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Master Of Its Own Case: Eeoc Investigations After Issuing A Right-To-Sue Notice, Eric E. Petry
Master Of Its Own Case: Eeoc Investigations After Issuing A Right-To-Sue Notice, Eric E. Petry
University of Chicago Law Review
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing the full arsenal of federal employment discrimination laws. But in addition to vindicating the rights of employment discrimination victims, the EEOC also serves as a gatekeeper to screen claims before they get to court. As part of that gatekeeping function, Congress requires that individuals alleging employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 must obtain permission from the EEOC before they can bring legal action on their own.
Title VII’s text leaves the EEOC’s role after issuing a right-to-sue notice ambiguous. Despite this ambiguity, or perhaps …
War Manifestos, Oona A. Hathaway, William S. Holste, Scott J. Shapiro, Jacqueline Van De Velde, Lisa Wang Lachowicz
War Manifestos, Oona A. Hathaway, William S. Holste, Scott J. Shapiro, Jacqueline Van De Velde, Lisa Wang Lachowicz
University of Chicago Law Review
This Article is the first to examine “war manifestos,” documents that set out the legal reasons sovereigns provided for going to war from the late fifteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. We have assembled the world’s largest collection of war manifestos—over 350—in languages as diverse as Classical Chinese, German, French, Latin, Serbo-Croatian, and Dutch. Prior Anglophone scholarship has almost entirely missed war manifestos. This gap in the literature has produced a correspondingly large gap in our understanding of the role of war during the period in which manifestos were commonly used. Examining these previously ignored manifestos reveals that states exercised the …
State Bureaucratic Undermining, Justin Weinstein-Tull
State Bureaucratic Undermining, Justin Weinstein-Tull
University of Chicago Law Review
Our federal rights are failing, and the inner workings of state government provide an explanation. States administer more federal rights than ever before; administering those rights requires intrastate coordination both horizontally (across cabinet-level state actors, agencies, and commissions) and vertically (with local governments like counties and towns). That coordination undermines federal law by creating bureaucratic barriers to full compliance. I unearth and identify three of these barriers—agency alienation, agency conflict, and role confusion—by surveying remedies in recent suits against state actors. These remedies take the form of choreography: they specify how internal state actors must work together to vindicate federal …
Presidential Obstruction Of Justice, Daniel Hemel, Eric A. Posner
Presidential Obstruction Of Justice, Daniel Hemel, Eric A. Posner
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"Virtual" Disenfranchisement: Cyber Election Meddling In The Grey Zones Of International Law, Michael N. Schmitt
"Virtual" Disenfranchisement: Cyber Election Meddling In The Grey Zones Of International Law, Michael N. Schmitt
Chicago Journal of International Law
This Article examines remotely conducted election meddling by cyber means in the context of international law and asks whether such cyber operations qualify as "internationally wrongful acts." An internationally wrongful act requires both a breach of a legal obligation owed by one State to another under international law and attribution of the act to the former. The Article considers three possible breaches related to such meddling - violation of the requirement to respect sovereignty, intervention into the internal affairs of another State, and, when the cyber operations are not attributable to the State from which they were launched, breach of …
Taking "Great Care": Defining Victims Of Hate Speech Targeting Religious Minorities, Whittney Barth
Taking "Great Care": Defining Victims Of Hate Speech Targeting Religious Minorities, Whittney Barth
Chicago Journal of International Law
This Comment explores the intersection of race and religion in cases brought before the Human Rights Committee alleging violations of Article 20(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This article proposes a positive requirement for states parties to prohibit hate speech. Specifically, the following analysis considers Committee determinations of standing in cases brought by Muslims living in Europe who sought to challenge a state party's response to discriminatory remarks made by public figures. This Comment argues that these determinations, which appear to implicitly endorse a lower threshold for group standing when both race and religion are under …
Quantum Economics, Newtonian Economics, And Law, William Hubbard
Quantum Economics, Newtonian Economics, And Law, William Hubbard
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National Security, National Origin, And The Constitution: 75 Years After Eo9066, Geoffrey R. Stone
National Security, National Origin, And The Constitution: 75 Years After Eo9066, Geoffrey R. Stone
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The States' Interest In Federal Procedure, Diego Zambrano
The States' Interest In Federal Procedure, Diego Zambrano
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A Simplified “Benefit” Prong For Securedcreditor Surcharges, Matthew Lagrone
A Simplified “Benefit” Prong For Securedcreditor Surcharges, Matthew Lagrone
University of Chicago Law Review
Who pays the debtor’s expenses that are incurred during the bankruptcy is a common debate. One potential option, especially in small to midsize corporate bankruptcies, is a secured creditor who can be surcharged in accordance with 11 USC § 506(c). Of that section’s three requirements, most litigation concerns the requirement that the expense “benefit” the secured creditor. A split has recently developed between courts, led by the Seventh Circuit in Trim-X, that require the bankruptcy trustee to exclusively intend to benefit the secured creditor and obtain secured-creditor consent and courts, such as the Fifth Circuit in Domistyle, that merely require …
Vindication For Students With Disabilities: Waiving Exhaustion For Unavailable Forms Of Relief After Fry V Napoleon Community Schools, Katherine Bruce
Vindication For Students With Disabilities: Waiving Exhaustion For Unavailable Forms Of Relief After Fry V Napoleon Community Schools, Katherine Bruce
University of Chicago Law Review
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal statute that protects the rights of students with disabilities by conferring onto them a substantive right to a free, appropriate public education (FAPE). Under the IDEA, aggrieved parents may demand a “due process hearing,” an administrative process presided over by an impartial hearing officer through which students and families may seek redress for violations of the IDEA. Due process hearings, however, allow only for certain types of relief—notably, money damages are not available under the IDEA. Students with disabilities are also protected under other statutes, including the Americans with Disabilities …
Citizens Of The State, Maeve Glass
Citizens Of The State, Maeve Glass
University of Chicago Law Review
According to conventional wisdom, state citizenship emerged out of the localism of early America and gave way to national citizenship with the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. This Article offers a different account of state citizenship and, with it, new resources for analyzing the Constitution. It argues that far from a primordial category that receded into irrelevance, state citizenship provided a crucial strategic tool in America’s antislavery movement, as abolitionist lawyers used the label of state citizenship to build a coalition with white elites by reframing the issue of slavery from the rights of a black person to the sovereignty …
Cost-Benefit Analysis And The Judicial Role, Jonathan S. Masur, Eric A. Posner
Cost-Benefit Analysis And The Judicial Role, Jonathan S. Masur, Eric A. Posner
University of Chicago Law Review
The two most vilified cases in administrative law are Business Roundtable v Securities and Exchange Commission and Corrosion Proof Fittings v Environmental Protection Agency. In Business Roundtable, the DC Circuit struck down the SEC’s proxy access rule because the agency’s cost-benefit analysis of the regulation, in the court’s view, was defective. In Corrosion Proof Fittings, the Fifth Circuit struck down an EPA regulation of asbestos products on the same grounds. Nearly all scholars who have written about these cases have condemned them. We argue that the courts acted properly. The regulators’ cost-benefit analyses were defective, seriously so; and the courts …
Picketing In The New Economy, Hiba Hafiz
Righting Categorical Wrongs: A Holistic Solution To Rule 8(A)’S Same-Or-Similarcharacter Prong, Matthew Deates
Righting Categorical Wrongs: A Holistic Solution To Rule 8(A)’S Same-Or-Similarcharacter Prong, Matthew Deates
University of Chicago Law Review
More than half of federal criminal defendants are charged with multiple offenses in a single indictment. These defendants are more likely to be convicted on at least one charge than defendants who receive separate trials for each charge. Joinder has been both lauded for increasing the efficiency of the federal criminal justice system and criticized for unfairly prejudicing criminal defendants. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 8(a) and 14 govern the joinder of offenses in the federal system. Rule 8(a) permits offenses of the “same or similar character” to be joined against a single defendant while Rule 14 allows district courts …
Rethinking Family-Court Prosecutors: Elected And Agency Prosecutors And Prosecutorial Discretion In Juvenile Delinquency And Child Protection Cases, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Rethinking Family-Court Prosecutors: Elected And Agency Prosecutors And Prosecutorial Discretion In Juvenile Delinquency And Child Protection Cases, Josh Gupta-Kagan
University of Chicago Law Review
Like criminal prosecutors, family-court prosecutors have immense power. Determining which cases to prosecute and which to divert or dismiss goes to the heart of the delinquency system’s balance between punishment and rehabilitation of children and the child protection system’s spectrum of family interventions. For instance, the 1990s shift to prosecute (rather than dismiss or divert) about 10 percent more delinquency cases annually is as significant a development as any other. Yet scholars have not examined the legal structures for these charging decisions or family-court prosecutors’ authority in much depth.
This Article shows how family-court prosecutors’ roles have never been fully …
Defining Flight Risk, Lauryn P. Gouldin
Defining Flight Risk, Lauryn P. Gouldin
University of Chicago Law Review
Our illogical and too-well-traveled paths to pretrial detention have created staggering costs for defendants who spend unnecessary time in pretrial detention and for taxpayers who fund a broken system. These problems remain recalcitrant even as a third generation of reform efforts makes impressive headway. They are likely to remain so until judges, attorneys, legislators, and scholars address a fundamental definitional problem: the collapsing of very different types of behavior that result in failures to appear in court into a single, undifferentiated category of nonappearance risk. That single category muddies critical distinctions that this Article’s new taxonomy of pretrial nonappearance risks …
Courts, Congress, And The Conduct Of Foreign Relations, Kristen E. Eichensehr
Courts, Congress, And The Conduct Of Foreign Relations, Kristen E. Eichensehr
University of Chicago Law Review
In the US constitutional system, the president generally conducts foreign relations. But not always. In recent years, the courts and Congress have repeatedly taken steps to interact directly with foreign governments. Nonexecutive conduct of foreign relations occurs when the courts or Congress engage in or take actions that result in the opening of a direct channel of official communications between the US nonexecutive branch and a foreign executive branch. Nonexecutive conduct of foreign relations raises serious constitutional questions, but to date there is no clear rubric for analyzing the constitutionality of the judiciary’s or Congress’s actions. Moreover, nonexecutive conduct of …
Democratic Erosion And The Courts: Comparative Perspectives, Aziz Huq
Democratic Erosion And The Courts: Comparative Perspectives, Aziz Huq
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Procedural Flexibility In Three Dimensions, Ronen Avraham, William Hubbard, Itay E. Lipschits
Procedural Flexibility In Three Dimensions, Ronen Avraham, William Hubbard, Itay E. Lipschits
Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers
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Procedural Flexibility In Three Dimensions, Ronen Avraham, William Hubbard, Itay E. Lipschits
Procedural Flexibility In Three Dimensions, Ronen Avraham, William Hubbard, Itay E. Lipschits
Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
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The Living Anti-Injunction Act, Daniel Hemel
Political Discrimination In The Law Review Selection Process, Adam S. Chilton, Jonathan Masur, Kyle Rozema
Political Discrimination In The Law Review Selection Process, Adam S. Chilton, Jonathan Masur, Kyle Rozema
Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics
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The Coming Demise Of Liberal Constitutionalism?, Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, Mila Versteeg
The Coming Demise Of Liberal Constitutionalism?, Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, Mila Versteeg
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Courts’ Limited Ability To Protect Constitutional Rights, Adam S. Chilton, Mila Versteeg
Courts’ Limited Ability To Protect Constitutional Rights, Adam S. Chilton, Mila Versteeg
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Accountability Claims In Constitutional Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Accountability Claims In Constitutional Law, Nicholas Stephanopoulos
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Norming In Adminstrative Law, Jonathan Masur, Eric A. Posner
Norming In Adminstrative Law, Jonathan Masur, Eric A. Posner
Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers
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Is Eu Supranational Governance A Challenge To Liberal Constitutionalism?
Is Eu Supranational Governance A Challenge To Liberal Constitutionalism?
University of Chicago Law Review
Does supranational governance present a challenge to liberal constitutionalism? More particularly, has the European Union’s supranational form of governance fueled the rise of illiberal authoritarianism and undermined liberal constitutionalism? This Essay first addresses two related empirical questions associated with this larger query: first, whether the Brexit vote reflected a rise in authoritarianism and a turn against liberal constitutionalism; and second, whether the Euroscepticism to which the process of European integration has given rise has also contributed to the growth of the illiberal far right across the European Union and to the weakening of support for liberal constitutionalism. The third part …
Constitutionalism And The American Imperial Imagination, Aziz Rana
Constitutionalism And The American Imperial Imagination, Aziz Rana
University of Chicago Law Review
Constitutionalism as a legal technology for structuring state power has spread around the world over the last century, as a practice and also as an ideal often linking the institutions of the state to commitments relating to political liberalism and free markets. Yet there is growing evidence that illiberal forms of constitutionalism may now be on the rise internationally. Some of the countervailing forces (economic crisis, national security threats, populism) that may limit the appeal and spread of liberal constitutionalism have been identified in the comparative-law literature as key drivers of this phenomenon. This Essay turns to a different explanation: …