Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Arab Awakening (3)
- Arab Spring (3)
- Essays about the Arab Awakening (2011) (3)
- Governance and Politics in Islamic Societies (3)
- International Affairs (3)
-
- Arab World (2)
- Equal protection (2)
- Gulf States (2)
- Abolition (1)
- Badges and incidents of slavery (1)
- Black codes (1)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1)
- Civil rights (1)
- Civil war (1)
- Class privilege (1)
- Congress (1)
- Equal Protection (1)
- Equal Protection Clause (1)
- Equality (1)
- Fourteenth Amendment (1)
- Global South (1)
- Human Rights (1)
- Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1)
- Journalism (1)
- Jurisprudence (1)
- Libya (1)
- Media (1)
- Proposition 8 (1)
- Race (1)
- Racial discrimination (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
- File Type
Articles 1 - 6 of 6
Full-Text Articles in Jurisprudence
The Gulf Cooperative Council And The Arab Spring, Ahmed Souaiaia
The Gulf Cooperative Council And The Arab Spring, Ahmed Souaiaia
Ahmed E SOUAIAIA
No abstract provided.
Apathy In The Face Of Cruelty, Ahmed Souaiaia
Qatar, Al Jazeera, And The Arab Spring, Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Qatar, Al Jazeera, And The Arab Spring, Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Ahmed E SOUAIAIA
No abstract provided.
The First Principles Of Standing: Privilege, System Justification, And The Predictable Incoherence Of Article Iii, Christian Sundquist
The First Principles Of Standing: Privilege, System Justification, And The Predictable Incoherence Of Article Iii, Christian Sundquist
Articles
This Article examines the indeterminacy of standing doctrine by deconstructing recent desegregation, affirmative action, and racial profiling cases. This examination is an attempt to uncover the often unstated meta-principles that guide standing jurisprudence. The Article contends that the inherent indeterminacy of standing law can be understood as reflecting an unstated desire to protect racial and class privilege, which is accomplished through the dogma of individualism, equal opportunity (liberty), and “white innocence.” Relying on insights from System Justification Theory, a burgeoning field of social psychology, the Article argues that the seemingly incoherent results in racial standing cases can be understood as …
The Thirteenth Amendment And Interest Convergence, William M. Carter Jr.
The Thirteenth Amendment And Interest Convergence, William M. Carter Jr.
Articles
The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to eliminate the institution of slavery and to eliminate the legacy of slavery. Having accomplished the former, the Amendment has only rarely been extended to the latter. The Thirteenth Amendment’s great promise therefore remains unrealized.
This Article explores the gap between the Thirteenth Amendment’s promise and its implementation. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, this Article argues that the relative underdevelopment of Thirteenth Amendment doctrine is due in part to a lack of perceived interest convergence in eliminating what the Amendment’s Framers called the “badges and incidents of slavery.” The theory of interest convergence, in its …
On Equality: The Anti-Interference Principle, Donald J. Kochan
On Equality: The Anti-Interference Principle, Donald J. Kochan
Donald J. Kochan
This Essay introduces the “Anti-Interference Principle” – a new term on the meaning of equality, or at least one not yet so-named in the equality lexicon – as a necessary foundation for achieving the goal of true equality. Equality has a long-standing place in the discussion of politics and jurisprudence and remains a struggle of definition today. Rather than rehash the mass of scholarship, this Essay seeks to summarize the general equality concept, and propose that the legal discourse on equality center on a requirement that governmental power must protect and respect equal treatment and opportunity, unconstrained, not equal outcomes. …