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17th Annual Open Government Summit: Access To Public Records Act & Open Meetings Act, 2015, Department Of Attorney General, State Of Rhode Island

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

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Open Face: Striking The Balance Between Privacy And Security With The Fbi's Next Generation Identification System, Christopher Delillo

Journal of Legislation

Privacy in the United States has never been an explicit general right for every citizen.I Federal grants of privacy protection exist for specific instances or areas, but generally have been left to the province of the States.2 Some states, but not all, have general privacy laws granting citizens privacy rights beyond the scope of con- tent-specific legislation.3 Thus, the privacy law regime in the United States is best characterized as a patchwork: rights or protections exist in numerous areas without much to connect those areas together as an interlocking protective framework for national citizenry.

The Right To No: The Crime Of Marital Rape, Women's Human Rights, And International Law, Melanie Randall, Vasanthi Venkatesh

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

More than half of the world’s countries do not explicitly criminalize sexual assault in marriage. While sexual assault in general is criminalized in these countries, sexual assault perpetrated by a spouse is entirely legal. The human rights violations inhere in acts of violence against women are now well recognized. Yet somehow marital rape is a particular form of gendered violence that has escaped both criminal law sanctions and human rights approbation in a great number of the world’s nations.

This silence in the law creates legal impunity for men who sexually assault or rape the women who are their wives …

The Conforming Effect: First Amendment Implications Of Surveillance, Beyond Chilling Speech, Margot E. Kaminski, Shane Witnov

University of Richmond Law Review

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