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Insecure Communities: How Increased Localization Of Immigration Enforcement Under President Obama Through The Secure Communities Program Makes Us Less Safe, And May Violate The Constitution, Rachel Zoghlin Jan 2010

Insecure Communities: How Increased Localization Of Immigration Enforcement Under President Obama Through The Secure Communities Program Makes Us Less Safe, And May Violate The Constitution, Rachel Zoghlin

The Modern American

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The Assumptions Behind The Assumptions In The War On Terror: Risk Assessment As An Example Of Foundational Disagreement In Counterterrorism Policy, Kenneth Anderson Jan 2008

The Assumptions Behind The Assumptions In The War On Terror: Risk Assessment As An Example Of Foundational Disagreement In Counterterrorism Policy, Kenneth Anderson

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This 2007 article (based around an invited conference talk at Wayne State in early 2007) addresses risk assessment and cost benefit analysis as mechanisms in counterterrorism policy. It argues that although policy is often best pursued by agreeing to set aside deep foundational differences, in order to obtain a strategic plan for an activity such as counterterrorism, foundational differences must be addressed in order that policy not merely devolve into a policy minimalism that is always and damagingly tactical, never strategic, in order to avoid domestic democratic political conflict. The article takes risk assessment in counterterrorism, using cost benefit analysis, …


Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai Jan 2004

Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

The essay strives for a better understanding of the myths, symbols, categories of power, and images deployed by the Supreme Court to signal how we ought to think about its authority. Taking examples from free speech jurisprudence, the essay proceeds in three steps. First, Tsai argues that the First Amendment constitutes a deep source of cultural authority for the Court. As a result, linguistic and doctrinal innovation in the free speech area have been at least as bold and imaginative as that in areas like the Commerce Clause. Second, in turning to cognitive theory, he distinguishes between formal legal argumentation …


Unexplainable On Grounds Other Than Race , David Kairys Feb 1996

Unexplainable On Grounds Other Than Race , David Kairys

American University Law Review

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Race, Law And Justice: The Rehnquist Court And The American Dilemma , Paul Butler, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Roger Pilon, Robert S. Chang, David Kairys, Jamin B. Raskin, Charles J. Cooper, Phil Tajitsu Nash, Jeffret\Y Rosen, Adrienne D. Davis, Alexandra Natapoff, Katheryn K. Russell, Angela Jordan Newton, Burton Wechsler, Mark Hager, Clarence Page, Brenda Wright, Stuart Ishimaru, Frank R. Parker, Frank H. Wu Feb 1996

Race, Law And Justice: The Rehnquist Court And The American Dilemma , Paul Butler, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Roger Pilon, Robert S. Chang, David Kairys, Jamin B. Raskin, Charles J. Cooper, Phil Tajitsu Nash, Jeffret\Y Rosen, Adrienne D. Davis, Alexandra Natapoff, Katheryn K. Russell, Angela Jordan Newton, Burton Wechsler, Mark Hager, Clarence Page, Brenda Wright, Stuart Ishimaru, Frank R. Parker, Frank H. Wu

American University Law Review

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If Anybody Ask You Who I Am: An Outsider's Story Of The Duty To Establish Paternity, Lisa Kelly Jan 1995

If Anybody Ask You Who I Am: An Outsider's Story Of The Duty To Establish Paternity, Lisa Kelly

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The Nomination Of Justice Brennan: Eisenhower's Mistake: A Look At The Historical Record, Stephen Wermiel Jan 1995

The Nomination Of Justice Brennan: Eisenhower's Mistake: A Look At The Historical Record, Stephen Wermiel

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Writing Supreme Court Biography: A Single Lens View Of A Nine-Sided Image, Stephen Wermiel Jan 1994

Writing Supreme Court Biography: A Single Lens View Of A Nine-Sided Image, Stephen Wermiel

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