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Should Public Buildings Be Used For Worship, Stephen Wermiel
Should Public Buildings Be Used For Worship, Stephen Wermiel
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Turkey: At The Crossroads Of Secular West And Traditional East, Padideh Ala'i
Turkey: At The Crossroads Of Secular West And Traditional East, Padideh Ala'i
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On January 9, 2008 Washington College of Law at American University sponsored a conference entitled: Turkey: At the Crossroads of Secular West and Traditional East. This conference was percipitated by the recent election of the AKP party in Turkey and my trip to Turkey in summer 2007. In this short introduction to the American University International law Review symposium issue, I summarize the major issues raised in that one day conference specifically by Dean Haluk Kabaalioglu of Yeditepe University Facutly of Law, expert on EU law and Turkish-EU relations,and Professor Feroz Ahmad, the learned historian of modern Turkey. The aim …
Reconsidering Gobitis: An Exercise In Presidential Leadership, Robert Tsai
Reconsidering Gobitis: An Exercise In Presidential Leadership, Robert Tsai
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In June of 1940, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Minersville School District v. Gobitis that the First Amendment posed no barrier to the punishment of two school age Jehovah's Witnesses who refused to pay homage to the American flag. Three years later, the Justices reversed themselves in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. This sudden change has prompted a host of explanations. Some observers have stressed changes in judicial personnel in the intervening years; others have pointed to the wax and wane of general anxieties over the war; still others have emphasized the sympathy-inspiring acts of …
Religious Liberty And The Law, Stephen Wermiel
Religious Liberty And The Law, Stephen Wermiel
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