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The Common Law Genius Of The Warren Court, David A. Strauss Dec 2007

The Common Law Genius Of The Warren Court, David A. Strauss

William & Mary Law Review

The Warren Court's most important decisions-on school segregation, reapportionment, free speech, and criminal procedure are firmly entrenched in the law. But the idea persists, even among those who are sympathetic to the results that the Warren Court reached, that what the Warren Court was doing was somehow not really law: that the Warren Court "made it up," and that the important Warren Court decisions cannot be justified by reference to conventional legal materials. It is true that the Warren Court's most important decisions cannot be easily justified on the basis of the text of the Constitution or the original understandings. …


Sense-Enhanced Searches And The Irrelevance Of The Fourth Amendment, David E. Steinberg Dec 2007

Sense-Enhanced Searches And The Irrelevance Of The Fourth Amendment, David E. Steinberg

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Interpreting The Fourteenth Amendment: Two Don'ts And Three Dos, Garrett Epps Dec 2007

Interpreting The Fourteenth Amendment: Two Don'ts And Three Dos, Garrett Epps

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

A sophisticated reading of the legislative record of the framing of the Fourteenth Amendment can provide courts and scholars with some general interpretive principles to guide their application of the Amendment to current legal problems. The author argues that two common legal conceptions about the Amendment are, in fact, misconceptions. The first is that the Amendment was chiefly concerned with the immediate situation of freed slaves in the former slave states. Instead, he argues, the legislative record suggests that the framers were broadly concerned with the rights not only of freed slaves but also of foreign-born immigrants in the North …


Congressional Criminality And Balance Of Powers: Are Internal Filter Teams Really What Our Forefathers Envisioned?, Emily E. Eineman Dec 2007

Congressional Criminality And Balance Of Powers: Are Internal Filter Teams Really What Our Forefathers Envisioned?, Emily E. Eineman

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Garcetti V. Ceballos: Stifling The First Amendment In The Public Workplace, Julie A. Wenell Dec 2007

Garcetti V. Ceballos: Stifling The First Amendment In The Public Workplace, Julie A. Wenell

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Keep Out Of Myspace!: Protecting Students From Unconstitutional Suspensions And Expulsions, Christi Cassel Nov 2007

Keep Out Of Myspace!: Protecting Students From Unconstitutional Suspensions And Expulsions, Christi Cassel

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Signing Statements And Divided Government, Neal Devins Oct 2007

Signing Statements And Divided Government, Neal Devins

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Second Class Citizen Soldiers: A Proposal For Greater First Amendment Protections For America's Military Personnel, Emily Reuter Oct 2007

Second Class Citizen Soldiers: A Proposal For Greater First Amendment Protections For America's Military Personnel, Emily Reuter

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Why The President Must Veto Unconstitutional Bills, Saikrishna B. Prakash Oct 2007

Why The President Must Veto Unconstitutional Bills, Saikrishna B. Prakash

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


The Unconstitutionality Of "Signing And Not-Enforcing", Michael B. Rappaport Oct 2007

The Unconstitutionality Of "Signing And Not-Enforcing", Michael B. Rappaport

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


The Presidential Signing Statements Controversy, Ronald A. Cass, Peter L. Strauss Oct 2007

The Presidential Signing Statements Controversy, Ronald A. Cass, Peter L. Strauss

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Introduction: The Last Word? The Constitutional Implications Of Presidential Signing Statements, Charlie Savage Oct 2007

Introduction: The Last Word? The Constitutional Implications Of Presidential Signing Statements, Charlie Savage

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


The On/Off Switch, Philip Heymann Oct 2007

The On/Off Switch, Philip Heymann

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Presidential Signing Statements In Perspective, Nelson Lund Oct 2007

Presidential Signing Statements In Perspective, Nelson Lund

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Presidential Signing Statements And The Rule Of Law As An "Unstructured Institution", Peter M. Shane Oct 2007

Presidential Signing Statements And The Rule Of Law As An "Unstructured Institution", Peter M. Shane

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Signing Statements: Constitutional And Practical Limits, Louis Fisher Oct 2007

Signing Statements: Constitutional And Practical Limits, Louis Fisher

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Fee Shifting As A Congressional Response To Adventurous Presidential Signing Statements, Harold J. Krent Oct 2007

Fee Shifting As A Congressional Response To Adventurous Presidential Signing Statements, Harold J. Krent

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


The First Word, M. Elizabeth Magill Oct 2007

The First Word, M. Elizabeth Magill

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Presidential Signing Statements And Congressional Oversight, A. Christopher Bryant Oct 2007

Presidential Signing Statements And Congressional Oversight, A. Christopher Bryant

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Litigating Presidential Signing Statements, Michele Estrin Gilman Oct 2007

Litigating Presidential Signing Statements, Michele Estrin Gilman

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Signing Statements As Declaratory Judgments: The President As Judge, Phillip J. Cooper Oct 2007

Signing Statements As Declaratory Judgments: The President As Judge, Phillip J. Cooper

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


A Matter Of Direction: The Reagan Administration, The Signing Statement, And The 1986 Westlaw Decision, Christopher S. Kelley Oct 2007

A Matter Of Direction: The Reagan Administration, The Signing Statement, And The 1986 Westlaw Decision, Christopher S. Kelley

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Signing Statements And Statutory Interpretation In The Bush Administration, Neil Kinkopf Oct 2007

Signing Statements And Statutory Interpretation In The Bush Administration, Neil Kinkopf

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Getting To Plan B: A History Of Contraceptive Rights In The United States And An Argument For A Private Right Of Action Against The Fda, Michele Slachetka Oct 2007

Getting To Plan B: A History Of Contraceptive Rights In The United States And An Argument For A Private Right Of Action Against The Fda, Michele Slachetka

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Law's Limited Domain Confronts Morality's Universal Empire, Larry Alexander, Frederick Schauer Apr 2007

Law's Limited Domain Confronts Morality's Universal Empire, Larry Alexander, Frederick Schauer

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


If At First You Don't Succeed, Sign An Executive Order: President Bush And The Expansion Of Charitable Choice, Michele Estrin Gilman Apr 2007

If At First You Don't Succeed, Sign An Executive Order: President Bush And The Expansion Of Charitable Choice, Michele Estrin Gilman

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

This Article analyzes whether President Bush's charitable choice executive orders, which permit religious organizations to apply for federal funds to deliver social services, are a permissible exercise of presidential power. Although Congress has enacted charitable choice provisions in some major statutes, including a 1996 welfare reform act, it debated but did not extend charitable choice throughout the entire federal human services bureaucracy, as the President's executive orders do. The core question this Article examines is whether President Bush's charitable choice executive orders constitute permissible gap-filling of ambiguous statutes under the Chevron doctrine or impermissible exercises of executive lawmaking under Youngstown …


Introductory Remarks: The Relationship Of Law And Morality In Repect To Constitutional Law, William W. Van Alstyne Apr 2007

Introductory Remarks: The Relationship Of Law And Morality In Repect To Constitutional Law, William W. Van Alstyne

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers And The Origin Of Gun Control In America, David T. Hardy Apr 2007

A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers And The Origin Of Gun Control In America, David T. Hardy

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Public Employee Speech Rights Fall Prey To An Emerging Doctrinal Formalism, Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes Apr 2007

Public Employee Speech Rights Fall Prey To An Emerging Doctrinal Formalism, Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


The "Benefits" Of Non-Delegation: Using The Non-Delegation Doctrine To Bring More Rigor To Benefit-Cost Analysis, Victor B. Flatt Apr 2007

The "Benefits" Of Non-Delegation: Using The Non-Delegation Doctrine To Bring More Rigor To Benefit-Cost Analysis, Victor B. Flatt

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.