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Privacy And The Press: The Impact Of Incorporating The European Convention On Human Rights In The United Kingdom, Les P. Carnegie
Privacy And The Press: The Impact Of Incorporating The European Convention On Human Rights In The United Kingdom, Les P. Carnegie
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
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The Status Of Customary International Law In U.S. Courts—Before And After ‘Erie’, Curtis A. Bradley
The Status Of Customary International Law In U.S. Courts—Before And After ‘Erie’, Curtis A. Bradley
Faculty Scholarship
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Rights Against Rules: The Moral Structure Of American Constitutional Law, Matthew D. Adler
Rights Against Rules: The Moral Structure Of American Constitutional Law, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship
Constitutional rights are conventionally thought to be "personal" rights. The successful constitutional litigant is thought to have a valid claim that some constitutional wrong has or would be been done "to her"; the case of "overbreadth," where a litigant prevails even though her own conduct is permissibly regulated, is thought to be unique to the First Amendment. This "personal" or "as-applied" view of constitutional adjudication has been consistently and pervasively endorsed by the Supreme Court, and is standardly adopted by legal scholars.
In this Article, I argue that the conventional view is incorrect. Constitutional rights, I claim, are rights against …