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Screening Justice - The Cinema Of Law: Significant Films Of Law, Order And Social Justice, Rennard Strickland, Teree Foster, Taunya Banks
Screening Justice - The Cinema Of Law: Significant Films Of Law, Order And Social Justice, Rennard Strickland, Teree Foster, Taunya Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
Screening Justice is designed to tell the complex story of law through an exploration of forty films focusing upon courtroom dramas, social issues and questions of justice. These motion pictures are evaluated by distinguished scholars who, using a range of narrative styles, compare the law on the screen and the law in action. The work serves as a guide to understanding law, the rhetoric of law and images of justice. The book will introduce readers to new films as well as help create new perspectives on familiar classic movies.
Thurgood Marshall, The Race Man, And Gender Equality In The Courts, Taunya Banks
Thurgood Marshall, The Race Man, And Gender Equality In The Courts, Taunya Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
Renowned civil rights advocate and race man Thurgood Marshall came of age as a lawyer during the black protest movement in the 1930s. He represented civil rights protesters, albeit reluctantly, but was ambivalent about post-Brown mass protests. Although Marshall recognized law's limitations, he felt more comfortable using litigation as a tool for social change. His experiences as a legal advocate for racial equality influenced his thinking as a judge. Marshall joined the United States Supreme Court in 1967, as dramatic advancement of black civil rights through litigation waned. Other social movements, notably the women's rights movement, took its place. The …
Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives About The Internment Of Japanese Americans, Taunya Banks
Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives About The Internment Of Japanese Americans, Taunya Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
This article examines the conflicting film narratives about the internment from 1942 through 2007. It argues that while later film narratives, especially documentaries, counter early government film narratives justifying the internment, these counter-narratives have their own damaging hegemony. Whereas earlier commercial films tell the internment story through the eyes of sympathetic whites, using a conventional civil rights template … Japanese and other Asian American documentary filmmakers construct their Japanese characters as model minorities — hyper-citizens, super patriots. Further, the internment experience remains largely a male story. With the exception of Emiko Omori’s documentary film memoir, Rabbit in the Moon (2004), …
Balancing Competing Individual Constitutional Rights: Raising Some Questions, Taunya Banks
Balancing Competing Individual Constitutional Rights: Raising Some Questions, Taunya Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
Despite increasing support for global human rights ..., some scholars and constitutional democracies, like the United States, continue to resist constitutionalizing socio-economic rights. Socio-economic rights, unlike political and civil constitutional rights that usually prohibit government actions, are thought to impose positive obligations on government. As a result, constitutionalizing socio-economic rights raises questions about separation of powers and the competence of courts to decide traditionally legislative and executive matters. ... [W]hen transitional democracies, like South Africa, choose to constitutionalize socio-economic rights, courts inevitably must grapple with their role in the realization of those rights.... Two questions immediately come to mind: (1) …
The Americans With Disabilities Act And The Reproductive Rights Of Hiv-Infected Women, Taunya Banks
The Americans With Disabilities Act And The Reproductive Rights Of Hiv-Infected Women, Taunya Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
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