Entire DC Network | Open Access Articles | Digital Commons Network™

The Supreme Court Gives An Endangered Act New Life: Bennett V. Spear And Its Effect On Endangered Species Act Reform, Deanne M. Barney

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

153rd University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

153rd University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program including Law School awards

Go to article

The Legal Construction Of Gender, Trena Lee Klohe

Student Thesis Honors (1996-2008)

The existence of biologically, psychologically and socially transgendered persons challenges commonplace notions about "the sexes." The entry of transgendered persons and their concerns into the legal arena has forced the law on occasion to examine its usually implicit assumptions about sex and gender. This paper explores the following questions: is sex truly an "immutable characteristic" for all legal purposes? If not, at what point and under what circumstances does the law acknowledge a change from one sex to the other? This paper also examines the legal enforcement of gendered social norms. Such norms are frequently at odds with personal experience, …

Go to article

Sex And Sodomy And Apples And Oranges - Does The Constitution Require States To Grant A Right To Do The Impossible, Jay Alan Sekulow, John Tuskey

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Go to article

The Problematics Of Moral And Legal Theory, Richard A. Posner

Articles

In these Holmes Lectures, delivered a century after the publication of Oliver Wendell Holmes's great essay The Path of the Law, Judge Posner argues for an essentially Holmesian conception of the proper relations among modern normative moral philosophy ("academic moralism"), morality, and law. Academic moralism, he argues, lacks either the intellectual cogency or the emotional power to change people's beliefs or behavior; the power to do so resides in "moral entrepreneurs," which academic moralists emphatically are not. Academic moralism's lack of cogency disqualifies it to guide judicial decisionmaking even - in fact, especially - in cases involving controversial moral issues, …

Go to article

Move Over Drugs, There's Something Cooler On The Black Market - Freon: Can The New Licensing System Stop Illegal Cfc Trafficking?, Saleem S. Saab

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Caring For Justice, Reviewing Robin West, Michael T. Cahill

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Irreconcilable Principles: Law, Politics, And The Illinois Supreme Court, Jackson Williams

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This article attempts to evaluate the recent criticisms of the political structure of the Illinois Supreme Court. The author examines the electoral and legal systems that usually come into potential conflicts. The goal of the article is to illustrate some important issues in the environment free from the sensationalism of press accounts and the emotionalism of political attacks, and provoke a sensible debate among the State's bar, legislators, and public about how the perception of a "political" court impacts on Illinois' legal system.

Go to article

No Longer Free To Offend: Involuntary Civil Commitment Statutes For Sexual Predators Create The Basis For A Uniform Act, Lisa A. Wilson

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This comment examines the progression of involuntary civil commitment statutes for repeat sex offenders beginning in the 1930's and moving into the 1990's in terms of statutory changes and improvements. This comment also illustrates why these involuntary commitment statutes are the best solution to curb sexual predation with an eye towards the ultimate protection of the public. Finally, this comment stresses the need for a uniform act designed to incorporate those aspects of the currently existing sex predator statutes which best protect the community from repeat sex offenders.

Go to article

The Paradox Of Hope: The Crime And Punishment Of Domestic Violence, Cheryl Hanna

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

The Migratory Bird Rule After Lopez: Questioning The Value Of State Sovereignty In The Context Of Wetland Regulation, Peter A. Gilbert

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Philip Sober Controlling Philip Drunk: "Buchanan V. Warley" In Historical Perspective, David E. Bernstein

Vanderbilt Law Review

In Buchanan v. Warley the Supreme Court found that a Louisville, Kentucky, residential segregation ordinance was unconstitutional because it interfered with the Fourteenth Amendment right to own and dispose of property and could not be justified as a police power measure.' The Buchanan decision came at a crucial juncture in the history of American race relations. Several cities in the southern and border states had recently passed residential segregation ordinances, and other cities were poised to follow suit if the Supreme Court ruled that such ordinances were constitutional. Several northern cities were considering adopting residential segregation laws as well,' and …

Go to article

Review Of Caring For Justice, By Robin West, Michael T. Cahill

Michigan Law Review

If the sexes are indeed from different planets, as the title of a recent bestseller informs us, one wonders that those planets were like before their inhabitants made the trek to Earth. Did the citizens of the all-female Venus structure their lives, work, moral commitments, and political systems differently from the males over on Mars? If so, what happened when these cultural worlds collided to form our own? Does our culture represent a synthesis of these two separate systems into a new and better, or perhaps worse, one, or is it the result of one planet's wholesale conquest of the …

Go to article

After Legal Indeterminacy: Carl Schmitt And The National Socialist Legal Order, 1933-1936, William E. Scheuerman

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

The Opinion Volume 38 Number 16 – April 20, 1998, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue dated April 20, 1998

Go to article

Vol. 14, No. 13 (April 13, 1998)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 43, Spring Issue, Mar. 1998, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Establishing The Biological Rights Doctrine To Protect Unwed Fathers In Contested Adoptions, Toni L. Craig

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Can Trade Promote An Ecologically Secure World--The Global Economy From An Ecological Footprint Perspective, Mathis Wackernagel Ph.D.

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Stomping On The Earth: Trade, Trade Law, And Canada's Ecological Footprints, Michelle Swenarchuk

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Go to article