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On The Road To Recognition: Irish Travellers’ Quest For Ethnic Identity, Kamaria A. Kruckenberg
On The Road To Recognition: Irish Travellers’ Quest For Ethnic Identity, Kamaria A. Kruckenberg
Kamaria A Kruckenberg
This paper explores and defends Irish Travellers’ efforts to push the Republic of Ireland to recognize them as an ethnic minority group under law. Irish Travellers are a small indigenous minority group who have lived primarily in Ireland for centuries. They rank at the bottom of Irish society in rates of poverty, unemployment, life expectancy, infant mortality, health, education levels, political representation and access, and living conditions. Much like the Roma, with whom they share a nomadic tradition, Irish Travellers are in the midst a movement to improve living conditions, fight widespread discrimination, and gain recognition as an ethnic minority …
A High Devolution Region (Hdr): A Community Based Political Solution For Darfur, Ibrahim A. Ibrahim Mr
A High Devolution Region (Hdr): A Community Based Political Solution For Darfur, Ibrahim A. Ibrahim Mr
Ibrahim A Ibrahim Mr
A High Devolution Region (HDR): A Community Based Political Solution for Darfur By/ Ibrahim Ali Ibrahim LLM Sudanese Lawyer & Congressional Researcher Abstract: The main causes of the war in Darfur as the paper highlights lie in both communal conflicts and the imbalance of power between the centre and marginalized regions. Therefore, the power sharing is a valid mechanism for redressing communal conflicts and the years of political marginalization of Darfur. The Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) demonstrated that there were no powers to share in Darfur and that why it failed. The parties have not been able to achieve peace …
Speech Torts, Deana Ann Pollard Sacks
Speech Torts, Deana Ann Pollard Sacks
Deana A Pollard
Tort liability for speech raises important concerns about federalism, self-government, and autonomy. The Supreme Court has resolved the free speech-tort law conflict in a number of cases by balancing the nature of the speech subject to tort liability against the nature of the state’s interest in imposing tort liability, then “constitutionalizing” the tort to meet First Amendment demands by raising the burden of proof to establish a prima facie case. The Supreme Court has repeatedly denied review of tort liability for speech based on a theory of negligence, and most lower courts have adopted a categorical approach to immunize violent …
Freedom In A Slave Country: A True Story Of Race, Law, Sex, And Politics, Jason A. Gillmer
Freedom In A Slave Country: A True Story Of Race, Law, Sex, And Politics, Jason A. Gillmer
Jason A Gillmer
This Article unpacks the rich and textured story of the Ashworths, an obscure yet prosperous free family of color in the antebellum South who owned land, raised cattle, and bought and sold slaves. It is undoubtedly an unusual story; indeed in the history of the times there are surely more prominent names and more famous events. Yet their story reveals a tantalizing world in which—despite legal rules and conventional thinking—life was not so black and white. Drawing on local records rather than canonical cases, and listening to the voices from the community rather than the legislatures, this Article emphasizes the …