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Articles 1 - 28 of 28
Full-Text Articles in Law
The Law Of Nations And The Offenses Clause Of The Constitution: A Defense Of Federalism, Michael T. Morley
The Law Of Nations And The Offenses Clause Of The Constitution: A Defense Of Federalism, Michael T. Morley
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
The Anticanonical Lesson Of Huckleberry Finn, Sharon E. Rush
The Anticanonical Lesson Of Huckleberry Finn, Sharon E. Rush
UF Law Faculty Publications
Some books included in the canon of American literature no longer belong there, because they presently lack normative approval. Adapting concepts found in constitutional law, an anticanon of American literature functions the way the anticanon of constitutional law would operate and explicitly removes books from the canon. In law, the anticanon identifies outdated interpretations of the constitution. In education, it is time to consider removing from the canon and placing in an anticanon books that are inconsistent with multicultural education. One such book is Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, which is part of the canon of American literature and viewed as …
A Roundtable Discussion With Stephen L. Carter & Michael J. Gerhardt, Thomas E. Baker
A Roundtable Discussion With Stephen L. Carter & Michael J. Gerhardt, Thomas E. Baker
Faculty Publications
Transcript of a discussion regarding the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court justices and justice nominees, the Senate process for confirming nominees and related issues such as fitness to serve on the court and judicial activism.
A Qualified Defense Of Military Commissions And United States Policy On Detainees At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Kenneth Anderson
A Qualified Defense Of Military Commissions And United States Policy On Detainees At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Kenneth Anderson
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article, published in a special post 9-11 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, offers a defense of the view that terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden should be tried, if captured, outside of regular US civilian courts and in some form of military commission. The article argues that terrorists should be seen as criminals as well as enemies of the United States. Criminals who are simply deviants from the domestic social order are properly dealt with within the constitutionally constituted civilian court structure. Enemies who are not also criminals - legal combatants - are properly …
What To Do With Bin Laden And Al Qaeda Terrorists?: A Qualified Defense Of Military Commissions And United States Policy On Detainees At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Kenneth Anderson
What To Do With Bin Laden And Al Qaeda Terrorists?: A Qualified Defense Of Military Commissions And United States Policy On Detainees At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Kenneth Anderson
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article, published in a special post 9-11 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, offers a defense of the view that terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden should be tried, if captured, outside of regular US civilian courts and in some form of military commission.
The article argues that terrorists should be seen as criminals as well as enemies of the United States. Criminals who are simply deviants from the domestic social order are properly dealt with within the constitutionally constituted civilian court structure. Enemies who are not also criminals - legal combatants - are properly …
Child Witness Policy: Law Interfacing With Social Science, Louise E. Graham, Dorothy F. Marsil, Jean Montoya, David Ross
Child Witness Policy: Law Interfacing With Social Science, Louise E. Graham, Dorothy F. Marsil, Jean Montoya, David Ross
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The number of children testifying in court has posed serious practical and legal problems for the judicial system. One problem confronting the courts is how to protect children from experiencing the psychological trauma resulting from a face-to-face confrontation with a defendant who may have physically harmed the child or threatened future harm to the child. Another concern is that this trauma may impair children's memory performance and their willingness to disclose the truth. In response to these concerns, child witness innovations proliferated throughout the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. Among the innovations were: placing a screen between child …
Prior Restraint In Wartime, Paul E. Salamanca
Prior Restraint In Wartime, Paul E. Salamanca
Law Faculty Popular Media
In this article for Bench & Bar Magazine (the Kentucky Bar Association's magazine), Professor Paul E. Salamanca discusses the First Amendment during times of war or conflict.
The Ins And Outs, Stops And Starts Of Speedy Trial Rights In Colorado--Part I, H. Patrick Furman
The Ins And Outs, Stops And Starts Of Speedy Trial Rights In Colorado--Part I, H. Patrick Furman
Publications
This two-part article discusses the constitutional right to a speedy trial and the basics of the speedy trial statute.
See Part II at http://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/551/.
Loose Canons: Statutory Construction And The New Nondelegation Doctrine, David M. Driesen
Loose Canons: Statutory Construction And The New Nondelegation Doctrine, David M. Driesen
College of Law - Faculty Scholarship
This article asks whether courts or administrative agencies have constitutional authority to narrowly construe statutes to save them from truly serious nondelegation claims. It explains why the Court correctly rejected administrative saving construction in American Trucking Ass'ns v. Whitman, and why the rationale supporting this rejection applies to courts as well as to agencies. This article also questions recent arguments that the nondelegation doctrine has found a new and appropriate home among canons of statutory construction. Judicial saving construction could lead to great expansion of judicial authority to make public law at the expense of the more democratic branches of …
Selecting Pennsylvania Judges In The Twenty-First Century, Paul D. Carrington, Adam R. Long
Selecting Pennsylvania Judges In The Twenty-First Century, Paul D. Carrington, Adam R. Long
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Alien Tort Statute And Article Iii, Curtis A. Bradley
The Alien Tort Statute And Article Iii, Curtis A. Bradley
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Executive Power In Youngstown's Shadows, Patricia L. Bellia
Executive Power In Youngstown's Shadows, Patricia L. Bellia
Journal Articles
Fifty years after it was handed down, the Supreme Court's decision in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer is among the most important of the Court's separation of powers cases. This Article explores two quite different legacies of the Youngstown case. First, Youngstown has a symbolic or rhetorical power, in that it stands as an example of a court invalidating the actions of a coordinate branch of government in a politically delicate context. When a court wields this weapon, it can take some cover in Youngstown's shadows, and the possibility of a court exercising this power disciplines the executive …
How Is Constitutional Law Made?, Tracey E. George, Robert J. Pushaw, Jr.
How Is Constitutional Law Made?, Tracey E. George, Robert J. Pushaw, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Professors George and Pushaw review Maxwell L. Stearns’ book, “Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court Decision-making.” In his book, Stearns demonstrates that the U.S. Supreme Court fashions constitutional law through process-based rules of decision such as outcome voting, stare decisis, and justiciability. Employing “social choice” economic theory, Professor Stearns argues that the Court strives to formulate rules that promote rationality and fairness. Perhaps the greatest strength of Stearns’ book is that he presents a grand unified theory of the Court’s rules of constitutional process and the resulting development of doctrine. This strength can also be a weakness, …
Intergroup Rivalry, Anti-Competitive Conduct And Affirmative Action, Michelle Adams
Intergroup Rivalry, Anti-Competitive Conduct And Affirmative Action, Michelle Adams
Articles
Significant research in social science describes racial inequality as grounded in notions of group identity and group conflict. Sociologists and social psychologists who study discrimination and prejudice have moved away from theories that explain prejudice solely as a problem of individual perception, and toward theories that view individual cognitive processes as related to group membership. While present social science yields no consensus view, there is a striking emphasis in the current literature on group identity theories as "powerful determinants of behavior." These theories, which stress the importance of prejudice as a group-based phenomenon and focus on "social-structural theories of group …
The Ins And Outs, Stops And Starts Of Speedy Trial Rights In Colorado--Part Ii, H. Patrick Furman
The Ins And Outs, Stops And Starts Of Speedy Trial Rights In Colorado--Part Ii, H. Patrick Furman
Publications
This two-part article reviews the constitutional and statutory right to a speedy trial and discusses the case law interpreting that right. The first part was printed in July 2002.
See Part I at http://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/550/.
What Bush V. Gore Means For Elections In The 21st Century, Helen Norton
What Bush V. Gore Means For Elections In The 21st Century, Helen Norton
Publications
No abstract provided.
Conceptualizing Constitutional Litigation As Anti-Government Expression: A Speech-Centered Theory Of Court Access, Robert L. Tsai
Conceptualizing Constitutional Litigation As Anti-Government Expression: A Speech-Centered Theory Of Court Access, Robert L. Tsai
Faculty Scholarship
This Article proposes a speech-based right of court access. First, it finds the traditional due process approach to be analytically incoherent and of limited practical value. Second, it contends that history, constitutional structure, and theory all support conceiving of the right of access as the modern analogue to the right to petition government for redress. Third, the Article explores the ways in which the civil rights plaintiff's lawsuit tracks the behavior of the traditional dissident. Fourth, by way of a case study, the essay argues that recent restrictions - notably, a congressional limitation on the amount of fees counsel for …
Solving The Apprendi Puzzle, Kyron Huigens
Ensuring The Supremacy Of Federal Law: Why The District Court Was Wrong In Westside Mothers V. Haveman, Erwin Chemerinsky
Ensuring The Supremacy Of Federal Law: Why The District Court Was Wrong In Westside Mothers V. Haveman, Erwin Chemerinsky
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Does Federalism Advance Liberty?, Erwin Chemerinsky
Does Federalism Advance Liberty?, Erwin Chemerinsky
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Rhetoric Of Constitutional Law, Erwin Chemerinsky
The Rhetoric Of Constitutional Law, Erwin Chemerinsky
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Foreword: The Legal History Of The Great Sit-In Case Of Bell V. Maryland, William L. Reynolds
Foreword: The Legal History Of The Great Sit-In Case Of Bell V. Maryland, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
Reviews the environment and history of the 1960 Baltimore sit-in case that eventually made its way to the United States Supreme Court.
Constitutional Classifications And The "Gay Gene", Susan J. Becker
Constitutional Classifications And The "Gay Gene", Susan J. Becker
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In this essay the author discusses the use of genetic information to classify individuals for purposes of the law, and more specifically, the impact of the so-called “gay gene” on legal classifications.
Constitutional Design: Proposals Versus Processes, Donald L. Horowitz
Constitutional Design: Proposals Versus Processes, Donald L. Horowitz
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Incentives To Create Under A "Lifetime-Plus-Years" Copyright Duration: Lessons From A Behavioral Economic Analysis For Eldred V. Ashcroft, Avishalom Tor, Dotan Oliar
Incentives To Create Under A "Lifetime-Plus-Years" Copyright Duration: Lessons From A Behavioral Economic Analysis For Eldred V. Ashcroft, Avishalom Tor, Dotan Oliar
Journal Articles
In this Article, we highlight for the first time some of the significant but hitherto unrecognized behavioral effects of copyright law on individuals' incentives to create and then examine the implications of our findings for the constitutional analysis of Eldred v. Ashcroft. We show that behavioral biases - namely, individuals' optimistic bias regarding their future longevity and their sub-additive judgments in circumstances resembling the extant rule of copyright duration - explain the otherwise puzzling lifetime-plus-years basis for copyright protection given to individual authors, and reveal how this regime provides superior incentives to create. Thus, insofar as the provision of increased …
A Goldilocks Account Of Judicial Review?, Mark V. Tushnet
A Goldilocks Account Of Judicial Review?, Mark V. Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
According to Professor Christopher Eisgruber, judicial review of the sort embedded in United States constitutional practice is a practical mechanism for implementing the Constitution's commitment to self-government. "The justices ... make a distinctive contribution to representative democracy" because they are "better positioned [than elected officials] to represent the people's convictions about what is right." Judges can articulate "a conception of justice with which Americans in general [can] plausibly identify themselves. "
I will focus here on two themes in Professor Eisgruber's argument. The first theme can be found in many works of constitutional theory - the construction of a strong …
Comment On Professor Carrington's Article "The Independence And Democratic Accountability Of The Supreme Court Of Ohio", Roy A. Schotland
Comment On Professor Carrington's Article "The Independence And Democratic Accountability Of The Supreme Court Of Ohio", Roy A. Schotland
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In my view, whether or not Article III is written as members of a new constitutional convention might write it, there is nothing more fundamental to the way our entire judicial system operates (including in many ways, although indirectly, our state courts) than federal judges being as independent as law can make them. Perhaps I suffer from Burkean skepticism about reform of long-standing institutions, or perhaps I am merely a supporter of the status quo. But I believe that, despite obvious drawbacks in giving anyone life tenure in any job, we gain far more than we lose by making federal …
But Some Are More Equal: Race, Exclusion, And Campaign Finance, Spencer A. Overton
But Some Are More Equal: Race, Exclusion, And Campaign Finance, Spencer A. Overton
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Proposed campaign finance reforms and critiques of current campaign finance jurisprudence are incomplete because campaign finance reformers overlook social and historical realities related to race. This Article uses race as an analytical factor to develop a more comprehensive understanding of campaign finance. Past state-sanctioned discrimination has contributed to current racial disparities in property. Under the current campaign finance system, these disparities in property shape the racial distribution of political influence no less than poll taxes, literacy tests, or at-large electoral districts. Further, seemingly neutral campaign finance doctrine threatens to lead to future racial disparities in the political distribution of societal …