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Court-Ordered Foster Family Care Reform: A Case Study, Michael B. Mushlin
Court-Ordered Foster Family Care Reform: A Case Study, Michael B. Mushlin
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The authors examine the implications of G. L. v. Zumwalt, a case that resulted in a far-reaching consent decree that mandates specific reforms in policy and practice to be implemented by a public social welfare agency in its delivery of services to foster children and their families.
Economic Analysis Of Liberty And Property: A Critique, Peter N. Simon
Economic Analysis Of Liberty And Property: A Critique, Peter N. Simon
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An Offer She Can’T Refuse: When Fundamental Rights And Conditions On Government Benefits Collide, Marie Failinger
An Offer She Can’T Refuse: When Fundamental Rights And Conditions On Government Benefits Collide, Marie Failinger
Faculty Scholarship
This article criticizes the Maher/Harris conditions doctrine on two levels. At the first level, it suggests that the Maher/Harris doctrine cannot justify the Court’s decisions to uphold government withdrawals of funding from rights-exercises. At the second level, after exposing and contrasting the definitional presuppositions of the Court in Maher and Harris with previous cases, the article suggests that the Maher/Harris doctrine is a failure because it uses utterly inadequate rights theory to resolve emerging issues of conflicting human need and conscience, issues which are mediated by government action. The author creates a space for a discussion of a new framework …
Rights And Redistribution In The Welfare System, William H. Simon
Rights And Redistribution In The Welfare System, William H. Simon
Faculty Scholarship
The term "right" has a wide variety of connotations. On a very general level, it connotes a social commitment to the dignity and autonomy of the individual, an "affirmation of free human subjectivity against the constraints of group life." On a somewhat more specific level, one can distinguish procedural and substantive connotations. Procedural connotations concern official enforcement institutions. For example, in American legal culture, "right" often connotes judicial enforceability. Substantive connotations concern benefits or powers, such as freedom of speech or ownership of property, in civil society.
This essay is about the substantive connotations of the notion of "right" that …