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Family Unity Revisited: Divorce, Separation, And Death In Immigration Law, Albertina Antognini
Family Unity Revisited: Divorce, Separation, And Death In Immigration Law, Albertina Antognini
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Families are integral to immigration law and policy, and family-based immigration accounts for the majority of legal entry into the United States. Legislative, judicial, and scholarly discussions that address immigration law's family-based categories rely nearly exclusively on the principle of family unification, which has long been a cornerstone policy of immigration law. Yet the family-based provisions of immigration law do more than unify intact families; understanding families as dynamic entities that experience change reveals an immigration system that acknowledges a flexible family structure in determining status.
The principal aim of this Article is to present a more complete description of …
A Common Law Constitutionalism For The Right To Education, Scott R. Bauries
A Common Law Constitutionalism For The Right To Education, Scott R. Bauries
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This Article makes two claims, one descriptive and the other normative. The descriptive claim is that individual rights to education have not been realized under state constitutions because the currently dominant structure of education reform litigation prevents such realization. In state constitutional education clause claims, both pleadings and adjudication generally focus on the equality or adequacy of the system as a whole, rather than on any particular student's educational resources or attainment. The Article traces the roots of the currently dominant systemic approach, and finds these roots in federal institutional reform litigation. This systemic focus leads to a systemic, rather …
Life And Death In Kentucky: Past, Present, And Future, Roberta M. Harding
Life And Death In Kentucky: Past, Present, And Future, Roberta M. Harding
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This article provides a historical survey of capital punishment in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, paying particular attention to gender and race. The author concludes that given the lack of recent executions that it is perhaps time to make legislative changes to the Commonwealth’s death penalty practice.