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Counter-Demonstration As Protected Speech: Finding The Right To Confrontation In Existing First Amendment Law, Kevin F. O'Neill, R. Vasvari
Counter-Demonstration As Protected Speech: Finding The Right To Confrontation In Existing First Amendment Law, Kevin F. O'Neill, R. Vasvari
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Accordingly, this Article is aimed at disentangling lines of precedent that are all too frequently entwined by urging an analysis of public protest cases that distinguishes among the four regulatory players. Thus, this Article devotes separate sections to the regulatory roles of legislators,16 administrators,17 judges,18 and police,19 with an introductory section on the doctrinal bedrock in this field: the public forum doctrine.20
The Constitutional Dimension Of A National Products Liability Statute Of Repose, Stephen J. Werber
The Constitutional Dimension Of A National Products Liability Statute Of Repose, Stephen J. Werber
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Constitutional issues arise in regard to many aspects of tort and products liability reform legislation. This article argues that statutes of repose are unconstitutional, with emphasis on open courts or right to remedy (open courts) and equal protection provisions. These issues reflect economic concerns at both federal and state legislative levels that seek to advance strongly perceived public policy. These concerns, in turn, affect substantial substantive rights. Freedom from personal injury, the right to life and safety, reflects more than the mere economic concerns of either the injured party or the product manufacturer. The ability to seek redress for such …
Virtual Equality As Constitutional Reality: An Introduction, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Virtual Equality As Constitutional Reality: An Introduction, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
UF Law Faculty Publications
Equality is, to be sure, an elusive concept. More often than not, we find it much easier to describe what is unequal (we know it when we see it) than affirmatively to explain equality. This definitional dilemma rises to new heights when courts, in exercising their interpretive legal functions, have to provide all persons the equal protection of the laws."
Over the course of American history and jurisprudence, the Supreme Court itself has a checkered past when it comes to judicial application of rights to equality. In the beginning, there was slavery - the quintessence of unequality - and the …
Foreword: Pennsylvania Legal Services At Risk, Louis S. Rulli
Foreword: Pennsylvania Legal Services At Risk, Louis S. Rulli
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Other Right-To-Life Debate: When Does Fourteenth Amendment Life End, Douglas O. Linder
The Other Right-To-Life Debate: When Does Fourteenth Amendment Life End, Douglas O. Linder
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Contemplating The Successive Prosecution Phenomenon In The Federal System, Elizabeth T. Lear
Contemplating The Successive Prosecution Phenomenon In The Federal System, Elizabeth T. Lear
UF Law Faculty Publications
Constitutional scholars have long debated the relative merits of a conduct-based compulsory joinder rule. The dialogue has centered on the meaning of the “same offence” language of the Double Jeopardy Clause, concentrating specifically on whether it includes the factual circumstances giving rise to criminal liability or applies only to the statutory offenses charged. However, the Supreme Court, in United States v. Dixon, abandoned as “unworkable” a limited conduct-based approach it had fashioned just three years before in Grady v. Corbin.
This Article does not assess the frequency with which federal authorities prosecute joinable offenses separately. While such information ultimately is …
The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution, Anita L. Allen
The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of The Garcia Decision On The Market-Participant Exception To The Dormant Commerce Clause, Dan T. Coenen
The Impact Of The Garcia Decision On The Market-Participant Exception To The Dormant Commerce Clause, Dan T. Coenen
Scholarly Works
In National League of Cities v. Usery, the Supreme Court recognized a strong state-sovereignty-based limit on Congress's exercise of its commerce power. In Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, however, the Court overruled National League of Cities, relying in part on past difficulties in trying to distinguish between protected state “governmental” activities and unprotected state “proprietary” activities. In the wake of Garcia, commentators have urged that its reasoning undermines the Court's longstanding exemption of state proprietary activities from dormant Commerce Clause challenge under the so-called “market-participant” doctrine.
In this article, Professor Dan Coenen refutes this argument by showing that …
Does Pro-Choice Mean Pro-Kevorkian? An Essay On Roe, Casey, And The Right To Die, Seth F. Kreimer
Does Pro-Choice Mean Pro-Kevorkian? An Essay On Roe, Casey, And The Right To Die, Seth F. Kreimer
All Faculty Scholarship
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Consensus Of The Governed: The Legitimacy Of Constitutional Change, Raymond Shih Ray Ku
Consensus Of The Governed: The Legitimacy Of Constitutional Change, Raymond Shih Ray Ku
Faculty Publications
This Article argues that, contrary to current practices, constitutional change is legitimate only when it commands the unanimous support of the people, or, because unanimous support is practically impossible, when it is accomplished through procedural devices (i.e., representation, ratification, and supermajority support) that safeguard minority interests in an effort to determine the public good and approximate the will of the people as a whole. Constitutional change is illegitimate when it represents only the will of a portion of the people. This Article attempts to answer the question of what makes a constitution or a constitutional amendment legitimate, and provides specific …
Book Review. The Supreme Court And Constitutional Theory: 1953-1993, Donald H. Gjerdingen
Book Review. The Supreme Court And Constitutional Theory: 1953-1993, Donald H. Gjerdingen
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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A Comment On "Constitutional Rights As Public Goods", Robert F. Nagel
A Comment On "Constitutional Rights As Public Goods", Robert F. Nagel
Publications
Discussion of T. W. Merrill, Dolan v. City of Tigard: Constitutional Rights as Public Goods, 72 Denv. U. L. Rev. 859 (1995).
What's Quality Got To Do With It?: Constitutional Theory, Politics, And Education Reform, Phil Weiser
What's Quality Got To Do With It?: Constitutional Theory, Politics, And Education Reform, Phil Weiser
Publications
No abstract provided.
The Four Doctrines Of Self-Executing Treaties, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
The Four Doctrines Of Self-Executing Treaties, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
A distinction has become entrenched in United States law between treaties that are "self-executing" and those that are not. The precise nature of this distinction--indeed, its very existence--is a matter of some controversy and much confusion. More than one lower federal court has pronounced the distinction to be the "most confounding" in the United States law of treaties. A tremendous amount of scholarship has sought to clarify this distinction, but the honest observer cannot but agree with John Jackson's observation that " [t]he substantial volume of scholarly writing on this issue has not yet resolved the confusion" surrounding it. The …
Takings Law And The Regulatory State: A Response To R.S. Radford, William Michael Treanor
Takings Law And The Regulatory State: A Response To R.S. Radford, William Michael Treanor
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In the Winter 1994 issue of the Fordham Urban Law Journal, R.S. Radford provided an illuminating review of Dennis Coyle's book Property Rights and the Constitution. Radford observes that, in addition to studying post-New Deal land use cases, Coyle "provides an ideological framework that illuminates several key strands in the constitutional jurisprudence of property law ... [and] sets forth his own theories of the vital role of private property in creating and maintaining the American constitutional system." Radford's review is a generally enthusiastic one. He sees Coyle's book as providing a much-needed corrective to "the existing pro-regulatory bias …
Has The U.S. Supreme Court Finally Drained The Swamp Of Takings Jurisprudence? The Impact Of Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council On Wetlands And Coastal Barrier Beaches, Hope M. Babcock
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article argues that the Court's reliance on the law of property neither creates an internal inconsistency in takings law nor necessarily leads to further destruction of natural resources. Background principles of property law, such as custom and public trust, have long provided a basis for government protection of the public's interest in certain types of land, like the barrier beach David Lucas sought to develop.
Thus, the Lucas case need not be perceived as casting a constitutional cloud over laws protecting important ecosystems like wetlands and barrier beaches. The decision may not place these resources in greater danger from …
The Six Companies And The Geary Act: A Case Study In Nineteenth-Century Civil Disobedience And Civil Rights Litigation, Ellen D. Katz
The Six Companies And The Geary Act: A Case Study In Nineteenth-Century Civil Disobedience And Civil Rights Litigation, Ellen D. Katz
Articles
In 1892, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in San Francisco urged the resident Chinese community to ignore a federal law. The United States Congress had just passed the Geary Act, which required all Chinese laborers living in the United States to register with the collector of internal revenue. Under the act, those who did not register would face arrest and likely deportation. The Benevolent Association, also known as the Six Companies," claimed that the act violated both the constitutional right to due process and treaty obligations with China. To combat the legislation, the association enlisted the assistance of the Chinese …
Art Of Judgement In Planned Parenthood V. Casey, James Boyd White
Art Of Judgement In Planned Parenthood V. Casey, James Boyd White
Articles
This article was excerpted and abridged with permission from a chapter in Professor White's recent book Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics. In the book, he explores the nature of authority in various cultural contexts. Here he examines the Joint Opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which has been attacked both from the right, on the grounds that it tried to keep Roe v. Wade alive, and from the left, on the grounds that it significantly weakens the force of that case. Professor White, by contrast, admires it greatly, and in this chapter explains …
Physician Assisted Suicide: The Last Bridge To Active Voluntary Euthanasia, Yale Kamisar
Physician Assisted Suicide: The Last Bridge To Active Voluntary Euthanasia, Yale Kamisar
Book Chapters
SOME 30 YEARS AGO an eminent constitutional law scholar, Charles L. Black, Jr, spoke of 'toiling uphill against that heaviest of all argumental weights- the weight of a slogan.' I am reminded of that observation when I confront the slogan the 'right to die.' Few rallying cries or slogans are more appealing and seductive than the 'right to die.' But few are more fuzzy, more misleading, or more misunderstood.
Vampires Among Us, Floralynn Einesman
Vampires Among Us, Floralynn Einesman
Faculty Scholarship
The integrity of an individual's person is a cherished value of our society. That we today hold that the Constitution does not forbid the States minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions in no way indicates that it permits more substantial intrusions, or intrusions under other conditions.
Against Assisted Suicide - Even A Very Limited Form (Symposium: Assisted Suicide, Health Care And Medical Treatment Choices), Yale Kamisar
Against Assisted Suicide - Even A Very Limited Form (Symposium: Assisted Suicide, Health Care And Medical Treatment Choices), Yale Kamisar
Articles
Professor Robert Sedler is a leading constitutional law professor and a well-known civil liberties lawyer. I think he is right about many things. To cite but one example, I think he was right when he led the ACLU's successful legal attack on certain University of Michigan restrictions on "hate speech."' But I cannot agree with him about physician-assisted suicide, no matter how narrowly he frames the issue.2
Judging Girls: Decision Making In Parental Consent To Abortion Cases, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Julie Kunce Field
Judging Girls: Decision Making In Parental Consent To Abortion Cases, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Julie Kunce Field
Articles
Judges make determinations on a daily basis that profoundly affect people's lives. On March 28, 1991, the Michigan legislature enacted a statute entitled The Parental Rights Restoration Act (hereinafter "the Michigan Act" or "the Act"). This statute delegated to probate court judges the extraordinary task of deciding whether a minor girl may have an abortion without the consent of a parent. Nothing in law school and little in an average judge's experience provide a meaningful framework for making such a decision. Although many commentators, including the authors, argue that decisions about abortion should be left to the woman regardless of …
Political Correctness In Jury Selection, George P. Fletcher
Political Correctness In Jury Selection, George P. Fletcher
Faculty Scholarship
The values of equality and freedom are in constant tension, or so some think. The more society stresses equality, the less freedom people have. For example, Bruce Ackerman would abolish inheritance in his utopian society to insure that every generation begins on an equal footing. Many commentators have advocated restrictions on pornography and hate speech in order to protect the likely targets of these traditionally protected uses of free speech. Additionally, Catharine MacKinnon has invoked the principle of equality in the form of protecting disempowered minorities to argue for a restriction on liberty and freedom. Conversely, the more economic freedom …
The Constitutional Responsibility Of Congress For Military Engagements, Lori Fisler Damrosch
The Constitutional Responsibility Of Congress For Military Engagements, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Faculty Scholarship
The U.S.-led military operation in Haiti has unfolded with minimal violence and few casualties so far. That factual proposition – which is necessarily subject to revision – has important ramifications under both U.S. constitutional law and international law. On the constitutional level, the avoidance of hostilities defused what was poised to become a serious confrontation between the President and the Congress. On the international level, doubts in some quarters about the legitimacy of a forcible intervention, although not entirely allayed, were somewhat quieted with the achievement of a negotiated solution, which enabled U.S. troops to bring about the return to …
Parlor Game, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Parlor Game, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Faculty Scholarship
The Constitution is not perfect. Indeed I don't know what 'perfection' is in a constitution, since it is an instrument for human hands and thus must bear within its possibilities all the potential for misuse that comes with the user. What I am sure of is that 'perfection' does not mean 'never needs to be amended,' since one important part of the Constitution is its provision for amendment (although I am inclined to believe that few of the amendments to the U.S. constitution were actually necessary.)
That said, a competition to find the "stupidest provision of the Constitution" is, to …
Dolan V. City Of Tigard: Constitutional Rights As Public Goods, Thomas W. Merrill
Dolan V. City Of Tigard: Constitutional Rights As Public Goods, Thomas W. Merrill
Faculty Scholarship
When may the government require that citizens waive their constitutional rights in order to obtain benefits the government has no obligation to provide them? The answer, given by the so-called "doctrine" of unconstitutional conditions, is that sometimes the government may condition discretionary benefits on the waiver of rights, and sometimes it may not. The Supreme Court has never offered a satisfactory rationale for this doctrine, or why it "roams about constitutional law like Banquo's ghost, invoked in some cases, but not in others."
The unconstitutional conditions doctrine directs courts not to enforce certain contracts that waive constitutional rights. Perhaps it …
Guns, Militias And Oklahoma City, Randy E. Barnett
Guns, Militias And Oklahoma City, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
While this Symposium on "The Second Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms" was in final stages of production a massive explosion ripped through a federal office building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing scores of men, women, and children. As this Foreword is being written the final count of casualties is still unknown. Also unknown at this time are the identities of all who were involved in planning and executing this crime. One man is in custody, but to this point he has chosen to remain silent. Another unknown suspect is still at large.'
Reconstructing The Bill Of Rights: A Reply To Amar And Marcus's Triple Play On Double Jeopardy, Susan Herman
Reconstructing The Bill Of Rights: A Reply To Amar And Marcus's Triple Play On Double Jeopardy, Susan Herman
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Covenant Constitutionalism And The Canada Assistance Plan, Craig M. Scott
Covenant Constitutionalism And The Canada Assistance Plan, Craig M. Scott
Articles & Book Chapters
No abstract provided.
An Open Letter To Congressman Gingrich, Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Amar, Jack Balkin, Susan Low Bloch, Philip Chase Bobbitt, Richard Fallon, Paul Kahn, Philip Kurland, Douglas Laycock, Sanford Levinson, Frank Michelman, Michael Perry, Robert Post, Jed Rubenfeld, David Strauss, Cass Sunstein, Harry Wellington
An Open Letter To Congressman Gingrich, Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Amar, Jack Balkin, Susan Low Bloch, Philip Chase Bobbitt, Richard Fallon, Paul Kahn, Philip Kurland, Douglas Laycock, Sanford Levinson, Frank Michelman, Michael Perry, Robert Post, Jed Rubenfeld, David Strauss, Cass Sunstein, Harry Wellington
Faculty Scholarship
We urge you to reconsider your proposal to amend the House Rules to require a three-fifths vote for enactment of laws that increase income taxes. This proposal violates the explicit intentions of the Framers. It is inconsistent with the Constitution's language and structure. It departs sharply from traditional congressional practice. It may generate constitutional litigation that will encourage Supreme Court intervention in an area best left to responsible congressional decision.
Unless the proposal is withdrawn now, it will serve as an unfortunate precedent for the proliferation of supermajority rules on a host of different subjects in the future. Over time, …