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Roe V. Wade: The Case That Changed Democracy, Adam Lamparello
Roe V. Wade: The Case That Changed Democracy, Adam Lamparello
Adam Lamparello
No abstract provided.
Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel
Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel
Nehal A. Patel
AbstractOver thirty years have passed since the Bhopal chemical disaster began,and in that time scholars of corporate social responsibility (CSR) havediscussed and debated several frameworks for improving corporate responseto social and environmental problems. However, CSR discourse rarelydelves into the fundamental architecture of legal thought that oftenbuttresses corporate dominance in the global economy. Moreover, CSRdiscourse does little to challenge the ontological and epistemologicalassumptions that form the foundation for modern economics and the role ofcorporations in the world.I explore methods of transforming CSR by employing the thought ofMohandas Gandhi. I pay particular attention to Gandhi’s critique ofindustrialization and principle of swadeshi (self-sufficiency) …
The Interstate Commerce Of Abortion: A Constitutional Argument For The Federal Invalidation Of Restrictive State Abortion Laws, Kaiya Amelia Lyons
The Interstate Commerce Of Abortion: A Constitutional Argument For The Federal Invalidation Of Restrictive State Abortion Laws, Kaiya Amelia Lyons
Kaiya Amelia Lyons
No abstract provided.
Rights Without Remedies, Adam Lamparello
Rights Without Remedies, Adam Lamparello
Adam Lamparello
The Court should modify the standing doctrine in some contexts for the same reason that, in Shelby County, it invalidated two provisions of the Voting Rights Act: the legislature cannot and will not fix the problem. No legal doctrine should be applied without examining whether elected representatives are capable of remedying specific harms and accounting for the relative unfairness in democratic governance. When the traditional standing requirements are rigidly applied without considering these factors, the Court undermines the separation of powers and prevents sound judicial decision-making. In essence, rigid application of the standing doctrine sends a message to litigants …
The New Affirmative Action After Fisher V. University Of Texas: Defining Educational Diversity Through The Sixth Amendment's Cross-Section Requirement, Adam Lamparello, Cynthia Swann
The New Affirmative Action After Fisher V. University Of Texas: Defining Educational Diversity Through The Sixth Amendment's Cross-Section Requirement, Adam Lamparello, Cynthia Swann
Adam Lamparello
Skin color and diversity are not synonymous, and race provides no basis upon which to stereotype individuals or groups, regardless of whether the reasons are malevolent or benign.
Affirmative action policies in higher education should focus on the things that individuals have overcome, not the traits that individuals—and groups—cannot change. Currently, the opposite is true, as such policies typically equate racial diversity with educational diversity, thereby precluding consideration of factors such as family and personal background, life experience, and the overcoming of adversity that would result in true educational diversity. This is not to say that race is irrelevant, …
Article Iii And Seventh Amendment Challenges To Sec Administrative Proceedings After Dodd-Frank, Daniel P. Dwyer Esquire
Article Iii And Seventh Amendment Challenges To Sec Administrative Proceedings After Dodd-Frank, Daniel P. Dwyer Esquire
Daniel P. Dwyer Esquire
This article is a discussion of the evolution of enforcement remedies available to the United States Securities & Exchange Commission and the possibility that, with the enactment of the 2010 Dodd-Frank amendments to the securities laws, Congress encroached on Article III of and the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution. Section of 929P of Dodd-Frank, which allows the SEC to pursue monetary penalties and other forms of relief against unregulated persons in administrative proceedings, is a particular focus. The article relies on a chronological analysis of these areas of law and close case reading to reconcile the disparate and sometimes seemingly …
Promoting Inclusion Through Exclusion: Higher Education's Assault On The First Amendment, Adam Lamparello
Promoting Inclusion Through Exclusion: Higher Education's Assault On The First Amendment, Adam Lamparello
Adam Lamparello
To obtain a meaningful educational experience and achieve the benefits of a diverse student body, students should confront beliefs they find abhorrent and discuss topics that bring discomfort. As it stands now, universities are transforming classrooms and campuses into sanctuaries for the over-sensitive and shelters for the easily-offended. In so doing, higher education is embracing a new, and bizarre, form of homogeneity that subtly coerces faculty members and students into restricting, not expressing, their views, and creating a climate that favors less, not more, expressive conduct. This approach undermines First Amendment values and further divorces higher education from the real …
Federal Prohibition Of Medical Marijuana In Pain Management: Undue, Unimportant, And Irrational, Michael L. Timm Jr.
Federal Prohibition Of Medical Marijuana In Pain Management: Undue, Unimportant, And Irrational, Michael L. Timm Jr.
Michael L. Timm Jr.
This paper provides a review of the historical right of the people of the United States to seek, and use, alternative medicinal treatment options in the realm of managing both the pain and symptoms associated with a variety of illnesses. The focus then turns to the right involved: a patient’s ability to employ medical marijuana instead of a commonly prescribed narcotic or mass-market non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesic (NSAIA) drug to manage pain and increase quality of life under the advice and consent of a treating physician. No one article has argued that there is a fundamental, important, or at least recognizable …
North Carolina’S Superintendent Of Public Instruction: Defining A Constitutional Office, Andrew P. Owens
North Carolina’S Superintendent Of Public Instruction: Defining A Constitutional Office, Andrew P. Owens
Andrew P. Owens
In 2009 a superior court case determined the fate of the Governor’s initiative to streamline education leadership by promoting a State Board of Education member while greatly reducing the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s powers. The judge’s decision in favor of Superintendent Atkinson turned on “the inherent constitutional authority” of her office; yet no one really knows what authority is inherent to the office, where that authority derives, or how to go about analyzing the office’s constitutional role. In short: what does it mean to be the Superintendent of Public Instruction? This paper explains the origins and meaning of the Superintendent …
Freedom Of Association For College Fraternities After Christian Legal Society And Citizens United, Mark D. Bauer
Freedom Of Association For College Fraternities After Christian Legal Society And Citizens United, Mark D. Bauer
Mark D Bauer
The First Amendment and its associational rights and freedoms are not tested by popular groups or causes. Only controversy can help establish the limits of constitutional rights. Fraternities and sororities (“fraternities”) have certainly been controversial during their 236 years of existence.
Colleges often regulate fraternities more strictly than any other organization. Fraternity members may be barred from wearing their letters or mentioning their affinity during certain times of the year. Recruitment of new members is generally permitted only at certain times and in certain ways. Fraternity members may be required to engage in philanthropy or maintain a specific grade point …
Culture And The Rule Of Law: Cautions For Constitution-Making, David Pimentel
Culture And The Rule Of Law: Cautions For Constitution-Making, David Pimentel
David Pimentel
Constitution-making in developing and post-conflict countries is a growth industry throughout the world. A country needing a new constitution will necessarily feel pressure to adopt, to "import," constitutional texts and principles from other, perhaps more developed nations, knowing that (1) such concepts have been tried and proven in other successful nations, and (2) they meet internationally-recognized minimum standards. A constitution, however, is, and must be, both a product of and a reaction to the society’s culture, and that includes its legal tradition, its history, and its ideology. Unless constitutions are drafted in cultural context, the best intentions are likely to …
The Best Of Both Worlds: Applying Federal Commerce And State Police Powers To Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse, Stacey L. Sklaver
The Best Of Both Worlds: Applying Federal Commerce And State Police Powers To Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse, Stacey L. Sklaver
Stacey L. Sklaver
This article addresses the prescription drug abuse epidemic in the United States. In particular, it highlights that prescribers, as the gatekeepers of controlled substances, often lack the necessary education and training to properly prescribe such medications and to spot signs of abuse. This deficiency leads to patient overdoses and death, and resultant prescriber exposure to both civil and criminal liability.
Some states require controlled substance prescribers to obtain education on safe prescribing and abuse prevention methods, but many do not, yielding the need for a federal solution. The solution must address patient health, safety, and welfare under the purview of …
The Zombie Pandemic In Florida, Anita A. Digiacomo Esq.
The Zombie Pandemic In Florida, Anita A. Digiacomo Esq.
Anita A. DiGiacomo
A zombie is currently defined as “an animated corpse that feeds on living human flesh.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contend that zombies are typically “created by an infectious virus, which is passed on via bites and contact with bodily fluids.” The vehicle for the spread of infection will depend on the nature of the virus that causes the zombie outbreak. However, due to the nature of zombies, it is more than likely that the main mode of transferring the virus, will be through bites or scratches. The zombie body consists of the reanimated human body, and as …
No Remedy For This Wrong? Analyzing The Appropriate Remedy For Violations Of California Penal Code § 834c, Jared W. Olen
No Remedy For This Wrong? Analyzing The Appropriate Remedy For Violations Of California Penal Code § 834c, Jared W. Olen
Jared W. Olen
Article 36(1)(b) of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations provides that a foreign national of a state-party has the right to have her consulate notified of her arrest upon detention. Many United Supreme Court and other federal courts have grappled with issues stemming from that right, including whether the treaty creates privately-enforceable rights. However, California was unique in that it enacted California Penal Code § 834c, which codifies as state law the right to consular notification.
While this codification precludes much discussion about privately-enforceable rights, the statute is, however, silent on what remedy should be applied if law enforcement violate …
Judicial Review And Deliberative Politics. A Tension In Need Of Analysis., Donald E. Bello Hutt
Judicial Review And Deliberative Politics. A Tension In Need Of Analysis., Donald E. Bello Hutt
Donald E. Bello Hutt
Champions of judicial review of legislation have defended this institution even before John Marshall decided Marbury v. Madison in 1803. Nevertheless, those defenses have to face with several difficulties, both practical and abstract. The aim of this paper is to analyze those difficulties and the context in which the defenses have been successful. We shall discuss the origins of judicial review in the work of James Iredell, Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall in order to introduce not only the first defenses of judicial review, but to fix the political context and dominant constitutional philosophy at their time: departmentalism and popular …
Playing The Race Card: White Americans’ Sense Of Victimization In Response To Affirmative Action, Brett Hammon
Playing The Race Card: White Americans’ Sense Of Victimization In Response To Affirmative Action, Brett Hammon
Brett Hammon
“They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights. They complained of voter intimidation at the polls. They called for ethnic studies programs to promote racial pride. They are, some say, the new face of racial oppression in this nation -- and their faces are White.”a A 2011 poll indicates that Whites have now come to view anti-White bias as a bigger problem than anti-Black bias.b Based on recent Supreme Court opinions, most of the Justices apparently agree that Whites are today’s true victims, as the Court has continued to steadfastly stand up for the rights of White plaintiffs against discrimination …
Why Are We Teaching Kids To Hate?: Ending The Practice Of Gay-To-Straight Conversion Treatments, Afton R. Cavanaugh
Why Are We Teaching Kids To Hate?: Ending The Practice Of Gay-To-Straight Conversion Treatments, Afton R. Cavanaugh
Afton R. Cavanaugh
The governor of California just signed into law SB 1172, creating a cause of action against mental health professionals that attempt to convert children under the age of eighteen from gay to straight. Conversion therapy, as this practice is called, has been around for a long time, but recently our nation’s youth has come into the crosshairs of powerful anti-gay activists. Conversion therapy imbeds within the child’s psyche an internalized form of homophobia that causes an extreme risk of psychological distress given the developing and often fragile mental state of children and teenagers. These methods have no proven success rate, …
Constitutional Combat: Is Fighting A Form Of Free Speech? The Ultimate Fighting Championship And Its Struggle Against The State Of New York Over The Message Of Mixed Martial Arts, Daniel A. Berger
Daniel A Berger
No abstract provided.
The Role Of American Individualism In The Current State Of Public Schools, Kehinde A. Durowade Ms.
The Role Of American Individualism In The Current State Of Public Schools, Kehinde A. Durowade Ms.
Kehinde Durowade
The Article focuses on the method of public school funding in America and how it continues to contribute to the stagnation of public school education in America. I examine several judicial decisions – most notably Brown v. Board of Education and San Antonio Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Rodriguez – and legislative action, to demonstrate a steady decline in the significance attributed to public education by the government. With specific emphasis on Illinois public schools, which currently rank 47th in the country for funding fairness, this paper suggests a cultural approach to solving the problem. It posits that a cultural shift, …
A Multiple Choice Legislative Certification Procedure: Asking Congressional Preferences In Statutory Interpretation, Danieli Evans
A Multiple Choice Legislative Certification Procedure: Asking Congressional Preferences In Statutory Interpretation, Danieli Evans
Danieli Evans
In response to failed efforts at enhancing judicial-legislative collaboration, I propose a procedure that would enable the Court to take account of congressional preferences in a pending statutory interpretation decision, without requiring Congress to amend the ambiguous law. In “hard cases” the Court could certify, through a fast-track procedure, a question presenting Congress with two multiple choices that the Court predetermines to be viable readings of the statute. This procedure avoids constitutional problems because congressional input is voluntary and non-binding for both branches, and judicial constraint enforces rule of law and constitutional values.
Greater And Lesser Powers, Samuel Levin
Greater And Lesser Powers, Samuel Levin
Samuel Levin
During much of the twentieth century it was relatively stylish for lawyers, judges and justices to argue that an exercise of power was permissible because "the greater power [to do something else] necessarily includes the lesser power [to do this]." Unfortunately, sloppy and unprincipled uses that merely reflected the intuitions of those who invoked it has largely discredited the argument, although it still makes some relevant appearances.
This paper argues that there is a principled way to apply the argument: by looking to the relative harms caused by each exercise of power. However, any notion of "necessarily includes" needs to …
The Haunting Of Abigail Fisher: Race, Affirmative Action, And The Ghosts Of Legal History, Hilary A. Leewong
The Haunting Of Abigail Fisher: Race, Affirmative Action, And The Ghosts Of Legal History, Hilary A. Leewong
Hilary A Leewong
What is race in 2012, and why does it matter?
At the end of the current term, the Supreme Court will decide Fisher v. University of Texas. In doing so, the Court revisits the role of affirmative action and the meaning of race much sooner than constitutional law scholars, and likely the average college applicant, expected it would.
The Court’s last definitive take on the subject was conveyed by Justice O’Connor in 2003’s Grutter v. Bollinger. Justice O’Connor’s opinion conveyed disappointment that race-based admissions in higher education was still necessary this long after Brown v. Board of Education, heralded the …
Police Cell Phone Searches: Where's The Privacy?, John O. Hayward
Police Cell Phone Searches: Where's The Privacy?, John O. Hayward
John O. Hayward
Legal academicians are in a dither that law enforcement, using the exception of a search incident to a lawful arrest, are conducting warrantless searches of cell phones found on the person of those they take into custody. They regard such searches as violating the arrestees’ expectation of privacy, although courts that have considered the matter, by an overwhelming majority, have found lawful arrest trumps any expectation of privacy. This paper examines the legal precedent for searches incident to a lawful arrest being an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, inquires into the expectation of privacy …
Litigation-Fostered Bureaucratic Autonomy: Administrative Law Against Political Control, Daniel E. Walters
Litigation-Fostered Bureaucratic Autonomy: Administrative Law Against Political Control, Daniel E. Walters
Daniel E Walters
No abstract provided.
Lies, Damned Lies, And Journalism: Why Journalists Are Failing To Vindicate First Amendment Values And How A New Definition Of “The Press” Can Help, Chris Edelson
Chris Edelson
This article identifies a specific problem – journalists who fail to provide the public with the accurate information needed to foster informed public opinion – and offers a specific solution: defining “the press” to provide protections and prestige only to those whose work actually advances First Amendment values.
American journalistic norms facilitate lying by politicians, candidates for office, and other public figures. Because many journalists are committed to the ideal of balance over truth, they are often incapable of calling out lies. Instead, they create a false equivalence by suggesting there are two sides to every argument. I call this …
Police Cell Phone Searches: Where's The Privacy, John O. Hayward
Police Cell Phone Searches: Where's The Privacy, John O. Hayward
John O. Hayward
Legal academicians are in a dither that law enforcement, using the exception of a search incident to a lawful arrest, are conducting warrantless searches of cell phones found on the person of those they take into custody. They regard such searches as violating the arrestees’ expectation of privacy, although courts that have considered the matter, by an overwhelming majority, have found lawful arrest trumps any expectation of privacy. This paper examines the legal precedent for searches incident to a lawful arrest being an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, inquires into the expectation of privacy …
The Creation And Dissolution Of Gran Colombia, F.E. Guerra-Pujol
The Creation And Dissolution Of Gran Colombia, F.E. Guerra-Pujol
F.E. Guerra-Pujol
George Washington and Simón Bolívar not only led successful revolutions against their colonial rulers, these great leaders also oversaw the drafting of concise federal constitutions and were able to establish promising constitutional unions: (i) the creation and ratification of the US Constitution and the integration of 13 separate states into a single nation, and (ii) the creation of a promising South American federal republic, the Republic of Colombia or “Gran Colombia” (1819-1830), consisting of modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Despite these similar origins, the subsequent constitutional histories of both regions could not have been more different: one constitution proved to …
“On The Streets Of Doomed America” : Snyder V. Phelps Through A Millian Lens, David G. Lake
“On The Streets Of Doomed America” : Snyder V. Phelps Through A Millian Lens, David G. Lake
David G Lake
Although many Americans may be opposed to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Snyder v. Phelps, the Court protected traditional application of the freedom of speech by finding in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church. Specifically, the Supreme Court’s analysis of public vs. private speech issues in Snyder v. Phelps conforms to John Stuart Mill’s analysis of speech regulation in “On Liberty,” indicating that current freedom of speech jurisprudence continues to reflect Mill’s analysis and traditional ideas of this essential freedom.
The Thirteenth Amendment "Exception" To The State Action Doctrine: An Originalist Reappraisal, Ryan Walters
The Thirteenth Amendment "Exception" To The State Action Doctrine: An Originalist Reappraisal, Ryan Walters
Ryan Walters
There is an overwhelming consensus that the Thirteenth Amendment represents an exception to the general rule that the U.S. Constitution does not apply to private actors – the state action doctrine. There has never been an analysis of this assertion using reasonable-observer originalism. As a result, the consensus view on the Thirteenth Amendment threatens to undermine a key feature of the Constitution – that it provides rules of conduct solely for governmental actors.
This Essay uses reasonable-observer originalism to examine the text and context of the Thirteenth Amendment. This is the first analysis that finds that the Thirteenth Amendment is …
Death To Immunity From Service Of Process Doctrine!, John Martinez
Death To Immunity From Service Of Process Doctrine!, John Martinez
John Martinez
Death to Immunity From Service of Process Doctrine!
By John Martinez, Professor of Law
S.J. Quinney College of Law
at the University of Utah
ABSTRACT
The immunity from service of process doctrine provides that a nonresident cannot be served while going to, attending, and leaving an ongoing judicial proceeding. However, the doctrine evolved while "tag" jurisdiction was in vogue, whereby mere presence in the forum state sufficed, and the nonresident only had to be "tagged" with service to confer jurisdiction on the forum state. This article suggests that modern "minimum contacts" territorial jurisdiction theory more adequately addresses the concerns of …