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Of Civil Wrongs And Rights: Kiyemba V. Obama And The Meaning Of Freedom, Separation Of Powers, And The Rule Of Law Ten Years After 9/11, Katherine L. Vaughns, Heather L. Williams
Of Civil Wrongs And Rights: Kiyemba V. Obama And The Meaning Of Freedom, Separation Of Powers, And The Rule Of Law Ten Years After 9/11, Katherine L. Vaughns, Heather L. Williams
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This article is about the rise and fall of continued adherence to the rule of law, proper application of the separation of powers doctrine, and the meaning of freedom for a group of seventeen Uighurs—a Turkic Muslim ethnic minority whose members reside in the Xinjiang province of China—who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base since 2002. Most scholars regard the trilogy of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and Boumediene v. Bush as demonstrating the Supreme Court’s willingness to uphold the rule of law during the war on terror. The recent experience of the Uighurs …
Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives About The Internment Of Japanese Americans, Taunya Lovell Banks
Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives About The Internment Of Japanese Americans, Taunya Lovell Banks
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This article examines the conflicting film narratives about the internment from 1942 through 2007. It argues that while later film narratives, especially documentaries, counter early government film narratives justifying the internment, these counter-narratives have their own damaging hegemony. Whereas earlier commercial films tell the internment story through the eyes of sympathetic whites, using a conventional civil rights template … Japanese and other Asian American documentary filmmakers construct their Japanese characters as model minorities — hyper-citizens, super patriots. Further, the internment experience remains largely a male story. With the exception of Emiko Omori’s documentary film memoir, Rabbit in the Moon (2004), …
Where Left Meets Right: A Case Study Of Class-Based Economic Discrimination Through Zoning In Salisbury, Maryland, Robin R. Cockey
Where Left Meets Right: A Case Study Of Class-Based Economic Discrimination Through Zoning In Salisbury, Maryland, Robin R. Cockey
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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Why The Reparations Movement Should Fail, Gregory Kane
Why The Reparations Movement Should Fail, Gregory Kane
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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Judging The Judges: Racial Diversity, Impartiality And Representation On State Trial Courts, Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Judging The Judges: Racial Diversity, Impartiality And Representation On State Trial Courts, Sherrilyn A. Ifill
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Towards Parity In Bar Passage Rates And Law School Performance: Exploring The Sources Of Disparities Between Racial And Ethnic Groups, Katherine L. Vaughns
Towards Parity In Bar Passage Rates And Law School Performance: Exploring The Sources Of Disparities Between Racial And Ethnic Groups, Katherine L. Vaughns
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