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Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, Volume 1, William & Mary Law School

Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal

Comparative Property Rights

October 14-15, 2011

Panel 1: Legal Protection of Property Rights: A Comparative Look

Panel 2: Reflections on Justice O'Connor's Important Property Rights Decisions

Panel 3: Property as an Instrument of Social Policy

Panel 4: Culture and Property

Panel 5: Property as an Economic Institution

Panel 6: Property Rights and the Environment

Mining Megaliths In The Argentine Andes: Where Will Victims Of Environmental Degradation Find Justice?, Catherine M. Wilmarth

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

The Burka Ban: Divergent Approaches To Freedom Of Religion In France And In The U.S.A., Ioanna Tourkochoriti

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Six years after prohibiting the wearing of headscarves by students in public schools, the French state passed a law prohibiting the wearing of burkas in public places. Compared to France, in the United States there is more tolerance for wearing signs of religious affiliation. The difference in legal responses can be understood in reference to a different background understanding of the fundamental presuppositions of republicanism in the two legal and political orders, which also define their conception of secularism. The law enacted in France can be understood in a general frame of a paternalistic state, which is seen as permitted …

Secular Rights And Religious Wrongs? Family Law, Religion And Women In Israel, Pascale Fournier, Pascal Mcdougall, Merissa Lichtsztral

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.