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The Constitution Should Protect Everyone - Even Lawyers, Arthur Gilbert, William Gorenfeld Jan 2013

The Constitution Should Protect Everyone - Even Lawyers, Arthur Gilbert, William Gorenfeld

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Benign Sex Discrimination Revisited: Constitutional And Moral Issues In Banning Sex-Selection Abortion , George Schedler Jan 2013

Benign Sex Discrimination Revisited: Constitutional And Moral Issues In Banning Sex-Selection Abortion , George Schedler

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Mandatory Pro Bono: The Path To Equal Justice, John R. Desteiguer Jan 2013

Mandatory Pro Bono: The Path To Equal Justice, John R. Desteiguer

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Levinson Is To Mr. Justice "Isaiah" As St. Paul Was To The Prophet Isaiah, Richard H. Weisberg Jan 2012

Levinson Is To Mr. Justice "Isaiah" As St. Paul Was To The Prophet Isaiah, Richard H. Weisberg

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The Variable Morality Of Constitutional (And Other) Compromises: A Comment On Sanford Levinson's Compromise And Constitutionalism, Carrie Menkel-Meadow Jan 2012

The Variable Morality Of Constitutional (And Other) Compromises: A Comment On Sanford Levinson's Compromise And Constitutionalism, Carrie Menkel-Meadow

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This comment to Sanford Levinson's Brandeis lecture at Pepperdine focuses on the role and types of compromises made during several stages of constitutional processes, formative and constitutive, interpretive and on-going, as negotiated by Constitutional meaning makers (drafters and Supreme Court 'deciders'), and post hoc justifications. This essay discusses recent work on compromise as institutional design, pragmatic or principled, and regime defining and sustaining. Both the pejorative (compromise is unprincipled) and more positive (compromise accounts for the 'reality' and moral existence of different sides of an issue or polity) understandings of compromise are reviewed, in light of Professor Levinson's scholarship on …


Lessons From Lincoln: A Comment On Levinson, Steven D. Smith Jan 2012

Lessons From Lincoln: A Comment On Levinson, Steven D. Smith

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Compromise And Constitutionalism, Sanford Levinson Jan 2012

Compromise And Constitutionalism, Sanford Levinson

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Professor Levinson explores compromises (1) that went into the making of the United States Constitution, and (2) that have occurred in the Supreme Court's constitutional interpretation. He explores these compromises in light of Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit's distinction between bad compromises and rotten compromises. "Rotten compromises" are indefensible except, perhaps, in the most exceptional of conditions. A "rotten political compromise" is one that agrees "to establish or maintain an inhuman regime, a regime of cruelty and humiliation, that is, a regime that does not treat humans as humans." Under this standard, Levinson identifies as rotten compromises the Constitution's protection of …


Introduction: Blessed Are The Compromisers?, Robert F. Cochran Jr. Jan 2012

Introduction: Blessed Are The Compromisers?, Robert F. Cochran Jr.

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