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Democratic Federalism And The Supreme Court, Keynote Address At The 2023 Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference, Carolyn Shapiro
Democratic Federalism And The Supreme Court, Keynote Address At The 2023 Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference, Carolyn Shapiro
University of Colorado Law Review
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Qualified Sovereignty, Kate Sablosky Elengold, Jonathan D. Glater
Qualified Sovereignty, Kate Sablosky Elengold, Jonathan D. Glater
Washington Law Review
Sometimes acts of the federal government cause harm; sometimes acts of contractors hired by the federal government cause harm. In cases involving the latter, federal contractors often invoke the sovereign’s constitutionally granted and doctrinally expanded supremacy to restrict avenues for the injured to recover even from private actors. In prior work, we analyzed how federal contractors exploit three “sovereign shield” defenses—preemption, derivative sovereign immunity, and derivative intergovernmental immunity—to evade liability, accountability, and oversight.
This Article considers whether, when, and how private federal contractors should be held accountable in a court of law. We argue that a contractor should be required …
Hearing The States, Anthony Johnstone
Hearing The States, Anthony Johnstone
Pepperdine Law Review
The 2016 Presidential and Senate elections raise the possibility that a conservative, life-tenured Supreme Court will preside for years over a politically dynamic majority. This threatens to weaken the public’s already fragile confidence in the Court. By lowering the political stakes of both national elections and its own decisions, federalism may enable the Court to defuse some of the most explosive controversies it hears. Federalism offers a second-best solution, even if neither conservatives nor liberals can impose a national political agenda. However, principled federalism arguments are tricky. They are structural, more prudential than legal or empirical. Regardless of ideology, a …
Formalism And Judicial Supremacy In Federal Indian Law, Alex Tallchief Skibine
Formalism And Judicial Supremacy In Federal Indian Law, Alex Tallchief Skibine
American Indian Law Review
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Giving Up The "I": How The National Museum Of The American Indian Appropriated Tribal Voices, Whitney Kerr
Giving Up The "I": How The National Museum Of The American Indian Appropriated Tribal Voices, Whitney Kerr
American Indian Law Review
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