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Crisis En La Corte Suprema, Horacio M. Lynch Jan 1998

Crisis En La Corte Suprema, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

Presentación en la conferencia dictada en la ciudad de Córdoba, con motivo de la reunión de la Federación de Colegios de Abogados de la Provincia de Córdoba.


Los Mecanismos Iniciales De Defensa De La Constitución En El Perú: El Poder Conservador Y El Consejo De Estado (1839-1855), Daniel Soria Luján Jan 1998

Los Mecanismos Iniciales De Defensa De La Constitución En El Perú: El Poder Conservador Y El Consejo De Estado (1839-1855), Daniel Soria Luján

Daniel Soria Luján

No abstract provided.


The Digests Of Pennsylvania, Joel Fishman Jan 1998

The Digests Of Pennsylvania, Joel Fishman

Joel Fishman

Pennsylvania has one of the largest collections of case law for which digests serve as an important research tool.


In Search Of Clemency Procedures We Can Live With: What Process Is Due In Capital Clemency Proceedings After Ohio Adult Parole Authority V. Woodard?, Brian S. Clarke Jan 1998

In Search Of Clemency Procedures We Can Live With: What Process Is Due In Capital Clemency Proceedings After Ohio Adult Parole Authority V. Woodard?, Brian S. Clarke

Brian S. Clarke

The United States Supreme Court has denied certiorari for the final time. All state and federal appeals have been exhausted. The execution date has been set. There is only one thing that can save the death row inmate from the ultimate punishment: the proverbial call from the governor and a grant of executive clemency.

This scene, although a veritable Hollywood cliche, is being played out in prisons across America with increasing frequency. As of July 1, 1998, there were 3,474 men and women on death row in America. In 1996, with the passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty …


Abortion And Women's Legal Personhood In Germany: A Contribution To The Feminist Theory Of The State, D. A. Jeremy Telman Jan 1998

Abortion And Women's Legal Personhood In Germany: A Contribution To The Feminist Theory Of The State, D. A. Jeremy Telman

D. A. Jeremy Telman

This article looks at abortion regulation in Germany in the context of the full range of laws through which the state specifies the status of women as legal persons. Reviewing Germany's most important abortion law decisions in 1975 and 1993, the article contends that while the Constitutional Court struck a balance between the East German legacy of reproductive freedom and West Germany's robust protections of the right to life, it did so by undermining the legal structures that had facilitated full civil, economic and political equality for women in East Germany through legal regimes geared towards protecting women's reproductive autonomy.