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Putting Distribution First, Robert C. Hockett Nov 2017

Putting Distribution First, Robert C. Hockett

Robert C. Hockett

It is common for normative legal theorists, economists and other policy analysts to conduct and communicate their work mainly in maximizing terms. They take the maximization of welfare, for example, or of wealth or utility, to be primary objectives of legislation and public policy. Few if any of these theorists seem to notice, however, that any time we speak explicitly of maximizing one thing, we speak implicitly of distributing other things and of equalizing yet other things. Fewer still seem to recognize that we effectively define ourselves by reference to that which we distribute and equalize. For it is in …


The Public Pension Crisis Through The Lens Of State Constitutions And Statutory Law, Kristen Barnes Oct 2017

The Public Pension Crisis Through The Lens Of State Constitutions And Statutory Law, Kristen Barnes

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Cautionary Tale, David Schwendiman Aug 2017

A Cautionary Tale, David Schwendiman

Utah Law Review

It is imperative when talking about accountability and the enforcement of internationally recognized and accepted criminal norms governing conflict, when talking about investigating and prosecuting atrocity crime, not to raise expectations that have little or no chance of being met. Expanding the modes of liability to reach bystanders has the potential to raise such expectations, pushing the range of subjects that victims, survivors and others with an interest in the outcome of atrocity crime investigations and prosecutions expect will be prosecuted out beyond those as to whom there is likely to be political will to prosecute and certainly beyond the …


Revisiting Popular Action, Raúl Sánchez Gómez May 2017

Revisiting Popular Action, Raúl Sánchez Gómez

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Toiling In Trump's Vineyard Of Alternative Facts Lining Its Random Walk, David J. Cook May 2017

Toiling In Trump's Vineyard Of Alternative Facts Lining Its Random Walk, David J. Cook

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


The Erosion Of Civil Rights Remedies: How Ashcroft V. Al-Kidd Altered Qualified Immunity, Madeleine Sharp May 2017

The Erosion Of Civil Rights Remedies: How Ashcroft V. Al-Kidd Altered Qualified Immunity, Madeleine Sharp

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Measuring “Progress” And “Regress” In Human Rights: Why We Need A Set Of Social Contract Measures To Replace Indices Of Violations And Slogans, David Lempert May 2017

Measuring “Progress” And “Regress” In Human Rights: Why We Need A Set Of Social Contract Measures To Replace Indices Of Violations And Slogans, David Lempert

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Criminal Selectivity In The United States: A History Plagued By Class & Race Bias, Valeria Vegh Weis May 2017

Criminal Selectivity In The United States: A History Plagued By Class & Race Bias, Valeria Vegh Weis

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Asian Americans And The Law: Sharing A Progressive Civil Rights Agenda During Uncertain Times, Harvey Gee May 2017

Asian Americans And The Law: Sharing A Progressive Civil Rights Agenda During Uncertain Times, Harvey Gee

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


A Letter From The Editors, Depaul Journal For Social Justice Editorial Board May 2017

A Letter From The Editors, Depaul Journal For Social Justice Editorial Board

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents May 2017

Table Of Contents

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Poverty Is The New Crime, Michelle Jenkins Feb 2017

Poverty Is The New Crime, Michelle Jenkins

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Social Justice And Legal Writing Collaborations: Promoting Student Engagement And Faculty Fulfillment, Kirsten Clement, Stephanie Roberts Hartung Feb 2017

Social Justice And Legal Writing Collaborations: Promoting Student Engagement And Faculty Fulfillment, Kirsten Clement, Stephanie Roberts Hartung

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Cycle Of Misconduct:How Chicago Has Repeatedly Failed To Police Its Police, Elizabeth J. Andonova Feb 2017

Cycle Of Misconduct:How Chicago Has Repeatedly Failed To Police Its Police, Elizabeth J. Andonova

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Feb 2017

Table Of Contents

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


The Reflection And Reification Of Racialized Language In Popular Media, Kelly E. Wright Jan 2017

The Reflection And Reification Of Racialized Language In Popular Media, Kelly E. Wright

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

This work highlights specific lexical items that have become racialized in specific contextual applications and tests how these words are cognitively processed. This work presents the results of a visual world (Huettig et al 2011) eye-tracking study designed to determine the perception and application of racialized (Coates 2011) adjectives. To objectively select the racialized adjectives used, I developed a corpus comprised of popular media sources, designed specifically to suit my research question. I collected publications from digital media sources such as Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Fortune by scraping articles featuring specific search terms from their websites. This experiment seeks …


Putting Distribution First, Robert C. Hockett Jan 2017

Putting Distribution First, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

It is common for normative legal theorists, economists and other policy analysts to conduct and communicate their work mainly in maximizing terms. They take the maximization of welfare, for example, or of wealth or utility, to be primary objectives of legislation and public policy. Few if any of these theorists seem to notice, however, that any time we speak explicitly of maximizing one thing, we speak implicitly of distributing other things and of equalizing yet other things. Fewer still seem to recognize that we effectively define ourselves by reference to that which we distribute and equalize. For it is in …