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Fall 2004 Oct 2004

Fall 2004

Bill of Particulars

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Bringing In The State: Toward A Constitutional Duty To Protect From Mob Violence, Susan S. Kuo Jan 2004

Bringing In The State: Toward A Constitutional Duty To Protect From Mob Violence, Susan S. Kuo

Indiana Law Journal

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Book Review. Affirmative Action And Racial Preference By Carl Cohen And James P. Sterba, Joseph L. Hoffmann Jan 2004

Book Review. Affirmative Action And Racial Preference By Carl Cohen And James P. Sterba, Joseph L. Hoffmann

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Rebuilding The Closet: Bowers V. Hardwick, Lawrence V. Texas, And The Mismeasure Of Homosexual Historiography, Jody L. Madeira Jan 2004

Rebuilding The Closet: Bowers V. Hardwick, Lawrence V. Texas, And The Mismeasure Of Homosexual Historiography, Jody L. Madeira

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In an effort to engage in such specification, this paper will first address the mischaracterization of history in Bowers, which portrays the historic legal and ecclesiastical penalties of what the Court labels as "homosexual activities" as a continuous, unitary narrative extending from the halls of the Emperors Theodosius and Justinian to the legislative assembly rooms of Georgia and Texas. This illusory perspective portrays the criminalization of sodomy (and therefore the identity of homosexuality itself) as an impossible cultural continuum. The impossibility of this continuum lies not only in its implicit assumption that states and other lawmaking entities throughout history shared …


Book Review. Taking Coase Seriously: Neil Komesar On Law's Limits, Daniel H. Cole Jan 2004

Book Review. Taking Coase Seriously: Neil Komesar On Law's Limits, Daniel H. Cole

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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A Constructed Peace: Narratives Of Suture In The News Media, Jody L. Madeira Jan 2004

A Constructed Peace: Narratives Of Suture In The News Media, Jody L. Madeira

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In the aftermath of violent crime, survivors are confronted by questions of comprehension, healing, normalcy, accountability, and restoration. These same issues are communicated to audiences via mass media coverage of the crime and ensuing legal proceedings that focuses upon survivors while they are in the public eye - and while those suspected of the crime are in the defendant's chair. Such stories bring a human face to the innocents most affected by the outcome of the proceedings, relaying their involvement in and response to legal developments from arrest to execution. This paper examines these chronicles through the lens of narrative …