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Housing, Healthism, And The Hud Smoke-Free Policy, Dave Fagundes, Jessica L. Roberts Dec 2018

Housing, Healthism, And The Hud Smoke-Free Policy, Dave Fagundes, Jessica L. Roberts

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Leveraging Social Science Expertise In Immigration Policymaking, Ming H. Chen May 2018

Leveraging Social Science Expertise In Immigration Policymaking, Ming H. Chen

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The longstanding uncertainty about how policymakers should grapple with social science demonstrating racism persists in the modern administrative state. This Essay examines the uses and misuses of social science and expertise in immigration policymaking. More specifically, it highlights three immigration policies that dismiss social scientific findings and expertise as part of presidential and agency decision-making: border control, crime control, and extreme vetting of refugees to prevent terrorism. The Essay claims that these rejections of expertise undermine both substantive and procedural protections for immigrants and undermine important functions of the administrative state as a curb on irrationality in policymaking. It concludes …


Catch Twentywu The Oral Argument In Fisher V. University Of Texas And The Obfuscation Of Critical Mass, Sheldon Bernard Lyke Apr 2013

Catch Twentywu The Oral Argument In Fisher V. University Of Texas And The Obfuscation Of Critical Mass, Sheldon Bernard Lyke

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Execution In Virginia, 1859: The Trials Of Green And Copeland, Steven Lubet Jan 2012

Execution In Virginia, 1859: The Trials Of Green And Copeland, Steven Lubet

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This essay tells the story of Shields Green and John Copeland, two black men who joined John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Along with Brown and several others, Green and Copeland were taken prisoner in the aftermath of the failed insurrection, and they were brought to trial in nearby Charlestown on charges of murder and treason. Unlike Brown, who was treated respectfully by his captors, Green and Copeland were handled roughly. Copeland in particular was subjected to a harsh interrogation that was criticized even by pro-slavery Democrats in the North. The black prisoners did, however, have the benefit of a …


Soul Of A Woman: The Sex Stereotyping Prohibition At Work, Kimberly A. Yuracko Jan 2012

Soul Of A Woman: The Sex Stereotyping Prohibition At Work, Kimberly A. Yuracko

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In 1989 the Supreme Court in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins declared that sex stereotyping was a prohibited from of sex discrimination at work. This seemingly simple declaration has been the most important development in sex discrimination jurisprudence since the passage of Title VII. It has been used to extend the Act's coverage and protect groups that were previously excluded. Astonishingly, however, the contours, dimensions and requirements of the prohibition have never been clearly articulated by courts or scholars. In this paper I evaluate four interpretations of what the sex stereotyping prohibition might mean in order to determine what it actually …


Doma, Romer, And Rationality, Andrew Koppelman Jan 2011

Doma, Romer, And Rationality, Andrew Koppelman

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It has been objected by many that the Defense of Marriage Act lacks a rational basis because it reflects a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group. The increasing success of the argument, which has persuaded three federal judges, reveals the hidden normative premises of rational basis analysis, at least whenever that analysis is used to invalidate a statute. Since 1996, when DOMA was passed by overwhelming margins in both houses of Congress, the country's attitudes toward gay people have evolved rapidly, to the point where this kind of mindless lashing out at gays looks a lot less attractive. …


The New American Civil Religion: Lesson For Italy, Andrew Koppelman Jan 2011

The New American Civil Religion: Lesson For Italy, Andrew Koppelman

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American civil religion has been changing, responding to increasing religious plurality by becoming more abstract. The problem of increasing plurality is not only an American one. It is also presented in Italy, where civic identity has been centered around a Catholicism that is no longer universal. Perhaps Italy has, in this respect, an American future.


Careful With That Gun: Lee, George, Wax, And Geach On Gay Rights And Same-Sex Marriage, Andrew Koppelman Jan 2010

Careful With That Gun: Lee, George, Wax, And Geach On Gay Rights And Same-Sex Marriage, Andrew Koppelman

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Many Americans think that homosexual sex is morally wrong and oppose same-sex marriage. Philosophers trying to defend these views have relied on two strategies. One is to claim that such sex is wrong irrespective of consequences: there is something intrinsic to sex that makes it only licit when it takes place within a heterosexual marriage (in which there is no contraception or possibility of divorce). Patrick Lee and Robert P. George have developed and clarified this claim. The second strategy focuses on consequences: the baleful effects on heterosexual families of societal tolerance for homosexuality. Amy Wax (who is not a …


The Antidiscrimination Paradox: Why Sex Before Race?, Kimberly A. Yuracko Jan 2009

The Antidiscrimination Paradox: Why Sex Before Race?, Kimberly A. Yuracko

Faculty Working Papers

This paper seeks to explain a paradox: Why does Title VII's prohibition on sex discrimination currently look so much more expansive than its prohibition on race discrimination? Why in particular, do workers appear to be receiving greater protection for expressions of gender identity than for expressions of racial identity? I argue that as a doctrinal matter, the paradox is illusory—the product of a fundamental misinterpretation of recent sex discrimination case law by scholars. Rather than reflecting fundamentally distinct antidiscrimination principles, the race and sex cases in fact reflect the same traditional commitments to ending status discrimination and undermining group-based subordination. …


The Language Of Consent In Police Encounters, Janice Nadler, J.D. Trout Jan 2009

The Language Of Consent In Police Encounters, Janice Nadler, J.D. Trout

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In this chapter, we examine the nature of conversations in citizen-police encounters in which police seek to conduct a search based on the citizen's consent. We argue that when police officers ask a person if they can search, citizens often feel enormous pressure to say yes. But judges routinely ignore these pressures, choosing instead to spotlight the politeness and restraint of the officers' language and demeanor. Courts often analyze the language of police encounters as if the conversation has an obvious, context-free meaning. The pragmatic features of language influence behavior, but courts routinely ignore or deny this fact. Instead, current …


Introducing The New And Improved Americans With Disabilities Act: Assessing The Ada Amendments Act Of 2008, Alex B. Long Nov 2008

Introducing The New And Improved Americans With Disabilities Act: Assessing The Ada Amendments Act Of 2008, Alex B. Long

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Instead Of Enda, A Course Correction For Title Vii, Jennifer S. Hendricks Nov 2008

Instead Of Enda, A Course Correction For Title Vii, Jennifer S. Hendricks

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Diversity And Race-Neutrality, Kenneth L. Marcus Oct 2008

Diversity And Race-Neutrality, Kenneth L. Marcus

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The Significance Of Sprint/United Management Company V. Mendelsohn: A Reply To Professors Gregory And Secunda, Mitchell H. Rubinstein Jul 2008

The Significance Of Sprint/United Management Company V. Mendelsohn: A Reply To Professors Gregory And Secunda, Mitchell H. Rubinstein

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Sprint/United Management Company V. Mendelsohn And Case-By-Case Adjudication Of "Me Too" Evidence Of Discrimination, David Gregory Jul 2008

Sprint/United Management Company V. Mendelsohn And Case-By-Case Adjudication Of "Me Too" Evidence Of Discrimination, David Gregory

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The Many Mendelsohn “Me Too” Missteps: An Alliterative Response To Professor Rubinstein, Paul Secunda Jun 2008

The Many Mendelsohn “Me Too” Missteps: An Alliterative Response To Professor Rubinstein, Paul Secunda

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