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Full-Text Articles in Constitutional Law
The Soft Power Of Dissent: The Impact Of Dissenting Opinions From The Russian Constitutional Court, Alexandra V. Orlova
The Soft Power Of Dissent: The Impact Of Dissenting Opinions From The Russian Constitutional Court, Alexandra V. Orlova
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article poses a question regarding the importance of judicial dissents emanating from constitutional courts. It examines the power of dissents emanating from the Russian Constitutional Court, given the fact that the Russian government has invested a significant effort in suppressing dissenting voices. The very presence of dissents in the Russian Constitutional Court poses an interesting question regarding their impact on democracy, consensus building, and civil society. This Article argues that while dissents coming from the Russian Constitutional Court may not be binding, they carry a great deal of "soft power." Judicial dissents aid in challenging commonly espoused consensus both …
The Court, The Constitution, And The History Of Ideas, Scott D. Gerber
The Court, The Constitution, And The History Of Ideas, Scott D. Gerber
Vanderbilt Law Review
Several of the nation's most influential constitutional law scholars have been arguing for the better part of a decade that judicial review should be sharply limited, or eliminated altogether. The list includes such prominent thinkers as Professor Mark V. Tushnet of Harvard Law School, Professor Cass R. Sunstein of the University of Chicago Law School, and Dean Larry D. Kramer of Stanford Law School. In place of the doctrine made famous by Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, these leading voices of the legal academy call for "popular constitutionalism": a constitutional law that is defined outside of the …
Foreign Relations And Federal Questions: Resolving The Judicial Split On Federal Court Jurisdiction, Erin E. Terrell
Foreign Relations And Federal Questions: Resolving The Judicial Split On Federal Court Jurisdiction, Erin E. Terrell
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The federal circuit courts have disagreed concerning a fundamental issue of federal court jurisdiction: whether cases that may implicate or involve the "foreign relations" of the United States, but do not otherwise raise a more traditional "federal question" under federal law, may be removed from state courts to federal courts. This Note examines the cases that have created the split, and proposes two potential resolutions to it, one judicial and the other legislative.
Five Views Of Federalism: "Converse-1983" In Context, Akhil R. Amar
Five Views Of Federalism: "Converse-1983" In Context, Akhil R. Amar
Vanderbilt Law Review
In 1987, I published an overly long article in the Yale Law Journal entitled Of Sovereignty and Federalism. In it, I advanced a "converse-1983" model of federalism-a model that highlighted the ways in which state laws can provide remedies when federal officials violate federal constitutional rights. For example, prior to the 1971 landmark of Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Agents, citizens whose Fourth Amendment rights had been violated by federal officers had no clear federal cause of action; but state trespass law often provided a remedy, and enabled citizens to recover when their "persons, houses, papers, [or] effects" had been …
The French Conseil D' Etat: A Case Study In Boundary Maintenance, Robert Carp, Harrell Rodgers
The French Conseil D' Etat: A Case Study In Boundary Maintenance, Robert Carp, Harrell Rodgers
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Very little is known about the role that courts play in the total political system of a nation. In two recent works Professors Walter Murphy and Joseph Tanenhaus have centered attention on this question and have isolated some of the major functions of courts and developed several working hypotheses concerning these functions. They suggest that one of the major functions of constitutional courts consists of "defining the rules of the political game and determining the boundaries of authority between competing public officials as well as the boundaries between governmental authority and individual liberty." In approving or disapproving the acts of …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Constitutional Law--Due Process of Law--Constitutionality of the Federal Youth Corrections Act in Its Application to Youthful Criminal Offenders
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Constitutional Law--Legislative Power--Infringement of Constitutional Guaranties by Demands of Legislative Investigating Committees for the Production of Membership Lists
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Courts--Process--Immunity of Nonresident Defendants in Federal Criminal Actions from Service of State Civil Process
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Damages--Installment Verdict in Tort Action
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Domestic Relations--Separation--Suit by Mentally Incompetent Wife
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Interstate Commerce--Hobbs Act--"Robbery" Provision Construed as Requiring Proof of Common Law Elements of Offense
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Taxation--Income--Determination of "Useful Life" of a Business Asset for Purposes of Depreciation
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Taxation--Income--Full Payment of Tax Deficiency as …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Conflict of Laws--Governmental Activities--Recognition in Forum of Sister State's Original Revenue Claim
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Constitutional Law--State Taxation of Interstate Commerce--Sales Tax on Shipboard Sales to Passengers
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Courts--Certiorari from United States Supreme Court--Loss of Importance Ground for Dismissal
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Domestic Relations--Adoption--Revocation of Consent by Natural Parents
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Evidence--Admissibility--Exclusion of Evidence Obtained by Unreasonable Search and Seizure
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Federal Procedure--Illegal Search--Injunction Against Agent's Testifying in State Court
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Income Taxation--Claim of Right Income--Time of Deduction when Restoration Required
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Malicious Prosecution--Privilege--Filing of Complaint with Bar Ethics and Grievance Committee
Statutory Interpretation, Henry N. Williams
Statutory Interpretation, Henry N. Williams
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Supreme Court of Tennessee reconsidered several problems in the field of Statutory Interpretation during the Survey period, but its decisions largely followed principles already established in Tennessee and other jurisdictions.
Constitutional Requirements
Certain problems in the field of legislation arise in Tennessee by reason of state constitutional provisions. The Court is committed to the position of interpreting these provisions more or less irrespective of the construction of comparable provisions in other state constitutions.'
The Constitution of the State of Tennessee provides: "No bill shall become a law, which embraces more than one subject; that subject to be expressed in …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Recent Cases
Agency--Liability of Master for Servant's Acts--State Permit to Operate
Agency--Possession as Indicia of Ownership
Constitutional Law--Aliens--Detention Where Deportations is Impossible
Courts--Contempt--Delay in Summary Punishment
Criminal Law--Habitual Criminal Statutes--Meaning of Previous Conviction Requirement
Domestic Relations--Liability of Husband for Necessaries of Wife Rightfully Living Apart
Income Taxation--Excludibility from Gross Income of Payment over Ceiling Price
Income Taxation--Taxable Income--Claim of Right
Procedure--Grand Jury--Motion to Expunge Defamatory Remarks in Report
Procedure--Statute of Limitations--Retroactive Operation
Statutes--Holding of Unconstitutionality Overruled--Necessity for Re-Enactment
Wills--Contest--Interest of Legatee's Representative
The Tidewater Case And Limited Jurisdiction Of Federal "Constitutional" Courts, Joe H. Foy
The Tidewater Case And Limited Jurisdiction Of Federal "Constitutional" Courts, Joe H. Foy
Vanderbilt Law Review
In the recent case of National Mutual Insurance Ca. v. Tidewater Transfer Co.,' the Act of April 20, 1940, allowing citizens of the District of Columbia and of the territories to sue and be sued in the district courts on the basis of diverse citizenship, was held constitutional insofar as it applies to citizens of the District of Columbia. The practical effect of the decision, in allowing Congress to remove a basic inequality among citizens of the United States, is perhaps commendable. However, there are broad theoretical implications in this holding, emphasized by sharp debate among the justices, which could …