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The Law Of Antigayism, Huhnkie Lee Feb 2014

The Law Of Antigayism, Huhnkie Lee

Huhnkie Lee

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Roger Nash Baldwin And The American Civil Liberties Union, Mathias Alfred Jaren Sep 2012

Roger Nash Baldwin And The American Civil Liberties Union, Mathias Alfred Jaren

Mathias Alfred Jaren

The thesis for this essay is that social work, acting for the benefit and welfare of others, can be accomplished effectively by non-lawyers employing an agenda of political and legal interventions. Legal interventions even as uncomplicated as filing an amicus curiae brief for some unknown defendant being prosecuted for an offense against his government can have significant and important long term implications. This thesis is examined in the context of a life devoted to civil liberties - The Life and times of Roger Nash Baldwin.


Aristotle's Internet: Free Speech Values Online, Ari E. Waldman Feb 2012

Aristotle's Internet: Free Speech Values Online, Ari E. Waldman

Ari E Waldman

While the Internet has changed dramatically since the early 1990s, the legal regime governing online speech and liability is still steeped in an early myth of the Internet user, completely hidden from others, in total control of his online experience, and free to come and go as he pleases. This false image of the “virtual self” has also contributed to an ethos of lawlessness, irresponsibility and radical individuation online, allowing hate and harassment to run wild. I argue that the myth of the online anonym is not only false as a matter of technology, but also inaccurate – it does …


Aristotle's Internet: Free Speech Values Online, Ari E. Waldman Feb 2012

Aristotle's Internet: Free Speech Values Online, Ari E. Waldman

Ari E Waldman

While the Internet has changed dramatically since the early 1990s, the legal regime governing online speech and liability is still steeped in an early myth of the Internet user, completely hidden from othes, in total control of his online experience, and free to come and go as he pleases. This false image of the “virtual self” has also contributed to an ethos of lawlessness, irresponsibility and radical individuation online, allowing hate and harassment to run wild. I argue that the myth of the online anonym is not only false as a matter of technology, but also inaccurate – it does …


The Public Life Of The Virtual Self, Ari E. Waldman Aug 2011

The Public Life Of The Virtual Self, Ari E. Waldman

Ari E Waldman

While the Internet has changed dramatically since the early 1990s, the legal regime governing online speech and liability is still steeped in an early myth of the Internet user, completely hidden from other Internet users, in total control of his online experience and free to come and go as he pleases. This false image of the “virtual self” has also contributed to an ethos of lawlessness, irresponsibility and radical individuation online, allowing hate and harassment to run wild. I argue that the myth of the online anonym is not only false as a matter of technology, but also inaccurate – …


Uncivil Religion: Judeo Christianity And The Ten Commandments, Frederick Mark Gedicks Mar 2007

Uncivil Religion: Judeo Christianity And The Ten Commandments, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Frederick Mark Gedicks

I. INTRODUCTION: THE PERMISSIBLE ESTABLISHMENT? II. VARIETIES OF AMERICAN CIVIL RELIGION A. The Established Church B. “Nonsectarian” Protestantism C. Judeo-Christianity III. BEYOND JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY A. Unbelief and Eastern Religion B. Postmodern Spirituality C. Barely Believing IV. THE SECTARIANIZATION OF JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY A. The Decalogue Cases B. The Fiction of “Mere Acknowledgment” C. Sectarianization and the Return of Classic Tolerance V. CONCLUSION: THE PAST THAT IS NOT PRESENT The recent Decalogue Cases are the latest attempt to insulate American civil religion from Establishment Clause attack. A civil religion is a set of purportedly nondenominational symbols, rituals, and assumptions designed to create reverence of …