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Emergency Powers: Understanding The Benefits While Mitigating The Consequences, Savannah Valentine
Emergency Powers: Understanding The Benefits While Mitigating The Consequences, Savannah Valentine
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
This note compares the short-term benefits and long-term consequences of emergency powers using examples from several countries and offers solutions to mitigate those consequences. Historically, emergency powers were only granted in times of true crises. In those circumstances, emergency powers can serve an important purpose: to help the government run smoothly and efficiently. Unfortunately, permanent power grabs are now more common and the standard for what constitutes an emergency has weakened severely, often resulting in civil rights infringements. Possible solutions to this problem include understanding the negative effects of sunset clauses in emergency acts, increased awareness of manufactured emergencies, encouraging …
Circumcision: Immigration, Religion, History, And Constitutional Identity In Germany And The U.S., David Abraham
Circumcision: Immigration, Religion, History, And Constitutional Identity In Germany And The U.S., David Abraham
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A four-year-old Muslim boy was brought to a local Cologne emergency room by his mother, who was concerned about minor bleeding around the site of a circumcision. A District Court there found that circumcision, notwithstanding parental consent or religious motivation, constituted a criminal bodily injury and child abuse. Ultimately, on July 19, 2012 the Bundestag resolved that "Jewish and Muslim religious life be viable in Germany," and in December a bill was passed that legislatively overrode the ruling of the District Court and recognized circumcision as a non-punishable undertaking when undertaken for religious reasons by someone professionally trained. Two years …
Reversal Of Fortune: How The German Courts Found Their Human Rights And Helped The European Courts Find Theirs, Henry Biggs
Reversal Of Fortune: How The German Courts Found Their Human Rights And Helped The European Courts Find Theirs, Henry Biggs
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
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The National Flood Insurance Program: Maintaining Its Head Above Water, Aparna Kirknel Majmudar
The National Flood Insurance Program: Maintaining Its Head Above Water, Aparna Kirknel Majmudar
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
National flood insurance programs implement flood prevention, create flood zone land-use policy, and establish protocols for relief With climate change and development raising the risk and exposure of human populations to flood, the United States 'National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been heavily scrutinized, especially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This article examines the validity of the two main criticisms of NFIP, and seeks to inform a better understanding of NFIP's integrity through a comparative analysis between NFIP and several different flood insurance models in Europe. As a result, this analysis yields recommendations that can benefit NFIP, as well …
Constitutional Patriotism, Citizenship And Belonging In America And Germany, David Abraham
Constitutional Patriotism, Citizenship And Belonging In America And Germany, David Abraham
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Irreconcilable Differences? Germany, The United States And The Hague Convention Controversy, Ximena Skovron
Irreconcilable Differences? Germany, The United States And The Hague Convention Controversy, Ximena Skovron
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
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Spreading Angst Or Promoting Free Expression? Regulating Hate Speech On The Internet, Joshua Spector
Spreading Angst Or Promoting Free Expression? Regulating Hate Speech On The Internet, Joshua Spector
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
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