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Bad Trip: Drug Prohibition And The Weakness Of Public Policy, Randy E. Barnett
Bad Trip: Drug Prohibition And The Weakness Of Public Policy, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The case against prohibition is overwhelming precisely because so many different types of considerations all point to a single solution: the legalization of illicit drugs. The complexity of the case against prohibition means, however, that it cannot be presented adequately by a few anecdotes or even a lengthy essay. Nothing less than a book-length treatment will suffice and, fortunately, that book has been published. America's Longest War is an ambitious effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy of prohibition. It accomplishes this by marshalling the empirical research that has been done on both drugs and drug prohibition and then …
The Case Of The Prisoners And The Origins Of Judicial Review, William Michael Treanor
The Case Of The Prisoners And The Origins Of Judicial Review, William Michael Treanor
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
For over one hundred years, scholars have closely studied the handful of cases in which state courts, in the years before the Federal Constitutional Convention, confronted the question whether they had the power to declare laws invalid. Interest in these early cases began in the late nineteenth century as one aspect of the larger debate about the legitimacy of judicial review, a debate triggered by the increasing frequency with which the Supreme Court and state courts were invalidating economic and social legislation. The lawyers, political scientists, and historians who initially unearthed the case law from the 1770s and 1780s used …
Working Papers As Federal Records: The Need For New Legislation To Preserve The History Of National Policy, Philip G. Schrag
Working Papers As Federal Records: The Need For New Legislation To Preserve The History Of National Policy, Philip G. Schrag
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article deals with policy records at the "front end" of their lives; that is, preserving them from destruction by federal agencies in the decades immediately after their creation. It does not deal with the destruction of archived documents by Archives officials themselves. It discusses only in passing the related question of how long a policy record should be sealed off from public inspection; the literature includes a variety of opinions on that subject. The author is content to leave to others the problem of just where to draw the balance between making historical documentation available soon enough so that …