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The President And Individual Rights, Mark Tushnet
The President And Individual Rights, Mark Tushnet
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Section 1983 & Qualified Immunity: Qualifying The Death Of Due Process And America's Most Vulnerable Classes Since 1871. Can It Be Fixed?, Gabrielle Pelura
Section 1983 & Qualified Immunity: Qualifying The Death Of Due Process And America's Most Vulnerable Classes Since 1871. Can It Be Fixed?, Gabrielle Pelura
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
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The First Amendment And The Roots Of Lgbt Rights Law: Censorship In The Early Homophile Era, 1958-1962, Jason M. Shepard
The First Amendment And The Roots Of Lgbt Rights Law: Censorship In The Early Homophile Era, 1958-1962, Jason M. Shepard
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Long before substantive due process and equal protection extended constitutional rights to homosexuals under the Fourteenth Amendment, in three landmark decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States, First Amendment law was both a weapon and shield in the expansion of LGBT rights. This Article examines constitutional law and “gaylaw” from the perspective of its beginning, through case studies of One, Inc. v. Olesen (1958), Sunshine Book Co. v. Summerfield (1958), and Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day (1962). In protecting free press rights of sexual minorities to use the U.S. mail for mass communications, the Warren Court’s liberalization of …
The Epistemic Function Of Fusing Equal Protection And Due Process, Deborah Hellman
The Epistemic Function Of Fusing Equal Protection And Due Process, Deborah Hellman
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
The fusion of equal protection and due process has attracted significant attention with scholars offering varied accounts of its purpose and function. Some see the combination as productive, creating a constitutional violation that neither clause would generate alone. Others see the combination as merely strategic, offered to make a claim acceptable at a particular historical moment but not genuinely necessary. This Article offers a third alternative. Judges have and should bring both equal protection and due process together to learn what each clause independently requires. On this Epistemic vision of constitutional fusion, a focus on equality helps judges learn what …
Four Responses To Constitutional Overlap, Michael Coenen
Four Responses To Constitutional Overlap, Michael Coenen
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Sometimes government action implicates more than one constitutional right. For example, a prohibition on religious expression might be said to violate both the Free Speech Clause and the Free Exercise Clause, a rule regarding same-sex marriage might be said to violate both equal protection and substantive due process, an exercise of the eminent domain power might be said to violate both procedural due process and the Takings Clause, a disproportionate criminal sentence based on judge-found facts might be said to violate both the defendant’s right to trial by jury and that defendant’s right against cruel and unusual punishment, and so …
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act At Age 10: Gina’S Controversial Assertion That Data Transparency Protects Privacy And Civil Rights, Barbara J. Evans
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act At Age 10: Gina’S Controversial Assertion That Data Transparency Protects Privacy And Civil Rights, Barbara J. Evans
William & Mary Law Review
The genomic testing industry is an edifice built on data transparency: transparent and often unconsented sharing of our genetic information with researchers to fuel scientific discovery, transparent sharing of our test results to help regulators infer whether the tests are safe and effective, and transparent sharing of our health information to help treat other patients on the premise that we gain reciprocity of advantage when each person’s health care is informed by the best available data about all of us. Transparency undeniably confers many social benefits but creates risks to the civil rights of the people whose genetic information is …
The Father Of Modern Constitutional Liberalism, John Lawrence Hill
The Father Of Modern Constitutional Liberalism, John Lawrence Hill
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The New Jim Crow’S Equal Protection Potential, Katherine Macfarlane
The New Jim Crow’S Equal Protection Potential, Katherine Macfarlane
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
In 1954, the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education opinion relied on social science research to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson’s separate but equal doctrine. Since Brown, social science research has been considered by the Court in cases involving equal protection challenges to grand jury selection, death penalty sentences, and affirmative action. In 2016, Justice Sotomayor cited an influential piece of social science research, Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, in her powerful Utah v. Strieff dissent. Sotomayor contended that the Court’s holding overlooked the unequal racial impact of suspicionless …
Good Faith Discrimination, Girardeau A. Spann
Good Faith Discrimination, Girardeau A. Spann
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
The Supreme Courts current doctrinal rules governing racial discrimination and affirmative action are unsatisfying. They often seem artificial, internally inconsistent, and even conceptually incoherent. Despite a long and continuing history of racial discrimination in the United States, many of the problems with the Supreme Courts racial jurisprudence stem from the Courts willingness to view the current distribution of societal resources as establishing a colorblind, race-neutral baseline that can be used to make equality determinations. As a result, the current rules are as likely to facilitate racial discrimination as to prevent it, or to remedy the lingering effects of past discrimination. …
The Derivative Nature Of Corporate Constitutional Rights, Margaret M. Blair, Elizabeth Pollman
The Derivative Nature Of Corporate Constitutional Rights, Margaret M. Blair, Elizabeth Pollman
William & Mary Law Review
This Article engages the two-hundred-year history of corporate constitutional rights jurisprudence to show that the Supreme Court has long accorded rights to corporations based on the rationale that corporations represent associations of people from whom such rights are derived. The Article draws on the history of business corporations in America to argue that the Court’s characterization of corporations as associations made sense throughout most of the nineteenth century. By the late nineteenth century, however, when the Court was deciding several key cases involving corporate rights, this associational view was already becoming a poor fit for some corporations. The Court’s failure …
The Quiet Army: Felon Firearm Rights Restoration In The Fourth Circuit, Robert Luther Iii
The Quiet Army: Felon Firearm Rights Restoration In The Fourth Circuit, Robert Luther Iii
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Most states afford felons the opportunity to have their political disabilities removed or “rights restored” after they are released from incarceration. In every state within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, save Virginia, a felon’s rights are partially restored automatically upon the completion of his sentence, parole, and probation. Absent a pardon, Virginia requires the felon to petition the Governor in writing through the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth in order to obtain a partial restoration of rights. One such right that may or may not be restored upon a state-convicted felon’s …
Presidential Constitutionalism And Civil Rights, Joseph Landau
Presidential Constitutionalism And Civil Rights, Joseph Landau
William & Mary Law Review
As the judicial and legislative branches have taken a more passive approach to civil rights enforcement, the President’s exercise of independent, extrajudicial constitutional judgment has become increasingly important. Modern U.S. presidents have advanced constitutional interpretations on matters of race, gender, HIV-status, self-incrimination, reproductive liberty, and gun rights, and President Obama has been especially active in promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons—most famously by refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Commentators have criticized the President’s refusal to defend DOMA from numerous perspectives but have not considered how the President’s DOMA policy fits within …
Of Fat People And Fundamental Rights: The Constitutionality Of The New York City Trans-Fat Ban, Katharine Kruk
Of Fat People And Fundamental Rights: The Constitutionality Of The New York City Trans-Fat Ban, Katharine Kruk
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Congress, Civil Liberties, And The War On Terrorism, Neal Devins
Congress, Civil Liberties, And The War On Terrorism, Neal Devins
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
In exercising his war-making powers, the President has historically pursued war-related initiatives that implicate civil liberties. Meanwhile, the Congress, with little incentive to resist these initiatives, has played a steadily declining role in warmaking. In this Essay, Professor Devins examines this dynamic, and argues that with Congress largely standing on the sidelines as the President leads the nation in war, it is the American public that has become the principal check on the powers of the President in wartime.
A Story For All Seasons: Akhil Reed Amar On The Bill Of Rights, Michael Kent Curtis
A Story For All Seasons: Akhil Reed Amar On The Bill Of Rights, Michael Kent Curtis
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Bill Of Rights: Creation And Reconstruction By Akhil Reed Amar
The Bill Of Rights: Creation And Reconstruction By Akhil Reed Amar
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Bill Of Rights, The Fourteenth Amendment, And The Seven Deadly Sins Of Legal Scholarship, Richard L. Aynes
The Bill Of Rights, The Fourteenth Amendment, And The Seven Deadly Sins Of Legal Scholarship, Richard L. Aynes
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Comments On Akhil Reed Amar's The Bill Of Rights: Creation And Reconstruction, Melvin I. Urofsky
Comments On Akhil Reed Amar's The Bill Of Rights: Creation And Reconstruction, Melvin I. Urofsky
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Constitutionality Of Redlining: The Potential For Holding Banks Liable As State Actors, Joan Kane
The Constitutionality Of Redlining: The Potential For Holding Banks Liable As State Actors, Joan Kane
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Survival Of Racism Under The Constitution, Juan Williams
The Survival Of Racism Under The Constitution, Juan Williams
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Where's The Politics?: Introduction To Williams, Eastland, Days, And Rabkin, Neal Devins
Where's The Politics?: Introduction To Williams, Eastland, Days, And Rabkin, Neal Devins
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Separation Of Powers And Federalism: Their Impact On Individual Liberty And The Functioning Of Our Government, Candace H. Beckett
Separation Of Powers And Federalism: Their Impact On Individual Liberty And The Functioning Of Our Government, Candace H. Beckett
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.