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Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in Rule of Law
Magna Carta Then And Now: A Symbol Of Freedom And Equal Rights For All, Eugene K B Tan, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Magna Carta Then And Now: A Symbol Of Freedom And Equal Rights For All, Eugene K B Tan, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Jack Tsen-Ta LEE
Magna Carta became applicable to Singapore in 1826 when a court system administering English law was established in the Straits Settlements. This remained the case through Singapore’s evolution from Crown colony to independent republic. The Great Charter only ceased to apply in 1993, when Parliament enacted the Application of English Law Act to clarify which colonial laws were still part of Singapore law. Nonetheless, Magna Carta’s legacy in Singapore continues in a number of ways. Principles such as due process of law and the supremacy of law are cornerstones of the rule of law, vital to the success, stability and …
Newsroom: Lawyers Under The Nazis, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Lawyers Under The Nazis, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
Available @ http://law.rwu.edu/story/lawyers-under-nazis
Newsroom: Nason '05 Cited By U.S. Supreme Court, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Nason '05 Cited By U.S. Supreme Court, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Trending@Rwu Law: Professor David Logan's Post: Diversity In The Rhode Island Judiciary, David A. Logan
Trending@Rwu Law: Professor David Logan's Post: Diversity In The Rhode Island Judiciary, David A. Logan
Law School Blogs
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Introduction: Constitutional Conflict And Development: Perspectives From South Asia And Africa, Sudha Setty, Matthew H. Charity
Introduction: Constitutional Conflict And Development: Perspectives From South Asia And Africa, Sudha Setty, Matthew H. Charity
Faculty Scholarship
This Introduction was written for an eponymous joint program held on January 4, 2014 and hosted by the Section on Africa and the Section of Law & South Asian Studies, both of the Association of American Law Schools.
Surveillance, Secrecy, And The Search For Meaningful Accountability, Sudha Setty
Surveillance, Secrecy, And The Search For Meaningful Accountability, Sudha Setty
Faculty Scholarship
One of the most intractable problems in the debate around maintaining the rule of law while combating the threat of terrorism is the question of secrecy and transparency. In peacetime, important tenets to the rule of law include transparency of the law, limits on government power, and consistency of the law as applied to individuals in the policy. Yet the post-9/11 decision-making by the Bush and Obama administrations is characterized with excessive secrecy that stymies most efforts to hold the government accountable for its abuses. Executive branch policy with regard to detention, interrogation, targeted killing and surveillance are kept secret, …
Anarchy, Status Updates, And Utopia, James Grimmelmann
Anarchy, Status Updates, And Utopia, James Grimmelmann
Faculty Scholarship
Social software has a power problem. Actually, it has two. The first is technical. Unlike the rule of law, the rule of software is simple and brutal: whoever controls the software makes the rules. And if power corrupts, then automatic power corrupts automatically. Facebook can drop you down the memory hole; Paypal can garnish your pay. These sovereigns of software have absolute and dictatorial control over their domains.
Is it possible to create online spaces without technical power? It is not, because of social software’s second power problem. Behind technical power there is also social power. Whenever people come together …
Magna Carta's Rule Of Politics, John F. Preis
Magna Carta's Rule Of Politics, John F. Preis
Law Faculty Publications
Eight hundred years ago last week in a meadow west of London, King John of England did something peculiar for a king: He promised to obey "the law of the land." And thus was born, we have been taught, America's "rule of law" - the principle that political leaders must act within boundaries set out in law.
English kings at that time did not feel bound to obey the law (much less anything else), so John's promise is typically celebrated as a huge step forward in the history of good government. It is entirely proper to remember Magna Carta for …
Toward A Fundamental Right To Evade Law? Protecting The Rule Of Unequal Racial And Economic Power In Shelby County And State Farm, Martha T. Mccluskey
Toward A Fundamental Right To Evade Law? Protecting The Rule Of Unequal Racial And Economic Power In Shelby County And State Farm, Martha T. Mccluskey
Journal Articles
To rationalize its ruling on voting rights, Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder develops a constitutional vision of passivity in the face of institutionalized power to violate the law. This essay compares Shelby County to State Farm Mutual Automobile v. Campbell, a 2003 Supreme Court ruling involving a different subject area, state punitive damage awards. In both, the Court asserts newly articulated judicial power to override other branches, not to protect human rights, but rather to expand institutionalized immunity from those rights. On the surface, the Court’s rejection of state sovereignty in State Farm (protecting multistate corporations from high punitive damages) …
The Cowboy Code Meets The Smash Mouth Truth: Meditations On Worker Incivility, Michael C. Duff
The Cowboy Code Meets The Smash Mouth Truth: Meditations On Worker Incivility, Michael C. Duff
All Faculty Scholarship
This symposium essay argues that workers must face up and wake up to the emerging real world of perpetual employment vulnerability. Clinging to the faith that those who govern us will abide by simple moral codes simply will not do in this world. Workers must resist forces promoting vulnerability and internalize a steely and clear-eyed ethic of self-defense in response to the smash mouth truth of this challenging new environment. Workers and dissidents must not shrink when their frank opposition to the status quo is cabined and marginalized as “incivility.” The law — and I focus in the essay on …
An Administrative Jurisprudence: The Rule Of Law In The Administrative State, Kevin M. Stack
An Administrative Jurisprudence: The Rule Of Law In The Administrative State, Kevin M. Stack
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Essay offers a specification of the rule of law's demands of administrative law and government inspired by Professor Peter L. Strauss's scholarship. It identifies five principles'authorization, notice, justification, coherence, and procedural fairness which provide a framework for an account of the rule of law's demands of administrative governance. Together these principles have intriguing results for the evaluation of administrative law. On the one hand, they reveal rule-of-law foundations for some contested positions, such as a restrictive view of the President's power to direct subordinate officials and giving weight to an agency's determination of the scope of its own authority. …
Tax Law Within The Larger Legal System, J. Scott Wilkie, Peter W. Hogg
Tax Law Within The Larger Legal System, J. Scott Wilkie, Peter W. Hogg
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Tax law may be viewed as occupying its own universe, even though tax funds the implementation of public policies that animate Canadian society. This article reminds us that tax law must respond to basic rule-of-law norms in spite of overarching and well-meaning policy goals. It adopts reference points featured in recent cases. One is the Charter, which limits penalties that can be imposed on non-compliant taxpayers and tax advisers without adhering to due process safeguards. Another is the impact of international arrangements among countries in a global business environment to guide consistent regulatory responses and to identify and share information. …
Keepings, Donald J. Kochan
Keepings, Donald J. Kochan
Donald J. Kochan