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Review Of The Complete Bill Of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources And Origins, By Neil Cogan, And Declaring Rights: A Brief History With Documents, By Jack N. Rakove, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

Rapport De Charles Baron, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

O Estado De Necessidade Legislativo E As Medidas Provisórias, Ivo T. Gico Jr., Danielle C. Lanius

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

As medidas legislativas de urgência são geralmente motivadas por uma necessidade premente de normatização que não comporta - em tese - o trâmite legislativo normal. O presente trabalho explora a regulação desse Estado de Necessidade Legislativo no Brasil e no Direito Comparado para tentar identificar limites jurídicos à legislação de urgência.

Hocking The Halo: Implications Of The Charities' Winning Briefs In Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc., Evelyn Brody

Evelyn Brody

In Camps Newfound/Owatonna, the petitioner charity – with important assistance from friends-of-the-court charities – persuaded the Supreme Court to overturn a Maine statute that granted property tax exemption only to those charities primarily serving state residents. Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison, 117 S. Ct. 1590 (1997). Given this statute's facial discrimination, why was victory a 5-4 squeaker? The charities naturally reasoned that coming within the Commerce Clause requires proving that charities engage in commerce (particularly interstate commerce). In their focus on the financial impact of the discriminatory statute, however, the charities never offered a positive construct of property-tax …

Review Of The Complete Bill Of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources And Origins, By Neil Cogan, And Declaring Rights: A Brief History With Documents, By Jack N. Rakove, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

Crisis En La Corte Suprema, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

Presentación en la conferencia dictada en la ciudad de Córdoba, con motivo de la reunión de la Federación de Colegios de Abogados de la Provincia de Córdoba.

Los Mecanismos Iniciales De Defensa De La Constitución En El Perú: El Poder Conservador Y El Consejo De Estado (1839-1855), Daniel Soria Luján

Daniel Soria Luján

No abstract provided.

The Digests Of Pennsylvania, Joel Fishman

Joel Fishman

Pennsylvania has one of the largest collections of case law for which digests serve as an important research tool.

An Original Model Of The Independent Counsel Statute, Ken Gormley

Ken Gormley

No abstract provided.

In Search Of Clemency Procedures We Can Live With: What Process Is Due In Capital Clemency Proceedings After Ohio Adult Parole Authority V. Woodard?, Brian S. Clarke

Brian S. Clarke

The United States Supreme Court has denied certiorari for the final time. All state and federal appeals have been exhausted. The execution date has been set. There is only one thing that can save the death row inmate from the ultimate punishment: the proverbial call from the governor and a grant of executive clemency.

This scene, although a veritable Hollywood cliche, is being played out in prisons across America with increasing frequency. As of July 1, 1998, there were 3,474 men and women on death row in America. In 1996, with the passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty …

Abortion And Women's Legal Personhood In Germany: A Contribution To The Feminist Theory Of The State, D. A. Jeremy Telman

D. A. Jeremy Telman

This article looks at abortion regulation in Germany in the context of the full range of laws through which the state specifies the status of women as legal persons. Reviewing Germany's most important abortion law decisions in 1975 and 1993, the article contends that while the Constitutional Court struck a balance between the East German legacy of reproductive freedom and West Germany's robust protections of the right to life, it did so by undermining the legal structures that had facilitated full civil, economic and political equality for women in East Germany through legal regimes geared towards protecting women's reproductive autonomy.

Polishing The Tarnished Golden Door, Michael Scaperlanda

Michael A. Scaperlanda

No abstract provided.

Rapport De Charles Baron, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

Permissible Content Discrimination Under The First Amendment: The Strange Case Of The Public Employee, Lawrence Rosenthal

Lawrence Rosenthal

The speech of public employees poses special problems under the First Amendment. As Justice O'Connor once explained, a rule that forbids employees who deal with the public from being rude to customers should be permissible in the public sector, even though a statute containing the very same prohibition would be considered impermissibly vague when applied to private-sector employees. Recognizing that a special rule for public employees is necessary, the Supreme Court has held that only when public employees speak on a matter of public concern does their speech qualify for constitutional protection, and even then, the employee's interest must be …

Four Entries, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

Four entries: "American Institutional Economics and the Legal System" (I: 61-66); "John Rogers Commons" (I: 324-327); Richard Theodore Ely" (II: 28-29); and "Plea Bargaining: A Comparative Approach"

Developments In State Constitutional Law: Due Process, Jill E. Family

Jill E. Family

No abstract provided.

Reference Re Secession From Quebec: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Rosemary Rayfuse

Rosemary Rayfuse

No abstract provided.

The Pre-Emption Presumption That Never Was: Pre-Emption Doctrine Swallows The Rule, Susan Raeker-Jordan

Susan Raeker-Jordan

No abstract provided.

Dalla Simbologia Giuridica A Una Filosofia Giuridica E Politica Simbolica ? Ovvero Il Diritto E I Sensi, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

La prima conseguenza della nostra cultura giuridica dell'audizione che è anche cultura dell'oralità, del discorso e della scrittura (di tutto ciò che serve per parlare e fissare quello che può essere detto) è la volontaria atrofia degli altri sensi: il tatto, il gusto, l'olfatto e la vista. Il Diritto quasi non tocca le cose. Le concepisce mentalmente, le dice, però, anche se con i guanti deve toccare il corpo del delitto.

Administrative Law Progress In 1997: Selected Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decisions Involving Constitutional And Administrative Decisions, John L. Gedid

John L. Gedid

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Constitutional Structure As A Limitation On The Scope Of The "Law Of Nations" In The Alien Tort Claims Act, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

Jurisdiction matters. Outside of the set of jurisdictional constraints, the judiciary is at sea; it poses a threat to the separation of powers and risks becoming a dangerous and domineering branch. Jurisdictional limitations serve a particularly important function when the judiciary is dealing with issues of international law. Since much of international law concerns foreign relations, the province of the executive and, in part, the legislature, the danger that the judiciary will act in a policy-making role or will frustrate the functions of the political branches is especially great. The Framers of the Constitution were particularly concerned with constructing a …

"Public Use" And The Independent Judiciary: Condemnation In An Interest-Group Perspective, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

This Article reexamines the doctrine of public use under the Takings Clause and its ability to impede takings for private use through an application of public choice theory. It argues that the judicial validation of interest-group capture of the condemnation power through a relaxed public use standard in Takings Clause review can be explained by interest group politics and public choice theory and by institutional tendencies inherent in the independent judiciary. Legislators can sell the eminent domain power to special interests for almost any use, promising durability in the deal given the low probability that the judiciary will invalidate it …