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To Kill Or Not To Kill: (When) That Is The Question? A Legislative Treatise On Battered Israeli Women Facing A Dead End Road, Hava Dayan
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
This Paper seeks to examine the legal framework in which the self-defense exception is applied in Israel in circumstances of domestic violence. The Paper scrutinizes the issue with reference to recent amendments to the Israeli Penal Code pertaining to the ‘castledefense’ which grants a person defending his home and property-wide protection from criminal liability. In light of these amendments, the lack of legislative harmony between the exception to criminal liability applied when defending property and the deficient protection afforded to victims of ongoing, severe domestic violence, is striking. Aside from a critical review of Israeli legislation on the issue, this …
The Proposed Twenty-Seventh Amendment: A Brief, Supportive Comment, William W. Van Alstyne
The Proposed Twenty-Seventh Amendment: A Brief, Supportive Comment, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Publications
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The Limited Constitutional Convention—The Recurring Answer, William W. Van Alstyne
The Limited Constitutional Convention—The Recurring Answer, William W. Van Alstyne
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Does Article V Restrict The States To Calling Unlimited Conventions Only? - A Letter To A Colleague, William W. Van Alstyne
Does Article V Restrict The States To Calling Unlimited Conventions Only? - A Letter To A Colleague, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Publications
From time to time, various state legislatures have adopted resolutions designed to require Congress to call a limited convention in which one or another possible amendments to the Constitution might be proposed. In 1967, thirty-two states, two short of the requisite two-thirds filed such resolutions requesting a convention for the purpose of considering an amendment to "overrule" the Supreme Court's principal reapportionment decisions. In 1971, Senator Ervin of North Carolina introduced a bill to provide guidelines to be followed upon a state call for a convention. This year, approximately twenty-eight states have adopted some kind of resolution for the purpose …