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Freedom From Incarceration: Why Is This Right Different From All Other Rights?, Sherry F. Colb Nov 1994

Freedom From Incarceration: Why Is This Right Different From All Other Rights?, Sherry F. Colb

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

American constitutional jurisprudence has long accepted the notion that the exercise of certain rights can only be restricted by the government if the restriction satisfies strict scrutiny. The Supreme Court has identified such rights as fundamental often by relying on an expansive interpretation of the word "liberty" in the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. In this Article, Professor Colb argues that the Supreme Court has failed to recognize the right to physical liberty itself as a fundamental right. She demonstrates that at present conduct that is not itself constitutionally protected may serve as the basis for imprisonment even …


A Response To Professor Choper: Laying Down Another Ladder, Sheri Lynn Johnson Mar 1994

A Response To Professor Choper: Laying Down Another Ladder, Sheri Lynn Johnson

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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