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1998

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Symposium: Work And Family Introduction, Lorraine Schmall Nov 1998

Symposium: Work And Family Introduction, Lorraine Schmall

Northern Illinois University Law Review

Work and family problems seem as numerous, and as difficult to deal with as our children. Invidious discrimination, inadequate laws, intra-family dissension all contribute to our woes. But the dialogue has begun, and problem-solving cannot be too far behind.


Equal Rights, Special Rights, And The Nature Of Antidiscrimination Law, Peter J. Rubin Nov 1998

Equal Rights, Special Rights, And The Nature Of Antidiscrimination Law, Peter J. Rubin

Michigan Law Review

Despite the continued belief held by most Americans that certain characteristics should not form the basis for adverse decisions about individuals in employment, housing, public accommodations, and the provision of a wide range of governmental and private services and opportunities, antidiscrimination laws have increasingly come under attack on the ground that they provide members of the group against whom discrimination is forbidden with "special rights." The "special rights" objection has been voiced most strongly, but not exclusively, against laws that seek to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. This line of attack has not always been effective, but …


The New American Caste System: The Supreme Court And Discrimination Among Civil Rights Plaintiffs, Melissa L. Koehn Oct 1998

The New American Caste System: The Supreme Court And Discrimination Among Civil Rights Plaintiffs, Melissa L. Koehn

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Fifteen percent of the decisions issued by the Supreme Court during its 1996-97 Term centered around section 1983. Section 1983 provides civil rights plaintiffs with a procedural mechanism for vindicating their federally protected rights, including those enshrined in the Constitution. The Court's decisions from its 1996-97 Term reflect a continuation of the alarming trend that has permeated section 1983 for the last two decades-a movement to decrease the scope of section 1983, regardless of the impact on constitutional rights. The Supreme Court appears to be creating a hierarchy both of constitutional rights and of plaintiffs: free speech and takings claims …


Rights Against Rules: The Moral Structure Of American Constitutional Law, Matthew D. Adler Oct 1998

Rights Against Rules: The Moral Structure Of American Constitutional Law, Matthew D. Adler

Michigan Law Review

The Bill of Rights, by means of open-ended terms such as "freedom of speech," "equal protection," or "due process," refers to moral criteria, which take on constitutional status by virtue of being thus referenced. We can disagree about whether the proper methodology for judicial application of these criteria is originalist or nonoriginalist. The originalist looks, not to the true content of the moral criteria named by the Constitution, but to the framers' beliefs about that content; the nonoriginalist tries to determine what the criteria truly require, and ignores or gives less weight to the framers' views. Bracketing this disagreement, however, …


Foreclosed Impartiality In Capital Sentencing: Jurors’ Predispositions Guilt-Trial Experience And Premature Decision Making , William J. Bowers, Marla Sandys, Benjamin D. Steiner Sep 1998

Foreclosed Impartiality In Capital Sentencing: Jurors’ Predispositions Guilt-Trial Experience And Premature Decision Making , William J. Bowers, Marla Sandys, Benjamin D. Steiner

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Post-Mccleskey Racial Discrimination Claims In Capital Cases , John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Sheri Lynn Johnson Sep 1998

Post-Mccleskey Racial Discrimination Claims In Capital Cases , John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Sheri Lynn Johnson

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Bellum Americanum: The U.S. View Of Twenty-First-Century War And Its Possible Implications For The Law Of Armed Conflict, Michael Schmitt Sep 1998

Bellum Americanum: The U.S. View Of Twenty-First-Century War And Its Possible Implications For The Law Of Armed Conflict, Michael Schmitt

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Old Jurisprudence: Respect In Retrospect , Anita Bernstein Jul 1998

Old Jurisprudence: Respect In Retrospect , Anita Bernstein

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Gender Sex Agency And Discrimination: A Reply To Professor Abrams , Katherine M. Franke Jul 1998

Gender Sex Agency And Discrimination: A Reply To Professor Abrams , Katherine M. Franke

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Business Lawyer Looks At The Internet, John P. Freeman Jul 1998

A Business Lawyer Looks At The Internet, John P. Freeman

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Anatomy Of Disgust In Criminal Law, Dan M. Kahan May 1998

The Anatomy Of Disgust In Criminal Law, Dan M. Kahan

Michigan Law Review

My goal in this review is to call attention to a defect in the dominant theories of criminal law and to identify a resource for remedying it. The defect is the absence of a sophisticated account of how disgust does and should influence legal decisionmaking. The corrective resource is William Miller's The Anatomy of Disgust. To make my claims more vivid, consider two stories. Both involve men who were moved to kill by disgust toward homosexuality.


The Future Of Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs:Did The Supreme Court's Decision Iin Adarand Constructors V. Pena Really Make A Difference?, Jennifer L. Haynes Apr 1998

The Future Of Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs:Did The Supreme Court's Decision Iin Adarand Constructors V. Pena Really Make A Difference?, Jennifer L. Haynes

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


What's The Difference? Interpretation, Identity And R. V. R.D.S., Allan Hutchinson, Kathleen Strachan Apr 1998

What's The Difference? Interpretation, Identity And R. V. R.D.S., Allan Hutchinson, Kathleen Strachan

Dalhousie Law Journal

Lawyers hanker after authority. Whether it be in enforcing the law or justifying law's institutional power, there is an almost desperate yearning to establish and maintain the legitimacy of law and, therefore, of themselves, in a social world in which the whole notion of authority is challenged and undermined. When it comes to matters of legal interpretation, jurists and judges still crave some method that will ground or trace back an interpretation to a foundational or ultimate source that can confer authority on one particular interpretation over another. However, recent jurisprudential debate has done fatal damage to the notion that …


"Reverse Discrimination" And Higher Education Faculty, Joyce A. Hughes Jan 1998

"Reverse Discrimination" And Higher Education Faculty, Joyce A. Hughes

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

In this Article, the author critiques the use of "reverse discrimination" claims by White plaintiffs to challenge the hiring of Blacks in institutions of higher education. The author argues that "reverse discrimination" is a myth since no such claim is possible when one White candidate is selected over another; assumptions of inferiority are implicit where such a claim is made when a Black candiate is selected over a White candidate. In other words, allowing such a claim, even if ultimately unsuccessful, implies a presumption of superiority on the part of the White candidate. For this reason, the author argues that …


Thou Shalt Not Sue The Church: Denying Court Access To Ministerial Employees, Shawna Meyer Eikenberry Jan 1998

Thou Shalt Not Sue The Church: Denying Court Access To Ministerial Employees, Shawna Meyer Eikenberry

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Color At Century's End: Race In Law, Policy, And Politics, Christopher Edley, Jr. Jan 1998

Color At Century's End: Race In Law, Policy, And Politics, Christopher Edley, Jr.

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Arbitration Of Workplace Discrimination Claims: Federal Law And Compulsory Arbitration, Norris Case Jan 1998

Arbitration Of Workplace Discrimination Claims: Federal Law And Compulsory Arbitration, Norris Case

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Baseball And The Rule Of Law, Paul Finkelman Jan 1998

Baseball And The Rule Of Law, Paul Finkelman

Cleveland State Law Review

Most cultures have a new year of some kind; a season of beginning. For lawyers who are baseball fans, there are two beginnings, two seasons. The first season begins in April, and begins to wind down in October. That is of course, the baseball season. But, with baseball finished, we can turn to the Court, and watch it with a keen eye. The Court's season continues to build to its climax in the Spring. Just as the baseball season is beginning its slow opening, the Court overwhelms us in the spring with what sometimes seems to be an avalanche of …


State Successions And Statelessness: The Emerging Right To An Effective Nationality Under International Law, Jeffrey L. Blackman Jan 1998

State Successions And Statelessness: The Emerging Right To An Effective Nationality Under International Law, Jeffrey L. Blackman

Michigan Journal of International Law

This paper surveys some of the recent developments in international law relating to nationality and state succession, and suggests a growing convergence among several legal principles-specifically the principle of effective nationality, the individual right to a nationality and the corresponding duty of states to prevent statelessness, and the norm of nondiscrimination. At some point this convergence of such diverse areas of law as nationality, diplomatic protection, and human rights will impose positive duties on successor states with respect to their inherited populations: namely the duty to secure effective nationality for persons affected by state succession.