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Articles 1 - 26 of 26
Full-Text Articles in Law
Heightened Pleading, Christopher M. Fairman
Heightened Pleading, Christopher M. Fairman
Christopher M Fairman
No abstract provided.
Hate Speech In The Constitutional Law Of The United States, William B. Fisch
Hate Speech In The Constitutional Law Of The United States, William B. Fisch
Faculty Publications
Our general reporter, Professor Pizzorusso, has given us “incitement to hatred” - primarily against a group of persons defined in terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and the like--as the working definition of “hate speech”, and asks to what extent such speech is constitutionally protected in the reporting countries. The United States of America are known at least in recent times for providing exceptionally broad protection for otherwise objectionable speech and expression, and hate speech is understood to be one of the areas in which they have positioned themselves further out on the speech-protective end of …
A Remembrance Of Things Past?: Reflections On The Warren Court And The Struggle For Civil Rights, Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.
A Remembrance Of Things Past?: Reflections On The Warren Court And The Struggle For Civil Rights, Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Conceptualizing Constitutional Litigation As Anti-Government Expression: A Speech-Centered Theory Of Court Access, Robert L. Tsai
Conceptualizing Constitutional Litigation As Anti-Government Expression: A Speech-Centered Theory Of Court Access, Robert L. Tsai
American University Law Review
This Article proposes a speech-based right of court access. First, it finds the traditional due process approach to be analytically incoherent and of limited practical value. Second, it contends that history, constitutional structure, and theory all support conceiving of the right of access as the modern analogue to the right to petition government for redress. Third, the Article explores the ways in which the civil rights plaintiff's lawsuit tracks the behavior of the traditional dissident. Fourth, by way of a case study, the essay argues that recent restrictions - notably, a congressional limitation on the amount of fees counsel for …
How The "Equal Opportunity" Sexual Harasser Discriminates On The Basis Of Gender Under Title Vii, Kyle F. Mothershead
How The "Equal Opportunity" Sexual Harasser Discriminates On The Basis Of Gender Under Title Vii, Kyle F. Mothershead
Vanderbilt Law Review
Americans commonly know that federal law prohibits workplace sexual harassment. Many might be surprised to find, however, that generally courts have not found liability in the case of the so-called "equal opportunity" harasser.' A simple hypothetical will explain the nature of this peculiar species of harasser. Suppose Ken and Carol are both employed at Happyfun, Inc. as manufacturers of reindeer Christmas ornaments under the direction of their supervisor, Fred. Fred corners each of them daily and asks, "How about some sex today?" No doubt he is sexually harassing both Ken and Carol. If they sue for relief, however, a judge …
Killing The Messenger: The Misuse Of Disparate Impact Theory To Challenge High-Stakes Educational Tests, Jennifer C. Braceras
Killing The Messenger: The Misuse Of Disparate Impact Theory To Challenge High-Stakes Educational Tests, Jennifer C. Braceras
Vanderbilt Law Review
There are two basic theoretical models for addressing claims of discrimination: disparate treatment and disparate impact. The disparate treatment model attempts to expose and punish intentional discrimination; the disparate impact model seeks to eliminate policies that, while neutral on their face, disproportionately harm members of a protected class. Since 1991, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment, has expressly permitted plaintiffs to challenge employment practices with a disproportionate impact on certain protected groups. By contrast, Title VI, which prohibits discrimination by federally assisted programs including most schools, does not explicitly authorize claims of …
The Bill Of Rights And The Emerging Democracies, Jacek Kurczewski, Barry Sullivan
The Bill Of Rights And The Emerging Democracies, Jacek Kurczewski, Barry Sullivan
Law and Contemporary Problems
Today, the influence of the US Bill of Rights can be traced through its remote offspring, including the Helsinki Agreement, the German Basic Law, the post-war French constitutions, and the European Convention on Human Rights. These documents have influenced recent developments in the emerging democracies of eastern and central Europe.
The Unhappy History Of Civil Rights Legislation, Fifty Years Later, Jack M. Beermann
The Unhappy History Of Civil Rights Legislation, Fifty Years Later, Jack M. Beermann
Faculty Scholarship
Seldom, if ever, have the power and the purposes of legislation been rendered so impotent.... All that is left today are afew scattered remnants of a once grandiose scheme to nationalize the fundamental rights of the individual.
These words were written fifty years ago by Eugene Gressman, now William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina School of Law, as a description of what the courts, primarily the Supreme Court of the United States, had done with the civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the wake of the Civil War. Professor Gressman's article, The Unhappy History of …
Postcommunist Charters Of Rights In Europe And The U.S. Bill Of Rights, Wojciech Sadurski
Postcommunist Charters Of Rights In Europe And The U.S. Bill Of Rights, Wojciech Sadurski
Law and Contemporary Problems
The Bill of Rights of the US Constitution served as both a model and anti-model for the constitutionalization of citizens' rights in the new democracies emerging after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The most striking contrast between the US Bill of Rights and postcommunist constitutional charters of rights is the absence in the former, and the inclusion in the latter, of catalogues of so-called "positive," socioeconomic rights.
The Treaty Of Nice: Arming The Courts To Defend A European Bill Of Rights?, Liz Heffernan
The Treaty Of Nice: Arming The Courts To Defend A European Bill Of Rights?, Liz Heffernan
Law and Contemporary Problems
In Dec 2000, the European heads of government, meeting in Nice France, took several momentous steps in the constitutional development of the EU. Potentially, the Nice Summit will mark a major milepost on the road to a European bill of rights. Assuming the member states ultimately enact remedial measures, including judicial protection, the transition may prove no less influential than the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the US.
“Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic On Negative And Positive Liberty In Hate-Speech Cases, W. Bradley Wendel
“Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic On Negative And Positive Liberty In Hate-Speech Cases, W. Bradley Wendel
Law and Contemporary Problems
Matthew Hale is a white supremacist who likes to attract media attention. He set himself up as the leader of a racist "church" called the World Church of the Creator and immediately went about attempting to put an articulate, polite face on the organization. Hale's application to become a licensed attorney in Illinois, his subsequent denial and the litigation that followed are discussed.
Postsecondary School Education Benefits For Undocumented Immigrants: Promises And Pitfalls, Victor C. Romero
Postsecondary School Education Benefits For Undocumented Immigrants: Promises And Pitfalls, Victor C. Romero
Journal Articles
Should longtime undocumented immigrants have the same opportunity as lawful permanent residents and U.S. citizens to attend state colleges and universities? There are two typical justifications for denying them such opportunities. First, treating undocumented immigrants as in-state residents discriminates against U.S. citizen nonresidents of the state. Second, and more broadly, undocumented immigration should be discouraged as a policy matter, and therefore allowing undocumented immigrant children equal opportunities as legal residents condones and perhaps encourages "illegal" immigration. This essay responds to these two concerns by surveying state and federal solutions to this issue.
Rectifying The Tilt: Equality Lessons From Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation, And Transgender, Chai R. Feldblum
Rectifying The Tilt: Equality Lessons From Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation, And Transgender, Chai R. Feldblum
Georgetown Law Faculty Lectures and Appearances
It was an honor and a joy to deliver the Tenth Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service and to publish it now in the Maine Law Review. I thank you for this opportunity.
I have always believed that a life worth living includes two necessary components: passion and connection. I experience those components both in my work and in my personal life. I love the passion I find in my work - both in my advocacy efforts to advance justice in the world and in the teaching through which I try to pass on to others …
"We Must Be Hunters Of Meaning": Race, Metaphor, And The Models Of Steven Winter, D. Marvin Jones
"We Must Be Hunters Of Meaning": Race, Metaphor, And The Models Of Steven Winter, D. Marvin Jones
Articles
No abstract provided.
Conceptualizing Constitutional Litigation As Anti-Government Expression: A Speech-Centered Theory Of Court Access, Robert L. Tsai
Conceptualizing Constitutional Litigation As Anti-Government Expression: A Speech-Centered Theory Of Court Access, Robert L. Tsai
Faculty Scholarship
This Article proposes a speech-based right of court access. First, it finds the traditional due process approach to be analytically incoherent and of limited practical value. Second, it contends that history, constitutional structure, and theory all support conceiving of the right of access as the modern analogue to the right to petition government for redress. Third, the Article explores the ways in which the civil rights plaintiff's lawsuit tracks the behavior of the traditional dissident. Fourth, by way of a case study, the essay argues that recent restrictions - notably, a congressional limitation on the amount of fees counsel for …
At War With Civil Rights And Civil Liberties, Thomas E. Baker
At War With Civil Rights And Civil Liberties, Thomas E. Baker
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Bending Toward Justice: John Doar And The Mississippi Burning Trial, Douglas O. Linder
Bending Toward Justice: John Doar And The Mississippi Burning Trial, Douglas O. Linder
Faculty Works
All other civil rights groups in 1964 considered Mississippi - the most impenetrable state in the union - hopeless. The decision of Bob Moses of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to shake up the Magnolia State by sending six hundred young volunteers into every corner of the state to register new black voters brimmed with danger. Moses explained to a first gathering of student volunteers, When you're not in Mississippi, it's not real. And when you're there, the rest of the world isn't real. In the early morning hours of June 20, Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney …
Closing The Courthouse Doors To Civil Rights Litigants, Erwin Chemerinsky
Closing The Courthouse Doors To Civil Rights Litigants, Erwin Chemerinsky
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Five Lessons For Practicing Law In The Interests Of Justice, Fred C. Zacharias
Five Lessons For Practicing Law In The Interests Of Justice, Fred C. Zacharias
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Foreword: The Legal History Of The Great Sit-In Case Of Bell V. Maryland, William L. Reynolds
Foreword: The Legal History Of The Great Sit-In Case Of Bell V. Maryland, William L. Reynolds
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Judicial Restraints On Illegal State Violence: Israel And The United States, John T. Parry
Judicial Restraints On Illegal State Violence: Israel And The United States, John T. Parry
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article examines the role of courts in controlling state violence in the United States and Israel. The Author considers how U.S. federal courts should respond to illegal state violence by comparing a U.S. Supreme Court case, "City of Los Angeles v. Lyons", with a case decided by the Supreme Court of Israel, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel v. Israel. Part II highlights the legal issues that were central to each court in reaching a decision, including standing, the scope of equitable discretion to craft remedies, and baseline attitudes towards illegal government action. Part III examines the doctrines discussed …
Brown V. Board Of Education And The Origins Of The Activist Insecurity In Civil Rights Law, John Valery White
Brown V. Board Of Education And The Origins Of The Activist Insecurity In Civil Rights Law, John Valery White
Scholarly Works
The peculiar thing about Brown v. Board of Education is that, when it was decided, liberal legal scholars trashed it. Indeed, the modern conservative movement has built its attack on civil rights initiatives and its critique of the judiciary on the disparaging assessments of the opinion offered by Henry Hart, Hebert Wechsler, and Alexander Bickel. This peculiar aspect of Brown has become the keystone supporting all arguments about what is excessive about the modern jurisprudence; federal courts are said to have a realist disposition producing an unbounded, relativistic, interdisciplinary judicial craft and characterized by an activist proclivity. These dual pillars …
Foreword: The Legal History Of The Great Sit-In Case Of Bell V. Maryland, William L. Reynolds
Foreword: The Legal History Of The Great Sit-In Case Of Bell V. Maryland, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
Reviews the environment and history of the 1960 Baltimore sit-in case that eventually made its way to the United States Supreme Court.
Collateral Damage In The War On Drugs, Graham Boyd
Collateral Damage In The War On Drugs, Graham Boyd
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Observations On The Evolution Of Minorities In The Law: From Law School To Practice, Charles E. Cantú
Observations On The Evolution Of Minorities In The Law: From Law School To Practice, Charles E. Cantú
Faculty Articles
The St. Mary’s University School of Law has a rich history in promoting the representation of minorities in its faculty and student body. Moreover, its history in this area was a tradition long before the country found its social conscience, and before the American government, prodded by the civil rights movement, urged institutions of higher learning to engage in affirmative action. St. Mary’s and Hispanics led the way in this national movement. This year, as St. Mary’s University School of Law celebrates its seventy-fifth year, it is a perfect time to reflect upon the evolution of minorities in the Law …
Neutral Principles And The Resegregation Decisions, Robert L. Hayman
Neutral Principles And The Resegregation Decisions, Robert L. Hayman
Robert L. Hayman
No abstract provided.