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The “New Body Snatchers”: Analyzing The Effect Of Presumed Consent Organ Donation Laws On Privacy, Autonomy, And Liberty, Maryellen Liddy
The “New Body Snatchers”: Analyzing The Effect Of Presumed Consent Organ Donation Laws On Privacy, Autonomy, And Liberty, Maryellen Liddy
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Note examines, in three parts, presumed consent laws as they pertain to organ donation. Part I discusses presumed consent and explains the salient features of presumed consent laws. It then discusses case law that addresses the aftermath of unauthorized organ or tissue harvesting. Part II evaluates the United States Supreme Court's evolving conceptions of the rights of individual and family-based privacy, autonomy, and liberty, for subsequent application to the presumed consent organ donation controversy. Part III analyzes presumed consent laws in light of the donors and their families' privacy, autonomy, and liberty interests. The Note concludes that current presumed …
Explaining Away The Obvious: The Infeasibility Of Characterizing The Second Amendment As A Nonindividual Right, George A. Mocsary
Explaining Away The Obvious: The Infeasibility Of Characterizing The Second Amendment As A Nonindividual Right, George A. Mocsary
Fordham Law Review
Although the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms for more than 200 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has never formally declared to whom the right belongs. Each side of the gun debate--one holding that the Amendment guarantees a right to individuals, the other that states possess the right--supports its position with ostensibly solid precedential, historical, and textual arguments. This Note approaches the issue from the opposite direction, asking how many precedential, historical, and textual obstacles each side must explain away and examining the relative strength of those explanations. Under this analysis, …
A Textual And Historical Case Against A Global Constitution, Andrew Kent
A Textual And Historical Case Against A Global Constitution, Andrew Kent
Faculty Scholarship
he emerging conventional wisdom in the legal academy is that individual rights under the U.S. Constitution should be extended to noncitizens outside the United States. This claim - called globalism in my article - has been advanced with increasing vigor in recent years, most notably in response to legal positions taken by the Bush administration during the war on terror. Against a Global Constitution challenges the textual and historical grounds advanced to support the globalist conventional wisdom and demonstrates that they have remarkably little support. At the same time, the article adduces textual and historical evidence that noncitizens were among …
Rights As A Functional Guide For Service Provision In Homeless Advocacy Creating Healthy Communities: Ending Homelessness, Nestor M. Davidson
Rights As A Functional Guide For Service Provision In Homeless Advocacy Creating Healthy Communities: Ending Homelessness, Nestor M. Davidson
Faculty Scholarship
Rights-based approaches to advocacy on behalf of homeless persons have long sought to vindicate important dignitary, liberty, and equality interests, as well as establish to entitlements to housing, mental health, substance abuse, and other services. This advocacy has had some success in shaping the systems that define the interaction between homeless persons and the state. Rights paradigms, however, can be undermined by the day-to-day reality of the lives of homeless individuals and families that are often shaped by profound need less for protection from the state than for meaningful support, and entitlement advocacy remains circumscribed by the reality of severely …
The Constitutional Convention Of 1937: The Original Meaning Of The New Jurisprudential Deal, Kurt T. Lash
The Constitutional Convention Of 1937: The Original Meaning Of The New Jurisprudential Deal, Kurt T. Lash
Fordham Law Review
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A New Wave Of Sixth Amendment Waivers: The Use Of Judicial Officers As Advisers, Mark A. Constantino, Vito A. Cannavo, Ann Goldstein
A New Wave Of Sixth Amendment Waivers: The Use Of Judicial Officers As Advisers, Mark A. Constantino, Vito A. Cannavo, Ann Goldstein
Fordham Law Review
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Effective Law Enforcement And Constitutional Liberty: An Analysis Of The New York Law On Confessions
Effective Law Enforcement And Constitutional Liberty: An Analysis Of The New York Law On Confessions
Fordham Law Review
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