

• Why Law, Why Religion? - A Conversation Between a Lawyer and a Theologian, 24 J.L. & Religion 367 (2009).
• The Failure and Beginnings Again, 26 Cardozo L. Rev. 2263 (2005).
• Beyond Tolerance, 24 Cardozo L. Rev. 1621 (2003).
• Classics Revisited: Budding Translation, 99 Mich. L. Rev. 1265 (2001).
• The Supreme Court, La Ley (Argentina, 2001).
• Reparations and Repentance: A Response to Professor Cook, 68 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1015 (2000).
• Just Stories, 12 Cardozo Stud. L. & Literature 37 (2000).
• John Marshall and Indian Nations in the Beginning and Now, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1183 (2000).
• Lawyers in Context: Moses, Brandeis and the ABA, 14 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 321 (2000).
• Tribal Sovereignty, Church & Soc'y, March/April 2000 at 7.
• All the Law's a Stage, 11Cardozo Stud. L. & Literature 215 (1999).
• Comment (Foreword to general responses to interfaith conference on the role of religion and the practice of law), 66 Fordham L. Rev. 1329 (1998).
• A Little Mistrust Now and Then, 66 U. Cinn. L. Rev. 877 (1998).
• Introduction (A commemorative volume for Robert M. Cover), 8 Cardozo Stud. L. & Literature i (1996).
• Dialogue: A Conversation Between Milner Ball and James Boyd White, 8 Yale J.L. & Human. 465 (1996).
• Jurisprudence from Below: First Notes, 61 Tenn. L. Rev. 747 (1994).
• Introduction (Symposium: Native American Law), 28 Ga. L. Rev. 299 (1994).
• Stanley Streamers, 44 Mercer L. Rev. 757 (1993).
• Afterthoughts (Symposium: Individual Rights and the Powers of Government), 27 Ga. L. Rev. 473 (1993).
• "Stand in the Place Where You Are,"  52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 785 (1991).
• Soifer's Vision and Three Questions About Image, 48 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 429 (1991).
• The Unfree Exercise of Religion, 20 Cap. U.L. Rev. 39 (1991).
• Normal Religion in America, 4 Notre Dame J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 397 (1990).
• The Colin Raugh Thomas O'Fallon Memorial Lecture on Law and American Culture: Death and Life in American Law, 69 Or. L. Rev. 779 (1990).
• The Legal Academy and Minority Scholars,103 Harv. L. Rev. 1855 (1990).
• Confessions, 1 Cardozo Stud. in L. & Literature 185 (1989).
• Stories of Origin and Constitutional Possibilities (Legal Storytelling), 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2280 (1989).
• Fundamental Disorders: Martial Clergy, Native Americans, Constitutional Communities, and Ships of State, 21 Conn. L. Rev. 943 (1989).
• Michael Perry and the Sign of Better Times Ahead, 63 Tul. L. Rev. 1283 (1989).
• Law and Prophets, Bridges and Judges, 7 J. L. & Religion 1 (1989).
• Moral Pluralism, the TARDIS, and Rattlesnakes, 56 Tenn. L. Rev. 13 (1988).
• Stories and the Violence of Law, Church & Soc'y, Sept./Oct.1988, at 39.
• The City of Unger, 81 Nw. U. L. Rev. 625 (1987).
• Constitution, Court, Indian Tribes, 1987 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 1 (1987).
• Introduction (A Bicentennial Symposium - the Constitution and Human Values: The Unfinished Agenda), 20 Ga. L. Rev. 811 (1986).
• Law Natural: Its Family of Metaphors and Its Theology, 3 J. L. & Religion 141 (1985).
• Diversity in a Peaceable Kingdom: A Future for American Law and American Indian Tribes, Church & Soc'y, Jan./Feb. 1985, at 33.
• A Letter to Professor Burt, 42 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 27 (1985).
• Obligation: Not to the Law But to the Neighbor, 18 Ga. L. Rev. 911 (1984).
• Right Diagnosis, Wrong Cure: A Law Professor's Answer to Bok, 9 B. Leader 23 (1984).
• Environment, Natural Resources, and Land Use (Annual Survey of Georgia Law), 35 Mercer L. Rev. 147 (1983).
• Wrong Experiment, Wrong Result: An Appreciatively Critical Response to Schwartz, 1983 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 565.
• Nuclear War: The End of Law, 7 Nova L. Rev. 53 (1982).
• Legal Advocacy, Performance, and Affection, 16 Ga. L. Rev. 853 (1982) (with D. Robert Lohn).
• Of Rocks and Dams, PVC and Poetry: Conceptual Metaphors for Law, 36 Ga. Rev. 7 (Spring 1982).
• Law of the Sea: Expression of Solidarity, 19 San Diego L. Rev. 461 (1982).
• Good Old American Permits: Madisonian Federalism on the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf, 12 Envtl L. 623 (1982).
• Don't Die Don Quixote: A Response and Alternative to Tushnet, Bobbitt, and the Revised Texas Version of Constitutional Law, 59 Tex. L. Rev. 787 (1981).
• Sea Changes and the American Republic, 9 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (1979) (with Dean Rusk).
• Authority and American Courts, 8 Rutgers-Cam. L.J. 563 (1977).
• The Play's the Thing: An Unscientific Reflection on Courts Under the Rubric of Theater, 28 Stan. L. Rev. 81 (1975).
• Judicial Protection of Powerless Minorities, 59 Iowa L. Rev. 1059 (1974).
• The Exercise of Power and Accountability, The Bulletin, Vol. 54, No.4 at 6 (1974) (reprinted in The Neighborhood Studies Institute).
• Developing Citizen Participation in International Environmental Affairs, 1973 Int'l L. Papers 83.
• International Environmental Action: Nature, Politics, Hope, Christian Century, May 24, 1972, at 597.
• Recent Decisions, 4 Ga. L. Rev. 897 (1970).
• Recent Decisions, 4 Ga. L. Rev. 193 (1970).
• Note, The Politics of God in the Maturation of the Law, 4 Ga. L. Rev. 555 (1970).

BOOK REVIEWS

• Reflections on Constitutional Law, 57 J. Legal Educ. 615 (2007).
• Emblems of Pluralism: Cultural Differences and the State, 23 L. & Hist. Rev. 228 (2005).
• Minding the Law, 25 Just. Sys. J. 315 (2004).
• A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia, 10 Ga. B.J. 72 (August 2004).
• Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought, 59 Theology Today 518 (October 2002).
• Listening for God: Religion and Moral Discernment, 16 J.L. & Religion 725 (2001).
• Classics Revisited: Budding Translation, 99 Mich. L. Rev. 1265 (2001)(Black Elk Speaks).
• Love's Labor Lost,  Jurist: Books-on-Law (2000),
• All the Company of Heaven (From Newton's Sleep), 94 Mich. L. Rev. 2016 (1996).
• Power From the People (Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice), 92 Mich. L. Rev. 1725 (1994).
• Poethics, Christians, Jews, Law (Poethics: and Other Strategies of Law and Literature by Richard Weisberg), 15 Cardozo L. Rev. 1069 (1994).
• Out of the West Rides an Unmasked Stranger . . . (American Lawyers and Their Communities), 10 J.L. & Religion 339 (1993/94).
• Whose World and How? (Rethinking the American Race Problem), 90 Mich. L. Rev. 1338 (1992).
• Tribal Diversities and American Response, Rev. Am. Hist., March 1989 at 51.
• Constitutional Faith, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 1438 (1989).
• The Authoritative and the Authoritarian, 35 UCLA L. Rev. 547 (1988).
• International Law and the Grotian Heritage: a Commemorative Colloquium, 82 Am. J. Int'l L. 183 (1988).
• Treason against God: A History of the Offense of Blasphemy, 35 Stan. L. Rev. 1007 (1983).
• The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique, 51 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 309 (1983).
• The Legal Imagination, 44 U. Chi. L. Rev. 681 (1977).
• Cases and Materials on Equitable Remedies and Restitution, 8 Ga. L. Rev. 187 (1973).

BOOKS

• Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law. (Duke University Press, 2000)
• The Word and the Law. (University of Chicago Press, 1993).
• Lying Down Together: Law, Metaphor, and Theology. (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).
• Robert A. Burt, Book Review, 43 Theology Today 451 (1986).
•  Peter D'Errico, "Public Trust" Law and the Lakota Sweatlodge, 37 Cross Currents 398 (Winter 1986-7).
• Robert I. Ivie, Book Review, 72 Q.J. Speech 472 (1986).
• Jon M. Lipshultz, Book Review, 84 Mich. L. Rev. 967 (1986).
• Stjepan G. Mestrovic, Book Review, 25 Soc. Sci. J. 244 (1988).
• A. Simpleman, Jr., Sentimental Metaphors, 34 UCLA L. Rev. 537 (1986).
• Mark C. Taylor, Book Review, 55 J. Am. Acad. Religion 131 (1987).
• Richard E. Vatz, Lee S. Weinberg, Metaphor and Law, 21 Law & Soc'y Rev. 845 (1988).
• The Promise of American Law: A Theological, Humanistic View of Legal Process. (University of Georgia Press, 1981).
• Leslie Armour, Book Review 107 Libr. J. 180 (Jan. 15, 1982).
• Book Note, 81 Mich. L. Rev. 914 (1983).
• Book Review, 13 Cal. W. Int'l L.J. 359 (1983).
• Roger S. Clark, Book Review, 10 Int'l J. Legal Info. 80 (1982).
• Thomas D. Eisele, Unfulfilled Promise, 28 Modern Age 273 (1984).
• George E. Glos, Book Review 11 Int'l J. Legal Info. 205 (1983).
• Brad Reid, Book Review, 45 Tex. B.J. 806 (1982).
• David A.J. Richards, Book Review, 16 Ga. L. Rev. 919 (1982).
• Thomas L. Shaffer, 4 Christian Legal Soc'y Q. 36 (1982).
• Beverly A. Smith, Book Review, 20 Crim L. Rev. 84 (1984).
• John F. Wilson, Book Review, 51 J. Am. Acad. Religion 490 (1983).
• Marine and Coastal Law: International, Federal and Local: Course Materials. (School of Law, University of Georgia, 1980).
• The Law of the Sea, Federal-State Relations and the Extension of the Territorial Sea: Prolegomena to an Experimental Politics. (Dean Rusk Center for International & Comparative Law, 1978).

CHAPTERS

• "Dietrich Bonhoeffer" in The Teachings of Modern Protestantism: Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Vol.1 (Columbia University Press, 2006).
• "Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Texts Selected and Edited by Milner Ball", in The Teachings of Modern Protestantism: Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Vol.2 (Columbia University Press, 2006).
• "Doing Time and Doing it in Style" in Law and Popular Culture (Oxford University Press 2005).
• "Common Good in Performance" in In Search of the Common Good (T&T Clark, 2005).
• "A Southern Recipe for Scholarship and Politics" in Loving God with our Minds: The Pastor As Theologian (Festschrift for Wallace M. Alson)(Eerdmans Publishing, 2004).
• "A Meditation on Vocation" in Radical Christian and Exemplary Lawyer. (Eerdmans Publishing, 1995).
• "Nuclear War: An End to Law" in Nuclear Weapons and Law. (Greenwood Press, 1984).
• "The Jurisdictional Framework for Petroleum Development" in Georges Bank 522. (MIT Press, 1986)(with others).
• "The Play's the Thing: An Unscientific Reflection on Courts Under the Rubric of Theater" in Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning. (West Pub. Co., 1977).

VIDEOS

• The Eighth Fire (Upstream Films, 1992).
• The Peyote Road (Kifaru Productions, Inc., 1993).

OTHER

• The New Morality and Organ Transplantation. Studies written for and adopted by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.
• Stockholm and Beyond. Report of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972)(staff author Chapter 6).

Professor Ball taught courses in such varied fields as constitutional law, law and theology, race and law, Native American law, jurisprudence, environmental law. and property law. He was a proponent of the practice of public interest law and founded the school's Public Interest Practicum in 1992. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Ball first came to Athens as a campus minister in 1966 and graduated from Georgia Law in 1971, where he was editor in chief of the Georgia Law Review and graduated first in his class. He then taught at Rutgers-Camden before returning to Athens in 1978.

Ball was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tubigen and a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Iceland. He was a graduate of Princeton University, A.B. 1958; Harvard University, S.T.B. 1961; and the University of Georgia, J.D. 1971.

Professor Ball retired from teaching in 2007 and passed away April 6, 2011.