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The Limits Of Custom In Constitutional And International Law, Michael D. Ramsey
The Limits Of Custom In Constitutional And International Law, Michael D. Ramsey
San Diego Law Review
This Article does not contend that arguments for extension of custom are illegitimate. Instead, it makes two more limited claims. First, there is an important difference between arguments from pure custom and arguments for the extension of custom, with the latter being more properly called common law arguments. Second, the legitimacy of common law arguments in some fields, especially constitutional law and international law, is substantially more problematic than the legitimacy of arguments from pure custom. The Article develops as follows. Part II sets out in greater detail the proposed distinction between arguments from pure custom and arguments for extension …
Navigating The Space Between Dueling Sovereigns, Miriam Galston
Navigating The Space Between Dueling Sovereigns, Miriam Galston
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Why Turner V. Rogers Was And Wasn’T Correctly Decided: How The Fourteenth Amendment Should Be Read For Child Support Contemnors, Gina Rose Lauterio
Why Turner V. Rogers Was And Wasn’T Correctly Decided: How The Fourteenth Amendment Should Be Read For Child Support Contemnors, Gina Rose Lauterio
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
The First Amendment: Religious Freedom For All, Including Muslims, Asma Uddin
The First Amendment: Religious Freedom For All, Including Muslims, Asma Uddin
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Violating Due Process: The Case For Changing Texas State Trafficking Laws For Minors, Cristina M. Becker
Violating Due Process: The Case For Changing Texas State Trafficking Laws For Minors, Cristina M. Becker
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
A Justified Obligation: Counsel’S Duty To File A Requested Appeal In A Post-Waiver Situation, Lauren Gregorcyk
A Justified Obligation: Counsel’S Duty To File A Requested Appeal In A Post-Waiver Situation, Lauren Gregorcyk
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Led Blindly: One Circuit's Struggle To Faithfully Apply The U.S. Supreme Court's Religious Symbols Constitutional Analysis, William M. Janssen
Led Blindly: One Circuit's Struggle To Faithfully Apply The U.S. Supreme Court's Religious Symbols Constitutional Analysis, William M. Janssen
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Expanding Constitutionalism, Gunther Teubner, Anna Beckers
Expanding Constitutionalism, Gunther Teubner, Anna Beckers
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Transnational Societal Constitutionalism Symposium, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin Italy, May 17-19, 2012
Jurisgenerative Constitutionalism: Procedural Principles For Managing Global Legal Pluralism, Paul Schiff Berman
Jurisgenerative Constitutionalism: Procedural Principles For Managing Global Legal Pluralism, Paul Schiff Berman
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Global Legal Pluralism recognizes the inevitability (and sometimes even the desirability) of multiple legal and quasi-legal systems purporting to regulate the same act or actor. However, the resulting pluralism-just as inevitably-creates conflicts among norms that are potentially intractable. Thus, legal systems must address how best to respond to the realities of pluralism. This inquiry has constitutional dimensions because it goes to the constitutive character of communities and their relationships with other communities, be they international, transnational, national, subnational, or epistemic.
One response to pluralism is jurispathic: "kill off" all competing laws by declaring that one set of norms-and only one-shall …
A Sociology Of Constituent Power: The Political Code Of Transnational Societal Constitutions, Christopher Thornhill
A Sociology Of Constituent Power: The Political Code Of Transnational Societal Constitutions, Christopher Thornhill
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article proceeds from a critical sociological revision of classical constitutional theory. In particular, it argues for a sociological reconstruction of the central concepts of constitutional theory: constituent power and rights. These concepts, it is proposed, first evolved as an internal reflexive dimension of the modern political system, which acted originally to stabilize the political system as a relatively autonomous aggregate of actors, adapted to the differentiated interfaces of a modern society.
This revision of classical constitutional theory provides a basis for a distinctive account of transnational constitutional pluralism or societal constitutionalism. The article argues that the construction of transnational …
We And Cyberlaw: The Spatial Unity Of Constitutional Orders, Hans Lindahl
We And Cyberlaw: The Spatial Unity Of Constitutional Orders, Hans Lindahl
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper scrutinizes the fundamental assumption governing Gunther Teubner's theory of societal constitutionalism, namely that societal constitutions are ultimately about the regulation of inclusion and exclusion in global function systems. While endorsing the central role of inclusion/exclusion in constitutions, societal or otherwise, I argue that inclusion and exclusion are primordial categories of collective action, rather than functional categories. As a result, the self-closure which gives rise to a legal collective is spatial as much as it is temporal, and subjective no less than material. Inasmuch as legal orders must establish who ought to do what, where, and when, this entails, …
On The Politics Of Societal Constitutionalism, Emilios Christodoulidis
On The Politics Of Societal Constitutionalism, Emilios Christodoulidis
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper is an internal critique of the theory of societal constitutionalism as developed by Gunther Teubner, with a specific emphasis on the constitutional and the political dimensions of the theory. As critique it focuses on the arguably unacknowledged dangers of co-option: the danger that constitutionalization, as an ongoing process, undercuts what we typically associate with the constitutional, which is its framing function; that this problem is accentuated when it comes to the transnational; and that its reflexivity runs the danger of market capture, in which case it remains only nominally political. The danger of market capture for societal constitutionalism …
The Future Of Societal Constitutionalism In The Age Of Acceleration, Riccardo Prandini
The Future Of Societal Constitutionalism In The Age Of Acceleration, Riccardo Prandini
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The aim of this article is to reframe the debate on societal constitutionalism and constitutionalization from a spatial to a temporal framework. This analytical shift is due to the dramatic acceleration of societal processes, which are increasingly crossing the spatial boundaries of nation-states and of all the other social structures embedded in peculiar places. This high-speed society is characterized by the so-called temporalization of complexity, which influences every aspect of social life and, in particular, the "validity" of law. On the basis of this theoretical background, I would like to show that changing the form of observation from a spatial …
Transnational Normative Orders: The Constitutionalism Of Intra- And Trans-Normative Law, Poul F. Kjaer
Transnational Normative Orders: The Constitutionalism Of Intra- And Trans-Normative Law, Poul F. Kjaer
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No weakening, but rather an expansion, of statehood can be observed in the contemporary world. This does not, on the other hand, imply that extensive forms of constitutional ordering do not exist outside the realm of states. Instead, the evolution of world society has been characterized by a protracted dual movement where the expansion and densification of statehood and autonomous forms of transnational ordering gradually emerged in a mutually constitutive fashion. One implication of this is that neither the concept of the state nor the concept of nonstate transnational entities is adequately capable of delineating the object of constitutional analysis. …
Occupy The System! Societal Constitutionalism And Transnational Corporate Accounting, Moritz Renner
Occupy The System! Societal Constitutionalism And Transnational Corporate Accounting, Moritz Renner
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Today's most pressing constitutional question is posed by a global economic system whose expansive tendencies seem no longer controllable. In addressing this question, the theory of Societal Constitutionalism apparently shifts established ideological coordinates by developing a theory of the self-constitutionalization of social spheres. It seeks to combine the virtues of grassroots democracy with the sophistication of systemic social theory. Thus, its normative claim can be formulated as an oxymoron: "Occupy the System!" The claim is an oxymoron because it points to the apparent impossibility of critical social theory in a functionally differentiated society: How can a functional system such as …
Fundamental Rights, Private Law, And Societal Constitution: On The Logic Of The So-Called Horizontal Effect, Florian Roedl
Fundamental Rights, Private Law, And Societal Constitution: On The Logic Of The So-Called Horizontal Effect, Florian Roedl
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The paper raises the issue of a normative justification of the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in private law. Justification in this sense means that the reasons given are neither functional nor instrumental, but that the reasons are supposed to be subject to the intrinsic logic of private law. In traditional doctrine, the reason usually given to confer horizontal effect to fundamental rights is a deferral to the constitution: The constitutional text decides whether and how fundamental rights apply to private legal relationships. This answer implies that fundamental rights are either logically or normatively alien to private law, that they …
Societal Constitutionalism, Social Movements, And Constitutionalism From Below, Gavin W. Anderson
Societal Constitutionalism, Social Movements, And Constitutionalism From Below, Gavin W. Anderson
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Within constitutional theory, in comparison to other fields of scholarship, the significance of transnational social movements has been relatively unexamined in the literature. Societal constitutionalism, grounded in the sociological method and open to reexamining received understandings of constitutionalism, would appear conducive to undertaking this enterprise. However, the general absence of social movements from the societal constitutionalism literature is not coincidental, and reflects a shared commitment with more conventional approaches to an institutional conception of constitutionalism, and a belief in the latter's necessary benevolence and Western origin. These assumptions reflect the limited focus of contemporary analyses of globalization and constitutionalism upon …
Transnational Corporations' Outward Expression Of Inward Self-Constitution: The Enforcement Of Human Rights By Apple, Inc., Larry Cata Backer
Transnational Corporations' Outward Expression Of Inward Self-Constitution: The Enforcement Of Human Rights By Apple, Inc., Larry Cata Backer
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Societal constitutionalism presents us with alternatives to state-centered constitutional theory. But this alternative does not so much displace as extend conventional constitutional theory as a set of static premises that structure the organization of legitimate governance units. Constitutional theory, in either its conventional or societal forms, engages in both a descriptive and a normative project-the former looking to the incarnation of an abstraction and the later to the development of a set of presumptions and principles through which this incarnation can be judged. Constitutional theory is conventionally applied to states-that is, to those manifestations of organized power constituted by a …
Constitutionalization Of Nongovernmental Certification Programs, Jaye Ellis
Constitutionalization Of Nongovernmental Certification Programs, Jaye Ellis
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Certification programs created by nonstate actors such as the Forest Stewardship Council and Marine Stewardship Council are innovative and potentially highly effective governance initiatives. This article works from the premise that these Councils can be understood as political authorities promulgating law. These Councils, and other actors like them, are generally analyzed from the point of view of governance, which triggers questions about their effectiveness and legitimacy. The approach adopted here shifts the focus to questions of their authority and the validity of the rules, standards, and decision-making processes that they have put in place. The Councils have put in motion …
Natural Law And The Ninth Amendment, Thomas E. Towe
Natural Law And The Ninth Amendment, Thomas E. Towe
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The California Constitution And Counsel At Pretrial Lineups: Disneyland Claims Or Deadly Serious Business? , John Moravek
The California Constitution And Counsel At Pretrial Lineups: Disneyland Claims Or Deadly Serious Business? , John Moravek
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Privacy, Jed Rubenfeld
Privacy, Jed Rubenfeld
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Sequestering Witnesses: Does The Practice Interfere With Defendants' Constitutional Rights?, Harold Baer Jr.
Sequestering Witnesses: Does The Practice Interfere With Defendants' Constitutional Rights?, Harold Baer Jr.
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
The Question Of Constitutionality: How Separate Are The Powers? The Administrative And Social Ramifications Of Lockyer V. City And County Of San Francisco, Kristin Ecklund
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Uncle Sam And The Partitioning Punitive Problem: A Federal Split-Recovery Statute Or A Federal Tax?, Skyler M. Sanders
Uncle Sam And The Partitioning Punitive Problem: A Federal Split-Recovery Statute Or A Federal Tax?, Skyler M. Sanders
Pepperdine Law Review
It is no secret that the doctrine of punitive damages has had a storied past in American jurisprudence, yet it has remained an integral part of both federal and state courts throughout the country. Most, if not all, attempts to restrict punitive damage awards have failed due to the over-inclusive or under-inclusive nature of the remedial measures; however, split-recovery statutes—another punitive damage regulatory tool—have been touted as striking a proper balance between limiting plaintiff windfalls while still punishing and deterring defendants. Even so, such statutes have been meet with vigorous constitutional criticism and fail to curtail punitive damage awards for …
Is "Different But Equal" The New "Separate But Equal"? Nclb's Single-Sex Schooling Option Signals New Horizons For Some While Challenging Equal Education Convictions For Others , Elaine Ekpo
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Is The Doctor In? The Contemptible Condition Of Immigrant Detainee Healthcare In The U.S. And The Need For A Constitutional Remedy, Kate Bowles
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
The Mexican-American Penal Sentences Treaty: A Run-On Sentence, Gary Gray
The Mexican-American Penal Sentences Treaty: A Run-On Sentence, Gary Gray
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Graham V. Florida: How The Supreme Court's Rationale Encourages Reform Of The Juvenile Justice System Through Alternative Dispute Resolution Strategies, Heather Hojnacki
Graham V. Florida: How The Supreme Court's Rationale Encourages Reform Of The Juvenile Justice System Through Alternative Dispute Resolution Strategies, Heather Hojnacki
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
The article presents information on the reforms in the juvenile justice system of the U.S. through alternative dispute resolution-based strategies which has been illustrated with the U.S. Supreme Court cases Roper v. Simmons, and Graham v. Florida. It discusses rationale of the U.S. Supreme Court in Graham case and analyzes Graham's current and future impact. A proportionality standard expressed in legislative enactments and state practice was applied by the U.S. Supreme Court in Graham case.
The Constitution Should Protect Everyone - Even Lawyers, Arthur Gilbert, William Gorenfeld
The Constitution Should Protect Everyone - Even Lawyers, Arthur Gilbert, William Gorenfeld
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.