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New Zealand's Forgotten Promises: The Treaty Of Waitangi, Jennifer S. Mcginty Nov 1992

New Zealand's Forgotten Promises: The Treaty Of Waitangi, Jennifer S. Mcginty

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Note presents the problems the Maori, New Zealand's indigenous people, have encountered in seeking enforcement of the Treaty of Waitangi that they signed with Great Britain in 1840. It argues that the Treaty of Waitangi is a valid legal document that should be fully integrated into New Zealand domestic law and afforded protection under international law. The author argues that the Maori met the international law requirements of statehood in 1840 and, therefore, were capable of entering into a treaty with Great Britain. Even if there was no Maori state capable of entering into a treaty, there is analogous …


Polarized Voting And The Political Process: The Transformation Of Voting Rights Jurisprudence, Samuel Issacharoff Jun 1992

Polarized Voting And The Political Process: The Transformation Of Voting Rights Jurisprudence, Samuel Issacharoff

Michigan Law Review

This article attempts to provide an analytic framework for the evolved voting rights law as it confronts the persistent effects of racial factionalism in the electoral arena. Insight into the corrosiveness of racially polarized voting and its frustration of minority electoral opportunity has organized and guided the new voting rights jurisprudence. This article will argue that the combination of process distortions from majority domination of electoral outcomes and substantive deprivation from minority exclusion defines this area of law and protects it against challenge from currently fashionable academic currents. The central insights gathered from the focus on polarized voting, I will …


Remedies For Environmental Racism: A View From The Field, Luke W. Cole Jun 1992

Remedies For Environmental Racism: A View From The Field, Luke W. Cole

Michigan Law Review

The Michigan Law Review's recent Note, Remedying Environmental Racism, is an important and timely analysis of a civil rights law-based approach to environmental justice work - one of the first to emerge from legal academia. It correctly points out the high hurdles that toxic racism's victims must overcome to successfully pursue such a strategy. Godsil's piece will hopefully spur more academic and on-the-ground work in this nascent legal field, which I call "environmental poverty law" - that is, representing low-income communities (often, in this field, communities of color) facing environmental hazards. As a practitioner of environmental poverty law …


Illiberal Education: The Politics Of Race And Sex On Campus, Bruce Goldner May 1992

Illiberal Education: The Politics Of Race And Sex On Campus, Bruce Goldner

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza


Whose World And How?, Milner S. Ball May 1992

Whose World And How?, Milner S. Ball

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Rethinking the American Race Problem by Roy L. Brooks


Murdering The Spirit: Racism, Rights, And Commerce, Robin West May 1992

Murdering The Spirit: Racism, Rights, And Commerce, Robin West

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Alchemy of Race and Rights: The Diary of a Law Professor by Patricia L. Williams


Response To Racism: The Racial Justice Campaign Of The Women's International League For Peace And Freedom, Melinda Plastas Apr 1992

Response To Racism: The Racial Justice Campaign Of The Women's International League For Peace And Freedom, Melinda Plastas

Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Victimization, The Poor, And Payne V. Tennessee, Richard Bender Abell Mar 1992

Victimization, The Poor, And Payne V. Tennessee, Richard Bender Abell

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Introduction To The Report And Recommendations Of The Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnic Bias Study Commission, Leander J. Shaw, Jr. Jan 1992

Introduction To The Report And Recommendations Of The Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnic Bias Study Commission, Leander J. Shaw, Jr.

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Supreme Court And The First Amendment: The 1991-1992 Term, Elliot M. Mincberg Jan 1992

The Supreme Court And The First Amendment: The 1991-1992 Term, Elliot M. Mincberg

NYLS Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.


Addendum To The Report And Recommendations Of The Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnic Bias Study Commission, Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnnic Bias Study Commission Jan 1992

Addendum To The Report And Recommendations Of The Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnic Bias Study Commission, Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnnic Bias Study Commission

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Report And Recommendations Of The Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnic Bias Commission, Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnnic Bias Study Commission Jan 1992

Report And Recommendations Of The Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnic Bias Commission, Florida Supreme Court Racial And Ethnnic Bias Study Commission

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Counseling A Victim Of Racial Discrimination In A Fair Housing Case, 26 J. Marshall L. Rev. 53 (1992), Michael P. Seng, Jay Einhorn, Merilyn D. Brown Jan 1992

Counseling A Victim Of Racial Discrimination In A Fair Housing Case, 26 J. Marshall L. Rev. 53 (1992), Michael P. Seng, Jay Einhorn, Merilyn D. Brown

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Civil Rights In The Islamic Constitutional Tradition: Shared Ideals And Divergent Regimes, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 267 (1992), Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na' Im Jan 1992

Civil Rights In The Islamic Constitutional Tradition: Shared Ideals And Divergent Regimes, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 267 (1992), Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na' Im

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.