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Articles 1 - 22 of 22
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Unequal Enforcement Of The Law: Targeting Aggressors For Mass Atrocity Prosecutions, Nancy Amoury Combs
Unequal Enforcement Of The Law: Targeting Aggressors For Mass Atrocity Prosecutions, Nancy Amoury Combs
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It is a central tenet of the laws of war that they apply equally to all parties to a conflict. For this reason, a party that illegally launches a war benefits from all the same rights as a party that must defend against the illegal aggression. Countless philosophers have shown that this so-called equal application doctrine is morally indefensible and that defenders should have more rights and fewer responsibilities than aggressors. The equal application doctrine retains the support of legal scholars, however, because they reasonably fear that applying different rules to different warring parties will substantially reduce overall compliance with …
Restroom Use, Civil Rights, And Free Speech "Opportunism", Timothy Zick
Restroom Use, Civil Rights, And Free Speech "Opportunism", Timothy Zick
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Commentators have expressed concerns that litigants are invoking the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause strategically, in order to compensate for the weakness or futility of other constitutional claims. The phenomenon has been given a label- "opportunism "-and scholars have examined some of its causes and consequences. This Article takes a closer and somewhat skeptical look at the concept offree speech "opportunism." It imagines that the Free Speech Clause will be invoked in challenges to laws or policies that restrict public restroom use based on a person's gender. Would such challenges be "opportunistic, " as the term has been defined? What …
Rights Dynamism, Timothy Zick
The Dynamic Relationship Between Freedom Of Speech And Equality, Timothy Zick
The Dynamic Relationship Between Freedom Of Speech And Equality, Timothy Zick
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This Article examines the dynamic intersection between freedom of speech and equal protection, with a particular focus on the race and LGBT equality movements. Unlike other works on expression and/or equality, the Article emphasizes the relational and bi-directional connections between freedom of speech and equal protection. Freedom of speech has played a critical role in terms of advancing constitutional equality. However, with regard to both race and LGBT equality, free speech rights also failed in important respects to facilitate equality claims and movements. Advocacy and agitation on behalf of equality rights have also left indelible positive and negative marks on …
Section 7: Same-Sex Marriage, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
Section 7: Same-Sex Marriage, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
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Equality Between Adults And Children: Its Meaning, Implications, And Opposition, James G. Dwyer
Equality Between Adults And Children: Its Meaning, Implications, And Opposition, James G. Dwyer
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Family law scholars have devoted much attention to equality among groups of adults and some attention to equality between groups of children. There has been little exploration, however, of the notion of equality between adults and children. In this Article, I first explain what it means at a basic, theoretical level to speak of such equality. I then identify some practical implications. Finally, I consider why there is great resistance to many practical implications of children's equality, even among those who would consider themselves advocates for child welfare.
Commentary On Marriage Grants: Article Iii & Same-Sex Marriage, Neal Devins, Tara Leigh Grove
Commentary On Marriage Grants: Article Iii & Same-Sex Marriage, Neal Devins, Tara Leigh Grove
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China And Disability Rights, Michael Ashley Stein
China And Disability Rights, Michael Ashley Stein
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Judicial Erasure Of Mixed-Race Discrimination, Nancy Leong
Judicial Erasure Of Mixed-Race Discrimination, Nancy Leong
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Religion In The Workplace: A Report On The Layers Of Relevant Law In The United States, William W. Van Alstyne
Religion In The Workplace: A Report On The Layers Of Relevant Law In The United States, William W. Van Alstyne
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Disability And Employment Discrimination At The Rehnquist Court, Anita Silvers, Michael E. Waterstone, Michael Ashley Stein
Disability And Employment Discrimination At The Rehnquist Court, Anita Silvers, Michael E. Waterstone, Michael Ashley Stein
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The Invisible Pillar Of Gideon, Adam M. Gershowitz
The Invisible Pillar Of Gideon, Adam M. Gershowitz
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In 1996, the State of South Carolina charged Larry McVay with common-law robbery. McVay, who was employed part-time and took home less than $160 per week after taxes, claimed that after paying his basic living expenses he had no money left with which to hire an attorney. A South Carolina court disagreed and denied McVay’s request for appointed counsel. Seven years later, Scott Peterson was arrested for the murder of his wife and unborn child in California. Although Peterson owned a home, drove an expensive SUV, and was carrying $10,000 in cash when he was captured, he claimed to be …
Disability, Equal Protection, And The Supreme Court: Standing At The Crossroads Of Progressive And Retrogressive Logic In Constitutional Classification, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein
Disability, Equal Protection, And The Supreme Court: Standing At The Crossroads Of Progressive And Retrogressive Logic In Constitutional Classification, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein
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This Article compares current disability jurisprudence with the development of sex equality jurisprudence in the area of discrimination. It demonstrates that current disability law resembles the abandoned, sexist framework for determining sex equality and argues that disability equality cases should receive similar analysis as the more progressive, current sex equality standard. As such, the Article attempts to synthesize case law (l4th Amendment Equal Protection jurisprudence) and statutory law (Title VII and the ADA) into a comprehensive overview of the state of current disability law viewed within the context of discrimination law in general.
Q: Will The Supreme Court Intervention In Florida Fail The Test Of Time?, Ira Glasser, Alan J. Meese
Q: Will The Supreme Court Intervention In Florida Fail The Test Of Time?, Ira Glasser, Alan J. Meese
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Angry White Males: The Equal Protection Clause And "Classes Of One", Timothy Zick
Angry White Males: The Equal Protection Clause And "Classes Of One", Timothy Zick
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The Ghosts Of Homer Plessy, Rodney A. Smolla
The Ghosts Of Homer Plessy, Rodney A. Smolla
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Denying Due Process In The Florida Courts: A Commentary On The 1994 Medicaid Third-Party Liability Act Of Florida, William W. Van Alstyne
Denying Due Process In The Florida Courts: A Commentary On The 1994 Medicaid Third-Party Liability Act Of Florida, William W. Van Alstyne
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The Rhetoric Of Equality, Neal Devins
The Limits Of "Liberal Republicanism": Why Group-Based Remedies And Republican Citizenship Don't Mix, Cynthia V. Ward
The Limits Of "Liberal Republicanism": Why Group-Based Remedies And Republican Citizenship Don't Mix, Cynthia V. Ward
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Rites Of Passage: Race, The Supreme Court, And The Constitution, William W. Van Alstyne
Rites Of Passage: Race, The Supreme Court, And The Constitution, William W. Van Alstyne
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Federal Regulation Of Collective Bargaining By State And Local Employees: Constitutional Alternatives, Ronald C. Brown
Federal Regulation Of Collective Bargaining By State And Local Employees: Constitutional Alternatives, Ronald C. Brown
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Mr. Justice Black, Constitutional Review, And The Talisman Of State Action, William W. Van Alstyne
Mr. Justice Black, Constitutional Review, And The Talisman Of State Action, William W. Van Alstyne
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In an endorsement of Justice Black’s dissent in Bell v. Maryland, this work argues in favors of Black’s interpretation of the state action requirement and attempts to make sense of Black’s understanding in other cases where he found state action in similar private circumstances.