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Roundtable Panel I: Database Protection, Robert Eisenbach, Lisa Ferri, Robert Gibbons, Charles Sims Dec 2001

Roundtable Panel I: Database Protection, Robert Eisenbach, Lisa Ferri, Robert Gibbons, Charles Sims

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Sexual Abuse Against Women In Prison, Brenda V. Smith Apr 2001

Sexual Abuse Against Women In Prison, Brenda V. Smith

Project on Addressing Prison Rape - Articles

One of the by-products of the influx of women into correctional settings has been the emergence of sexual misconduct against women in prison as a major issue for corrections officials and attorneys who represent women. This article advocates for laws criminalizing sexual abuse of women inmates, as well as training to prevent such abuse.


Campbell V. Georgia: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Survives Separation Of Power Attacks, Remaining A Viable Option For The Legislature In Its War On Crime, Brian D. Boreman Mar 2001

Campbell V. Georgia: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Survives Separation Of Power Attacks, Remaining A Viable Option For The Legislature In Its War On Crime, Brian D. Boreman

Georgia State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Employment Discrimination By Religious Institutions: Limiting The Sanctuary Of The Constitutional Ministerial Exception To Religion-Based Employment Decisions, Laura L. Coon Mar 2001

Employment Discrimination By Religious Institutions: Limiting The Sanctuary Of The Constitutional Ministerial Exception To Religion-Based Employment Decisions, Laura L. Coon

Vanderbilt Law Review

A religious organization enters a contract with a builder to construct a new facility and breaches the contract; a student at a private, religiously-affiliated school slips on a patch of ice and is seriously injured because of the school maintenance crew's negligence. The builder and the student are aggrieved by the actions of the respective religious institutions. Consequently, they seek to re- solve their disputes through the judicial system, as would any other individual with a potential legal claim. Although the adjudicative process would involve church and state, the First Amendment Religion Clauses would not likely be implicated, because the …


Beyond Campaign Finance: The First Amendment Implications Of Nixon V. Shrink Missouri Goverment Pac, Christina E. Wells Jan 2001

Beyond Campaign Finance: The First Amendment Implications Of Nixon V. Shrink Missouri Goverment Pac, Christina E. Wells

Missouri Law Review

Part I of this Essay discusses legal background, focusing first on the Court's decision in Buckley and then on the Shrink litigation. Part II itemizes Shrink's flaws, ultimately concludng that those flaws cannot be attributed solely to Buckley. Finally, Part III examines the Court's standards of scrutiny in First Amendment cases and argues that Shrink results at least in part from flaws found in those standards.


Clinton's Legacy On Indigenous Issues, David E. Wilkins Jan 2001

Clinton's Legacy On Indigenous Issues, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

The president, of course, has not express constitutional responsibility for Indian nations—that is a power reserved to the Congress under the commerce clause. Nevertheless, it is to the president, dating back to George Washington, who had an active hand in Indian affairs through the treaty process, that tribal nations and their leaders have most often looked to gauge the federal government's character and commitment to fulfill the nation's historic treaty and ongoing trust obligations to indigenous people.


The Privatization Of The Civil Commitment Process And The State Action Doctrine: Have The Mentally Ill Been Systematically Stripped Of Their Fourteenth Amendment Rights?, William Brooks Jan 2001

The Privatization Of The Civil Commitment Process And The State Action Doctrine: Have The Mentally Ill Been Systematically Stripped Of Their Fourteenth Amendment Rights?, William Brooks

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


The Burdens And Benefits Of The American Jury, José F. Anderson Jan 2001

The Burdens And Benefits Of The American Jury, José F. Anderson

All Faculty Scholarship

There is no institution in the legal system more controversial than the American Jury. It has been praised and hated by people from all walks of life. James Madison once called it among "the most valuable" rights included in the Bill of Rights. Robert Allan Rutland, The Birth of the Bill of Rights 1776-1791, at 208 (2nd ed ., Northeastern Univ. Press 1991) (1955) (quoting 1 Annals of Cong. 755 (Joseph Gales ed., 1789)). The business community sometimes complains that it paralyzes its ability to grow. Politicians have used it as grist for their mills calling for jury reform. Television …


The Clean Air Act And The Constitution, Lisa Heinzerling Jan 2001

The Clean Air Act And The Constitution, Lisa Heinzerling

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

On February 27, 2001, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Clean Air Act against a constitutional challenge based on the nondelegation doctrine. The Court held that the Act provided the requisite “intelligible principle” for assignments of authority to the executive, and it also held that the D.C. Circuit had erred in allowing an administrative agency to decide the scope of its own authority under what that court had held was an impermissibly broad assignment of authority. This article was written before the Supreme Court issued its decision.


James Madison And The Constitution's “Convention For Proposing Amendments", Robert G. Natelson Jan 2001

James Madison And The Constitution's “Convention For Proposing Amendments", Robert G. Natelson

Robert G. Natelson

This article traces the progress of James Madison's thought on the Constitution's "convention for proposing amendments as a way for states to assert themselves against the federal government. Madison saw the convention as an important part of the Constitution, and a constitutional alternative to nullification.


What Is A Community? Group Rights And The Constitution: The Special Case Of African Americans, Taunya Lovell Banks Jan 2001

What Is A Community? Group Rights And The Constitution: The Special Case Of African Americans, Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Thick And Thin: Interdisciplinary Conversations On Populism, Law, Political Science, And Constitutional Change, Mark A. Graber Jan 2001

Thick And Thin: Interdisciplinary Conversations On Populism, Law, Political Science, And Constitutional Change, Mark A. Graber

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Selected Conceptions Of Federalism: The Selective Use Of History In The Supreme Court's States' Rights Opinions, Lucian E. Dervan Jan 2001

Selected Conceptions Of Federalism: The Selective Use Of History In The Supreme Court's States' Rights Opinions, Lucian E. Dervan

Law Faculty Scholarship

In the period leading to the Civil War, debate over federalism and states’ rights developed into the seeds of a war that would forever change America. Over one hundred years later, the debate over federalism continues, unanswered by the blood of more than half a million soldiers. Over the last decade, the United States Supreme Court has increased state sovereignty and state immunity to levels unseen since the pre-Civil War period. The Court’s opinions are structured in a manner that relies significantly on historical methodologies. The multiple rationales used to structure the Justices’ arguments clash, and the Justices spar with …


Introduction: The Difficult First Amendment, Christina E. Wells Jan 2001

Introduction: The Difficult First Amendment, Christina E. Wells

Faculty Publications

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.


Virtue And The Constitution Of The United States, John Finnis Jan 2001

Virtue And The Constitution Of The United States, John Finnis

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Thin Constitutions And The Good Society, Lawrence G. Sager Jan 2001

Thin Constitutions And The Good Society, Lawrence G. Sager

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Towards A Progressive Politics And A Progressive Constitution, Mary Becker Jan 2001

Towards A Progressive Politics And A Progressive Constitution, Mary Becker

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Civic Virtue And The Limits Of Constitutionalism, Christopher L. Eisgruber Jan 2001

Civic Virtue And The Limits Of Constitutionalism, Christopher L. Eisgruber

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Professor Eisgruber, The Constitution, And The Good Society, Sotirios A. Barber Jan 2001

Professor Eisgruber, The Constitution, And The Good Society, Sotirios A. Barber

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Compelling Collaboration With Evil--A Comment On Crosby V. National Foreign Trade Council, Sanford Levinson Jan 2001

Compelling Collaboration With Evil--A Comment On Crosby V. National Foreign Trade Council, Sanford Levinson

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


"Public Citizens" And The Constitution: Bridging The Gap Between Popular Sovereignty And Original Intent, Robert W. Scheef Jan 2001

"Public Citizens" And The Constitution: Bridging The Gap Between Popular Sovereignty And Original Intent, Robert W. Scheef

Fordham Law Review

I sincerely congratulate the citizens of America upon the fair prospect which now presents itself to their view; and promises a long reign of virtue, happiness, and glory, as the result of a constitution which is the real vox populi so often ardently desired by mankind, in vain, for the first time, discovered by the patriotic sages of America.


On The Road Again: How Much Mileage Is Left On The Privileges Or Immunities Clause And How Far Will It Travel?, Nicole I. Hyland Jan 2001

On The Road Again: How Much Mileage Is Left On The Privileges Or Immunities Clause And How Far Will It Travel?, Nicole I. Hyland

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Further Comment On Robert P. George's "Natural Law", James E. Fleming Jan 2001

A Further Comment On Robert P. George's "Natural Law", James E. Fleming

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Impenetrable Constitution And Status Quo Morality, Charles A. Kelbley Jan 2001

The Impenetrable Constitution And Status Quo Morality, Charles A. Kelbley

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Natural Law And The Constitution Revisited, Robert P. George Jan 2001

Natural Law And The Constitution Revisited, Robert P. George

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


When Did The Constitution Become Law, Gary S. Lawson Jan 2001

When Did The Constitution Become Law, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

Conventional wisdom and Supreme Court doctrine hold that the federal Constitution became legally effective on March 4, 1789, when the first session of Congress began. This conclusion is wrong, or at least seriously incomplete. Evidence from the Constitution, its adoption, and contemporaneous understandings reflected in treaties, statutes, and state constitutions demonstrates that the Constitution did not have a single effective date. Instead, different parts of the Constitution took effect in stages, beginning on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document, and continuing at least until April 30, 1789, when President Washington was sworn …


Making Sense Of The Eleventh Amendment: International Law And State Sovereignty, Thomas H. Lee Jan 2001

Making Sense Of The Eleventh Amendment: International Law And State Sovereignty, Thomas H. Lee

Faculty Scholarship

The Judicial Power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. - Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America The thesis of this article is that the Eleventh Amendment, ratified in 1798, represented the incorporation into the American domestic constitutional law of federalism (specifically, the doctrine of state sovereign immunity) the late eighteenth-century international law rule that only states have rights against other states …


Towards A Practice Of Deliberative Democracy: A Proposal For A Popular Branch , Ethan J. Leib Jan 2001

Towards A Practice Of Deliberative Democracy: A Proposal For A Popular Branch , Ethan J. Leib

Faculty Scholarship

Proposals for practical institutional reforms are notoriously absent from discussions about deliberative democracy. It is imperative to engage in the “nuts and bolts” debate of just what kinds of changes we discourse theorists or deliberative democrats want to effect. Here I would like to try to synthesize a reform proposal of my own based upon three major assumptions. Without argument, I assume a largely discourse-theoretic view of democracy that takes for granted the republican virtue of collective self-government as well as the Kantian claim that each citizen should be the author of his own laws. I further assume that our …


Does The Federal Constitution Incorporate The Declaration Of Independence?, Thomas B. Mcaffee Jan 2001

Does The Federal Constitution Incorporate The Declaration Of Independence?, Thomas B. Mcaffee

Scholarly Works

A standard view at the time of the adoption of the Constitution was that “a constitution does not in itself imply any more than a declaration of the relation which the different parts of the government have to each other, but does not imply security for the rights of individuals.” The drafters of the state constitutions had “assumed that government had all power except for specific prohibitions contained in a bill of rights.” When the federal Constitution was transmitted to the states by Congress, Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts defended the omission of a bill of rights based on the federal …


The Constitution As Based On The Consent Of The Governed—Or, Should We Have An Unwritten Constitution?, Thomas B. Mcaffee Jan 2001

The Constitution As Based On The Consent Of The Governed—Or, Should We Have An Unwritten Constitution?, Thomas B. Mcaffee

Scholarly Works

It is useful to embrace continuity in describing basic differences we have in giving effect to the Constitution, especially if particular ways of communicating help us convey and understand what is at stake. The individual who originated the term “non-interpretivist” to describe judicial review implementing the unwritten constitution, for example, continues to believe that the best approach to constitutional interpretation is not “textualist,” but is properly characterized as “supplemental.” In his view, “much American constitutional adjudication, including but not limited to decisions under due process liberty and the right of privacy, involves the interpretation of an unwritten and essentially common …