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Full-Text Articles in Law
Comfortably Penumbral, Glenn Reynolds, Brannon Denning
Comfortably Penumbral, Glenn Reynolds, Brannon Denning
College of Law Faculty Scholarship
A followup to "Penumbral Reasoning on the Right", 140 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1333 (1992), this paper notes the increased use, and acceptance, of penumbral reasoning by federal courts in recent years. It suggests that this trend is a positive one, and likely to lead to more, rather than less, fidelity to constitutional text and structure.
Comfortably Penumbral, Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Comfortably Penumbral, Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Scholarly Works
A followup to "Penumbral Reasoning on the Right", 140 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1333 (1992), this paper notes the increased use, and acceptance, of penumbral reasoning by federal courts in recent years. It suggests that this trend is a positive one, and likely to lead to more, rather than less, fidelity to constitutional text and structure.
Diversity: The Red Herring Of Equal Protection, Sharon E. Rush
Diversity: The Red Herring Of Equal Protection, Sharon E. Rush
UF Law Faculty Publications
Couching the constitutional inquiry in cases like Bakke and VMI in the context of integration also puts in perspective the diversity justification. Affirmative action policies are constitutional because they integrate state programs. Integration on the basis of race and sex also diversifies state programs. In contrast, attempts to justify sex-segregation in state programs by arguing the policy promotes diversity is irrelevant to an equal protection analysis. Voluntarily created all-female schools should be constitutional because they promote the equal citizenship of women without damaging the equal citizenship stature of men. This is true for voluntarily race-segregated programs for minorities; as well. …
Constitutional Aspects Of Physician-Assisted Suicide After Lee V. Oregon, Simon Canick
Constitutional Aspects Of Physician-Assisted Suicide After Lee V. Oregon, Simon Canick
Faculty Scholarship
On November 8, 1994, Oregon voters narrowly passed the highly controversial Death with Dignity Act (Measure 16), which marked the first time that physician-assisted suicide was explicitly legalized anywhere in the world. In Lee v. Oregon, a group of physicians, several terminally ill persons, a residential care facility, and individual operators of residential care facilities sought to enjoin enforcement of the new law, claiming various constitutional infirmities. The U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon enjoined enforcement of the law, acknowledging that it raised important constitutional issues including possible violations of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of …
A Real World Perspective On Choice Of Law, Robert A. Sedler
A Real World Perspective On Choice Of Law, Robert A. Sedler
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
The Buck Does Not Stop Here: Supervisory Liability In Section 1983 Cases, Kit Kinports
The Buck Does Not Stop Here: Supervisory Liability In Section 1983 Cases, Kit Kinports
Journal Articles
The appropriate standard for supervisory liability in Section 1983 cases has been a source of considerable disagreement among federal courts of appeals. In the absence of established Supreme Court authority on the subject, courts have rejected vicarious and negligence liability in favor of a higher culpability requirement, but they have not agreed on precisely what form this higher standard should take. In this article, the Author addresses the need for a uniform standard consistent with the statute's twin goals of compensating the victims of constitutional violations and deterring constitutional infractions.
The author notes at the outset that lower courts have …
Toward A Conceptual Framework For Assessing Police Power Commitment Legislation, Eric S. Janus
Toward A Conceptual Framework For Assessing Police Power Commitment Legislation, Eric S. Janus
Faculty Scholarship
Recent litigation and scholarship have begun to focus on the substantive limits of the state's power to use civil commitment as a social control tool. Courts and commentators describe civil commitment as grounded on two powers of the state: the parens patriae interest and the police power. This Article seeks an analytical framework for defining the boundaries of police power commitments in which justification rests on the interests of the public rather than on the interests of the committed individual.
Baltimore Bound: Article Xiii, Section 1, "New Counties," Of The Maryland Constitution And The Baltimore City Annexation Acts Of 1888 And 1918, Michele Lefaivre
Baltimore Bound: Article Xiii, Section 1, "New Counties," Of The Maryland Constitution And The Baltimore City Annexation Acts Of 1888 And 1918, Michele Lefaivre
Legal History Publications
This paper examines the extension of Baltimore's boundaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century within the legal process which authorized it.
Jewish Legal Theory And American Constitutional Theory: Some Comparisons And Contrasts, Samuel J. Levine
Jewish Legal Theory And American Constitutional Theory: Some Comparisons And Contrasts, Samuel J. Levine
Scholarly Works
In this article, Levine explores some of the ways in which Jewish law may shed light on issues in American constitutional theory. While acknowledging that there are fundamental differences between a religious legal system and a secular one, he attempts to show that certain conceptual similarities between American law and Jewish law allow for meaningful yet cautious comparison of the two systems. Part I provides a broad historical and analytical overview of interpretation in Jewish law. Part II of the Article offers a specific conceptual framework for comparing Jewish law with American law. Levine considers questions of flexibility in legal …
Utilitarianism Left And Right: A Response To Professor Armour, Robert F. Nagel
Utilitarianism Left And Right: A Response To Professor Armour, Robert F. Nagel
Publications
No abstract provided.
Brief Of Lone Wolf, Principal Chief Of The Kiowas, To The Supreme Court Of The American Indian Nations, S. James Anaya
Brief Of Lone Wolf, Principal Chief Of The Kiowas, To The Supreme Court Of The American Indian Nations, S. James Anaya
Publications
No abstract provided.
Restitution Regimes In Post-Communist Eastern Europe: A Legal Analysis, Sophia Von Rundstedt
Restitution Regimes In Post-Communist Eastern Europe: A Legal Analysis, Sophia Von Rundstedt
LLM Theses and Essays
When the Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe collapsed at the end of the last decade, the opposition, which had been united in their goal to defeat Communism, quickly disintegrated into a variety of factions. One of their tasks was to decide on enacting a constitution, in order to stabilize and entrench the new democratic institutions. Apart from establishing the legal framework for democracy, politicians had to develop strategies to convert the state-run economy into a free-market economy. Such a transition required as a first step the privatization of state property. Legal reform of property rights raises the question: …
Justices At Work: An Introduction, Michel Rosenfeld
The Failure Of The Criminal Procedure Revolution: A Response, Craig M. Bradley
The Failure Of The Criminal Procedure Revolution: A Response, Craig M. Bradley
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Introduction, Paul F. Campos
Limits On Preemption And Punitive Damages: Can They Be Related?, Peter Zablotsky
Limits On Preemption And Punitive Damages: Can They Be Related?, Peter Zablotsky
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Common Law Elements Of The Section 1983 Action, Jack M. Beermann
Common Law Elements Of The Section 1983 Action, Jack M. Beermann
Faculty Scholarship
This Article explores the role of the common law in Supreme Court interpretation and application of § 1983, which grants a cause of action for violations of constitutional rights committed "under color of any [state] statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage."' I argue that the common law has served primarily to narrow the reach of § 1983, and that this is inappropriate in light of the broad statutory language and the absence of good evidence that the enacting Congress intended a narrower application than the statutory language indicates.
Bearing Arms In Washington State, Hugh D. Spitzer
Bearing Arms In Washington State, Hugh D. Spitzer
Articles
Article I, Section 24 of the Washington State Constitution directly affects two "hot topics" today: first, the increase in the carrying of weapons by the citizenry (particularly concealed weapons, with or without permits) and, second, the increase in "citizen militias" in various parts of the state. Article I, Section 24 also presents interesting issues from a pure state-constitutional-law standpoint, because it represents one of the striking characteristics of state constitutions: these basic documents of civil society for each state represent centuries of buildup and accretion. State constitutional provisions can often be analyzed in terms of layering. In preparing a state …
Formalism And Functionalism In Federalism Analysis, Erwin Chemerinsky
Formalism And Functionalism In Federalism Analysis, Erwin Chemerinsky
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
More Speech Is Better, Erwin Chemerinsky
More Speech Is Better, Erwin Chemerinsky
Faculty Scholarship
In this Reply, Professor Chemerinsky argues that the application of First Amendment principles to private institutions is desirable. Under traditional law, the free speech interests of private institutions are always favored over the free speech interests of individuals. Transporting First Amendment norms to the private sector is desirable because more speech is generally best and private power can chill and prevent speech just as much as government actions. Courts should balance the competing free speech interests of institutions and individuals, rather than always siding with the institution over the individual.
The Constitutional Law Scholarship Of Thomas Mcintyre Cooley, Paul D. Carrington
The Constitutional Law Scholarship Of Thomas Mcintyre Cooley, Paul D. Carrington
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Constitutional Limits Of Judicial Rulemaking: The Illegitimacy Of Mass-Tort Settlements Negotiated Under Federal Rule 23, Paul D. Carrington, Derek P. Apanovitch
The Constitutional Limits Of Judicial Rulemaking: The Illegitimacy Of Mass-Tort Settlements Negotiated Under Federal Rule 23, Paul D. Carrington, Derek P. Apanovitch
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Integrity And Universality: A Comment On Dworkin's Freedom's Law, Robin West
Integrity And Universality: A Comment On Dworkin's Freedom's Law, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Ronald Dworkin has done more than any other constitutional lawyer, past or present, to impress upon us the importance of integrity to constitutional law, and hence to our shared public life. Far from being merely a private virtue, Dworkin has shown that integrity imposes constraints upon and provides guidance to the work of judges in constitutional cases: Every constitutional case that comes before a court must be decided by recourse to the same moral principles that have dictated results in relevant similar cases in the past. Any group or individual challenging the constitutionality of legislation which adversely affects his or …
Interpretation And Judgment, Kent Greenawalt
Interpretation And Judgment, Kent Greenawalt
Faculty Scholarship
The major conclusions in Georgia Warnke's illuminating Essay, Law, Hermeneutics, and Public Debate are persuasive, but some that appear almost self-evident instead rest on controversial evaluative judgments. Many of my comments deal with these complexities, drawing from her book on interpretation and political theory as well as her Essay. Other remarks develop subjects Warnke barely touches. My thoughts are, thus, some combination of clarification, supplementation, and disagreement.
My initial effort is to refine in just what senses interpretations of texts, social practices, and legal rules must speak to our concerns. I next explore how interpretations of legal texts that are …