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Articles 1 - 8 of 8
Full-Text Articles in Legal History
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, and Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution by Jack Greenberg.
Rosa Parks: Foremother & Heroine Teaching Civility & Offering A Vision For A Better Tomorrow, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Rosa Parks: Foremother & Heroine Teaching Civility & Offering A Vision For A Better Tomorrow, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Hiv-Aids In The 1990s Aids Law Symposium: Legal, Ethical, And Policy Issues: Introduction, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 239 (1994), Michael L. Closen
Hiv-Aids In The 1990s Aids Law Symposium: Legal, Ethical, And Policy Issues: Introduction, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 239 (1994), Michael L. Closen
UIC Law Review
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Post-Soviet Organized Crime And The Rule Of Law, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 827 (1995), Louise Shelley
Post-Soviet Organized Crime And The Rule Of Law, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 827 (1995), Louise Shelley
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Development Of The Democratic Institutions & (And) The Rule Of Law In The Former Soviet Union: A Round Table Discussion, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 865 (1995), Elena Bonner
UIC Law Review
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Disquiet On The Eastern Front: Liberal Agendas, Domestic Legal Orders, And The Role Of International Law After The Cold War And Amid Resurgent Cultural Identities, Jacques Delisle
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
External Sovereignty And International Law, Ronald A. Brand
External Sovereignty And International Law, Ronald A. Brand
Articles
This essay addresses the need to redefine current notions of sovereignty. It returns to earlier concepts of subjects joining to receive the benefits of peace and security provided by the sovereign. It diverges from most contemporary commentary by avoiding what has become traditional second-tier social contract analysis. In place of a social contract of states, this redefinition of sovereignty recognizes that international law in the twentieth century has developed direct links between the individual and international law. The trend toward democracy as an international law norm further supports discarding notions of a two-tiered social contract relationship between the individual and …
Reflections On From Slaves To Citizens Bondage, Freedom And The Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship And Its Impact On Law And Legal Historiography, Robert J. Kaczorowski
Reflections On From Slaves To Citizens Bondage, Freedom And The Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship And Its Impact On Law And Legal Historiography, Robert J. Kaczorowski
Faculty Scholarship
The thesis of Professor Donald Nieman's paper, "From Slaves to Citizens: African-Americans, Rights Consciousness, and Reconstruction," is that the nation experienced a revolution in the United States Constitution and in the consciousness of African Americans. According to Professor Nieman, the Reconstruction Amendments represented "a dramatic departure from antebellum constitutional principles,"' because the Thirteenth Amendment reversed the pre-Civil War constitutional guarantee of slavery and "abolish[ed] slavery by federal authority." The Fourteenth Amendment rejected the Supreme Court's "racially-based definition of citizenship [in Dred Scott v. Sandford4], clearly establishing a color-blind citizenship” and the Fifteenth Amendment "wrote the principle of equality into the …