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Ending Jim Crow Life Insurance Rates, Mary L. Heen
Ending Jim Crow Life Insurance Rates, Mary L. Heen
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
his Article tells the story of the rise and fall of explicit race-based pricing practices as American life insurance companies responded to changes in the social, economic, and legal status of former slaves. The role of law in that story, from the Civil War to the beginning of this century, illustrates the complex interaction between civil rights reform and private commercial markets. Despite early laws prohibiting race-based life insurance rates, racial discrimination persisted in various forms for over a century due to the strength of the underlying racial ideologies, the rhetorical power of actuarial language, and the structure and regulation …
A Fresh Look At A Stale Doctrine: How Public Policy And The Tenets Of Piercing The Corporate Veil Dictate The Inapplicability Of The Intracorporate Conspiracy Doctrine To The Civil Rights Arena, Barry Horwitz
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
Civil rights conspiracy law has drifted dramatically far from its intended purpose. Courts regularly apply the intracorporate conspiracy doctrinea principle holding that officers and agents of the same corporation are incapable of conspiring when they act on behalf of the corporationto prevent civil rights conspiracy plaintiffs from vindicating violations of their rights. While the intracorporate conspiracy doctrine was originally used to shield officers of private corporations from antitrust liability, it is now used to shield state actors who abuse their positions of power. Applying the doctrine in this way not only contradicts the intent of Congress in passing the Civil …
Marketing Motherhood: Rights And Responsibilities Of Egg Donors In Assisted Reproductive Technology Agreements, Sarah Terman
Marketing Motherhood: Rights And Responsibilities Of Egg Donors In Assisted Reproductive Technology Agreements, Sarah Terman
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
Each year thousands of young women enter the American gamete market as egg providers. This Comment examines the rights and responsibilities of egg providers in assisted reproductive technology (ART) arrangments. Section One describes the rising demand for alienable eggs and analyzes the ways in which American courts have provided an incentive to ART clinics to move away from traditional surrogacy arrangements toward arrangements involving egg providers. Section Two focuses on the current state of federal and state regulation of egg transfer and includes a discussion of the current bifurcated system of body part alienability, in which eggs may be bought …
Chapter Vii As Exception: Security Council Action And The Regulative Ideal Of Emergency, Jared Schott
Chapter Vii As Exception: Security Council Action And The Regulative Ideal Of Emergency, Jared Schott
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
The article argues for the instructive application of emergency powers doctrine to a rapidly enlarging-and diversifying-portfolio of United Nations Security Council action taken under Chapter VII auspices (that is, action deemed "necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security," of legally binding effect).
Housing In Post-Katrina New Orleans: Legal Rights And Recourses For Displaced African-American Residents, Rob Wilcox
Housing In Post-Katrina New Orleans: Legal Rights And Recourses For Displaced African-American Residents, Rob Wilcox
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
No abstract provided.
A New Tool For Analyzing Intellectual Property, Stephen M. Mcjohn
A New Tool For Analyzing Intellectual Property, Stephen M. Mcjohn
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.