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Scott V. Harris And The Role Of The Jury In Constitutional Litigation, Michael L. Wells
Scott V. Harris And The Role Of The Jury In Constitutional Litigation, Michael L. Wells
Michael L. Wells
Suits brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 to recover damages for excessive force by the police bear some resemblance to common law tort litigation, since the key Fourth Amendment issue is whether the force was "unreasonable." In ordinary negligence law the jury typically decides whether an actor has exercised reasonable care, even when there is no dispute as to the facts. In section 1983 litigation the federal courts are badly split on the allocation of decision making between judge and jury, sometimes even within a particular circuit. The Supreme Court recently faced the judge-jury issue in Scott v. Harris, where …
La Incidencia De La Acción De Tutela En La Implementación De Las Políticas Públicas, Fernando Castillo Cadena
La Incidencia De La Acción De Tutela En La Implementación De Las Políticas Públicas, Fernando Castillo Cadena
Fernando Castillo Cadena
The presente article in the light of constitutional economy, and using some conventional law and economics tools, the 'Acción de Tutela' (Constitutional Action or Action for the Tutelage of Rights) as a mechanism of protection of fundamental rights seeking to show its incidence over the implementation of public policies in favor of all citizens
A Better Path For Constitutional Tort Law, John M. Greabe
A Better Path For Constitutional Tort Law, John M. Greabe
John M Greabe
ABSTRACT
A BETTER PATH FOR CONSTITUTIONAL TORT LAW
The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that 42 U.S.C. section 1983 is not substantive. But at the same time, the Court has avoided difficult immunity problems by construing the statute to permit claims against individuals in their individual capacities -- i.e., as jural entities entirely separate and distinct from the government. The Court has thus created a contradiction. For if we are to take seriously the proposition that ordinarily only the government can violate the Constitution, the reality of individual-capacity claims does not square with characterizing section 1983 as non-substantive. The substantive …
Drawing The Line: Slippery Slopes, Sex Panics, And Polyamorous Marriages, Gretchen A. Myers
Drawing The Line: Slippery Slopes, Sex Panics, And Polyamorous Marriages, Gretchen A. Myers
Gretchen A Myers
This Note uses the unique example of polyamorous relationships to argue that the state should reject the number, sexual, and gender requirements in marriage and instead should regulate intimate relationships only to support caretaking families, in whatever forms those families happen to take. It suggests that marriage law historically has been and continues to be used as a tool for policing the boundaries of “proper” sexuality. Relationships outside of the “proper” boundaries—interracial relationships, same-sex relationships, nonmonogamous relationships—have been unfairly sexualized and labeled as deviant even though they actually provide caretaking and stability.
Wild-West Cowboys Versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems In Comparative Approaches To Extreme Speech, Eric Heinze
Wild-West Cowboys Versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems In Comparative Approaches To Extreme Speech, Eric Heinze
Prof. Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London
All European states ban some form of hate speech. US law precludes such bans. In view of the political and symbolic importance of free speech, it becomes tempting to assume that trans-Atlantic differences towards hate speech reflect deeper cultural divisions.
However, we must pay attention to comparative methodology before drawing ambitious conclusions about cross-cultural social and political differences that derive solely from differences in formal, black-letter norms. In this volume, Robert Post claims that formal, constitutional requirements of content-neutral regulation reflect a freer public sphere in the US, in contrast to the European public sphere.
Yet a legal-realist approach casts …
Cumulative Jurisprudence And Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation And Analogies To Disability, Age And Obesity, Eric Heinze
Cumulative Jurisprudence And Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation And Analogies To Disability, Age And Obesity, Eric Heinze
Prof. Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London
Non-discrimination norms in human rights instruments generally enumerate specified categories for protection, such as race, ethnicity, sex or religion, etc. They often omit express reference to sexual minorities.
Through open-ended interpretation, however, sexual minorities subsequently become incorporated. That ‘cumulative jurisprudence’ yields protections for sexual minorities through norms governing privacy, employment, age of consent, or freedoms of speech and association.
Hate speech bans, too, are often formulated with reference to traditionally recognised categories, particularly race and religion. It might be expected that the same cumulative jurisprudence should therefore be applied to include sexual minorities. In this article, that approach is challenged. …
The New Laches: Creating Title Where None Existed, Kathryn E. Fort
The New Laches: Creating Title Where None Existed, Kathryn E. Fort
Kathryn Fort
Tribal land claims are facing a new challenge from an old area of law. Courts have been paying special attention to the law of equity and how it can defeat tribal land claims. Specifically, the equitable defenses of laches, acquiescence, and impossibility were used by the Supreme Court to hand defeat to the Oneida Indian Nation on a tax issue. Since then, lower courts in the Second Circuit have used this precedent to deny Indian land claims. But are these three defenses based on precedent themselves? Rarely. Instead, they have been combined to create a new defense, what I will …
Diversity And Discrimination: A Look At Complex Bias, Minna Kotkin
Diversity And Discrimination: A Look At Complex Bias, Minna Kotkin
Minna J. Kotkin
Multiple claims are a fixture of employment discrimination litigation today. It is common if not ubiquitous for opinions to begin with a version of the following litany: plaintiff brings this action under Title VII and the ADEA for race, age and gender discrimination. EEOC statistics show the exponential growth of multiple claims, in part because its intake procedures lead claimants to describe their multiple identities, at a time when they have little basis upon which to parse a specific category of bias. But increased diversity in workplace demographics suggests that frequently, disparate treatment in fact may be rooted in intersectional …
The Bridge Connecting Pontius Pilate's Sentencing Of Jesus To The New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission's Concerns Over Executing The Innocent: When Human Beings With Human Flaws Determine Guilt Or Innocence And Life Or Death, James B. Johnston
James B Johnston
No abstract provided.
The Judicial Ethics Of Criminal Law Adjudication, Keith Swisher
The Judicial Ethics Of Criminal Law Adjudication, Keith Swisher
Keith Swisher
Judges in the United States regularly (and often harshly) are disciplined for “bad” criminal law decisions. On a number of levels, it is baffling that this ethical “Rule” — punishing judges for errors of adjudication — has never been the subject of in-depth critical analysis. Thus, this Article is surprisingly the first scholarly work fully deconstructing the Rule (along with attendant considerations in criminal law adjudication) and addressing directly many of the tough questions that have been avoided or mistreated. This Article begins by examining an unexamined, “yet earthshaking” movement—that is, the modern invention of using judicial conduct commissions (“judge …
Culture, Religion, And Indigenous People, David S. Bogen, Leslie F. Goldstein
Culture, Religion, And Indigenous People, David S. Bogen, Leslie F. Goldstein
David S. Bogen
The Constitution treats culture, religion, and government as separate concepts. Different clauses of the First Amendment protect culture and religion from government. For several decades, the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the First Amendment as offering religion greater protection against interference than was offered to culture, but the Supreme Court largely dissolved these constitutional differences when confronted with issues posed by the religious practices of Native Americans. With some indigenous Americans, the lines between culture, religion, and even government blur – challenging the Supreme Court’s assumptions about the Constitution. The uniqueness of the claims of Native Americans pushed …
The Idea Eligibility Mess, Mark C. Weber
The Idea Eligibility Mess, Mark C. Weber
Mark C. Weber
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) guarantees students with disabilities a free public education appropriate to their needs, but students must meet the definition of “child with a disability” to be eligible for that entitlement. The law governing special education eligibility, however, is charitably characterized as a mess. There are several sources of the current eligibility confusion. First, recent court cases have reached conflicting conclusions about how much adverse educational impact the child’s disabling condition must have, what constitutes a sufficient need for special education, and when children with emotional disabilities are eligible. Second, long-established methods for assessing learning …
Torch (January 2009), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (January 2009), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Notsogolden Years Why Hate Crime Legislation Is Failing A Vulnerable Aging Population, Helia Garrido Hull
The Notsogolden Years Why Hate Crime Legislation Is Failing A Vulnerable Aging Population, Helia Garrido Hull
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Debunking The Myth Of Civil Rights Liberalism: Visions Of Racial Justice In The Thought Of T. Thomas Fortune, 1880-1890 Symposium: The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy: Promoting Social Change And Political Values, Susan Carle
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This essay addresses the development of American understandings of the various roles of lawyers in building democracy by focusing on legal reform efforts in the American civil rights movement. In recent years, the supposed achievements of that movement have come under attack as part of a critique of the ideology of legal liberalism. That critique argues that civil rights lawyers and other activists too greatly emphasized court-focused strategies aimed at achieving what would turn out to be Pyrrhic "civil" rights victories-i.e., gains solely in "formal" equality through requirements enshrined in law as to how the state must treat its citizens.
Preparing For Disaster: Protecting The Most Vulnerable In Emergencies, Sharona Hoffman
Preparing For Disaster: Protecting The Most Vulnerable In Emergencies, Sharona Hoffman
Faculty Publications
Many federal, state, local and private entities are investing significant resources in disaster readiness initiatives. Often disregarded, however, are the special needs of vulnerable populations during disasters. In the context of emergencies, vulnerable groups may include individuals with disabilities, pregnant women, children, the elderly, prisoners, members of ethnic minorities, people with language barriers, and the impoverished. The fate of the disadvantaged during disasters has received little attention in the legal literature, and this article begins to fill that gap. It examines ethical theories of distributive justice and existing federal and state civil rights and emergency response laws and argues that …
Feminizing Capital: A Corporate Imperative, Darren Rosenblum
Feminizing Capital: A Corporate Imperative, Darren Rosenblum
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This Article argues that Norway’s Corporate Board Quota Law (“CBQ”) fosters a productive symbiosis between the public and private spheres. Recent studies indicate that higher numbers of women in executive positions result in stronger rates of corporate return on equity (“ROE”). Countries with higher levels of women's political representation also tend to have higher levels of economic growth. Increasing women's workforce participation outside the home can drive overall economic growth. These factors prompted the CBQ's proponents to argue for the economic imperative of women's corporate leadership. The CBQ will not only ameliorate gender inequality, but will bring new life to …
Human Rights Hero - President Barack Obama, Stephen Wermiel
Human Rights Hero - President Barack Obama, Stephen Wermiel
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
The Geography Of Discrimination: The Seattle And Louisville Cases And The Legacy Of Brown V. Board Of Education, Robert Hayman
The Geography Of Discrimination: The Seattle And Louisville Cases And The Legacy Of Brown V. Board Of Education, Robert Hayman
Robert L. Hayman
No abstract provided.
Choosing Equality: Essays And Narratives On The Desegregation Experience, Robert Hayman, Leland Ware
Choosing Equality: Essays And Narratives On The Desegregation Experience, Robert Hayman, Leland Ware
Robert L. Hayman
No abstract provided.
Free At Last! Anti-Subordination And The Thirteenth Amendment, Rebecca Zietlow
Free At Last! Anti-Subordination And The Thirteenth Amendment, Rebecca Zietlow
Rebecca E Zietlow
Notwithstanding the powerful symbolism that liberty has in the American psyche, liberty is largely absent from our late Twentieth Century understanding of civil rights, which instead is based in the Equal Protection Clause and its promise of formal equality. People of color and women of every race have made significant advances under the Equal Protection model of equality, but they continue to lag behind whites and men under virtually every economic index. This paper argues for an alternative model of equality, an anti-subordination model, which allows decision-makers to focus on the material conditions that contribute to inequality in our society, …
Introduction, Robert Hayman, Leland Ware
The Usual Suspect Classifications: Criminals, Aliens And The Future Of Same-Sex Marriage, Michael A. Helfand
The Usual Suspect Classifications: Criminals, Aliens And The Future Of Same-Sex Marriage, Michael A. Helfand
Michael A Helfand
In this Article, I argue for a new understanding of the immutability factor employed by courts in determining which classifications ought to receive suspect status under the Equal Protection Clause. Drawing on the process-based foundations of the Equal Protection Clause, this new understanding defines immutable traits not as traits that cannot be changed, but as traits that are in the words of the Supreme Court in Frontiero v. Richardson, mere "accident[s] of birth." In contrast, courts and scholars typically center the immutability inquiry on an individual’s technical ability to exit a particular class, which has led to inconsistencies in …
Fitting Punishment, Juliet P. Stumpf
Fitting Punishment, Juliet P. Stumpf
Juliet P Stumpf
Proportionality is conspicuously absent from the legal framework for immigration sanctions. Immigration law relies on one sanction – deportation – as the ubiquitous penalty for any immigration violation. Neither the gravity of the violation nor the harm that results bears on whether deportation is the consequence for an immigration violation. Immigration law stands alone in the legal landscape in this respect. Criminal punishment incorporates proportionality when imposing sentences that are graduated based on the gravity of the offense; contract and tort law provide for damages that are graduated based on the harm to others or to society. This Article represents …