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Articles 1 - 25 of 25
Full-Text Articles in Legal History
The Meaning Of "Under Color Of" Law, Steven L. Winter
The Meaning Of "Under Color Of" Law, Steven L. Winter
Michigan Law Review
The argument proceeds as follows. In Part I, I examine why the conceptual problem of who or what is "the State" is so intractable. In Part II, I present the historical evidence that establishes beyond doubt the pedigree and meaning of the phrase under color of law. I explain why Frankfurter would have indulged in such an obvious historical error to take the position he did. I suggest that, as was the case with the invention of modem standing doctrine, Frankfurter was here engaged in a stealthy, anachronistic campaign against the jurisprudence of the Lochner era - attempting to …
The Constitution And Immigration: The Impact Of The Proposed Changes To The Immigration Power Under The Constitution Act, 1867, Davies Bagambiire
The Constitution And Immigration: The Impact Of The Proposed Changes To The Immigration Power Under The Constitution Act, 1867, Davies Bagambiire
Dalhousie Law Journal
This article examines the impact that the suggested changes would have on the immigration power as presently set forth in sections 95 and 91(25) of the Constitution Act, 1867, and on Canadian immigration policy generally. First, it discusses how the present immigration power is allocated as between the federal government and the provinces, how it has been exercised or attempted to be exercisedby the two levels of government and how it has evolved and been interpreted by the Courts. Secondly, it looks at the problems that could arise as a result of the federal government transferring some of its immigration …
Federal Judgments Law: Sources Of Authority And Sources Of Rules, Stephen B. Burbank
Federal Judgments Law: Sources Of Authority And Sources Of Rules, Stephen B. Burbank
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court As Constitutional Interpreter: Chronology Without History, Herbert Hovenkamp
The Supreme Court As Constitutional Interpreter: Chronology Without History, Herbert Hovenkamp
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986 by David P. Currie
Zero-Sum Madison, Thomas W. Merrill
Zero-Sum Madison, Thomas W. Merrill
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism by Jennifer Nedelsky
Performing The Constitution, Denis J. Brion
Performing The Constitution, Denis J. Brion
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Judicial Court In Its Fourth Century: Meeting The Challenge Of The "New Constitutional Revolution", Charles Baron
The Supreme Judicial Court In Its Fourth Century: Meeting The Challenge Of The "New Constitutional Revolution", Charles Baron
Charles H. Baron
In the mid-19th century, when the United States was confronted with daunting changes wrought by its expanding frontiers and the advent of the industrial revolution, its state supreme courts developed the principles of law which facilitated the nation's growth into the great continental power it became. First in influence among these state supreme courts was the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts-whose chief justice, Lemuel Shaw, came widely to be known as "America's greatest magistrate." It is this tradition that the court brings with it as it develops its place in the "new constitutional revolution" presently sweeping our state supreme courts. …
Correspondence: The Stuff Of Constitutional Law, Neal Devins
Correspondence: The Stuff Of Constitutional Law, Neal Devins
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Law Of Choice And Choice Of Law: Abortion, The Right To Travel, And Extraterritorial Regulation In American Federalism, Seth F. Kreimer
The Law Of Choice And Choice Of Law: Abortion, The Right To Travel, And Extraterritorial Regulation In American Federalism, Seth F. Kreimer
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Abstract Democracy: A Review Of Ackerman's We The People, Terrance Sandalow
Abstract Democracy: A Review Of Ackerman's We The People, Terrance Sandalow
Reviews
We the People: Foundations is an ambitious book, the first of three volumes in which Professor Ackerman proposes to recast conventional understanding of and contemporary debate about American constitutional law. Unfortunately, the book's rhetoricinflated, self-important, and self-congratulatory-impedes the effort to come to terms with its argument. How, for example, does one respond to a book that opens by asking whether the reader will have "the strength" to accept its thesis? Or that announces the author's intention of "engaging" two of the most influential works of intellectual history of the past several decades-and then discusses one in two and one-half pages …
Racism And Patriarchy In The Meaning Of Motherhood, Dorthy E. Roberts
Racism And Patriarchy In The Meaning Of Motherhood, Dorthy E. Roberts
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Discovering Our Connections: Race And Gender In The Law Symposium Keynote Address, Margaret Walker Alexander
Discovering Our Connections: Race And Gender In The Law Symposium Keynote Address, Margaret Walker Alexander
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Expanding Our Vision Of Legal Services Representation– The Hermanas Unidas Project, Stacy Brustin
Expanding Our Vision Of Legal Services Representation– The Hermanas Unidas Project, Stacy Brustin
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Roe V. Wade And The Dred Scott Decision: Justice Scalia's Peculiar Analogy In Planned Parenthood V. Casey, Jamin B. Raskin
Roe V. Wade And The Dred Scott Decision: Justice Scalia's Peculiar Analogy In Planned Parenthood V. Casey, Jamin B. Raskin
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Babies, Parents, And Grandparents: A Story In Two Cases, Karen Czapanskiy
Babies, Parents, And Grandparents: A Story In Two Cases, Karen Czapanskiy
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Lost Innocence And The Moral Foundation Of Law, Kate Nace Day
Lost Innocence And The Moral Foundation Of Law, Kate Nace Day
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
The Legal Basis Of Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery
The Legal Basis Of Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery
Articles & Book Chapters
This paper considers a range of differing approaches to the question of Aboriginal land rights in the light of the judgment of the B.C. Supreme Court in the Delgamuukw case.
Foreword - A Decent Respect To The Opinions Of Mankind, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 207 (1992), Michael P. Seng
Foreword - A Decent Respect To The Opinions Of Mankind, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 207 (1992), Michael P. Seng
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Decent Respect To The Opinions Of Mankind, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 215 (1992), Louis Henkin
A Decent Respect To The Opinions Of Mankind, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 215 (1992), Louis Henkin
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Court Between Hegemonies, L. A. Powe, Jr.
The Court Between Hegemonies, L. A. Powe, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West
Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
It is commonly and rightly understood in this country that our constitutional system ensures, or seeks to ensure, that individuals are accorded the greatest degree of personal, political, social, and economic liberty possible, consistent with a like amount of liberty given to others, the duty and right of the community to establish the conditions for a moral and secure collective life, and the responsibility of the state to provide for the common defense of the community against outside aggression. Our distinctive cultural and constitutional commitment to individual liberty places very real restraints on what our elected representatives can do, even …
Beyond The Second Amendment: An Individual Right To Arms Viewed Through The Ninth Amendment , Nicholas J. Johnson
Beyond The Second Amendment: An Individual Right To Arms Viewed Through The Ninth Amendment , Nicholas J. Johnson
Faculty Scholarship
Traditionally, the debate over the individual right to possess firearms has focused on the origins and meaning of the Second Amendment. Some constitutional scholars have dismissed the idea that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms. They argue that it only prevents the federal government from disarming states. Other scholars, focusing on the language of the amendment and its historical context, conclude that it does indeed establish an individual right to firearms. This article examines whether, even absent the Second Amendment, the Constitution restrains government from taking away what may be individuals' best tools of self-defense. The foothold …
Constitutional Authority In An Age Of Moral Indeterminacy, Ralph F. Gaebler
Constitutional Authority In An Age Of Moral Indeterminacy, Ralph F. Gaebler
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Some Problems With "Origins", Stephen A. Conrad
Some Problems With "Origins", Stephen A. Conrad
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Rouge Et Noir Reread: A Popular Constitutional History Of The Angelo Herndon Case, Kendall Thomas
Rouge Et Noir Reread: A Popular Constitutional History Of The Angelo Herndon Case, Kendall Thomas
Faculty Scholarship
In 1932, Eugene Angelo Braxton Hemdon, a young Afro-American member of the Communist Party, U.S.A., was arrested in Atlanta and charged with an attempt to incite insurrection against that state's lawful authority. Some five years later, in Herndon v. Lowry, Herndon filed a writ of habeas corpus asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of the Georgia statute under which he had been convicted. Two weeks before his twenty-fourth birthday, the Court, voting 5-4, declared the use of the Georgia political-crimes statute against him unconstitutional on the grounds that it deprived Herndon of his rights to freedom …