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Restorative Justice, Slavery And The American Soul, A Policy-Oriented Approach To The Question Of Slavery Reparations By The United States, Michael F. Blevins

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This LL.M. Intercultural Human Rights thesis (May, 2005), awarded the best student paper prize for 2005 by the Institute of Policy Sciences at Yale University (in October, 2005), after analysing past and curent issues regarding the culture wars controversy of "reparations", proposes a specific process for establishing Truth and Reconciliation regarding the legacy of slavery in the United States. The proposal recommends commissions in each Federal judicial district under the supervision of a U.S. Slavery Justice and Reconciliation Commission (USSJRC), calling for "America's 21st Century Contract with Africa and African-Americans".

Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor

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The Internationalism Of Justice Harry Blackmun, Margaret E. Mcguinness

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Throughout the symposium we have heard a host of adjectives to describe Justice Harry Blackmun and his jurisprudence, among them "willful," "liberal," "conservative," and "humble." Added to this list is what Professor Ruger calls "the ultimate compound taxonomy" for Justice Blackmun, a "'White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Republican Rotarian Harvard Man from the Suburbs.'" One adjective that is conspicuously missing is "internationalist," a term that describes an important, though less discussed, dimension of Justice Blackmun and his jurisprudence. Internationalism is, in part, reflected in Justice Blackmun's "preference change" or shift from "relatively conservative to relatively liberal." At the same time, internationalism …