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Averting Armageddon: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism In The United States, Barry L. Rothberg Oct 1997

Averting Armageddon: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism In The United States, Barry L. Rothberg

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

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Céad Míle Fáilte? Ireland Welcomes Divorce: The 1995 Irish Divorce Referendum And The Family (Divorce) Act Of 1996, Christine P. James Oct 1997

Céad Míle Fáilte? Ireland Welcomes Divorce: The 1995 Irish Divorce Referendum And The Family (Divorce) Act Of 1996, Christine P. James

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

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Fourth Amendment Accommodations: (Un)Compelling Public Needs, Balancing Acts, And The Fiction Of Consent, Guy-Uriel Charles Jan 1997

Fourth Amendment Accommodations: (Un)Compelling Public Needs, Balancing Acts, And The Fiction Of Consent, Guy-Uriel Charles

Faculty Scholarship

The problems of public housing-including crime, drugs, and gun violence- have received an enormous amount of national attention. Much attention has also focused on warrantless searches and consent searches as solutions to these problems. This Note addresses the constitutionality of these proposals and asserts that if the Supreme Court's current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is taken to its logical extremes, warrantless searches in public housing can be found constitutional. The author argues, however, that such an interpretation fails to strike the proper balance between public need and privacy in the public housing context. The Note concludes by proposing alternative consent-based regimes …