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Criminal Law

2003

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The Death Of Roy Lee Centers, Kenneth D. Tunnell, Terry C. Cox Jun 2003

The Death Of Roy Lee Centers, Kenneth D. Tunnell, Terry C. Cox

Kenneth Tunnell

"Be it remembered." A simple command yet, in this case, an introduction spoken by the judge in the Breathitt County, Ky., trial of William (Bill) R. Hurst, who killed Roy Lee Centers, a native of Jackson, Kentucky

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Combating Impunity: A Compilation Of Articles On The International Criminal Court And Its Relevance To India, Vahida Nainar, Saumya Uma Mar 2003

Combating Impunity: A Compilation Of Articles On The International Criminal Court And Its Relevance To India, Vahida Nainar, Saumya Uma

Dr. Saumya Uma

The publication is the first attempt at a compilation of published and unpublished articles written on the relevance of ICC for India. Vahida Nainar – founder-trustee of WRAG and an advisor of ICC-India campaign and Saumya Uma – Director of WRAG, compiled the articles. Apart from assisting the Indian campaign generally, the compilation has been used specifically as a resource material for information dissemination programmes conducted by us.

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Asking What Before We Ask Why: Taxonomy, Etiology And Rape, Katharine K. Baker Jan 2003

Asking What Before We Ask Why: Taxonomy, Etiology And Rape, Katharine K. Baker

Katharine K. Baker

This article presents a spectrum of sexual coersion. By looking at the social meaning of the different acts of coercion along the spectrum, the author suggests that most acts of sexual coercion can be classified as either rape (a sexual act with intent to do harm to the victim) or sex (a sexual act engaged in without any intent to harm the victim). Ironically, though, the author suggests that the most and least egregious acts of sexual aggression, that is, the acts we most readily identify as rape and the acts we are most reluctant to label rape are the …

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Subject Unrest, Angela Harris, Frank Valdes, Jerome Culp Dec 2002

Subject Unrest, Angela Harris, Frank Valdes, Jerome Culp

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.

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State Laws And The Independent Judiciary: An Analysis Of The Effects Of The Seventeenth Amendment On The Number Of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2002

State Laws And The Independent Judiciary: An Analysis Of The Effects Of The Seventeenth Amendment On The Number Of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

In recent years, the Seventeenth Amendment has been the subject of legal scholarship, congressional hearings and debate, Supreme Court opinions, popular press articles and commentary, state legislative efforts aimed at repeal, and activist repeal movements. To date, the literature on the effects of the Seventeenth Amendment has focused almost exclusively on the effects on the political production of legislation and competition between legislative bodies. Very little attention has been given to the potential adverse effects of the Seventeenth Amendment on the relationship between state legislatures and the federal courts. This Article seeks to fill part of that literature gap, applying …

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Complicity With Evil, M. Cathleen Kaveny Dec 2002

Complicity With Evil, M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

No abstract provided.

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