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Rising Temperatures: Rising Tides, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Rising Temperatures: Rising Tides, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Transboundary environmental problems do not distinguish between political boundaries. Global warming is expected to cause thermal expansion of water and melt glaciers. Both are predicted to lead to a rise in sea level. We must enlarge our paradigms to encompass a global reality and reliance upon global participation.
Women, Just Implementation Of Asylum Policy, And Our Commitment To Human Dignity And Freedom, John Linarelli
Women, Just Implementation Of Asylum Policy, And Our Commitment To Human Dignity And Freedom, John Linarelli
Scholarly Works
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Constitutionalism In The Global Era, Elisabeth Zoller
Constitutionalism In The Global Era, Elisabeth Zoller
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Mature Adjudication: Interpretive Choice In Recent Death Penalty Cases, Bernard Harcourt
Mature Adjudication: Interpretive Choice In Recent Death Penalty Cases, Bernard Harcourt
Faculty Scholarship
Capital punishment presents a "hard" case for adjudication. It provokes sharp conflict between competing constitutional interpretations and invariably raises questions of judicial bias. This is particularly true in the new Republic of South Africa, where the framers of the interim constitution deliberately were silent regarding the legality of the death penalty. The tension is of equivalent force in the United States, where recent expressions of core constitutional rights have raised potentially irreconcilable conflicts in the application of capital punishment.
Two recent death penalty decisions – the South African Constitutional Court opinions in State v. Makwanyane and the United States Supreme …