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December 31, 2007: Curtis White In Harper's Magazine, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 31, 2007: Curtis White In Harper's Magazine, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Curtis White in Harper's Magazine


December 29, 2007: More On Craig Unger The Neocons And Religion, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 29, 2007: More On Craig Unger The Neocons And Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

More on Craig Unger the Neocons and Religion


December 28, 2007: The Neocons And Religion, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 28, 2007: The Neocons And Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

The Neocons and Religion


December 23, 2007: The Evangelical Stance On Global Warming, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 23, 2007: The Evangelical Stance On Global Warming, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

The Evangelical Stance on Global Warming


December 20, 2007: Comfort At A Funeral, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 20, 2007: Comfort At A Funeral, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Comfort at a Funeral


December 19, 2007: More On Philip Pullman, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 19, 2007: More On Philip Pullman, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

More on Philip Pullman


December 13, 2007: Physician Assisted Suicide, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 13, 2007: Physician Assisted Suicide, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Physician Assisted Suicide


December 11, 2007: More On The Romney Speech: Liberal Reaction, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 11, 2007: More On The Romney Speech: Liberal Reaction, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

More on the Romney Speech: Liberal Reaction


December 7, 2007: Mitt Romney's Talk On Religion, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 7, 2007: Mitt Romney's Talk On Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Mitt Romney's Talk on Religion


The Man Behind The Torture, David Cole Dec 2007

The Man Behind The Torture, David Cole

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.


Rays Of Sunlight In A Shadow “War”: Foia, The Abuses Of Anti-Terrorism, And The Strategy Of Transparency, Seth F. Kreimer Dec 2007

Rays Of Sunlight In A Shadow “War”: Foia, The Abuses Of Anti-Terrorism, And The Strategy Of Transparency, Seth F. Kreimer

All Faculty Scholarship

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the “Global War on Terror” has marginalized the rule of law. From the dragnet detentions in the aftermath of the initial attacks, to novel and secretive surveillance authority under the Patriot Act, to the incarceration and torture of “enemy combatants,” the administration’s “war” has sought to establish zones of maneuver free of both legal constraint and of political oversight. In the first half decade of these efforts, the tripartite constitutional structure which is said to guard against executive usurpation remained largely quiescent. Opponents both inside and outside of the government turned instead …


December 4, 2007: Theology And Hallowed Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2007

December 4, 2007: Theology And Hallowed Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Theology and Hallowed Secularism


Interpreting The Fourteenth Amendment: Two Don'ts And Three Dos, Garrett Epps Dec 2007

Interpreting The Fourteenth Amendment: Two Don'ts And Three Dos, Garrett Epps

All Faculty Scholarship

A sophisticated reading of the legislative record of the framing of the Fourteenth Amendment can provide courts and scholars with some general interpretive principles to guide their application of the Amendment to current legal problems. The author argues that two common legal conceptions about the Amendment are, in fact, misconceptions. The first is that the Amendment was chiefly concerned with the immediate situation of freed slaves in the former slave states. Instead, he argues, the legislative record suggests that the framers were broadly concerned with the rights not only of freed slaves but also of foreign-born immigrants in the North …


Terrorism As An Intellectual Problem, Charles W. Collier Dec 2007

Terrorism As An Intellectual Problem, Charles W. Collier

UF Law Faculty Publications

The past few years have been instructive for observers of religious terrorism. Events have conspired to reveal ever more of its grim visage, inner logic, and awful potential. Religious terrorism has been exhaustively analyzed as a security problem, a military problem, an economic problem, a political problem, and more. But it is also an intellectual problem, one with particular implications for the study of law, culture, and history. This Essay examines the intellectual assumptions of religious terrorism, and it does so from three distinct perspectives: the theory of religion and American constitutional law (Part I); the common law (Part II); …


November 30, 2007: Huckabee On Hardball, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2007

November 30, 2007: Huckabee On Hardball, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Huckabee on Hardball


November 28, 2007: Mike Huckabee's Chances, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2007

November 28, 2007: Mike Huckabee's Chances, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Mike Huckabee's Chances


November 24, 2007: Hallowed Secularism And Thanksgiving 2007, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2007

November 24, 2007: Hallowed Secularism And Thanksgiving 2007, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Hallowed Secularism and Thanksgiving 2007


November 21, 2007: Philip Pullman--Author Of Hallowed Secularism?, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2007

November 21, 2007: Philip Pullman--Author Of Hallowed Secularism?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Philip Pullman--Author of Hallowed Secularism?


Pro-Gun Scholars Twist Constitution, Kenneth Lasson Nov 2007

Pro-Gun Scholars Twist Constitution, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

Earlier this year, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia became the first federal tribunal to strike down a local gun-control law, holding that the Founding Fathers would have allowed all private citizens to arm themselves.


November 19, 2007: Antony Flew Finds Religion, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2007

November 19, 2007: Antony Flew Finds Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Antony Flew Finds Religion


November 17, 2007: Prayers For Rain In Georgia, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2007

November 17, 2007: Prayers For Rain In Georgia, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Prayers for Rain in Georgia


Petitioner's Observations (December 2007) For The Redress Of Violations Of Human Rights Guaranteed By The American Declaration Of The Rights And Duties Of Man, Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Jeffrey C. Tuomala Nov 2007

Petitioner's Observations (December 2007) For The Redress Of Violations Of Human Rights Guaranteed By The American Declaration Of The Rights And Duties Of Man, Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Jeffrey C. Tuomala

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


November 15, 2007: American Religious Democracy In The News, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2007

November 15, 2007: American Religious Democracy In The News, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

American Religious Democracy in the News


Everything You Wanted To Know About Justice Scalia But Were Afraid To Ask, Or Don't Look Now But Justice Scalia's Originalism Approach Is Fatally Flawed, Arthur R. Landever Nov 2007

Everything You Wanted To Know About Justice Scalia But Were Afraid To Ask, Or Don't Look Now But Justice Scalia's Originalism Approach Is Fatally Flawed, Arthur R. Landever

Law Faculty Presentations and Testimony

I do not deny Justice Scalia's valiant efforts to vote based upon his originalist principles. But both a justice and an observer are well advised to understand the implications of the culture surrounding the Supreme Court. Originalism, in assuming present culture plays little part, and in seeking to operate in a closed universe, distorts the reality of judicial decision-making, and to that extent, risks unsound constitutional interpretations.


November 13, 2007: The Limits Of Charles Taylor's Categories In A Secular Age, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2007

November 13, 2007: The Limits Of Charles Taylor's Categories In A Secular Age, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

The Limits of Charles Taylor's Categories in A Secular Age


Medimmune, Inc. V. Genentech, Inc.: A Patent Licensee Does Not Need To Terminate Or Breach A License Agreement In Order To Challenge Its Validity Or Enforceability, C. Tyler Ohanian Nov 2007

Medimmune, Inc. V. Genentech, Inc.: A Patent Licensee Does Not Need To Terminate Or Breach A License Agreement In Order To Challenge Its Validity Or Enforceability, C. Tyler Ohanian

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. asks whether Article III's restriction on the jurisdiction of the federal courts only to "cases" and "controversies," as required by the "actual controversy" limitation of the Declaratory Judgment Act, necessitates that a patent licensee terminate or breach its license agreement before seeking a declaratory judgment to hold the underlying patent invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed. Breaking with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the MedImmune majority clearly establishes a patent licensee's legal right to challenge the validity and enforceability of a patent without actually breaching or terminating the underlying licensing agreement for the …


Cunningham V. California, Christopher P. Raab Nov 2007

Cunningham V. California, Christopher P. Raab

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

In Cunningham v. California, the United States Supreme Court voted 6-3 to invalidate California's determinate sentencing law ("DSL") as violative of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court held that, notwithstanding the California Supreme Court's determination to the contrary, the DSL conflicted with prior Supreme Court precedent "by placing sentence-elevating factfinding within the judge's province," thereby "violat[ing] a defendant's right to trial by jury safeguarded by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments."


Carey V. Musladin: A Commentary On What Is Not Prejudicial, Christopher Donadio Nov 2007

Carey V. Musladin: A Commentary On What Is Not Prejudicial, Christopher Donadio

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

In a 9-0 decision, the United States Supreme Court refused to find that a California state court had acted "contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law," when that court found that it was not prejudicial for trial audience members to wear buttons with the image of the defendant's alleged murder victim. The Court relied upon the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), and its previous rulings in Estelle v. Williams and Holbrook v. Flynn, earlier cases that defined certain actions as prejudicial to a defendant in a court of law. The Court …


When Is Enough Too Much? The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act Of 2005 And The Eighth Amendment’S Prohibition On Excessive Fines, Amy Kristin Sanders Esq. Nov 2007

When Is Enough Too Much? The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act Of 2005 And The Eighth Amendment’S Prohibition On Excessive Fines, Amy Kristin Sanders Esq.

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

The next slip of the tongue or of the blouse will hit broadcasters where it hurts: their wallet. With the recent passage of the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 ("BDEA"), Congress raised potential fines ten-fold in an attempt to clean up the airwaves and prevent the televised snafus that have occurred with increasing frequency during the past five years. From the broadcast of a barely covered breast during the 2004 Super Bowl to the on-air announcement of a four-letter expletive on a prime-time awards show, indecent expression has attracted the attention of the general public, advocacy groups, the Federal …


Safeco Ins. Co. Of America V. Burr: Defining Notification Requirements And Willfulness Under The Fair Credit Reporting Act, Travis S. Souza Nov 2007

Safeco Ins. Co. Of America V. Burr: Defining Notification Requirements And Willfulness Under The Fair Credit Reporting Act, Travis S. Souza

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

In a recent decision, the United States Supreme Court resolved a critical dispute regarding the interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") and its notice requirement. In Safeco Ins. Co. of America v. Burr, the Court settled the definition of "willful" violation, a determination that will have enormous effects for insurance companies. Specifically, the Court held that willfulness not only includes knowing violations, but also includes a violation committed in reckless disregard of statutory obligations. While both of the insurance companies in Burr were technically victorious -- both were held not to have willfully violated the FCRA -- the …