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The Case Against Prosecuting Refugees, Evan J. Criddle
The Case Against Prosecuting Refugees, Evan J. Criddle
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Within the past several years, the U.S. Department of Justice has pledged to prosecute asylum-seekers who enter the United States outside an official port of entry without inspection. This practice has contributed to mass incarceration and family separation at the U.S.–Mexico border, and it has prevented bona fide refugees from accessing relief in immigration court. Yet, federal judges have taken refugee prosecution in stride, assuming that refugees, like other foreign migrants, are subject to the full force of American criminal justice if they skirt domestic border controls. This assumption is gravely mistaken.
This Article shows that Congress has not authorized …
Toolkit Or Tinderbox? When Legal Systems Interface Conflict, Christie S. Warren
Toolkit Or Tinderbox? When Legal Systems Interface Conflict, Christie S. Warren
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The Internal Morality Of International Law, Evan Fox-Decent, Evan J. Criddle
The Internal Morality Of International Law, Evan Fox-Decent, Evan J. Criddle
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Commerce, Religion, And The Rule Of Law, Nathan B. Oman
Commerce, Religion, And The Rule Of Law, Nathan B. Oman
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The rule of law and religion can act as commercial substitutes. Both can create the trust required for material prosperity. The rule of law simplifies social interactions, turning people into formal legal agents and generating a map of society that the state can observe and control, thus credibly committing to the enforcement of the legal rights demanded by impersonal markets. Religion, in contrast, embraces complex social identities. Within these communities, economic actors can monitor and sanction misbehavior. Both approaches have benefits and problems. The rule of law allows for trade among strangers, fostering peaceful pluralism. However, law breeds what Montesquieu …
Human Rights, Emergencies, And The Rule Of Law, Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent
Human Rights, Emergencies, And The Rule Of Law, Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent
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This article illuminates the normative basis for international law’s regulation of public emergencies by arguing that human rights are best conceived as norms arising from a fiduciary relationship between states (or state-like actors) and persons subject to their power. States bear a fiduciary duty to guarantee subjects’ secure and equal freedom, a duty that flows from their institutional assumption of sovereign powers. The fiduciary theory disarms Carl Schmitt’s critique of constitutionalism by explaining how emergency powers can be reconciled with the rule of law.
Mending Holes In The Rule Of (Administrative) Law, Evan J. Criddle
Mending Holes In The Rule Of (Administrative) Law, Evan J. Criddle
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Book Review Of A Jurisprudence Of Power: Victorian Empire And The Rule Of Law, Michael Ashley Stein
Book Review Of A Jurisprudence Of Power: Victorian Empire And The Rule Of Law, Michael Ashley Stein
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Book Review Of Can Might Make Rights? Building The Rule Of Law After Military Interventions, Lan Cao
Book Review Of Can Might Make Rights? Building The Rule Of Law After Military Interventions, Lan Cao
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Constitutional Decision-Making Outside The Courts, Michael J. Gerhardt
Constitutional Decision-Making Outside The Courts, Michael J. Gerhardt
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The Constitution Outside The Courts, Michael J. Gerhardt
The Constitution Outside The Courts, Michael J. Gerhardt
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