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2012

Constitutional Law

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Constitutional law

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Foreign Precedents And The Global Canon: A Preliminary Exploration, Noga Morag-Levine, Barbara Bean Feb 2012

Foreign Precedents And The Global Canon: A Preliminary Exploration, Noga Morag-Levine, Barbara Bean

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Indentifying The Canon From The Anticanon, Haider Ala Hamoudi Feb 2012

Indentifying The Canon From The Anticanon, Haider Ala Hamoudi

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The Constitutional Bounding Of Adjudication: A Fuller(Ian) Explanation For The Supreme Court's Mass Tort Jurisprudence, Donald G. Gifford Jan 2012

The Constitutional Bounding Of Adjudication: A Fuller(Ian) Explanation For The Supreme Court's Mass Tort Jurisprudence, Donald G. Gifford

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In this Article, I argue that the Supreme Court is implicitly piecing together a constitutionally mandated model of bounded adjudication governing mass torts, using decisions that facially rest on disparate constitutional provisions. This model constitutionally restricts common law courts from adjudicating the rights, liabilities, and interests of persons who are neither present before the court nor capable of being defined with a reasonable degree of specificity. I find evidence for this model in the Court’s separate decisions rejecting tort-based climate change claims, global settlements of massive asbestos litigation, and punitive damages awards justified as extra-compensatory damages. These new forms of …


The Constitutional Inevitability Of Same-Sex Marriage, Laurence H. Tribe Jan 2012

The Constitutional Inevitability Of Same-Sex Marriage, Laurence H. Tribe

Maryland Law Review

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