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Corporate Corruption And The Complicity Of Congress And The Supreme Court - The Tortuous Path From Central Bank To Stoneridge Investment Partners, Charles W. Murdock

Charles W. Murdock

The main thrust of this article is that courts and legislatures, particularly the past Republican Congresses and the Supreme Court, as well as lower federal courts, are biased in favor of management; moreover that their failure to hold management to account has emboldened management to engage in illicit behavior and has led to supineness, or worse, by gatekeepers, such as accountants and boards of directors. The willingness of federal courts to disregard blatant corruption and give crooks a free pass by engaging in outcome determinative decision making and strained interpretations of the law is epitomized in the recent decision of …

Editorial, Here’S Why I Was A Campaign Volunteer, Wesley Oliver

Wesley M Oliver

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Democracy On Trial: Terrorism, Crime, And National Security Policy In A Post 9-11 World., David A. Schultz

David A Schultz

Post 9-11 concerns in the United States, among the European Union (EU) members, and other western democracies regarding international terrorism forced convergence of the traditionally distinct policy areas of domestic criminal justice and national security. This convergence has produced several policy and institutional conflicts that pit individual rights against homeland security, domestic law and institutions against international norms and tribunals, and criminal justice agencies against national security organizations. This Article examines regime responses to international terrorism, principally in the United States, in comparison to the European Union, seeking to describe the consequences of the merger of criminal justice norms with …

Class Actions And The Poor, Henry Rose

Henry Rose

“Class Actions and the Poor” (Abstract)

Attorneys funded by the national Legal Services Corporation (LSC) provide free legal representation to the poor in civil matters. In 1996, a federal law was enacted that prohibited LSC-funded attorneys from representing their clients in class actions.

This article examines the policy justifications for barring LSC-funded attorneys from being involved in class actions. These justifications included: directing the resources of LSC to the legal problems of individuals rather than the poor as a group; and preventing the use of federal dollars from supporting political or social change. The article demonstrates that these are not …

The Politically Correct University, Richard E. Redding, Robert Maranto, Frederick M. Hess

Richard E. Redding

This book explores and offers remedies to the culture of political correctness in American higher education. We focus on the problem of liberal political orthodoxy in teaching and scholarship and seek to understand how diversity – of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, but not of ideas -- has become the dominant ideology in higher education. The dearth of conservative, libertarian, and neoliberal thinkers limits the type of questions asked and the phenomena studied; hinders credibility and dialogue between academic experts and large swaths of voters and policymakers; and, by limiting students’ exposure to different ideas, inhibits the ability of …

Buffalo's "Prophet Of Protest": The Political Leadership And Activism Of Reverend Dr. Bennett W. Smith, Sr., Sherri Wallace

Sherri L. Wallace