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Miranda And The Media: Tracing The Cultural Evolution Of A Constitutional Revolution, Russell D. Covey Jan 2007

Miranda And The Media: Tracing The Cultural Evolution Of A Constitutional Revolution, Russell D. Covey

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This article explores the depiction of interrogation in film and television from the 1940s to the present, and contrasts that imagery with the Supreme Court's interrogation jurisprudence over the same time frame. Although my treatment of the subject is necessarily only fragmentary (a comprehensive review of either topic would fill many volumes), this article hazards a few tentative hypotheses.


The Congress As Surge Protector, Neil J. Kinkopf Jan 2007

The Congress As Surge Protector, Neil J. Kinkopf

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The Separation Of Business And State, Timothy K. Kuhner Jan 2007

The Separation Of Business And State, Timothy K. Kuhner

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National scandals involving corporate fraud, political corruption, lobbyists, and campaign finance have called attention to worrisome dynamics: the decreasing power of natural persons relative to legal persons in the political process; and the erosion of civic or democratic values in favor of corporate values. Both dynamics relate to the vexing problem of money in politics. American political thought and constitutional structure offer much-needed guidance in the form of analogies and separationist logic.

This Essay recasts the phenomenon of money in politics as a separation problem that is, a problem of the private sphere of business overreaching into the public sphere …


Rights Relationships And The Experience Of Children Orphaned By Aids, Jonathan Todres Jan 2007

Rights Relationships And The Experience Of Children Orphaned By Aids, Jonathan Todres

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The global AIDS pandemic has left more than fifteen million children orphaned. These children constitute one of the most vulnerable populations, yet their situation has received relatively little scrutiny from legal scholars. This Article intends to fill that void by explicating the experience of children orphaned by AIDS, situating it in the broader context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and evaluating protections available under international human rights law. Analyzing human rights law as applied to children orphaned by AIDS exposes the extent to which rights are interrelated, particularly for marginalized populations.

In current scholarship, the interrelationship among rights, for the most …