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Full-Text Articles in Law
Who Is A Minister? Originalist Deference Expands The Ministerial Exception, Jared C. Huber
Who Is A Minister? Originalist Deference Expands The Ministerial Exception, Jared C. Huber
Notre Dame Law Review
The ministerial exception is a doctrine born out of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment that shields many religious institutions’ employment decisions from review. While the ministerial exception does not extend to all employment decisions by, or employees of, religious institutions, it does confer broad—and absolute—protection. While less controversy surrounds whether the Constitution shields religious institutions’ employment decisions to at least some extent, much more debate surrounds the exception’s scope, and perhaps most critically, which employees fall under it. In other words, who is a "minister" for purposes of the ministerial exception?
Proportionalities, Youngjae Lee
Proportionalities, Youngjae Lee
Notre Dame Law Review Reflection
“Proportionality” is ubiquitous. The idea that punishment should be proportional to crime is familiar in criminal law and has a lengthy history. But that is not the only place where one encounters the concept of proportionality in law and ethics. The idea of proportionality is important also in the self-defense context, where the right to defend oneself with force is limited by the principle of proportionality. Proportionality plays a role in the context of war, especially in the idea that the military advantage one side may draw from an attack must not be excessive in relation to the loss of …
Qualified Immunity As Gun Control, Guha Krishnamurthi, Peter N. Salib
Qualified Immunity As Gun Control, Guha Krishnamurthi, Peter N. Salib
Notre Dame Law Review Reflection
The Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen threw the political project of gun regulation into question. Before Bruen, states could enact new kinds of gun restrictions if they passed a relatively stringent means-ends test. That is, if laws meaningfully reduced danger, while not too heavily burdening the right to self-defense, they were allowed. After Bruen, only gun controls actually in force in the Founding Era, and their close analogues, are permissible. Many fewer regulations will now pass the constitutional test.
Here, we suggest an unlikely source of continuing power, after Bruen, for states …
Congressional Power To Institute A Wealth Tax, Will Clark
Congressional Power To Institute A Wealth Tax, Will Clark
Notre Dame Law Review Reflection
Over the last few years, several high-profile politicians have pushed to impose a federal “wealth tax.” For example, a recent bill introduced in the Senate would create a two percent tax on the value of assets between fifty million and one billion dollars, plus a higher percentage on wealth valued over one billion dollars. The proponents of the tax argue that it would reduce the growing wealth inequality in the United States, while opponents say that it would disincentivize investment in the American economy.
Policy arguments, however, are only relevant if the federal government has the authority to institute such …
An Originalist Approach To Prospective Overruling, John O. Mcginnis, Michael Rappaport
An Originalist Approach To Prospective Overruling, John O. Mcginnis, Michael Rappaport
Notre Dame Law Review
Originalism has become a dominant jurisprudential theory on the Supreme Court. But a large number of precedents are inconsistent with the Constitution’s original meaning and overturning them risks creating enormous disruption to the legal order. This article defends a prospective overruling approach that would harmonize precedent with originalism’s rise and reduce the disruption from overrulings. Under prospective overruling, the Court declares that an existing statute violates the original meaning but will continue to be enforced because declaring it unconstitutional would produce enormous costs; however, future statutes of this type will be voided as unconstitutional. Under our approach, the Court would …
Dynamic Regulatory Constitutionalism: Taking Legislation Seriously In The Judicial Enforcement Of Economic And Social Rights, Richard Stacey
Dynamic Regulatory Constitutionalism: Taking Legislation Seriously In The Judicial Enforcement Of Economic And Social Rights, Richard Stacey
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
The international human rights revolution in the decades after the Second World War recognized economic and social rights alongside civil and political rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1949, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in 1966, regional treaties, and subject-specific treaties variously describe rights to food, shelter, health, and education, and set out state obligations for the treatment of children. When they first appeared, these international, economic, and social rights instruments raised questions about whether economic and social rights are justiciable in domestic legal contexts and whether they can be meaningfully enforced by courts …
Lafler V. Cooper's Remedy: A Weak Response To A Constitutional Violation, Matthew T. Ciulla
Lafler V. Cooper's Remedy: A Weak Response To A Constitutional Violation, Matthew T. Ciulla
Notre Dame Law Review Reflection
The Lafler v. Cooper Court should have chosen the remedy of specific performance of the original plea bargain. The specific performance remedy, long implemented by federal courts in Lafler-like scenarios, and ordered by the district court in Lafler, precisely cures the Lafler injury—the accused regains the ability to accept the original plea offer, except he now has the benefit of effective assistance of counsel. The specific performance remedy, when coupled with the safeguards of the Strickland prongs, poses little risk of abuse, and gives heft to the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the plea …
Natural Law And The Constitution Of The United States, Russell Kirk
Natural Law And The Constitution Of The United States, Russell Kirk
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Delaware & Hudson Revisited, John Copeland Nagle
Delaware & Hudson Revisited, John Copeland Nagle
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Authorship By The People, Frank I. Michelman
Constitutional Authorship By The People, Frank I. Michelman
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Discovery And The Role Of The Judge In Civil Law Jurisdictions, Geoffrey C. Hazard
Discovery And The Role Of The Judge In Civil Law Jurisdictions, Geoffrey C. Hazard
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Admiralty And The Eleventh Amendment, David J. Bederman
Admiralty And The Eleventh Amendment, David J. Bederman
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Faith And The Commerce Clause, Richard A. Epstein
Constitutional Faith And The Commerce Clause, Richard A. Epstein
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Trivial Rights, Philip A. Hamburger
Diverse Perspectives And The Religion Clauses: An Examination Of Justifications And Qualifying Beliefs, Kent Greenawalt
Diverse Perspectives And The Religion Clauses: An Examination Of Justifications And Qualifying Beliefs, Kent Greenawalt
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Kent Greenawalt, Criminal Responsibility, And The Supreme Court: How A Moderate Scholar Can Appear Immoderate Thirty Years Later, Joshua Dressler
Kent Greenawalt, Criminal Responsibility, And The Supreme Court: How A Moderate Scholar Can Appear Immoderate Thirty Years Later, Joshua Dressler
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Religious Hybrids In The Lower Courts: Free Exercise Plus Or Constitutional Smoke Screen, William L. Esser Iv
Religious Hybrids In The Lower Courts: Free Exercise Plus Or Constitutional Smoke Screen, William L. Esser Iv
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
Where Offenders Pay For Their Crimes: Victim Restitution And Its Constitutionality, Thomas M. Kelly
Where Offenders Pay For Their Crimes: Victim Restitution And Its Constitutionality, Thomas M. Kelly
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.