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Preserving Life By Ranking Rights, John William Draper Dec 2018

Preserving Life By Ranking Rights, John William Draper

Librarian Scholarship at Penn Law

Border walls, abortion, and the death penalty are the current battlegrounds of the right to life. We will visit each topic and more in this paper, as we consider ranking groups of constitutional rights.

The enumerated rights of the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments—life, liberty, and property—merit special treatment. They have a deeper and richer history that involves ranking. Ranking life in lexical priority over liberty and property rights protects life first and maximizes safe liberty and property rights in the absence of a significant risk to life. This is not new law; aspects of it …


Brief Of National Law Professors Of Criminal, Procedural, And Constitutional Law, In Re Humphrey, California Supreme Court, Regarding The Imposition Of Money Bail And Conditions Of Pretrial Release, Sandra G. Mayson, Kellen R. Funk Oct 2018

Brief Of National Law Professors Of Criminal, Procedural, And Constitutional Law, In Re Humphrey, California Supreme Court, Regarding The Imposition Of Money Bail And Conditions Of Pretrial Release, Sandra G. Mayson, Kellen R. Funk

All Faculty Scholarship

When the government proposes to incarcerate a person before trial, it must provide thorough justification, whether the mechanism of detention is a transparent detention order or its functional equivalent, the imposition of unaffordable money bail. A court contemplating money bail must determine whether it is likely to result in detention. If so, and the court nonetheless wishes to impose it, the court must find, by clear and convincing evidence established through an adversary hearing, that the unaffordable bail amount serves a compelling interest of the state that no less restrictive condition of release can meet. This will rarely be the …


Rights And Retrenchment In The Trump Era, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang Oct 2018

Rights And Retrenchment In The Trump Era, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang

All Faculty Scholarship

Our aim in this essay is to leverage archival research, data and theoretical perspectives presented in our book, Rights and Retrenchment: The Counterrevolution against Federal Litigation, as a means to illuminate the prospects for retrenchment in the current political landscape. We follow the scheme of the book by separately considering the prospects for federal litigation retrenchment in three lawmaking sites: Congress, federal court rulemaking under the Rules Enabling Act, and the Supreme Court. Although pertinent data on current retrenchment initiatives are limited, our historical data and comparative institutional perspectives should afford a basis for informed prediction. Of course, little in …


Remedial Reading: Evaluating Federal Courts' Application Of The Prejudice Standard In Capital Sentences From "Weighing" And "Non-Weighing" States, Sarah Gerwig-Moore Jan 2018

Remedial Reading: Evaluating Federal Courts' Application Of The Prejudice Standard In Capital Sentences From "Weighing" And "Non-Weighing" States, Sarah Gerwig-Moore

JCL Online

No abstract provided.


Down But Not Out: Trinity Lutheran'S Implications For State No-Aid Provisions, Anthony Joseph Jan 2018

Down But Not Out: Trinity Lutheran'S Implications For State No-Aid Provisions, Anthony Joseph

JCL Online

No abstract provided.


Views Among College Students Regarding Freedom Of Expression: An Analysis In Light Of Key Supreme Court Decisions, John Villasenor Jan 2018

Views Among College Students Regarding Freedom Of Expression: An Analysis In Light Of Key Supreme Court Decisions, John Villasenor

JCL Online

No abstract provided.


A Counterfactual History Of Transgender Students' Rights, Kristi L. Bowman Jan 2018

A Counterfactual History Of Transgender Students' Rights, Kristi L. Bowman

JCL Online

No abstract provided.


Supervisory Liability In The Circuit Courts After Iqbal, Patrick Boynton Jan 2018

Supervisory Liability In The Circuit Courts After Iqbal, Patrick Boynton

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Youth And Punishment At The Roberts Court, Sara Mayeux Jan 2018

Youth And Punishment At The Roberts Court, Sara Mayeux

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Taming Title Ix Tensions, Naomi M. Mann Jan 2018

Taming Title Ix Tensions, Naomi M. Mann

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Due Process Of Lawmaking Revisited, Stephen Gardbaum Jan 2018

Due Process Of Lawmaking Revisited, Stephen Gardbaum

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The New Heckler's Veto: Shouting Down Speech On College Campuses, Charles S. Nary Jan 2018

The New Heckler's Veto: Shouting Down Speech On College Campuses, Charles S. Nary

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Diverse Originalism, Christina Mullligan Jan 2018

Diverse Originalism, Christina Mullligan

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Campus Discourse And Democracy: Free Speech Principles Provide Sound Guidance Even After The Tumult Of 2017, Catherine J. Ross Jan 2018

Campus Discourse And Democracy: Free Speech Principles Provide Sound Guidance Even After The Tumult Of 2017, Catherine J. Ross

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Right To Be Counseled: The Effect Of Collateral Consequences On The Strickland Standard, Paul Quincy Jan 2018

The Right To Be Counseled: The Effect Of Collateral Consequences On The Strickland Standard, Paul Quincy

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Marketplace Of Fake News, Ari Ezra Waldman Jan 2018

The Marketplace Of Fake News, Ari Ezra Waldman

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Sanctuary Corporations: Should Liberal Corporations Get Religion?, Elizabeth Brown, Inara Scott Jan 2018

Sanctuary Corporations: Should Liberal Corporations Get Religion?, Elizabeth Brown, Inara Scott

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Paycheck Problem, Jennifer Mueller Jan 2018

The Paycheck Problem, Jennifer Mueller

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


State Legislatures And Solving The Eighth Amendment Ratchet Puzzle, Jeffrey Omar Usman Jan 2018

State Legislatures And Solving The Eighth Amendment Ratchet Puzzle, Jeffrey Omar Usman

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Stages Of Constitutional Grief: Democratic Constitutionalism And The Marriage Revolution, Anthony Michael Kreis Jan 2018

Stages Of Constitutional Grief: Democratic Constitutionalism And The Marriage Revolution, Anthony Michael Kreis

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


The Political Process, Equal Protection, And Substantive Due Process, Jesse H. Choper, Stephen F. Ross Jan 2018

The Political Process, Equal Protection, And Substantive Due Process, Jesse H. Choper, Stephen F. Ross

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Talking Trump And The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Correcting The Record On Section 4, Joel K. Goldstein Jan 2018

Talking Trump And The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Correcting The Record On Section 4, Joel K. Goldstein

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Don't Answer That: Revisiting The Political Question Doctrine In State Courts, Nat Stern Jan 2018

Don't Answer That: Revisiting The Political Question Doctrine In State Courts, Nat Stern

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Litigating Alternative Facts: School Vaccine Mandates In The Courts, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss Jan 2018

Litigating Alternative Facts: School Vaccine Mandates In The Courts, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Charting Vagueness Shoals Through The Narrowing Of Corruption Statutes, Khari L. Cyrus Jan 2018

Charting Vagueness Shoals Through The Narrowing Of Corruption Statutes, Khari L. Cyrus

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Campaign Communications And The Problem Of Government Motive, Michael Coenen Jan 2018

Campaign Communications And The Problem Of Government Motive, Michael Coenen

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Neoformalist Constitutional Construction And Public Employee Speech, Scott R. Bauries Jan 2018

Neoformalist Constitutional Construction And Public Employee Speech, Scott R. Bauries

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Masthead Jan 2018

Masthead

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Finding Viewpoint Neutrality In Our Constitutional Constellation, Maura Douglas Jan 2018

Finding Viewpoint Neutrality In Our Constitutional Constellation, Maura Douglas

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Our Imperiled Absolutist First Amendment, Zachary S. Price Jan 2018

Our Imperiled Absolutist First Amendment, Zachary S. Price

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.