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Slapp Suits: A Slap At The First Amendment, Ralph Michael Stein

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPP suits, as they are commonly called, are a growing nationwide phenomenon which imperil the protection afforded by the petition clause of the first amendment to the United States Constitution. These suits also implicate fundamental freedom guarantees of the various state constitutions. My focus today, however, will be largely on the first amendment.

Judicial Election Questions Left Unanswered By Justices, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals

Religious Convictions And Political Choice By Kent Greenawalt, Todd D. Volker

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This Book Review examines the most recent book by Professor Kent Greenawalt of Columbia University. The book itself, a discussion on the proper connection of religious beliefs to political decisions, is examined using the works of Rawls and Dworkin as philosophical benchmarks. According to Volker, Religious Convictions and Political Choice not only weathers its comparisons to the great works of Rawls and Dworkin, but has carved out a deserved place alongside them.

Pro-Lifers Should Appeal To Constitution's Heart, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals

Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals

Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence,, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”

Brigham Young On The Social Order, Ronald W. Walker

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Donald Brenneis's Review Of Brij V. Lal's Politics In Fiji: Studies In Contemporary History, Donald Brenneis

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

The Search For A Massachusetts Chancellor: Autonomy And Politics In Higher Education, Richard A. Hogarty

New England Journal of Public Policy

Political scientists have not devoted much attention to the politics of higher education. Their reluctance is hard to explain since the material for study is close at hand and the subject offers ample research opportunities. The search for a chancellor conducted by the Massachusetts Board of Regents in 1986 aroused considerable public attention and controversy. This case study examines that controversy along with the tensions that arise when academic and political forces collide. Few searches in academia are perfect and none is a morality play. This one proved to be no exception. This article is an attempt to reconstruct the …

The Military Rule In Ecuador: Policies And Politics Of Authoritarian Rule, John D. Martz

Research Papers

It should be borne in mind that this study is part of a collective undertaking that examines military institutions under conservative authoritarian rule. Its preoccupations have included the impact of the military on economic policy and regime performance; military linkages with civilian interest groups; and the functioning of the military power structure. For organizational convenience, most of this paper will be devoted to two major sections. The first will focus primarily on policy, with attention to decision making and regime performance. The second will examine more directly issues of politics, embracing the place of the military in society and the …

Is '88 Supreme Court Election Permissible Under Pa. Law?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Justices Don't Own The Constitution, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Is The Death Penalty Good For Us?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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To Do Justice Between Man And Man, (Tribute To Judge Robert Taylor), Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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The Concept Of Neutrality In International Law, Alfred P. Rubin

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 1987-11-13, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 1981-1990

Andrew Greeley will be the seventh speaker on November 16 in the fall Forum Series. Wooster Jazz Ensemble will be performing its first full concert tonight. The Fall Dance Concert will feature student choreographers and guest Tom Evert, it will take place November 13-15. The women's studies department becomes more interdisciplinary. The college brings awareness to fire safety. The registrar will be implementing a new registration process, again. The Frick Art Museum is currently exhibiting artwork by Nancy Friese. One author includes a quiz titled "Are You Fit to Be a Presidential Candidate?" as a way of critiquing the political …

Challenge To The First Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals

The Search For Voice: Ideology And Perspective In The Black Community, Phillip L. Clay

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

During the last seven years there has been a significant shift to the right in the ideological perspectives of American political institutions and behavior. Despite some inconsistencies, the direction is clear. The term "moderate" has acquired a conservative meaning, and liberals have been split into neo-liberal and neoconservative camps. At this moment American society is informally declaring that it is not committed to achieving the goal of equal outcomes long espoused by a mainly liberal national political and institutional system.

The shift to the right is working changes on traditional black ideological perspectives, both among blacks and between black and …

The Debate Over Bork Nomination Misses The Point, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley

New England Journal of Public Policy

In the public domain, ideas undergird the specific policy decisions that elected officials and administrators make in order to achieve the shared goals their communities and constituencies articulate. Ideas are the pistons that drive the engines of change. The study of change, moreover, is a study of our ambivalence toward it. On the one hand, we embrace it with some assumption of its inevitable desirability, equating it with progress, with our aspirations for social improvement, with our propensity for wanting society to be better off, though what "better off" means often remains unclear and inchoate. Public figures routinely offer us …

A Conversation Between A Judge And His Friend Concerning Whether The Judge Should Sentence A Defendant To Death, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Storm Center: The Supreme Court In American Politics, Nelson P. Miller

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics by David M. O'Brien

Judicial Conscience And Natural Rights: A Reply To Professor Jaffa, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.

The New Role Of Statutory Aggravating Circumstances In American Death Penalty Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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The Presidential Business Cycle In The U.S.: A Theoretical And Empirical Examination, Ranjit S. Dighe

Honors Papers

The idea of a politically-motivated business cycle is basically a conspiracy theory: "office-motivated" politicians, seeking to exploit the well-documented relationship between favorable economic news and votes for the incumbent president and his party, manipulate the timing of business cycles for their own electoral gain. This manipulation, theorists maintain, is effected through the use of any of several policy instruments including discretionary federal spending, government transfer payments, and the average tax rate, as well as pressure on the central bank to pursue a more accommodating monetary policy.

Theories of such a cycle seem to fall in and out of favor with …

Religion, Rights And Difference In The Early Woman's Rights Movement, Elizabeth B. Clark

Publications

The meeting of feminists at Seneca Falls in July of 1848 marked the nominal beginning of the movement which in the nineteenth century was labeled "woman's rights." For us that term has become commonly interchangeable with "suffrage," and we often assume that "woman's rights" describes a seventy-odd year campaign to gain civil and political power and protection from a government which -- although it had perpetrated outrages against women and blacks -- had an unquestioned legitimacy as the guarantor and enforcer of rights.

Insulating Incumbent Judges From The Vicissitudes Of The Political Arena: Retention Elections As A Viable Alternative, David J. Papier

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Note proposes legislation that would cure many deficiencies in the present system of judicial tenure in New York. First, the Note examines the present retention system for trial court judges in New York State in light of the strict standards of judicial ethics the CJC imposes on sitting judges. Part II analyzes several problems in the current reelection process, focusing on the complex predicament a judicial incumbent faces as a result of having to return to the political arena. Part III then explores three possible alternatives to the present reelection system.' Finally, the Note recommends that the New York …

Beyond Justiciability: Political Gerrymandering After Davis V. Bandemer, Michael A. Hess

Campbell Law Review

This article examines the decision in Davis v. Bandemer, as well as the political circumstances that resulted in unusual legal alliances during the appeal. The article also attempts to dispel at least some of the confusion surrounding the decision.

Law And The Experience Of Politics In Late Eighteenth-Century North Carolina: North Carolina Considers The Constitution, Walter F. Pratt

Journal Articles

In 1788, delegates assembled in North Carolina to decide whether to ratify the Constitution. A debate erupted between Federalists and Anti-federalists regarding each Article of the then-drafted Constitution. This Article analyzes the debate, and proposes that the key difference was the function of the role of the law.

The Questions Rehnquist Hasn't Had To Answer, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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