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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Idea Of The Common Law In West Virginia Jurisprudential History: Morningstar V. Black & Decker Revisited, James Audley Mclaughlin
The Idea Of The Common Law In West Virginia Jurisprudential History: Morningstar V. Black & Decker Revisited, James Audley Mclaughlin
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Remarkable Career Of Joe Grano, Robert A. Sedler
The Remarkable Career Of Joe Grano, Robert A. Sedler
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Assessing The New Judicial Minimalism, Christopher J. Peters
Assessing The New Judicial Minimalism, Christopher J. Peters
All Faculty Scholarship
In this article, which has been published in slightly revised form at 100 Colum. L. Rev. 1454 (2000), I critique some recently prominent arguments for "judicial minimalism" in constitutional decisionmaking. Current minimalist arguments, I contend, are primarily "policentric," that is, focused on the role the judiciary can play in bolstering the accountability and deliberativeness of the political branches. Drawing in part on a previous article, I offer an alternative approach to minimalism that is "juricentric" - focused on the inherent democratic legitimacy of the adjudicative process and the unique competence of that process to produce decisions about individual rights. I …
Race And The Australian Constitution: From Federation To Reconciliation, George Williams
Race And The Australian Constitution: From Federation To Reconciliation, George Williams
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
The framing of the Australian Constitution initiated a pattern of discrimination against Australia's Indigenous peoples. They were cast as outsiders to the nation brought about in 1901. This pattern was broken in 1967 by the deletion of the discriminatory provisions from the Constitution. Today, there is strong community support in Australia for the reconciliation process, which would involve recognition of Indigenous peoples as an integral and unique component of the Australian nation. However, this has yet to be translated into substantive legal outcomes. The author analyses the interaction of issues of race and the Australian Constitution as it has affected …
The Jurisprudence Of Tradition And Justice Scalia's Unwritten Constitution, J. Richard Broughton
The Jurisprudence Of Tradition And Justice Scalia's Unwritten Constitution, J. Richard Broughton
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Suing States For Money: Constitutional Remedies After Alden And Florida Prepaid, Michael Wells
Suing States For Money: Constitutional Remedies After Alden And Florida Prepaid, Michael Wells
Scholarly Works
On June 23, 1999, the Supreme Court handed down three noteworthy decisions bearing on the law of constitutional remedies. Alden v. Maine struck down an attempt by Congress, acting under its Article I powers, to subject states to suits in state court on federal statutory grounds. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank curbed Congress' power under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to authorize suits against state governments on constitutional grounds, reasoning that a case cannot be made for the federal cause of action unless state law remedies are inadequate. A companion case, College Savings Bank …
The Case For Including Marks V. United States In The Canon Of Constitutional Law, Maxwell L. Stearns
The Case For Including Marks V. United States In The Canon Of Constitutional Law, Maxwell L. Stearns
Faculty Scholarship
In this essay, I would like to suggest adding a single case, with appropriate commentary, to the canon of constitutional law, as presented in introductory casebooks. Specifically, I suggest including Marks v. United States, as a principal case, or in the form of a detailed summary, immediately before or after the first major plurality decision. I should note that the case is rather short – nine pages in the U.S. Reports – and that it nominally involves obscenity doctrine. I would suggest, counterintuitively perhaps, that the case is more fruitfully presented toward the beginning of an introductory course in constitutional …
State Taxation Of Interstate Commuters: Constitutional Doctrine In Search Of Empirical Analysis, David Schultz
State Taxation Of Interstate Commuters: Constitutional Doctrine In Search Of Empirical Analysis, David Schultz
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Government Of The Good, Abner S. Greene
Government Of The Good, Abner S. Greene
Vanderbilt Law Review
Government "speaks" both directly through its own pronouncements and indirectly through funding private speech. Many scholars of both political theory and constitutional law have argued that government should not use its persuasive powers to promote contested notions of the good life. Whether the issue is providing information about childbirth without also providing information about abortion or insisting on adherence to decency standards when awarding cultural grants, scholars generally have maintained that government should avoid taking sides.
In this Article, Professor Greene supports the contrary position, advocating a vigorous role for government speech even in areas of great social contest. Government …
Vehicle Searches – The Automobile Exception: The Constitutional Ride From Carroll V. United States To Wyoming V. Houghton, Martin L. O'Connor
Vehicle Searches – The Automobile Exception: The Constitutional Ride From Carroll V. United States To Wyoming V. Houghton, Martin L. O'Connor
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
First Amendment Cases In The 1998-99 Term: The Calm Before The Storm, Joel M. Gora
First Amendment Cases In The 1998-99 Term: The Calm Before The Storm, Joel M. Gora
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Decide The Law, Clearly - A Reply To Judge Bettman, Ben Glassman
Decide The Law, Clearly - A Reply To Judge Bettman, Ben Glassman
Cleveland State Law Review
The Honorable Marianna Brown Bettman’s dilemma is roughly this: if a clause of a state constitution is worded similarly to a clause in the federal Constitution, how can a state court develop constitutional law? But in important respects, Judge Bettman's question reflects a misunderstanding of the law. This misunderstanding prevents her from identifying what is really at stake in cases like the one she describes. Judge Bettman seems to have misread Michigan v. Long. The Long Court laid out a clear test for determining the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction over state cases where the grounds-federal or state-of the state court's …
Prosecution Of Christian Scientists: A Needed Protection For Children Or Insult Added To Injury, Daniel Vaillant
Prosecution Of Christian Scientists: A Needed Protection For Children Or Insult Added To Injury, Daniel Vaillant
Cleveland State Law Review
A young child is dead. The death occurred because the parents refused to take their child to a doctor. Now, ordinarily, this refusal to obtain medical attention for a dying child would result in immediate indictments against the parents for involuntary manslaughter. But what if the parents are Christian Scientists? This question of whether Scientists should be treated differently because of their faith is a very controversial one in America today. If we allow the Scientists to practice their religion without government interference, children who could be medically treated and possibly saved may die. If, on the other hand, we …
Eleventh Amendment Schizophrenia, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Eleventh Amendment Schizophrenia, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article argues that conflicting analytical strains run through the Supreme Court's recent majority opinions in the area of state sovereign immunity. The "supremacy" strain stresses that, despite the Eleventh Amendment, the states remain obligated to comply with federal law, and that the Constitution envisions the "necessary judicial means" to enforce these obligations against the state. These means include suits by the federal government, private suits for injunctive relief, and suits seeking damages from state officials in their individual capacities. Thus, according to the supremacy strain, state sovereign immunity is unimportant because it merely bars unnecessary means of enforcing the …
The President And Choices Not To Enforce, Peter L. Strauss
The President And Choices Not To Enforce, Peter L. Strauss
Faculty Scholarship
The executive branch is often called upon to assess how a particular statute it is charged to administer fits within the larger framework of the law. Professor Dawn Johnsen's thoughtful analysis addresses an important subset of these challenges: situations in which the President believes a particular statute is inconsistent with one or another provision of the Constitution and, therefore, should not be enforced. My purpose here is to explore the context of executive non-enforcement more broadly, in a way that may help in understanding the particular problem she addresses.
Issues of constitutional structure and function are among the most daunting …
The Canon(S) Of Constitutional Law: An Introduction, Mark V. Tushnet
The Canon(S) Of Constitutional Law: An Introduction, Mark V. Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Any discipline has a canon, a set of themes that organize the way in which people think about the discipline. Or, perhaps, any discipline has a number of competing canons. Is there a canon of constitutional law? A group of casebook authors met in December 1999 to discuss the choices they had made - what they had decided to include, what to exclude, what they regretted excluding (or including), what principles they used in developing their casebooks. Most of the authors were affiliated with law schools, but some had developed coursebooks for use in undergraduate political science and constitutional history …
Due Process And Fundamental Rights, Martin A. Schwartz
Due Process And Fundamental Rights, Martin A. Schwartz
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Disentangling Deregulatory Takings, Jim Rossi, Susan Rose-Ackerman
Disentangling Deregulatory Takings, Jim Rossi, Susan Rose-Ackerman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Constitutional takings protections, such as those in the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, create a potential for state liability for changes in regulatory policy by governments. This Article critiques takings jurisprudence in the context of two infrastructure investment issues: the stranded cost problem facing United States utility industries, which has given rise to claims of compensation for deregulatory takings; and the development of standards to protect direct foreign investment in developing countries. In both contexts, traditional legal doctrines do not adequately provide for the type of remedy sought so courts are in need of standards to assist them …
The Arbitrary Path Of Due Process, Harry F. Tepker Jr.
The Arbitrary Path Of Due Process, Harry F. Tepker Jr.
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Oklahoma Constitutional Law: Highway Robbery: In Re Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority: The Eulogy For Oklahoma Constitutional Debt Limitations, Brian Edward Wheeler
Oklahoma Constitutional Law: Highway Robbery: In Re Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority: The Eulogy For Oklahoma Constitutional Debt Limitations, Brian Edward Wheeler
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Census 2000: Why The Majority In Department Of Commerce V. United States House Of Representatives Was Correct In Rejecting Statistical Sampling, Angela D. Kelley
Census 2000: Why The Majority In Department Of Commerce V. United States House Of Representatives Was Correct In Rejecting Statistical Sampling, Angela D. Kelley
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Law: Hutchins V. District Of Columbia: The Constitutional Dilemma Over Juvenile Curfews, William L. Foreman
Constitutional Law: Hutchins V. District Of Columbia: The Constitutional Dilemma Over Juvenile Curfews, William L. Foreman
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Law's Expression: The Promise And Perils Of Judicial Opinion Writing In Canadian Constitutional Law, Paul Horwitz
Law's Expression: The Promise And Perils Of Judicial Opinion Writing In Canadian Constitutional Law, Paul Horwitz
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article argues that there is a link between one's theory of constitutional law, and one's judgments about style in judicial opinion writing. It identifies several special functions of the constitutional opinion, including the democratic function of responding to the counter-majoritarian difficulty through an act of public justification, and the inter-generational function of provoking a temporally extended dialogue about constitutional values. Drawing on these functions, it argues for an opinion writing style dubbed "open-textured minimalism," that seeks to resolve cases narrowly, articulate fundamental values and principles, and spark long-term debates about the underlying constitutional values supporting each decision. The author …
The Constitutional Legacy Of Chief Justice Brian Dickson, Robert J. Sharpe
The Constitutional Legacy Of Chief Justice Brian Dickson, Robert J. Sharpe
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Chief Justice Brian Dickson played a central role in the elaboration of the fundamental values of the Canadian Constitution. He took a balanced approach to federalism, favouring neither federal nor provincial claims and inviting cooperation through overlapping jurisdiction. Dickson transformed the rule of law from a background value to an operative constitutional principle. His judgments on the rights of minorities reflect a remarkable empathy for the plight of the disadvantaged. Democracy informed all aspects of his constitutional thinking. Dickson rejected the contention that judicial review is anti-democratic, and his constitutional legacy reflects a sustained effort to harmonize all four fundament …
Constitutional Design: An Oxymoron?, Donald L. Horowitz
Constitutional Design: An Oxymoron?, Donald L. Horowitz
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Formalism And Realism In Commerce Clause Jurisprudence, Barry Cushman
Formalism And Realism In Commerce Clause Jurisprudence, Barry Cushman
Journal Articles
This Article attempts a reconceptualization of developments in Commerce Clause jurisprudence between the Civil War and World War II by identifying ways in which that jurisprudence was structurally related to and accordingly deeply influenced by the categories of substantive due process and dormant Commerce Clause doctrine. Antecedent dormant Commerce Clause jurisprudence set the terms within which Commerce Clause doctrine was worked out; coordinate developments in substantive due process doctrine set limits upon the scope of Commerce Clause formulations and thus played a critical and underappreciated role in maintaining the federal equilibrium. The subsequent erosion of those due process limitations vastly …
Equal Protection’S Antinomies And The Promise Of A Co-Constitutive Approach, Julie Nice
Equal Protection’S Antinomies And The Promise Of A Co-Constitutive Approach, Julie Nice
Julie A. Nice
This article explores how a central insight of Law and Society scholarship – that law and society are mutually constitutive – explains and informs Equal Protection jurisprudence. Professor Nice describes the state of equal protection discourse as caught in perpetual antinomic debates, with courts typically endorsing the more conservative alternative within such debates, including: (1) adopting assimilation (not anti-subordination) as the goal; (2) treating subordinated persons the same as (not different than) dominant persons; (3) looking backward toward remediation (not forward toward substantive equality); (4) requiring blindness (not consciousness) of the relevant trait; (5) focusing on the classifying trait (not …
When A King Speaks Of God; When God Speaks To A King: Faith, Politics, Tax Exempt Status, And The Constitution In The Clinton Administration, Randy Lee
Randy Lee
D.C. Circuit Revives Nondelegation Doctrine…Or Does It?, Michael R. Dimino
D.C. Circuit Revives Nondelegation Doctrine…Or Does It?, Michael R. Dimino
Michael R Dimino
Urinating On The Pennsylvania Constitution? Drug Testing Of High School Athletes And Article I, Section 8 Of The Pennsylvania Constitution, Amanda Smith
Amanda Sholtis