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Immigration Law

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

2009

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Comparative Constitutional Epics, Penelope J. Pether Mar 2009

Comparative Constitutional Epics, Penelope J. Pether

Working Paper Series

This essay takes up Robert Cover’s account, in “Nomos and Narrative” of Constitutional Epics. Ranging across legal and literary texts including Toni Morrison’s Beloved, David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life, the Canadian Arar Commission Report, and Bringing Them Home, the Report of the Australian Human Rights and Opportunity Commission’s National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, it concludes that what comparative study of Constitutions and their Epics might yield are brutal truths and the judgments of history, but also insights into how we might make of that unpromising material a nomos and a …


Oh, I'M Sorry, Did That Identity Belong To You: How Ignorance, Ambiguity, And Identity Theft Create Opportunity For Immigration Reform In The United States, Matthew T. Hovey Jan 2009

Oh, I'M Sorry, Did That Identity Belong To You: How Ignorance, Ambiguity, And Identity Theft Create Opportunity For Immigration Reform In The United States, Matthew T. Hovey

Villanova Law Review

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