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“Militant Judgement?: Judicial Ontology, Constitutional Poetics, And ‘The Long War’”, Penelope J. Pether Jun 2008

“Militant Judgement?: Judicial Ontology, Constitutional Poetics, And ‘The Long War’”, Penelope J. Pether

Working Paper Series

This Article, a contribution to the Cardozo Law Review symposium in honor of Alain Badiou’s Being and Event, uses Badiou’s theorizing of the event and of the militant in Being and Event as a basis for an exploration of problems of judicial ontology and constitutional hermeneutics raised in recent decisions by common law courts dealing with the legislative and executive confinement of “Islamic” asylum seekers, “enemy combatants” and “terrorism suspects,” and certain classes of criminal offenders in spaces beyond the doctrines, paradigms and institutions of the criminal law. The Article proposes an ontology and a poetics of judging equal to …


Criminal Aliens Get Pinched: Sandoval V. Reno, Aedpa's And Iirira's Effect On Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction, Matthew J. Droskoski Jan 2000

Criminal Aliens Get Pinched: Sandoval V. Reno, Aedpa's And Iirira's Effect On Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction, Matthew J. Droskoski

Villanova Law Review

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The Covenant On Civil And Political Rights As The Law Of The Land, Alice A. Noble Jan 1979

The Covenant On Civil And Political Rights As The Law Of The Land, Alice A. Noble

Villanova Law Review

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Judgments Rendered Abroad - State Law Or Federal Law, Albert A. Lindner Jan 1967

Judgments Rendered Abroad - State Law Or Federal Law, Albert A. Lindner

Villanova Law Review

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Recent Decisions, Various Editors Jan 1958

Recent Decisions, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.