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Full-Text Articles in Law
Common Law Antecendents Of Constitutional Law In Connecticut, Ellen Ash Peters
Common Law Antecendents Of Constitutional Law In Connecticut, Ellen Ash Peters
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Original Intentions, Standard Meanings And The Legal Character Of The Constitution, Richard Kay
Original Intentions, Standard Meanings And The Legal Character Of The Constitution, Richard Kay
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Moral Knowledge And Constitutional Adjudication, Richard Kay
Moral Knowledge And Constitutional Adjudication, Richard Kay
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Free Speech And Private Law In German Constitutional Theory, Peter E. Quint
Free Speech And Private Law In German Constitutional Theory, Peter E. Quint
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Interpreting An Unwritten Constitution, Ronald D. Rotunda
Interpreting An Unwritten Constitution, Ronald D. Rotunda
Law Faculty Articles and Research
No abstract provided.
Freedom Of Speech, Press And Assembly, And Freedom Of Religion Under The Illinois Constitution, 21 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 91 (1989), Michael P. Seng
Freedom Of Speech, Press And Assembly, And Freedom Of Religion Under The Illinois Constitution, 21 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 91 (1989), Michael P. Seng
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Habeas Corpus Committee - Correspondence, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Habeas Corpus Committee - Correspondence, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Habeas Corpus Committee
No abstract provided.
Habeas Corpus Committee - Meetings, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Habeas Corpus Committee - Meetings, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Habeas Corpus Committee
No abstract provided.
Habeas Corpus Committee - Testimony By Others, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Habeas Corpus Committee - Testimony By Others, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Habeas Corpus Committee
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Habeas Corpus Committee - Report, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Habeas Corpus Committee - Report, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Habeas Corpus Committee
No abstract provided.
U.S. Supreme Court: The 1988-1989 Term, Paul C. Giannelli
U.S. Supreme Court: The 1988-1989 Term, Paul C. Giannelli
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Constitutional Theory Of The Fourth Amendment, Gerard V. Bradley
The Constitutional Theory Of The Fourth Amendment, Gerard V. Bradley
Journal Articles
This Article will, in large part, present its thesis regarding fourth amendment doctrine by employing, as an illustration, a recent application of the current approach by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In United States v. Torres, the Seventh Circuit held video surveillance constitutional and further found that the judiciary had the authority to issue warrants for such a technique. Although welcomed by prosecutors and law enforcement officials, this decision highlights the absurdity of the current interpretation of the reasonableness clause. Moreover, Torres provides a vehicle through which this Article's historical interpretation can be brought into focus under the cold …
Is Doing Your Job A Sufficient Justification For Doing Something Wrong, Bruce Ledewitz
Is Doing Your Job A Sufficient Justification For Doing Something Wrong, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”
Political Law, Legalistic Politics: A Recent History Of The Political Question Doctrine, Robert F. Nagel
Political Law, Legalistic Politics: A Recent History Of The Political Question Doctrine, Robert F. Nagel
Publications
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Constitutional Bait And Switch: Executive Reinterpretation Of Arms Control Treaties, David A. Koplow
Constitutional Bait And Switch: Executive Reinterpretation Of Arms Control Treaties, David A. Koplow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
A new constitutional crisis has been thrust upon the American body politic. The crisis arises from a dispute concerning the allocation of legal authority for the interpretation, and especially for the reinterpretation, of international agreements. Once a sleepy backwater reserved for specialized scholars, the issue of treaty interpretation has drawn the President and Congress into stark confrontation and generated splashy headlines.
Originalism As Transformative Politics, Lawrence B. Solum
Originalism As Transformative Politics, Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
One might easily paint a picture in which the central question debated in constitutional jurisprudence in recent years was whether originalism is the correct theory of constitutional interpretation. This portrait of a constitutional debate could be quite dramatic. Prominent among the figures on the originalist side stand former Judge Robert Bork, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, former Attorney General Edwin Meese, and scholar Raoul Berger. Their opponents, the nonoriginalists, include Senator Joseph Biden, Associate Justice William Brennan, and a host of constitutional scholars. The stakes of the debate seem high: will the legacy of the Warren Court be dismantled by the …
Two Conceptions Of The Ninth Amendment, Randy E. Barnett
Two Conceptions Of The Ninth Amendment, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Ninth Amendment has been largely ignored by the Supreme Court of the United States. Because the Ninth Amendment is unquestionably a part of our written Constitution, ignoring it would not have been possible without some theory that renders it without any function. This paper will first examine this theory, which is based on what the author calls the "rights-powers conception" of constitutional rights, a conception of constitutional rights that is applied only to the Ninth Amendment. Then he describes an alternative to this view of the Ninth Amendment, one that is based on what I call the "power-constraint conception" …
The Senator And The Constitution: An Interview With Orrin G. Hatch, David Skover, Ronald Collins
The Senator And The Constitution: An Interview With Orrin G. Hatch, David Skover, Ronald Collins
Faculty Articles
Modern constitutional scholarship tends to focus exclusively on the role of the judiciary in the development of constitutional law. Recognizing that this "court-positivist" outlook leaves substantial gaps in constitutional literature, the authors turn their scholarly attention to legislative and executive contributions to the field. The subject of their inquiry is U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch, who has chaired the Constitutional Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and who is one of the Senate's most recognized constitutional commentators. The authors interviewed Senator Hatch about his positions on various issues in constitutional law and theory, and annotated the interview extensively to analyze …
Duckworth V. Eagan: A Little-Noticed Miranda Case That May Cause Much Mischief, Yale Kamisar
Duckworth V. Eagan: A Little-Noticed Miranda Case That May Cause Much Mischief, Yale Kamisar
Articles
Professor Yale Kamisar, the country's foremost scholar of Miranda and police interrogation, presents an analysis and critique of the Supreme Court's latest interpretation of Miranda. In Duckworth, a 5-4 Court upheld the "if and when" language systematically used by the Hammond, Indiana, Police Department: "We have no way of giving you a lawyer, but one will be appointed for you, if you wish, if and when you go to court." The real issue was whether the police effectively conveyed the substance of a vital part of Miranda: the right to have a lawyer appointed prior to any questioning. Professor Kamisar …
Scholars' Reply To Professor Fried, Yale Kamisar, Lee C. Bollinger, Judith C. Areen, Barbara A. Black
Scholars' Reply To Professor Fried, Yale Kamisar, Lee C. Bollinger, Judith C. Areen, Barbara A. Black
Articles
As Solicitor General of the United States, Charles Fried, like any good advocate, was often in the position of attempting to generate broad holdings from relatively narrow and particularistic Supreme Court decisions. This was especially true in affirmative action cases. There, the Department of Justice argued that cautious precedents actually stood for the broad proposition that measures designed to put members of disadvantaged groups on a plane of equality should, for constitutional purposes, be treated the same as measures intended to stigmatize or subordinate them. The Supreme Court, however, has consistently rejected this reading of its precedents and the broad …
Is Law Politics?, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Is Law Politics?, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Faculty Scholarship
Red, White, and Blue addresses the pervasive presence of five general theories of American constitutional law. These theories reflect particular jurisprudential ideologies governing, among other things, the legitimacy of certain arguments, the appropriateness of certain occasions for judicial intervention and the constitutional basis for judicial review. What makes this book interesting and important is that it provides an unwitting or at least unself-conscious example of the general theorizing it wishes to explain. For this reason, its descriptions of the particular family of theories that characterize American constitutional jurisprudence are distorted, while it disclaims any account of the particular set of …
Qualified Immunity In Section 1983 Cases: The Unanswered Questions, Kit Kinports
Qualified Immunity In Section 1983 Cases: The Unanswered Questions, Kit Kinports
Journal Articles
Part I of this Article describes the general policies underlying qualified immunity and the Court's decisions defining the scope of the defense. Part II then addresses two answered questions concerning Harlow v. Fitzgerald's impact on the substantive content of the qualified immunity defense: Is immunity available to the defendant who actually knows that her conduct is infringing the plaintiff's constitutional rights, even if the law governing those rights is not yet clearly established? And should a court take into account the nature of the defendant's governmental responsibilities and other circumstances surrounding her conduct in determining whether the right she …
Patents And The Progress Of Science: Exclusive Rights And Experimental Use, Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Patents And The Progress Of Science: Exclusive Rights And Experimental Use, Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Articles
In this article I analyze the proper scope of an experimental use exemption from patent infringement liability by comparing the rationales behind promoting technological progress through granting exclusive patent rights in inventions with competing arguments for promoting scientific progress by allowing all investigators to enjoy free access to the discoveries of other scientists. I begin by reviewing key features of the patent laws and theoretical justifications for granting patent monopolies in order to clarify the implications of existing patent doctrine and theory for an experimental use exemption. I then look to the literature in the sociology, history, and philosophy of …
The Future And The First Amendment, Lee C. Bollinger
The Future And The First Amendment, Lee C. Bollinger
Faculty Scholarship
It is my honor and pleasure to deliver this year's Sullivan Lecture. I have an especially warm feeling toward this Law School. Two years ago, at the invitation of your Professor Distelhorst, I participated in the Capital Law School program for teaching American law to Japanese lawyers. For five stimulating weeks I enjoyed the intellectual and social company· of Japanese attorneys, while teaching them the outlines of American constitutional law. Twice a week, in the evening, for three continuous hours, and after a full work day, these dedicated lawyers would willingly become students again and suffer patiently through my highly …
Book Review. Behind Bakke: Affirmative Action And The Supreme Court By Bernard Schwartz, Daniel O. Conkle
Book Review. Behind Bakke: Affirmative Action And The Supreme Court By Bernard Schwartz, Daniel O. Conkle
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Covert Operations, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Covert Operations, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Faculty Scholarship
As the Constitution begins its third century, the system of congressional oversight of covert action is only in its second decade. In the ancient history of covert action – before the intelligence oversight reforms of the l 970s – Congress did not involve itself in covert operations. After giving the Central Intelligence Agency standing authority to "perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct," Congress paid little attention to what the Executive did under this authority. The era of congressional noninvolvement came to an …
The Movement To Assimilate The American Indians: Jurisprudential Study, John W. Ragsdale Jr
The Movement To Assimilate The American Indians: Jurisprudential Study, John W. Ragsdale Jr
Faculty Works
In 1934, the United States made a revolutionary shift in Indian policy. Laws were passed that ended most assimilation measures and began, instead, a preservation and promotion of tribalism. Why did this happen? What changes in American thought, politics and economy could precipitate such a reversal? Felix Cohen, a former special assistant to the Attorney General, and known as the "Blackstone of American Indian Law," noted: "Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shifts from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the …
Methods Of Constitutional Argument, Philip C. Bobbitt
Methods Of Constitutional Argument, Philip C. Bobbitt
Faculty Scholarship
The methods of constitutional argument1 that may be denominated, historical, textual, doctrinal, structural, prudential and ethical, have not grown according to a plan. They have grown up in the United States because of our history and traditions – the sort of people we have become and are still becoming. To that extent, they are arbitrary and contingent. They are not the same for every culture. I would be surprised if they were very different for Canada because Canadians and Americans share so much of the same legal tradition. One can, however, easily imagine cultures around the world where legal arguments …
Law, Literature, And The Celebration Of Authority, Robin West
Law, Literature, And The Celebration Of Authority, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Richard Posner's new book, Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation, is a defense of “liberal legalism” against a group of modern critics who have only one thing in common: their use of either particular pieces of literature or literary theory to mount legal critiques. Perhaps for that reason, it is very hard to discern a unified thesis within Posner's book regarding the relationship between law and literature. In part, Posner is complaining about a pollution of literature by its use and abuse in political and legal argument; thus, the “misunderstood relation” to which the title refers. At times, Posner suggests …
Of Chickens And Eggs−−The Compatibility Of Moral Rights And Consequentialist Analyses, Randy E. Barnett
Of Chickens And Eggs−−The Compatibility Of Moral Rights And Consequentialist Analyses, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Philosophers are accustomed to thinking of moral rights and consequentialist analyses as fundamentally incompatible. They frequently debate cases--both hypothetical and real--in which rights and consequences are in conflict. For example, suppose an innocent child knows the whereabouts of a terrorist who has planted a nuclear bomb in a city. Would it be permissible to violate the child's moral right to be free from torture, if this was the only way to save millions of innocent lives? If this is permissible, then do not moral rights yield to concerns about consequences? Or suppose that a community incorrectly believes that an innocent …