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Civil Rights and Discrimination
The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
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- 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (1)
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (1)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (1)
- Church autonomy (1)
- Civil rights (1)
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- Climate change (1)
- Climate discrimination (1)
- Climate migration (1)
- Discrimination (1)
- Equal Pay Act of 1963 (1)
- Human rights (1)
- International human rights (1)
- International religious liberty (1)
- Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru (1)
- Pavez v. Chile (1)
- Religious autonomy (1)
- Religious education (1)
- Religious freedom (1)
- Title VII (1)
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Sacred Spheres: Religious Autonomy As An International Human Right, Diana V. Thomson, Kayla A. Toney
Sacred Spheres: Religious Autonomy As An International Human Right, Diana V. Thomson, Kayla A. Toney
Catholic University Law Review
How should courts resolve thorny human rights disputes that arise within religious groups? According to an emerging international consensus, they shouldn’t. When a case involves sensitive internal decisions by a religious organization, such as choosing who is qualified to teach the faith, courts are increasingly taking a hands-off approach. This global consensus has formed across international treaties, tribunals, and domestic courts in European and American nations. Every major human rights instrument and many international and domestic courts recognize that religious freedom must extend to religious communities, especially houses of worship and schools where believers gather to practice their faith and …
Climate Discrimination, Duane Rudolph
Climate Discrimination, Duane Rudolph
Catholic University Law Review
This Article focuses on the coming legal plight of workers in the United States, who will likely face discrimination as they search for work outside their home states. The Article takes for granted that climate change will have forced those workers across state and international boundaries, a reality dramatically witnessed in the United States during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. During that environmental emergency (and the devastation it wrought), workers were forced across boundaries only to be violently discriminated against upon arrival in their new domiciles. Such discrimination is likely to recur, and it will threaten the livelihoods of …