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Can Originalism Be Saved?, David A. Strauss

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Constitutionalism: East Asian Antecedents, Tom Ginsburg

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On The American Paradox Of Laissez Faire And Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt

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The Role Of Accreditation Commissions In Higher Education: The Troublesome Case Of Dana College, Richard A. Epstein

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Options For Owners And Outlaws, Lee Anne Fennell

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The Doctrinal Paradox & International Law, Adam S. Chilton, Dustin Tingley

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Recognizing Race, Justin Driver

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Religion, Schools, And Judicial Decision Making: An Empirical Perspective, Michael Heise, Gregory C. Sisk

University of Chicago Law Review

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The Role Of Accreditation Commissions In Higher Education: The Troublesome Case Of Dana College, Richard A. Epstein

University of Chicago Law Review

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The Past, Present, And Future Of Equal Educational Opportunity: A Call For A New Theory Of Education Federalism (Reviewing Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, And The Story Of Educational Opportunity In Modern America By James E. Ryan), Kimberly Jenkins Robinson

University of Chicago Law Review

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Making Courts Matter: Politics And The Implementation Of State Supreme Court Decisions, Christopher Berry, Charles Wysong

University of Chicago Law Review

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Catholic Schools, Charter Schools, And Urban Neighborhoods, Margaret F. Brinig, Nicole Stelle Garnett

University of Chicago Law Review

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Going Outside The Law: The Role Of The State In Shaping Attitudes To Private Acts Of Violence, Tom R. Tyler, Jonathan Jackson, Aziz Huq, Ben Bradford

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Why do people believe that violence is acceptable? In this paper we study people’s normative beliefs about the acceptability of violence to achieve social control (as a substitute for the police, for self-protection and the resolution of disputes) and social change (through violent protests and acts to achieve political goals). Addressing attitudes towards violence among young men from various ethnic minority communities in London, we find that procedural justice is strongly correlated with police legitimacy, and that positive judgments about police legitimacy predicts more negative views about the use of violence. We conclude with the idea that police legitimacy has …

Sex On The Bench: Do Women Judges Matter To The Legitimacy Of International Courts?, Nienke Grossman

Chicago Journal of International Law

International courts are playing an increasingly important role in deciding international disputes and in defining the content of international law. Yet women make up only a meager percentage of international court judges. This Article explores the relationship between the paucity of women judges and the legitimacy of international courts. After providing statistics on women's participation on eleven of the world's most important courts and tribunals, the Article argues that under-representation of one sex affects the normative legitimacy of international courts because it endangers impartiality and introduces bias when men and women approach judging differently. Even if men and women do …

Regulation For The Sake Of Appearance, Adam M. Samaha

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Appearance is often given as a justification for decisions, including government decisions, but the logic of appearance arguments is not well theorized. This Article develops a framework for understanding and evaluating appearance-based justifications for government decisions. First, working definitions are offered to distinguish appearance from reality. Next, certain relationships between appearance and reality are singled out for attention. Sometimes reality is insulated from appearance, sometimes appearance helps drive reality over time, and sometimes appearance and reality collapse from the outset. Finally, sets of normative questions are suggested based on the supposed relationship between appearance and reality for a given situation. …

Regulation For The Sake Of Appearance, Adam M. Samaha

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Appearance is often given as a justification for decisions, including government decisions, but the logic of appearance arguments is not well theorized. This Article develops a framework for understanding and evaluating appearance-based justifications for government decisions. First, working definitions are offered to distinguish appearance from reality. Next, certain relationships between appearance and reality are singled out for attention. Sometimes reality is insulated from appearance, sometimes appearance helps drive reality over time, and sometimes appearance and reality collapse from the outset. Finally, sets of normative questions are suggested based on the supposed relationship between appearance and reality for a given situation. …

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Reconstruction And The Transformation Of Jury Nullification, Jonathan Bressler

University of Chicago Law Review

More than a century ago, the Supreme Court, invoking antebellum judicial precedent, held that juries no longer have the right to "nullify" — that is, to refuse to apply the law as given by the court. Today, however, in assessing the constitutionally protected right to criminal jury trial, the Supreme Court has emphasized originalism, delineating the right's current boundaries by the Founding-era understanding of it. Relying on this Supreme Court jurisprudence, scholars and several federal judges have recently concluded that because Founding-era juries had the right to nullify, the right was beyond the authority of nineteenth-century judges to curtail and …

Lessons From The Past: How The Antebellum Fugitive Slave Debate Informs State Enforcement Of Federal Immigration Law, James A. Kraehenbuehl

University of Chicago Law Review

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Keynote: The Crisis And Criminal Justice, Bernard E. Harcourt

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Randomization And The Fourth Amendment, Bernard E. Harcourt, Tracey L. Meares

University of Chicago Law Review

Randomized checkpoint searches are generally taken to be the exact antithesis of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment. In the eyes of most jurists, checkpoint searches violate the central requirement of valid Fourth Amendment searches—namely, individualized suspicion. We disagree. In this Article, we contend that randomized searches should serve as the very lodestar of a reasonable search. The notion of "individualized" suspicion is misleading; most suspicion in the modern policing context is group based and not individual specific. Randomized searches by definition are accompanied by a certain level of suspicion. The constitutional issue, we maintain, should not turn on the question …

The Church Abuse Scandal: Processing The Pope Before The International Criminal Court, Benjamin David Landry

Chicago Journal of International Law

In the early 2000s, the Catholic Church was revealed to have been involved in a pattern of sexual abuse of children. The Church's internal policies allowed members to cover up the abuse by swearing victims to secrecy and refusing to report the abuse to authorities. This routine arguably enabled further abuse by providing abusers with continued access to children. Due, in part, to the hierarchical structure of the Church, commentators argued for the prosecution of Church leadership. Commentators focused on Cardinal Joseph Ratinger, now Pope Benedict XT7, who was, from 1971 to his elevation to the Holy See in 2005, …

Weak-Form Judicial Review And American Exceptionalism, Rosalind Dixon

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Recent Commonwealth rights charters, various scholars have argued, represent a new "weaker" model of constitutional rights protection than the U.S. constitutional model: unlike the U.S. Bill of Rights, they give legislatures broad formal power to override rights, and therefore also court decisions. The article argues, however, that in practice such powers have rarely if ever been used by Commonwealth legislatures, and therefore, that if judicial review is in fact weaker in Commonwealth countries, compared to the U.S., it is only because Commonwealth courts have been more willing than the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold ordinary legislative attempts to override court …

The Law Of Religious Liberty In A Tolerant Society, Brian Leiter

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

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Mechanisms For Eliciting Cooperation In Counter-Terrorism Policing: Evidence From The United Kingdom, Tom R. Tyler, Stephen J. Schulhofer, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This study examines the effects of counterterrorism policing tactics on public cooperation amongst Muslim communities in London, U.K. It tests a procedural justice model developed in the context of studying crime control in the United States. The study reports results of a randomsample survey of 300 closed and fixed response telephone interviews conducted in Greater London’s Muslim community in February and March 2010. It tests predictors of cooperation with police acting against terrorism. Specifically, the study provides a quantitative analysis of how perceptions of police efficacy, greater terrorism threat, and the choice of policing tactics predict the willingness to cooperate …

The Signaling Function Of Religious Speech In Domestic Counterterrorism, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

A wave of attempted domestic terrorism attacks in 2009 and 2010 has sharpened attention to the threat of domestic-source terrorism inspired or directed by al Qaeda. Seeking to preempt that terror, governments face an information problem. They must separate signals of terrorism risk from potentially overwhelming background noise and persuade juries or fact finders that those signals warrant coercive action. Selection of accurate signals of terrorism danger in the information-poor circumstances of domestic counterterrorism is arguably a central challenge today for law enforcement tasked with preventing further terrorist attacks. To an underappreciated extent, governments have used religious speech as a …

Why Does The Public Cooperate With Law Enforcement? The Influence Of The Purposes And Targets Of Policing, Tom R. Tyler, Stephen J. Schulhofer, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This study addresses the extension of the “procedural justice” model for understanding public cooperation with law enforcement to new policing contexts and new minority populations. The study draws on four recent surveys of public reactions to policing ag

American Policing At A Crossroads, Tom R. Tyler, Stephen J. Schulhofer, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

As victimization rates have fallen, public preoccupation with policing and its crime control impact has receded. Terrorism has become the new focal point of concern. But satisfaction with ordinary police practices hides deep problems. The time is therefore ripe for rethinking the assumptions that have guided American police for most of the past two decades. This essay proposes an empirically grounded shift to what we call a procedural justice model of policing. When law enforcement moves toward this approach, it can be more effective, at lower cost and without the negative side effects that currently hamper responses to terrorism and …

The Constitutionality Of Proposition 8, Richard A. Epstein

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Randomization And The Fourth Amendment, Bernard E. Harcourt, Tracey L. Meares

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Randomized checkpoint searches are generally taken to be the exact antithesis of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment. In the eyes of most jurists checkpoint searches violate the central requirement of valid Fourth Amendment searches-namely, individualized suspicion. We disagree. In this Article, we contend that randomized searches should serve as the very lodestar of a reasonable search. The notion of "individualized" suspicion is misleading; most suspicion in the modem policing context is group based and not individual specific. Randomized searches by definition are accompanied by a certain level of suspicion. The constitutional issue, we maintain, should not turn on the question …