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Contemporary Aspects Of Female Genital Mutilation Prohibitions In The United States, Limor Ezioni Jan 2019

Contemporary Aspects Of Female Genital Mutilation Prohibitions In The United States, Limor Ezioni

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Saving Their Own Souls: How Rluipa Failed To Deliver On Its Promises, Sarah Gerwig-Moore Apr 2012

Saving Their Own Souls: How Rluipa Failed To Deliver On Its Promises, Sarah Gerwig-Moore

Legislation and Policy Brief

In the summer of 2001, as a graduate student in law and theology, I began work on a master’s thesis that examined the predicament of men of faith on San Quentin’s Condemned Row. I was working in the California Appellate Project—mostly assisting with direct appeals and state habeas petitions on behalf of men under a death sentence—when a colleague guided me into theological conversations with some of our clients. On Condemned Row, they waited—up to five years to be assigned a court-appointed appellate attorney, on judges’ rulings, and to find whether the legal system would ultimately exact the penalty it …


Referenda And The District Of Columbia's Human Rights Act: Voting On Same-Sex Marriage In The Nation's Capital, Jacob Stewart Jun 2011

Referenda And The District Of Columbia's Human Rights Act: Voting On Same-Sex Marriage In The Nation's Capital, Jacob Stewart

Legislation and Policy Brief

Beginning with Massachusetts in 2003, the courts and legislatures of many states have had to decide whether same-sex marriage is or should be a fundamental right under their respective constitutions. Although only five states and the District of Columbia legally perform same-sex marriages, a few other jurisdictions are in the process of proposing laws moving in that direction. However, the vast majority of states are holding fast to the traditional heterosexual definition of marriage. Thirty-eight states have adopted some sort of Defense of Marriage Act, constitutional amendment, or similar measure that defines marriage as the union between one man and …


Liberté Religieuse En Europe: Discussing The French Concealment Act, Robert E. Snyder Jan 2011

Liberté Religieuse En Europe: Discussing The French Concealment Act, Robert E. Snyder

Human Rights Brief

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Turkey: At The Crossroads Of Secular West And Traditional East, Padideh Ala'i Jan 2009

Turkey: At The Crossroads Of Secular West And Traditional East, Padideh Ala'i

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

On January 9, 2008 Washington College of Law at American University sponsored a conference entitled: Turkey: At the Crossroads of Secular West and Traditional East. This conference was percipitated by the recent election of the AKP party in Turkey and my trip to Turkey in summer 2007. In this short introduction to the American University International law Review symposium issue, I summarize the major issues raised in that one day conference specifically by Dean Haluk Kabaalioglu of Yeditepe University Facutly of Law, expert on EU law and Turkish-EU relations,and Professor Feroz Ahmad, the learned historian of modern Turkey. The aim …


Rights Of Religious Minorities In Nigeria, Ismene Zarifis Jan 2002

Rights Of Religious Minorities In Nigeria, Ismene Zarifis

Human Rights Brief

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Legislative Focus: The International And Religious Freedom Act Of 1998, Tom Lynch Jan 1999

Legislative Focus: The International And Religious Freedom Act Of 1998, Tom Lynch

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts With Torturers, Juan E. Mendez Jan 1991

A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts With Torturers, Juan E. Mendez

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

No abstract provided.