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Intestacy Concerns For Same-Sex Couples: How Variations In State Law And Policy Affect Testamentary Wishes, Megan Moser
Intestacy Concerns For Same-Sex Couples: How Variations In State Law And Policy Affect Testamentary Wishes, Megan Moser
Seattle University Law Review
As the number of same-sex couples increases in the United States, concerns regarding the evolution of federal and state law, with respect to rights for same-sex couples, also continue to rise. As marriage is not always available to same-sex couples, they often face very different legal issues than couples in a traditional marriage. Because marriage is typically not a legal cause of action, the question of a marriage’s validity often arises incidentally to another legal question, such as the disposition of a decedent’s estate.
Fair Districts Florida: A Meaningful Redistricting Reform?, Jordan Lewis
Fair Districts Florida: A Meaningful Redistricting Reform?, Jordan Lewis
University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
No abstract provided.
Human Rights Practices In The Arab States: The Modern Impact Of Sharī’A Values, James Dudley
Human Rights Practices In The Arab States: The Modern Impact Of Sharī’A Values, James Dudley
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Evolving Standards Of Domination: Abandoning A Flawed Legal Standard And Approaching A New Era In Penal Reform, Spearit
Chicago-Kent Law Review
This article critiques the evolving standards of decency doctrine as a form of Social Darwinism. It argues that evolving standards of decency provided a system of review that was tailor-made for Civil Rights opponents to scale back racial progress. Although as a doctrinal matter, evolving standards sought to tie punishment practices to social mores, prison sentencing became subject to political agendas that determined the course of punishment more than the benevolence of a matur-ing society. Indeed, rather than the fierce competition that is supposed to guide social development, the criminal justice system was consciously deployed as a means of social …
Projecting Diversity: The Methods, Results, Assumptions And Limitations Fo The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Projections, Howard Hogan, Jennifer M. Ortman, Sandra L. Colby
Projecting Diversity: The Methods, Results, Assumptions And Limitations Fo The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Projections, Howard Hogan, Jennifer M. Ortman, Sandra L. Colby
West Virginia Law Review
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