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State Constitutions And Youth Voting Rights, Joshua A. Douglas Jan 2022

State Constitutions And Youth Voting Rights, Joshua A. Douglas

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Young voters suffer the lowest turnout rates in American elections. One study shows that younger voters face numerous barriers when attempting to cast a ballot, such as work responsibilities, not receiving an absentee ballot in time, inability to find or access their polling place, voter ID problems, or other issues. Many state election laws are a labyrinth of rules and regulations that make it more difficult to vote, especially for younger people. As one report notes, “many young voters are new voters who need to register for the first time and who may be unfamiliar with the process. Young people …


The Costs Of The Punishment Clause, Cortney E. Lollar Jan 2022

The Costs Of The Punishment Clause, Cortney E. Lollar

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Criminal punishment pursuant to a facially valid conviction in a court of law is an uncontested exception to the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude. After all, the Constitutional text reads, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” And yet, beginning almost immediately after the Thirteenth Amendment was adopted, states regularly employed criminal statutes to limit the movement and behaviors of those previously enslaved and subject them to slavery-type labor camps in conditions that closely mirrored slavery. Because neither the …


"Reasonable Expectations," Takings Law Analysis And Administrative Decisions In Light Of Rith V. United States, C. Phillip Wheeler Jr. May 2021

"Reasonable Expectations," Takings Law Analysis And Administrative Decisions In Light Of Rith V. United States, C. Phillip Wheeler Jr.

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Special Solicitude: Religious Freedom At America’S Public Universities, William E. Thro Apr 2021

Special Solicitude: Religious Freedom At America’S Public Universities, William E. Thro

Office of Legal Counsel Academic Publications

Rejecting the Obama Administration’s argument that the First Amendment requires identical treatment for religious organizations and secular organizations, the Supreme Court held such a “result is hard to square with the text of the First Amendment itself, which gives special solicitude to the rights of religious organizations.” (Hosanna-Tabor, 565 U.S. at 189). This “special solicitude” guarantees religious freedom from the government in all aspects of society, but particularly on public university campuses. At a minimum, religious expression and religious organizations must have equal rights with secular expression and secular organizations. In some instances, religious expression and religious expression …


Defanging Environmental Law: Extracting Citizen Suit Provisions Under Seminole Tribe V. Florida, Jefferson D. Reynolds Apr 2021

Defanging Environmental Law: Extracting Citizen Suit Provisions Under Seminole Tribe V. Florida, Jefferson D. Reynolds

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Regulatory Takings: When Is Enough, Enough?, Jacqueline Kerry Heyman Mar 2021

Regulatory Takings: When Is Enough, Enough?, Jacqueline Kerry Heyman

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Searches By Environmental Protection Agencies: When Is A Warrant Necessary?, David Sparks Mar 2021

Searches By Environmental Protection Agencies: When Is A Warrant Necessary?, David Sparks

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Anilca Under Attack: Will The Right To Travel Wreak Havoc With Subsistence Rights?, Kathy A. Gudgell Mar 2021

Anilca Under Attack: Will The Right To Travel Wreak Havoc With Subsistence Rights?, Kathy A. Gudgell

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


"Taking" A Walk On A Winter's Night, James E. Brookshire Mar 2021

"Taking" A Walk On A Winter's Night, James E. Brookshire

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council: The Remaking Of Takings Law And The Re-Emergence Of Lochner, Jerry Mitchell Mar 2021

Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council: The Remaking Of Takings Law And The Re-Emergence Of Lochner, Jerry Mitchell

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Surface Use And Damages Statutes: "Cloud"Ed Constitutionality, Stacey L. Graus Mar 2021

Surface Use And Damages Statutes: "Cloud"Ed Constitutionality, Stacey L. Graus

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Of Pigs And Parlors: Regulatory Takings In The Coalfields, Patrick C. Mcginley Mar 2021

Of Pigs And Parlors: Regulatory Takings In The Coalfields, Patrick C. Mcginley

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Acid Mine Drainage--A Review Of The Barnes & Tucker Case--Is The Requirement To Treat A "Taking" Under The Fifth Or Fourteenth Amendment?, Linda M. Stowers Mar 2021

Acid Mine Drainage--A Review Of The Barnes & Tucker Case--Is The Requirement To Treat A "Taking" Under The Fifth Or Fourteenth Amendment?, Linda M. Stowers

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Validity Of The Kentucky Unmined Coal Tax: Gillis V. Yount, Robin L. Fields Mar 2021

Constitutional Validity Of The Kentucky Unmined Coal Tax: Gillis V. Yount, Robin L. Fields

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Federal Constitutional Limitations On The Regulation Of Coal Mining Activities, Cyril A. Fox Jr. Mar 2021

Federal Constitutional Limitations On The Regulation Of Coal Mining Activities, Cyril A. Fox Jr.

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Limiting Attorney's Fees In Black Lung Benefits Cases: A Violation Of Procedural Due Process?, Earl F. Martin Iii Mar 2021

Limiting Attorney's Fees In Black Lung Benefits Cases: A Violation Of Procedural Due Process?, Earl F. Martin Iii

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


The Constitutionality Of The Black Lung Interim Presumption, Stella B. House Mar 2021

The Constitutionality Of The Black Lung Interim Presumption, Stella B. House

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.


Professor Williams And The Education Debates In State Constitutional Law, Scott R. Bauries Jan 2020

Professor Williams And The Education Debates In State Constitutional Law, Scott R. Bauries

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Professor Robert "Bob" Williams, whom The Honorable Jeffrey Sutton once aptly referred to as the "Dean of State Constitutional Law," has announced a well-earned retirement, leaving the world of state constitutional law teaching and scholarship without its most prominent and influential intellectual voice. Although it is clear based on mere citations to Professor William's work that he has influenced nearly every debate - and every scholar - in state constitutional law, this Essay contribution to the Festschrift in Professor William's honor outlines two strands of Professor William's work that have greatly influenced my own work.


The Executive's Privilege, Jonathan David Shaub Jan 2020

The Executive's Privilege, Jonathan David Shaub

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Both the executive branch and Congress claim the final word in oversight disputes. Congress asserts its subpoenas are legal binding. The executive branch claims the final authority to assert executive privilege and, accordingly, to refuse to comply with a subpoena without consequence. These divergent views stem in large part from the relative absence of any judicial precedent, including not a single Supreme Court decision on the privilege in context of congressional oversight. In that vacuum - unconstrained by precedent - the executive branch has developed a comprehensive theory of executive privilege to support and implement prophylactic doctrines that render Congress …


The Effect Of State-Level Constitutional Debt Limitations On The Costs Of Capital, Micah Johnson Jan 2019

The Effect Of State-Level Constitutional Debt Limitations On The Costs Of Capital, Micah Johnson

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Forty-five states have adopted some form of constitutional limitation on their own legislature’s ability to issue debt and raise capital. Eleven states have more than one such limitation. It seems intuitive to assume that constitutional strictures on a state’s ability to manage its fiscal policy would affect that state’s standing in the market, and it seems equally safe to assume that different combinations of the various forms of debt limitation would lead to varying effects in the market from state to state. However, the specific effects arising from the various constitutional provisions have proven to be difficult to measure. This …


Essays On Institutions And Development, Andrew Jonelis Jan 2019

Essays On Institutions And Development, Andrew Jonelis

Theses and Dissertations--Economics

The essays in this dissertation examine how political institutions affect economic development. In the first essay, I examine how executive control of the legislature shapes the time horizon of governing politicians and its effect on economic growth. The second essay examines how border changes over the past two centuries have provided different areas within modern countries with different institutional histories and how this affects the geographic concentration of economic activity. For the final essay, I examine whether elections have an effect on macroeconomic volatility when controlling for the democratic nature of the regime.


Divorce, Domicile, And The Constitution, Mark Strasser Jan 2019

Divorce, Domicile, And The Constitution, Mark Strasser

Kentucky Law Journal

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Neoformalist Constitutional Construction And Public Employee Speech, Scott R. Bauries Dec 2018

Neoformalist Constitutional Construction And Public Employee Speech, Scott R. Bauries

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This Article examines, evaluates, and prescribes improvements to a familiar form of constitutional construction favored by neoformalists—the preference for rules over standards. Constitutional law development can be understood as being composed of two judicial tasks—interpretation and construction. Judicial interpretation of the Constitution involves determining the semantic meaning of the words contained in the document. Once that semantic meaning is determined, the interpreted meaning must be constructed into legal doctrine for application in court. Sometimes, that construction involves the articulation of the legal doctrines based on the interpreted constitutional text that will govern a particular case and those similar to it. …


Readings In Parallel Judiciaries, Paul E. Salamanca Aug 2018

Readings In Parallel Judiciaries, Paul E. Salamanca

Law Faculty Books and Chapters

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Expatriation Restored, Jonathan David Shaub Jan 2018

Expatriation Restored, Jonathan David Shaub

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Expatriation - the loss or relinquishment of citizenship - has a long and divisive history as a fundamental concept of American citizenship. It has been the subject of contentious and robust debate from the very beginning of the country. This Article posits that the concept of expatriation today has little jurisprudential salience, despite its increasing rhetorical valence in the context of terrorism, because the historical development of the concept has obscured its meaning. Expatriation originally had a precise meaning: an individual right declared by the country in 1868 to be "indispensable" to the inalienable rights identified in the Declaration of …


Do Discretionary Religious Exemptions Violate The Establishment Clause?, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 2018

Do Discretionary Religious Exemptions Violate The Establishment Clause?, Carl H. Esbeck

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Religious Liberty Versus Rights Of Others, Arnold H. Loewy Jan 2018

Religious Liberty Versus Rights Of Others, Arnold H. Loewy

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Religious Exemptions, Harm To Others, And The Indeterminacy Of A Common Law Baseline, Elizabeth Sepper Jan 2018

Religious Exemptions, Harm To Others, And The Indeterminacy Of A Common Law Baseline, Elizabeth Sepper

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Religious Accommodations And Third-Party Harms: Constitutional Values And Limits, Kathleen A. Brady Jan 2018

Religious Accommodations And Third-Party Harms: Constitutional Values And Limits, Kathleen A. Brady

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Decentralizing Fourth Amendment Search Doctrine, Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer Jan 2018

Decentralizing Fourth Amendment Search Doctrine, Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.