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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Commercial Activity Exception Under The Fsia, Personhood Under The Fifth Amendment And Jurisdiction Over Foreign States: A Partial Roadmap For The Supreme Court In The New Millennium, Stephen J. Leacock
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Law And Military Interventions: Preserving Humanitarian Values In 21st Conflicts, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Law And Military Interventions: Preserving Humanitarian Values In 21st Conflicts, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Special Operations Forces After Kosovo, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Special Operations Forces After Kosovo, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Terrified Terrorists, Roger J. Miner '56
The Fight Against Global Terrorism: Self-Defense Or Collective Security As International Police Action? Some Comments On The International Legal Implications Of The "War Against Terrorism", Jost Delbruck
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Secret Trials, David Cole
Secret Trials, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Today, U.S. immigration authorities use secret evidence to lock up immigrants in deportation proceedings, to exclude aliens at the border, and to oppose applications for "relief from deportation," including asylum.
Romantic Common Law, Enlightened Civil Law: Legal Uniformity And The Homogenization Of The European Union, Vivian Grosswald Curran
Romantic Common Law, Enlightened Civil Law: Legal Uniformity And The Homogenization Of The European Union, Vivian Grosswald Curran
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The main thrust of this article is to suggest how legal uniformity may result in the European Union despite its Member States' encompassing the two highly distinct legal traditions of the common law and the civil law. My theory is that the defining characteristics of the civil-law legal culture, although in stark and profound contrast with those of the common-law legal system, nevertheless appear prominently and pervasively in the non-legal spheres of common-law nations; and vice versa, such that common-law legal characteristics correspond closely to elements often excluded from civil-law legal cultures, but which are included in the non-legal domains …
An "Effective Death Penalty"? Aedpa And Error Detection In Capital Cases, James S. Liebman
An "Effective Death Penalty"? Aedpa And Error Detection In Capital Cases, James S. Liebman
Faculty Scholarship
On June 11, 2001, the United States of America executed Timothy McVeigh. Dwarfed among the many unspeakable evils that Mr. McVeigh wrought is a speakable one I will address here, namely, the so-called Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA").
Abbreviated, AEDPA's political history is as follows: In November 1994, the "Gingrich Congress" was elected on its Contract with America platform. One of the planks of that platform – one of the few that actually ended up passing Congress – was the so-called "Effective Death Penalty Act." That proposal had little to do with the death penalty and, …