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Group Rights: A Defense, David Ingram Sep 2017

Group Rights: A Defense, David Ingram

David Ingram

Human rights belong to individuals in virtue of their common humanity. Yet it is an important question whether human rights entail or comport with the possession of what I call group-specific rights (sometimes referred to as collective rights), or rights that individuals possess only because they belong to a particular group. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) says they do. Article 15 asserts the right to nationality, or citizenship. Unless one believes that the only citizenship compatible with a universal human rights regime is cosmopolitan citizenship in a world state – a conception of citizenship that is not countenanced …

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Gay Rights, Racial Prejudice, And True Equality, Eric J. Segall, Erwin Chemerinsky Jun 2017

Gay Rights, Racial Prejudice, And True Equality, Eric J. Segall, Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky

No abstract provided.

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National Criminal Justice Caucus Presentation 09-22-2017_11-11-33-184.Zip, Jennifer Levy-Tatum May 2016

National Criminal Justice Caucus Presentation 09-22-2017_11-11-33-184.Zip, Jennifer Levy-Tatum

Jennifer W. Levy-Tatum

This is an overview of the American Criminal Justice System. When this presentation was made, there were more than 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 2,259 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails, as well as military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. territories. http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2015.html

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How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington Dec 2015

How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.

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Panel 4: Civil Liberties, Nathalie Desrosiers, Fay Faraday, Sonia Lawrence, James Stribopoulos Oct 2015

Panel 4: Civil Liberties, Nathalie Desrosiers, Fay Faraday, Sonia Lawrence, James Stribopoulos

Sonia Lawrence

PANEL IV: CIVIL LIBERTIES: Moderator:James Stribopoulos, Professor, Osgoode HallLaw School; Speaker: Nathalie Desrosiers, General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association & Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, "The Advocacy Function in Canada and the Role of Non-Government Organizations"; Speaker: Fay Faraday, McMurtry Clinical Visiting Fellow, Osgoode Hall Law School, "Civil Society and Rights Litigation: Grassroots Nourishing the Charter Tree"; Discussant: Sonia Lawrence, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School.

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Ontario Human Rights Code At 50: Still The One?, Faisal Bhabha Sep 2015

Ontario Human Rights Code At 50: Still The One?, Faisal Bhabha

Faisal Bhabha

Faisal Bhabha, Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, on the relevancy, impact and challenges of Ontario Human Rights Code.

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Panel 3: Individuals, The Collective, And Democracy: Race, Class, Gender, Disability, And Individual Employee Rights, Addie C. Rolnick, Michael Z. Green, Francine J. Lipman, Nicole B. Porter, Gowri Ramachandran, Terry Smith Jul 2015

Panel 3: Individuals, The Collective, And Democracy: Race, Class, Gender, Disability, And Individual Employee Rights, Addie C. Rolnick, Michael Z. Green, Francine J. Lipman, Nicole B. Porter, Gowri Ramachandran, Terry Smith

Michael Z. Green

Moderator: Addie Rolnick

Michael Z. Green: Black Worker Voice in Times of Joblessness and Anti-Racism Backlash

Francine J. Lipman: What's Tax Got to Do With It?

Nicole B. Porter: Women, Unions, and Negotiation

Gowri Ramachandran: Pay Transparency

Terry Smith: Law's Austerity: Capital, Labor, and Race in the Globalized Economy

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If The Supreme Court Listens To Millennials, Same Sex Marriage Will Become Legal, Tanya M. Washington Oct 2014

If The Supreme Court Listens To Millennials, Same Sex Marriage Will Become Legal, Tanya M. Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.

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Equality, Eric J. Segall Oct 2014

Equality, Eric J. Segall

Eric J. Segall

No abstract provided.

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Gay Rights, Racial Prejudice, And True Equality, Eric J. Segall, Erwin Chemerinsky Oct 2014

Gay Rights, Racial Prejudice, And True Equality, Eric J. Segall, Erwin Chemerinsky

Eric J. Segall

No abstract provided.

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Eugenic Laws Restricting Immigration, Paul A. Lombardo Oct 2014

Eugenic Laws Restricting Immigration, Paul A. Lombardo

Paul A. Lombardo

No abstract provided.

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