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September 6, 2015: Kim Davis Is No Religious Martyr, No Prisoner Of Conscience, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2015

September 6, 2015: Kim Davis Is No Religious Martyr, No Prisoner Of Conscience, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Kim Davis is No Religious Martyr, No Prisoner of Conscience“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 26, 2015: Introducing Constitutional Law In The Midst Of The Plight, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2015

August 26, 2015: Introducing Constitutional Law In The Midst Of The Plight, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Introducing Constitutional Law in the Midst of the Plight“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 15, 2015: No Religious Right To Refuse Government Service, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2015

August 15, 2015: No Religious Right To Refuse Government Service, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “No Religious Right to Refuse Government Service“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 27, 2015: The Supreme Court's Week, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2015

June 27, 2015: The Supreme Court's Week, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Supreme Court's Week“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Human Rights Treaties In And Beyond The Senate: The Spirit Of Senator Proxmire, Jean Galbraith Jun 2015

Human Rights Treaties In And Beyond The Senate: The Spirit Of Senator Proxmire, Jean Galbraith

All Faculty Scholarship

In 1995, Louis Henkin wrote a famous piece in which he suggested that the process of human rights treaty ratification was haunted by “the ghost of Senator Bricker” – the isolationist Senator who in the 1950s had waged a fierce assault on the treaty power, especially with regard to human rights treaties. Since that time, Senator Bricker’s ghost has proved even more real. Professor Henkin’s concern was with how the United States ratified human rights treaties, and specifically with the packet of reservations, declarations, and understandings (RUDs) attached by the Senate in giving its advice and consent. Today, the question …


Impact Of The “Nirbhaya” Rape Case: Isolated Phenomenon Or Social Change?, Tina P. Lapsia May 2015

Impact Of The “Nirbhaya” Rape Case: Isolated Phenomenon Or Social Change?, Tina P. Lapsia

Honors Scholar Theses

In December 2012, a twenty-three year old college student, who was given the pseudonym “Nirbhaya” (“fearless”), was fatally gang-raped on a private bus in Delhi, India, galvanizing the country to swiftly adopt new legislative measures and catapulting the issue of violence against women in India into the international spotlight. Although assault and rape cases have made India infamous for its high volume of crimes against women, the reaction to this particular incident was much different from before. This paper investigates whether the governmental and societal responses represent social change, as indicated by changing attitudes towards violence against women in India. …


April 3, 2015: Making The Worst Of Religion, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2015

April 3, 2015: Making The Worst Of Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Making the Worst of Religion“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


March 29, 2015: How To Think About Religious Exemptions, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2015

March 29, 2015: How To Think About Religious Exemptions, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “How to Think about Religious Exemptions“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


January 24, 2015: More Nihilism On Abortion, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2015

January 24, 2015: More Nihilism On Abortion, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “More Nihilism on Abortion“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


"Fuck Your Breath": Black Men And Youth, State Violence, And Human Rights In The 21st Century, Jeremy I. Levitt Jan 2015

"Fuck Your Breath": Black Men And Youth, State Violence, And Human Rights In The 21st Century, Jeremy I. Levitt

Journal Publications

This polemical essay was written at the behest of Black men and youth, and it is dedicated to African American women who relentlessly fight to safeguard the rights and well-being of Black men, even when in the process their maltreatment and welfare are grossly overlooked and forgotten. Bree Newsome's courageous and necessary removal of the confederate flag in the South Carolina State House is a prime example of such fearless activism. Joanne Deborah Chesimard aka Assata Shakur's-a former leader of the revolutionary organization known as the Black Liberation Armyascendency to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list is another tragically intoxicating …