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Assessing The Board Of Immigration Appeals' Social Visibility Doctrine In The Context Of Human Trafficking, Kathleen M. Mallon
Assessing The Board Of Immigration Appeals' Social Visibility Doctrine In The Context Of Human Trafficking, Kathleen M. Mallon
Chicago-Kent Law Review
United States asylum law provides individuals who have been persecuted in their country of origin with residency in the United States. Membership in a “particular social group” (PSG) confers refugee status on individuals applying for asylum in the United States. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) initially defined a PSG as a group composed of members who all share an immutable characteristic, that is, an unchangeable characteristic or one so fundamental to an individual’s identity that they should not be required to change it. This test functioned well for over a decade; however, the BIA added an additional requirement to …
Sharing Public Safety Helicopters, Henry H. Perritt Jr.
Sharing Public Safety Helicopters, Henry H. Perritt Jr.
All Faculty Scholarship
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Capital Defenders As Outsider Lawyers, Kathryn A. Sabbeth
Capital Defenders As Outsider Lawyers, Kathryn A. Sabbeth
Chicago-Kent Law Review
What role can lawyers play in the internal disputes of a community to which they are outsiders? This essay highlights two core rationales for outsider intervention in support of internal dissent. It examines these rationales in the case of capital defenders from the U.S. North in the U.S. South. The position as an outsider can provide the will and freedom to launch direct attacks on injustice. Frequently, outsiders also bring superior resources for the fight. When outsiders engage in direct social critique, however, they can be accused of cultural imperialism. As an alternative, outsider lawyers can marshal indirect challenges, using …
Rethinking Traditional Conceptions Of Child Pornography: An Analysis Of How The U.S. Supreme Court Decision In Stevens Impacts The Illinois Supreme Court's Decision In People V. Hollins, James D. Konstantopoulos
Rethinking Traditional Conceptions Of Child Pornography: An Analysis Of How The U.S. Supreme Court Decision In Stevens Impacts The Illinois Supreme Court's Decision In People V. Hollins, James D. Konstantopoulos
Chicago-Kent Law Review
In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in deciding United States v. Stevens, held that rational basis review was no longer sufficient to criminalize depictions of acts if the acts depicted are themselves legal. In 2009, Marshall Hollins entered into a consensual sexual relationship with his seventeen-year old girlfriend. As is becoming common in our technological era, where every phone can record video and photographs and send those files to other devices, Mr. Hollins and his girlfriend used the technology available to them to document one of their excursions. Following his conviction for child pornography, Mr. Hollins challenged the Constitutionality of …