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Gun Control And America's Cities: Public Policy And Politics, Carl Bogus Jan 2008

Gun Control And America's Cities: Public Policy And Politics, Carl Bogus

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When Bias Is Bipartisan: Teaching About The Democratic Process In An Intellectual Property Law Republic, Ann Bartow Jan 2008

When Bias Is Bipartisan: Teaching About The Democratic Process In An Intellectual Property Law Republic, Ann Bartow

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[Introduction]: Intellectual property law courses offer law professors the opportunity to teach a subject area rich with complicated statutory and court-made doctrines about which students do not usually have strong or extensively delineated moral views. I It also gives everyone in the classroom a refreshing break from the traditional partisanship of political party politics. Identification as a Democrat or Republican does not provide too much guidance or create too many expectations about a person's views of intellectual property issues, freeing classroom debates from the constrictions that political loyalties impose in so many other contexts.


When To Push The Envelope: Legal Ethics, The Rule Of Law, And National Security Strategy Legal Issues Surrounding Guantanamo Bay, Peter Margulies Feb 2007

When To Push The Envelope: Legal Ethics, The Rule Of Law, And National Security Strategy Legal Issues Surrounding Guantanamo Bay, Peter Margulies

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When To Push The Envelope: Legal Ethics, The Rule Of Law, And National Security Strategy, Peter Margulies Jan 2007

When To Push The Envelope: Legal Ethics, The Rule Of Law, And National Security Strategy, Peter Margulies

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Uncertain Arrivals: Immigration, Terror, And Democracy After September 11, Peter Margulies Jan 2002

Uncertain Arrivals: Immigration, Terror, And Democracy After September 11, Peter Margulies

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A Vote Cast; A Vote Counted: Quantifying Voting Rights Through Proportional Representation In Congressional Elections, Michael Mccann Jan 2002

A Vote Cast; A Vote Counted: Quantifying Voting Rights Through Proportional Representation In Congressional Elections, Michael Mccann

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The current winner-take-all or first-past-the-post system of voting promotes an inefficient market where votes are often wasted. In this system, representatives are selected from a single district in which the candidate with the plurality of votes gains victory. Candidates who appear non-generic can rarely, if ever, expect to receive the most votes in this system. This phenomenon is especially apparent when African-Americans and other minority groups seek elected office. In part because white voters constitute at least a plurality of voters in every state except Hawaii, minorities in the forty-nine other states have had historically little success in gaining election …