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The New Normal: Regulatory Dysfunction As Policymaking, Ming Hsu Chen, Daimeon Shanks

Maryland Law Review

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The Democratic Imperative To Make Margins Matter, Daniel Wodak

Maryland Law Review

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West Virginia V. Epa: Majorly Questioning Administrative Agency Action & Authority, Halina R. Bereday

Maryland Law Review

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Table Of Contents

Maryland Law Review

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Kennedy V. Bremerton School District: Throwing A Red Flag For The Public-Employee Speech Arena To Challenge The Court’S Hail Mary, Isabella Henry

Maryland Law Review

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State V. Matthews: Maryland Fails To Measure Up To Its New Expert Testimony Standard, Thomas Kiley

Maryland Law Review

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Who Are The True Heirs Of Lincoln And Douglas?, Rogers M. Smith

Maryland Law Review

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Frederick Douglass As Constitutionalist, Jack M. Balkin, Sanford Levinson

Maryland Law Review

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Lincoln, Douglass, Fugitive Slave Law, And Constitutional Evil, Robinson Woodward-Burns

Maryland Law Review

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“Our Constitution . . . Should Be Read By Intelligent And Patriotic Men”: A Statistical Analysis Of Constitutional Rhetoric, William D. Blake

Maryland Law Review

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A Meditation On The Thirteenth Amendment And Constitutional Redemption, Darrell A.H. Miller

Maryland Law Review

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A Fiduciary Principle Of Policing, Stephen R. Galoob

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Stop Threatening Nails With Wrenches: Why Military Contractor Misdeeds Abroad Should Be Handled Using The Uniform Code Of Military Justice Rather Than The Current Civilian First Strategy, Gwendolyn Savitz

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

Many legal violations by military contractors are never addressed through the legal system. This is despite Congress having enacted two laws that attempt to hold contractors accountable for crimes committed abroad. The reason for this gap is that the military has adopted a civilian-first strategy where the primary choice of prosecution is delegated to the Department of Justice. This is a mistake. This article explains why the civilian-first strategy has been so unsuccessful and how the military can appropriately move to a military-first strategy. Doing so would provide the military better control over the Total Force, which is particularly important …

Reviewing Mixed Questions Of Fact And Law In Administrative Adjudications: Why Courts Should Move To “Substantially Established Facts”, Gwendolyn Savitz

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

Courts are inconsistent in how they review mixed questions of fact and law in administrative adjudications. Many courts simply and unquestioningly review the entire mixed issue using only substantial evidence review. This grants extreme and unquestioning deference to any legal interpretation used by the agency, far more than would be available to it under the increasingly besieged Chevron doctrine, despite the fact that the adjudications being reviewed in this manner generally would not even be entitled to Chevron deference if the legal component of the mixed question were analyzed separately. Courts should therefore analyze the different components of a mixed …

Introduction To Symposium On Policing And Political Philosophy, Stephen R. Galoob, Jake Monaghan

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Book Review: Comparative Election Law, Lori A. Ringhand

Scholarly Works

Review of the book Comparative Election Law by James A Gardner, ed. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022) 544 p.

Table Of Contents, Volume 61, Number 1, Winter 2023 [And Other Preliminary Pages]

Duquesne Law Review

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The Death And Resurrection Of Establishment Doctrine, Gerard V. Bradley

Duquesne Law Review

Lead Article

The biggest news of the Supreme Court's 2021-22 term was the Court's "abandonment" of Lemon v. Kurtzman as the default test for Establishment Clause jurisprudence. For a full half-century, Lemon v. Kurtzman defined what our constitutional separation of church and state meant. But now the Court has definitively laid it to rest. The important question of church-state relations stands at a strategic fork in the road that the Court has not faced since 1962, and perhaps not since 1947. Justice Gorsuch complained that Lemon demonstrably failed as law. That it was a judicial tool that flopped by every …

Fair Notice, The Rule Of Law, And Reforming Qualified Immunity, Nathan S. Chapman

Scholarly Works

After many well-publicized cases of police wrongdoing, a growing number of courts, scholars, and politicians have demanded the abolition of qualified immunity. The doctrine requires courts to dismiss damages actions against officials for violating the plaintiff’s constitutional rights unless a reasonable officer would have known that the right was “clearly established.” Scholars argue that the doctrine impedes deterrence of rights violations and forecloses compensation and vindication for victims.

One line of attack has relied on empirical evidence to challenge what scholars take to be the main justification for qualified immunity, that it prevents the threat of constitutional liability from over-deterring …

Analysis Of Carson V. Makin, Wilson Huhn

Duquesne Law Review

Many school districts in the State of Maine lack high schools, so the children in those districts must attend another school selected by their parents.¹ In 1873 the State of Maine enacted a tuition assistance program, called "town tuitioning," that offers a stipend to participating schools to partially defray the cost of educating children from districts that lack a high school.² In 1981 the State of Maine enacted a law that categorically excludes "sectarian schools" from participating in the tuition assistance program.³ The Maine Department of Education defines a "sectarian school" as a school that is both …

Table Of Contents, Volume 61, Number 2, Summer 2023 [And Other Preliminary Pages]

Duquesne Law Review

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"We Don't Know What We Want": The Tug Between Rights And Public Health Online, Jonathan Zittrain

Duquesne Law Review

Twitter and Facebook boast billions of subscribers, many of whom are real people. The companies are also roundly hated, particularly by tech experts-at least those who follow them for something other than their stock performance.¹ Objections to platforms' behavior are commonly expressed as amazement that they could be so obviously and consistently wrong in failing to police awful content their users post. There is also amazement about unobjectionable posts and comments from users that they take down.² That, in turn, has led to pressure for regulatory initiatives to push the companies into doing what they so clearly ought …

The Tug Between Private And Public Power Online, Evelyn Douek

Duquesne Law Review

Professor Zittrain's article describes, in his characteristically vivid and engaging way, one of the most consequential tugs of war of the internet age: the battle over the rules for what can and cannot be said online. The legal centerpiece of Zittrain's story is the Skokie case from the late 1970s, which held that Nazis had a First Amendment right to march in a Chicago suburb with a large population of Holocaust survivors.¹ Zittrain calls the case "a near-perfect encapsulation of mainstream late twentieth century characterization of the right to free speech in America."² And he's right-there is perhaps …

Platform Governance's Legitimate Dilemmas, Alicia Solow-Niederman

Duquesne Law Review

How can we govern if "we don't know what we want?"¹ In characteristically engaging and thought-provoking fashion, Jonathan Zittrain's Essay interrogates our ongoing struggle to answer this thorny question.² As Professor Zittrain exposes, governing social media firms like Twitter and Facebook is no easy feat.³ Part of the challenge is defining the problem itself: it's hard to diagnose what, exactly, "is so 'obviously' wrong" with social media today.⁴ Naturally, without a consensus on what is wrong, it is difficult, if not impossible, to make it right.

Whose Ledger Is Really Red? Confidential Arbitration Killed The Black Widow, Daniel Charles Smolsky

Duquesne Law Review

After filing a complaint against the Walt Disney Company in July 2021, Scarlett Johansson ensured that she would follow through with litigation to protect other Hollywood talent. Despite that assurance, Johansson settled her suit with Disney only sixty-three days after filing her complaint. This Article explores what Johansson's shockingly swift settlement reveals about not only the entertainment industry, but the majority of modern employment disputes. Did Disney abuse its power and intentionally sacrifice box-office profits at Johansson's expense, or did Johansson leverage her public influence to compel an unwarranted settlement? Whose ledger is really red and perhaps more importantly why …

The Pricelessness Of Life Vs. Profiting From Illness: A Call For Change To The Pricing Model For Lifesaving Drugs In The United States, Aubri L. Swank

Duquesne Law Review

Pharmaceutical drug prices in the United States are at the highest costs yet seen, and it looks like these prices are still continuing to climb. While people in the United States are struggling to pay for necessary medications, the prices of those same medications are drastically lower in other countries.

This Article directly analyzes the issue of pharmaceutical pricing in the United States through two specific lifesaving drugs, insulin and epinephrine. Both drugs are prescriptions required to keep some people alive, and both are related to manufacturing companies with questionable, overwhelming control of the markets. While there has been recent …

Covid-19 And Broadband Internet: Historic Government Funding In The Wake Of A Global Pandemic Poised To Bridge The Digital Divide, Kaitlin M. Kroll

Duquesne Law Review

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted how Americans live, work, and learn. As the country returns to normalcy, reliable, fast internet connection is critical for Americans it is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. While many Americans do not think twice about having internet connectivity, there are still many Americans who are unable to access or afford the internet, especially in rural communities and low-income households. In the wake of the pandemic, Congress allocated historic amounts of funding for broadband initiatives. The most substantial of which are the broadband allocations under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ("IIJA'). While the …

Running A Red Light: How Pennsylvania Rushed To Its Destination And Failed To Define "Exigent Circumstances" In Commonwealth V. Alexander, Josephine L. Mlakar

Duquesne Law Review

The United States Supreme Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court both recognize an "automobile exception" to the warrant requirement pursuant to their respective constitutions. In 2014, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted the federal automobile exception. Under the federal automobile exception, police can search a vehicle without a warrant where probable cause exists. In 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overruled its 2014 decision, and announced its official departure from federal standard. Now, police can search a vehicle without a warrant only upon a showing of both probable cause and exigent circumstances.

Adding an exigency component to the warrantless search requirement is …

Increasing Representation: Expanding Intersectional Claims In Employment Discrimination, Anna Maria Sicenica

Duquesne Law Review

The trend of globalization has only continued to bring workers from different races, religions, and countries to the United States. Moreover, in a country where women continue to become a larger part of the workforce every year, and as the age of retirement continues to grow, there will inevitably be more women who will face discrimination on multiple grounds: specifically, for their age and sex. Thus, it is no wonder that "intersectional claimants," or claimants that belong to least two or more protected classes under the law, now make up the majority of the workforce.

However, despite the fact that …

Increasing Compliance With International Pandemic Law: International Relations And New Global Health Agreements, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Clare Wenham, Elize Massard Da Fonseca, Laurence R. Helfer, Elvin Nyukuri, Allan Maleche, Sam F. Halabi, Adi Radhakrishnan, Attiya Waris

Faculty Scholarship

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