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The Headscarf As Threat: A Comparison Of German And U.S. Legal Discourses, Robert A. Kahn
The Headscarf As Threat: A Comparison Of German And U.S. Legal Discourses, Robert A. Kahn
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article compares how U.S. and German judges conceptualize the harm the headscarf poses to society. The examples are the 2003 Ludin case, in which the German Federal Constitutional Court held that the civil service, in the absence of state regulation, could not reject a woman from a civil service teaching position solely because she would not remove her headscarf while teaching, and State v. Freeman, in which a Florida court held that a woman could not pose for a driver's license photograph wearing a garment (the niqab) that covered all of her face except her eyes. While judges and …
Response Is Local, Relief Is Not: The Pervasive Impact Of Agro Terrorism, Asha M. George
Response Is Local, Relief Is Not: The Pervasive Impact Of Agro Terrorism, Asha M. George
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Agro terrorism is a threat facing the public today. National response systems are not yet able to perform efficiently and effectively to address this threat. Any locality can be targeted, and the immediate response will come from local entities, regardless of how adequately prepared they are to respond. Knowing that acts of agro terrorism are both expected and feasible today, we must alter our prevention, deterrence, preparedness, detection, response, attribution, recovery, and mitigation programs and base them on a better understanding of the threat. There are a number of things we can do in advance of agro terrorism, none of …