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Working Toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall And The Constitution Of Kenya, Mary L. Dudziak
Working Toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall And The Constitution Of Kenya, Mary L. Dudziak
Duke Law Journal
This Article is a work of transnational legal history. Drawing upon new research in foreign archives, it sheds new light on the life of Thurgood Marshall, exploring for the first time an episode that he cared very deeply about. his work with African nationalists on an independence constitution for Kenya. The story is paradoxical, for Marshall, a civil rights legend in America, would seek to protect the rights of white landholders in Kenya who had gained their land through discriminatory land laws, but were soon to lose political power. In order to understand why Marshall would take pride in entrenching …
Measuring Distributive Injustice On A Different Scale, Tom Miller
Measuring Distributive Injustice On A Different Scale, Tom Miller
Law and Contemporary Problems
Miller highlights the importance of education as a powerful contributor to significant differences in health outcomes. Enhancing educational opportunities for lower-income Americans may help to ensure that only no child, but also no patient, is left behind.
Policy Analysis For Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
Policy Analysis For Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
Duke Law Journal
How should agencies and legislatures evaluate possible policies to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and other natural hazards? In particular, should governmental bodies adopt the sorts of policy-analytic and risk assessment techniques that are widely used in the area of environmental hazards (chemical toxins and radiation)? Environmental hazards policy analysis regularly employs proxy tests, in particular tests of technological "feasibility," rather than focusing on a policy's impact on well-being. When human welfare does enter the analysis, particular aspects of well-being, such as health and safety, are often given priority over others. "Individual risk" tests and other features of …
The Asean-China Free Trade Area (Acfta): A Legal Response To China’S Economic Rise?, Alyssa Greenwald
The Asean-China Free Trade Area (Acfta): A Legal Response To China’S Economic Rise?, Alyssa Greenwald
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
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