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Step Down, Justice Melvin, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2011

Step Down, Justice Melvin, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Justice’S Suspension Is Dubious, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2011

Justice’S Suspension Is Dubious, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Legitimacy, Accountability, And Partnership: A Model For Advocacy On Third World Environmental Issues, David A. Wirth Nov 2011

Legitimacy, Accountability, And Partnership: A Model For Advocacy On Third World Environmental Issues, David A. Wirth

David A. Wirth

To date, there has been little effort to define the characteristics of responsible environmental reform efforts by private citizens and organizations in the United States on foreign environmental problems, such as the quality of foreign aid. Moreover, there have been virtually no attempts to identify a principled role for American lawyers in Third World environmental issues. This Essay will respond to these lacunae by articulating a new approach to advocacy based on a partnership model. In Part I, this Essay identifies the need for American public interest advocates to establish partnerships with directly affected groups on Third World environmental issues. …


Coal Law From The Old World: A Perspective On Land Use And Environmental Regulation In The Coal Industries Of The United States, Great Britain, And West Germany, Zygmunt J.B. Plater Oct 2011

Coal Law From The Old World: A Perspective On Land Use And Environmental Regulation In The Coal Industries Of The United States, Great Britain, And West Germany, Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Zygmunt J.B. Plater

America’s reentry into the Coal Age has been one of the major consequences of the Mideast oil-producing nations’ discovery of their collective marketing power, and in this new emphasis on coal the United States is not alone. Like the United States, many industrialized nations with domestic coal reserves had allowed their coal industries to languish under the influence of low-priced, petroleum based energy economy and are now hastening to strengthen their coal production. Different nations approach the regulation of their resurgent coal industries in varying ways, however, and these differences can be instructive to American observers, particularly as they relate …


It’S Time To Reconsider Graduation Prayer In Public High Schools, Bruce Ledewitz May 2011

It’S Time To Reconsider Graduation Prayer In Public High Schools, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Islam, Judaism And The Murders At Itamar, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2011

Islam, Judaism And The Murders At Itamar, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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What About The Morality Of Torture, Results Aside?, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2011

What About The Morality Of Torture, Results Aside?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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From Rapists To Superpredators: What The Practice Of Capital Punishment Says About Race, Rights And The American Child, Robyn Linde Mar 2011

From Rapists To Superpredators: What The Practice Of Capital Punishment Says About Race, Rights And The American Child, Robyn Linde

Faculty Publications

At the turn of the 20th century, the United States was widely considered to be a world leader in matters of child protection and welfare, a reputation lost by the century’s end. This paper suggests that the United States’ loss of international esteem concerning child welfare was directly related to its practice of executing juvenile offenders. The paper analyzes why the United States continued to carry out the juvenile death penalty after the establishment of juvenile courts and other protections for child criminals. Two factors allowed the United States to continue the juvenile death penalty after most states in …


The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2011

The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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An Essay Concerning Judicial Resignation And Non-Cooperation In The Presence Of Evil, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2011

An Essay Concerning Judicial Resignation And Non-Cooperation In The Presence Of Evil, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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On Equality: The Anti-Interference Principle, Donald J. Kochan Jan 2011

On Equality: The Anti-Interference Principle, Donald J. Kochan

University of Richmond Law Review

This essay seeks to summarize the general equality concept and proposes that equality requires that the government engage in anti-interference with individual choices and activities, so long as these things create no negative externalities for others. If we are serious about respecting equality, such interference actions should be avoided. Adopting an "anti-interference principle" is a necessary foundation for achieving the goal of true equality. The primary point is that equality matters. The purpose of this essay is not to survey the vast political, jurisprudential, and academic debate on equality, but instead, to take a broad look at the philosophical concept …