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When Prosecutors Control Criminal Court Dockets: Dispatches On History And Policy From A Land Time Forgot, Andrew Siegel
When Prosecutors Control Criminal Court Dockets: Dispatches On History And Policy From A Land Time Forgot, Andrew Siegel
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The decision as to who has the authority to bring a matter up for resolution before a criminal court is one of the most basic decisions a system of criminal adjudication must make. Despite - or perhaps because of - the elemental nature of this structural matter, historians and scholars of criminal procedure have thus far offered a startling paucity of evidence as to the history and policy consequences of different docket control regimes. This article offers the first comprehensive examination of this issue, rescuing the history of criminal court calendar control from the dustbin of history and grappling in …
A Call From Jerome, Robert S. Chang
A Call From Jerome, Robert S. Chang
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This short article is a homage to the late Professor Jerome M. Culp, Jr. who provided courage necessary to propel critical race legal scholarship. He focused on building coalitions in the Crit community and his more recent work urged looking inwards. While he has passed away, his call to action remains.
What Is War? Reflections On Free Speech In 'Wartime, David Skover, Ronald Collins
What Is War? Reflections On Free Speech In 'Wartime, David Skover, Ronald Collins
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Written as the lead article for a Symposium issue commemorating the Free Speech in Wartime Conference held in January of 2005 at Rutgers Law School - Camden, this piece analyzes the following questions: What qualifies as war in the 21st Century? Who determines when the country is at war? And what effect, if any, should the existence of a war have on judicial review of First Amendment challenges?
Evaluating Brady Error Using Narrative Theory: A Proposal For Reform, John B. Mitchell
Evaluating Brady Error Using Narrative Theory: A Proposal For Reform, John B. Mitchell
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When the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Old Chief v. United States, the Court examined Federal Rule of Evidence 403 in light of a defense offer to stipulate to aspects of the proffered prosecution evidence, purportedly to lessen their prejudicial impact. At the core of the opinion rests the validation of a theory born from such disparate fields as Law and Literature, Sociology, and Narrative Theory. This article argues that, though it was not on the proverbial radar screen of the Court when it decided Old Chief, narrative theory provides the most effective tool available for assessing prejudice …
Screening The Law: Ideology And Law In American Popular Culture, Mark Niles, Naomi Mezey
Screening The Law: Ideology And Law In American Popular Culture, Mark Niles, Naomi Mezey
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This paper reevaluates Frankfurt School theory, and other cultural critiques, in an effort to bring a more sophisticated analysis to bear on popular culture depictions of law. It invokes the cultural critiques of the Birmingham School in order to assess the more subtle ideological content more often found in film. The focus is not only on how popular culture functions as a mechanism for communicating and reproducing ideologies, but also what this function is based on, a theoretical analysis that asks what images of law and legal justice one might expect to see in popular media. The article also assesses …
Litigating Global Warming: Substantive Law In Search Of A Forum, Henry Mcgee
Litigating Global Warming: Substantive Law In Search Of A Forum, Henry Mcgee
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In response to the obstruction by the United States of the Kyoto protocols and its subsequent agreements, American environmental NGOs and state governments have filed a range of lawsuits to force the current U.S. administration, automobile manufacturers, and regulatory actors to combat global warming. This essay first very briefly sketches some of the strategies by litigants to force compliance with Kyoto, an agreement which reflects nearly all of the international community's desire to schedule reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The essay then describes a strategy that perhaps is the most conventional in terms of international law, but requires a nation …
Reflections On Complicity, Julie Shapiro
Reflections On Complicity, Julie Shapiro
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The author of this article participated in the litigation of Andersen v. King County, Washington in which lesbian and gay couples unsuccessfully sought access to marriage. Although part of the plaintiffs' litigation team, she is a feminist anti-assimilationist and as such, is generally opposed to articulating marriage as a priority of the lesbian/gay civil rights movement. Confronted with the undeniable reality that marriage has become the central demand of the lesbian and gay movement, the author explores the tensions and contradictions encountered during the litigation. The article examines how one might critically manifest resistance even while working for an assimilationist …
Race And The California Recall: A Top Ten List Of Ironies, Steven W. Bender, Keith Aoki, Sylvia Lazos
Race And The California Recall: A Top Ten List Of Ironies, Steven W. Bender, Keith Aoki, Sylvia Lazos
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as governor of California in the 2003 recall campaign is rife with cruel ironies. An immigrant himself, he beat the grandson of Mexican immigrants, Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, by playing the race card, and managed to dodge allegations of his praise for Hitler as a strong leader. While the pundits say that the California recall was about angry voters lashing back at faithless, self-dealing politicians, more lurks beneath the surface. In California, racial and ethnic minorities now comprise a majority of the population, and the recall election brought barely concealed and seething schisms to the surface. Californians, …
The Case Of The Little Yellow Cuban Biplane: Can Interest Analysis Reconcile Conflicting Provisions In Federal Statutes And International Treaties?, Diane Lourdes Dick
The Case Of The Little Yellow Cuban Biplane: Can Interest Analysis Reconcile Conflicting Provisions In Federal Statutes And International Treaties?, Diane Lourdes Dick
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This article analyzes conflicts that arise under international agreements that define and protect foreign ownership interests in civil aircraft, on the one hand, and domestic laws that allow Americans to bring suit against state sponsors of terrorism, on the other hand. Finding that courts often perform concealed interest analyses under the guise of mechanical application of canons of construction, this article recommends a comparative impairment interest analysis approach to resolving this and related conflicts.
Check Only One: M/F/Other, Julie Shapiro
Check Only One: M/F/Other, Julie Shapiro
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In this extremely brief essay, the author questions Lawrence Summers' generalizations about women in science. We live in a world of uncertainty about the boundaries of gender. Transgendered and intersexed individuals challenge us to step away from strict categories of men and women.
Allegory From The Cave: A Story About A Mis-Educated Profession And The Paradoxical Prescription, Natasha Martin
Allegory From The Cave: A Story About A Mis-Educated Profession And The Paradoxical Prescription, Natasha Martin
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The article reviews and engages Professor Derrick Bell’s more recent scholarship on the nature of the legal profession and the practice of law – ETHICAL AMBITION: LIVING A LIFE OF MEANING AND WORTH – placing Bell’s work in the broader framework of the entire legal enterprise highlighting its relevance to legal ethics, the ills of the profession and legal training. The article juxtaposes Bell’s more contemporary critique of the legal profession and practice with the observations of Carter G. Woodson in THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO, another African-American educator largely unfamiliar to the broader legal academy. The author proposes that …
A Curious Concurrence: Justice Brandeis' Vote In Whitney V. California, David Skover, Ronald Collins
A Curious Concurrence: Justice Brandeis' Vote In Whitney V. California, David Skover, Ronald Collins
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A piece of jurisprudential sleuthing, this article uncovers the back story for a puzzle unanswered by legal historians for some eighty years: Why would the free-speech libertarian Louis Brandeis write the most famous paean to First Amendment normative values in his opinion in Whitney v. United States, and yet join (by way of a concurring opinion) the judgment of the majority of the Court that would have sent the "patrician radical" Anita Whitney to prison for a 14-year term solely for participating in the formation of the California Communist Labor Party? Part of the puzzle is provided by the unpublished …
Freedom In A Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage And Biopolitics, Dean Spade, Craig Willse
Freedom In A Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage And Biopolitics, Dean Spade, Craig Willse
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This paper attempts to trace the links between the Lawrence v. Texas decision and campaigns for gay marriage rights in order to envision movements that seek justice for more than just the most racially and economically privileged lesbians and gay men. The authors outline the limits of the agenda represented by Lawrence and propose alternative modes for resisting the coercive regulation of sexuality, gender, and family formations.
The Documentary History Of The Supreme Court Of The United States. 1789-1800. Vol. 7, Cases: 1796-1797, George Van Cleve
The Documentary History Of The Supreme Court Of The United States. 1789-1800. Vol. 7, Cases: 1796-1797, George Van Cleve
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In this review, the author expresses praise for DHSC 7, a document that covers court cases from 1796 to 1797. It highlights various particular cases while noting how effectively they are examined. Ultimately, the review advocates that students of legal history should consider the DHSC 7.
An Appreciation Of Professor Herbert Johnson: Introduction To Symposium Introduction, Andrew Siegel
An Appreciation Of Professor Herbert Johnson: Introduction To Symposium Introduction, Andrew Siegel
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On October 29, 2004, the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) held a panel at its annual scholarly conference in Austin, Texas, entitled “Herbert Johnson and the Writing of American Constitutional History." The Herbert Johnson of that title is Herbert Alan Johnson, for twenty-five years a Professor of Law and History at the University of South Carolina and, since 2002, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Law. That ASLH panel and the papers that flowed from it are the inspiration for—and in large part, the substance of—the Symposium that follows. To write a tribute to the life's work of a living individual …
In (Slightly Uncomfortable) Defense Of ‘Triage’ By Public Defenders, John B. Mitchell
In (Slightly Uncomfortable) Defense Of ‘Triage’ By Public Defenders, John B. Mitchell
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This article argues that triaging is necessary for public defenders and is a response to the work of Professor Freedman. Because states lack money in areas of greater community concern, the defense of indigent criminals is neglected and substantial resources are not likely to be forthcoming. The author previously set out a solution of triaging, which can be conducted either haphazardly or according to some set of rational principles based on ethical theory. The author concurs with Professor Freedman to the extent that the United States Supreme Court in Strickland v. Washington effectively ensures that Sixth Amendment Constitutional guarantees will …
Leveling The Playing Field: A New Theory Of Exclusion For A Post-Patriot Act America, Christian Halliburton
Leveling The Playing Field: A New Theory Of Exclusion For A Post-Patriot Act America, Christian Halliburton
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This article takes the position that, although the PATRIOT Act is superficially unrelated to the specifics of the exclusionary rule, such a drastic departure from constitutional norms would not have been possible had the Court not conditioned the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule's operation on pursuit of the inherently unstable target of institutional deterrence. Part I of this article will trace the development of the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule from its origins in federal court through its incorporation against the states, paying particular attention to the underlying purpose of the exclusionary rule as announced by the Court, and concluding with a …
Private Motive And Perpetual Conditions In Charitable Naming Gifts: When Good Names Go Bad, John K. Eason
Private Motive And Perpetual Conditions In Charitable Naming Gifts: When Good Names Go Bad, John K. Eason
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This article explores the problems that often result from a charitable naming opportunity contribution. A charitable naming opportunity contribution exists when a donor transfers money or property to a charitable organization upon terms that result in an individual's name being associated in some way with the organization, its institutions, activities, or facilities. Implementing such arrangements can become problematic as circumstances change over time. Matters considered here include the meaning of "charity" as affected by a donor's personal desire to perpetuate a name. This article also highlights the quite varied doctrinal analyses that may apply when deviation from the precise terms …
Article 9 Of The Constitution Of Japan And Procedural And Substantive Heuristics For Consensus, Mark A. Chinen
Article 9 Of The Constitution Of Japan And Procedural And Substantive Heuristics For Consensus, Mark A. Chinen
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Japan is considering changes to its constitution, including Article 9, which prohibits it from maintaining a military force. If amendments are made, it would mark the first time the Japanese constitution has been amended since its establishment in 1947. Professor Chinen examines the debates on Article 9 using scholarship on constitutions as providing heuristics for decision-making. Constitutions help overcome the problems of emotion and time-inconsistency. They also enable societies of different deliberative groups to avoid the pitfalls of deliberation by requiring groups to interact with one another and by providing opportunities for compromise through what Cass Sunstein refers to as …
Limit Horizons & Critique: Seductions And Perils Of The Nation, Tayyab Mahmud
Limit Horizons & Critique: Seductions And Perils Of The Nation, Tayyab Mahmud
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This essay introduces four contributions on nation and nationalism that form a cluster in the 2005 Annual Symposium of Latina/o Critical Legal Theory (LatCrit). It puts forward the concept of "limit horizons": the hegemonic ontological categories that so imprint the imaginary of an age the even critique remains imprisoned in the normalcy of these categories - an imprisonment that curtails the transformatory potential of critique. It is argued that the modern concept of the nation is such a limit horizon. Consequently, any critical engagement with the concept of the nation must concurrently be an exercise in self-critique to ensure that …
Citizen And Citizenship Within And Beyond The Nation, Tayyab Mahmud
Citizen And Citizenship Within And Beyond The Nation, Tayyab Mahmud
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This review essay deploys critical social theory and critical race theory to interrogate concepts of citizen and citizenship. It reviews three submissions to a Lationa/o Critical Legal Theory (LatCrit) Symposium. One explores the relationship between law, race, and nation-building. The second examines the relationship between race and citizenship through the prism of police round-up of undocumented workers in Arizona. The last located the question of citizenship and legal subjecthood beyond the traditional confines of the nation-state.
Toward Reconciliation In The Middle East: A Framework For Christian-Muslim Dialogue Using Natural Law Tradition, Russell Powell
Toward Reconciliation In The Middle East: A Framework For Christian-Muslim Dialogue Using Natural Law Tradition, Russell Powell
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In this paper, Professor Powell argues that the thinking of Bernard Lonergan in light of the natural law insights of St. Thomas Aquinas, Ali Ezzati and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im provides a framework for Christian-Muslim dialogue. Lonergan's transcendental method moves from the individual subject to universal insights rather than presuming to deduce universals a priori, without regard for history, culture and individual experience. Professor Powell asserts that the most fruitful starting place for meaningful dialogue is to address questions of human rights and social justice using natural law theory, rather than focusing on theological concerns. If Muslims and Christians mutually acknowledge …
Note: The Impact Of Medicaid Estate Recovery On Nontraditional Families, Diane Lourdes Dick
Note: The Impact Of Medicaid Estate Recovery On Nontraditional Families, Diane Lourdes Dick
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This article analyzes the impact of Medicaid estate recovery laws on nontraditional families, and offers policy solutions that protect families from unintended consequences while preserving the fiscal integrity of the Medicaid program.
Is An Annual Report In Your Library’S Future?, Kristin Cheney
Is An Annual Report In Your Library’S Future?, Kristin Cheney
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Ms. Cheney examines the multifaceted document known as the library annual report and offers suggestions on how to create a report appropriate to a library's objectives and institutional setting.
Walking While Muslim, Margaret Chon, Donna E. Arzt
Walking While Muslim, Margaret Chon, Donna E. Arzt
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In the post-9/11 era, what exactly is meant by race? This essay claims that both domestic civil rights law and international human rights law simultaneously create and obscure racial identity increasingly constructed through Muslim religious identity. The argument unfolds in several parts. First, by analogy to the racial formation process that occurred with the Japanese American community after World War II, we argue that a group's religious identity can contribute to the perception of a group as a racially different and inferior "other." Second, among other elements, religious identity is under-analyzed as a key element of racial formation. Third, post-9/11 …
On Academic Discrimination, Janet Ainsworth
On Academic Discrimination, Janet Ainsworth
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Professor Ainsworth addresses President Lawrence H. Summers’ explanation of the paucity of women academics in the physical sciences, and discusses how Summers does not address the possibility that the lack of female academics could be due to discrimination.
Lawrence Summers’ Speech On “Innate” Differences Between Men And Women--A Different Perspective, Thomas Fischer
Lawrence Summers’ Speech On “Innate” Differences Between Men And Women--A Different Perspective, Thomas Fischer
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In this article, Professor Fischer outlines his experience in the admissions department at Georgetown University Law Center as well as other legal academic settings, and the perspective he gained with regard to women in the sphere of legal academia. The article outlines a careful reflection over the role of gender in these settings, in contrast with Lawrence Summer's perspective on innate gender differences.