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Relationships Of Representation In Voting Rights Act Jurisprudence, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Relationships Of Representation In Voting Rights Act Jurisprudence, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


No There There: State Autonomy And Voting Rights Regulation, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

No There There: State Autonomy And Voting Rights Regulation, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


No There There: State Autonomy And Voting Rights Regulation, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

No There There: State Autonomy And Voting Rights Regulation, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Neoliberalism And The Law Reassessing Historical Materialist Analysis Of The Law For The 21st Century, Justin Schwartz Jan 2013

Neoliberalism And The Law Reassessing Historical Materialist Analysis Of The Law For The 21st Century, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Historical materialism has been called in question by the triumph of neoliberalism and the fall of Communism. I show, by consideration of two examples, the 2008 crisis and recent Supreme Court campaign spending First Amendment jurisprudence, that neoliberalism instead vindicates the explanatory power of (non-mechanical and non-deterministic) historical materialism in accounting for a wide range of recent legal developments in legislation, executive (in)action, and judicial decision-making.


Neoliberalism And The Law: How Historical Materialism Can Illuminate Recent Governmental And Judicial Decision Making, Justin Schwartz Jan 2013

Neoliberalism And The Law: How Historical Materialism Can Illuminate Recent Governmental And Judicial Decision Making, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Neoliberalism can be understood as the deregulation of the economy from political control by deliberate action or inaction of the state. As such it is both constituted by the law and deeply affects it. I show how the methods of historical materialism can illuminate this phenomenon in all three branches of the the U.S. government. Considering the example the global financial crisis of 2007-08 that began with the housing bubble developing from trade in unregulated and overvalued mortgage backed securities, I show how the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which established a firewall between commercial and investment banking, allowed this …


Источники Избирательного Права В Зарубежных Странах: Некоторые Вопросы Теории, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy, Eugene Kolesnikov Dec 2012

Источники Избирательного Права В Зарубежных Странах: Некоторые Вопросы Теории, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy, Eugene Kolesnikov

Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

In the article the basic problems of the sources of the Electoral Law (on the cases of the states of the Western democracy) are considered. It is shown that the major provisions about elections are fixed in the national Constitution, laws and the international electoral standards