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Kafka's Court: Seeking Law And Justice At Guantanamo Bay, Alka Pradhan Feb 2020

Kafka's Court: Seeking Law And Justice At Guantanamo Bay, Alka Pradhan

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Alienating Citizens, Amanda Frost Aug 2019

Alienating Citizens, Amanda Frost

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Denaturalization is back. In 1967, the Supreme Court declared that denaturalization for any reason other than fraud or mistake in the naturalization process is unconstitutional, forcing the government to abandon its aggressive denaturalization campaigns. For the last half century, the government denaturalized no more than a handful of people every year. Over the past year, however, the Trump Administration has revived denaturalization. The Administration has targeted 700,000 naturalized American citizens for investigation and has hired dozens of lawyers and staff members to work in a newly created office devoted to investigating and prosecuting denaturalization cases.

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Housing, Healthism, And The Hud Smoke-Free Policy, Dave Fagundes, Jessica L. Roberts Dec 2018

Housing, Healthism, And The Hud Smoke-Free Policy, Dave Fagundes, Jessica L. Roberts

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#Sowhitemale: Federal Civil Rulemaking, Brooke D. Coleman Oct 2018

#Sowhitemale: Federal Civil Rulemaking, Brooke D. Coleman

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116 out of 136. That is the number of white men who have served on the eighty-two-year-old committee responsible for creating and maintaining the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The tiny number of non-white, non-male committee members is disproportionate, even in the context of the white-male-dominated legal profession. If the rules were simply a technical set of instructions made by a neutral set of experts, then perhaps these numbers might not be as disturbing. But that is not the case. The Civil Rules embody normative judgments about the values that have primacy in our civil justice system, and the rule-makers—while …


Cheers To Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Independent Craft Beer Viable, Daniel J. Croxall May 2018

Cheers To Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Independent Craft Beer Viable, Daniel J. Croxall

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Independent craft breweries contributed approximately $68 billion to the national economy last year. However, an arcane regulatory scheme governs the alcohol industry in general and the craft beer industry specifically, posing both obstacles and benefits to independent craft brewers. This Essay examines regulations that arguably infringe on free speech: namely, commercial speech regulations that prohibit alcohol manufacturers from purchasing advertising space from retailers. Such regulations were enacted to prohibit undue influence and anticompetitive behavior stemming from vertical and horizontal integration in the alcohol market. Although these regulations are necessary to prevent global corporate brewers from dominating the craft beer market …


Leveraging Social Science Expertise In Immigration Policymaking, Ming H. Chen May 2018

Leveraging Social Science Expertise In Immigration Policymaking, Ming H. Chen

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The longstanding uncertainty about how policymakers should grapple with social science demonstrating racism persists in the modern administrative state. This Essay examines the uses and misuses of social science and expertise in immigration policymaking. More specifically, it highlights three immigration policies that dismiss social scientific findings and expertise as part of presidential and agency decision-making: border control, crime control, and extreme vetting of refugees to prevent terrorism. The Essay claims that these rejections of expertise undermine both substantive and procedural protections for immigrants and undermine important functions of the administrative state as a curb on irrationality in policymaking. It concludes …


Restoring The Fact/Law Distinction In Patent Claim Construction, J. Jonas Anderson, Peter S. Menell Apr 2015

Restoring The Fact/Law Distinction In Patent Claim Construction, J. Jonas Anderson, Peter S. Menell

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Two decades ago, the Supreme Court sought to promote more effective, transparent patent litigation in Markman v. Westview Instruments by ruling that “the construction of a patent, including terms of art within its claim, is exclusively within the province of the court.” In so doing, the Court removed interpretation of patent claims from the black box of jury deliberations by holding that the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial did not extend to patent claim construction. Failing to find clear historical evidence of how claim construction was handled in 1791, the Court turned to “the relative interpretive skills of …


The #Ferguson Effect: Opening The Pandora’S Box Of Implicit Racial Bias In Jury Selection, Sarah Jane Forman Feb 2015

The #Ferguson Effect: Opening The Pandora’S Box Of Implicit Racial Bias In Jury Selection, Sarah Jane Forman

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Hidden Racial Bias: Why We Need To Talk With Jurors About Ferguson, Patrick C. Brayer Feb 2015

Hidden Racial Bias: Why We Need To Talk With Jurors About Ferguson, Patrick C. Brayer

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Race Matters In Jury Selection, Peter A. Joy Feb 2015

Race Matters In Jury Selection, Peter A. Joy

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Sox On Fish: A New Harm Of Overcriminalization, Todd Haugh Jan 2015

Sox On Fish: A New Harm Of Overcriminalization, Todd Haugh

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The Intratextual Independent “Legislature” And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley Jan 2015

The Intratextual Independent “Legislature” And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley

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The Intratextual Independent “Legislature” And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley Jan 2015

The Intratextual Independent “Legislature” And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley

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How Not To Apply Actavis, Michael A. Carrier Dec 2014

How Not To Apply Actavis, Michael A. Carrier

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“Single Point Of Entry”: The Promise And Limits Of The Latest Cure For Bailouts, John Crawford Nov 2014

“Single Point Of Entry”: The Promise And Limits Of The Latest Cure For Bailouts, John Crawford

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Ties That Bind? The Questionable Consent Justification For Hosanna-Tabor, Jessie Hill Nov 2014

Ties That Bind? The Questionable Consent Justification For Hosanna-Tabor, Jessie Hill

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Patent Imperialism, Bernard Chao Oct 2014

Patent Imperialism, Bernard Chao

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Inventing Around Copyright, Dan L. Burk Sep 2014

Inventing Around Copyright, Dan L. Burk

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Forced Decryption As Equilibrium—Why It’S Constitutional And How Riley Matters, Dan Terzian Sep 2014

Forced Decryption As Equilibrium—Why It’S Constitutional And How Riley Matters, Dan Terzian

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Is Resistance To Foreign Law Rooted In Racism?, Sheldon Bernard Lyke Aug 2014

Is Resistance To Foreign Law Rooted In Racism?, Sheldon Bernard Lyke

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The Ceo And The Hydraulics Of Campaign Finance Deregulation, Sarah Jane C. Haan Jul 2014

The Ceo And The Hydraulics Of Campaign Finance Deregulation, Sarah Jane C. Haan

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Mini-Domas As Political Process Failures: The Case For Heightened Scrutiny Of State Anti-Gay Marriage Amendments, Steve Sanders Jun 2014

Mini-Domas As Political Process Failures: The Case For Heightened Scrutiny Of State Anti-Gay Marriage Amendments, Steve Sanders

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Choice Of Counsel And The Appearance Of Equal Justice Under Law, Wesley M. Oliver May 2014

Choice Of Counsel And The Appearance Of Equal Justice Under Law, Wesley M. Oliver

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Abidor V. Napolitano: Suspicionless Cell Phone And Laptop “Strip” Searches At The Border Compromise The Fourth And First Amendments, Adam Lamparello, Charles E. Maclean May 2014

Abidor V. Napolitano: Suspicionless Cell Phone And Laptop “Strip” Searches At The Border Compromise The Fourth And First Amendments, Adam Lamparello, Charles E. Maclean

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The Motivating Force Of A Bonus Pool, And Other Objections, Claire A. Hill Apr 2014

The Motivating Force Of A Bonus Pool, And Other Objections, Claire A. Hill

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Of Bitcoins, Independently Wealthy Software, And The Zero-Member Llc, Shawn Bayern Apr 2014

Of Bitcoins, Independently Wealthy Software, And The Zero-Member Llc, Shawn Bayern

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Party-Based Corruption And Mccutcheon V. Fec, Michael S. Kang Mar 2014

Party-Based Corruption And Mccutcheon V. Fec, Michael S. Kang

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Silence Is Golden: Moments Of Silence, Legislative Prayers, And The Establishment Clause, Eric Segall Mar 2014

Silence Is Golden: Moments Of Silence, Legislative Prayers, And The Establishment Clause, Eric Segall

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The Curious Case Of Legislative Prayer: Town Of Greece V. Galloway, Ian Bartrum Feb 2014

The Curious Case Of Legislative Prayer: Town Of Greece V. Galloway, Ian Bartrum

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Constitutional Purpose And The Anti-Corruption Principle, Zephyr Teachout Feb 2014

Constitutional Purpose And The Anti-Corruption Principle, Zephyr Teachout

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