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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Youngstown Revisited, A. Christopher Bryant, Carl Tobias
Youngstown Revisited, A. Christopher Bryant, Carl Tobias
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
In 1952, President Harry S. Truman promulgated an Executive Order that authorized federal government seizure of the nation's steel mills to support United States participation in the Korean conflict, but the Supreme Court held that Truman lacked any power to seize the property in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer. In 2001, President George W. Bush promulgated an Executive Order that authorized trial by military commissions of non-U.S. citizens whom the American government suspects of terrorism in domestic cases and concomitantly denied these persons access to the federal courts. This article undertakes an analysis of the Bush Executive …
Human Rights Policy In The Age Of Terrorism, Juan E. Mendez
Human Rights Policy In The Age Of Terrorism, Juan E. Mendez
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Theaters Of Pardoning: Tragicomedy And The Gunpowder Plot, Bernadette Meyler
Theaters Of Pardoning: Tragicomedy And The Gunpowder Plot, Bernadette Meyler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article examines the dramatic character of King James I’s reaction to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot - the first act of terrorism in the West - and his attempts both to inscribe the unprecedented crime within the conventional structure of revenge tragedy and to interpret the event according to a model of tragicomedy indebted to John of Patmos' apocalyptic Revelation. On account of applying these cultural and religious paradigms, the King suggested that Parliament be entrusted with judging the conspirators, thus imaginatively displacing his sovereignty onto it.
An International Constitutional Moment, William W. Burke-White, Anne-Marie Slaughter
An International Constitutional Moment, William W. Burke-White, Anne-Marie Slaughter
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