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How To Prevent Another Larsen Affair, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 1994

How To Prevent Another Larsen Affair, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Religion And The Search For A Principled Middle Ground On Abortion, Michael W. Mcconnell May 1994

Religion And The Search For A Principled Middle Ground On Abortion, Michael W. Mcconnell

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Politics of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable? by Elizabeth Mensch and Alan Freeman


The Multicultures Of Belief And Disbelief, Sanford Levinson May 1994

The Multicultures Of Belief And Disbelief, Sanford Levinson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, the Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of Our Classrooms by Stephen Bates and The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion by Stephen L. Carter


Punishment Most Cruel, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 1994

Punishment Most Cruel, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Rico's Latest Victim—Social Protest, Bruce Ledewitz Feb 1994

Rico's Latest Victim—Social Protest, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


What's Really Wrong With The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1994

What's Really Wrong With The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


Truth And The Religion Clauses, William P. Marshall Jan 1994

Truth And The Religion Clauses, William P. Marshall

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Defining Religion: An Immodest Proposal, Dmitry N. Feofanov Jan 1994

Defining Religion: An Immodest Proposal, Dmitry N. Feofanov

Hofstra Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Lower State Courts In Adapting State Law To Changed Federal Interpretations, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1994

The Role Of Lower State Courts In Adapting State Law To Changed Federal Interpretations, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


Enhanced Punishment Under The Texas Hate Crimes Act: Politics, Panacea, Or Pathway To Hell., David Todd Smith Jan 1994

Enhanced Punishment Under The Texas Hate Crimes Act: Politics, Panacea, Or Pathway To Hell., David Todd Smith

St. Mary's Law Journal

Nearly without exception, modern legislatures have responded to the reprehensible nature and detrimental social effects of hate crime by enacting laws specifically designed to punish the offender’s discriminatory animus. The term “hate crime” describes criminal conduct which is motivated by the offender’s bias or prejudice against another cognizable group. Although the reprehensible nature of a hate crime is often apparent from the facts of any given case, the repercussions of these offenses exceed the ignoble character of any one specific act. Texas has now joined the ranks of these jurisdictions by adopting legal provisions which authorize heightened penalties upon a …


A Nation At Prayer, A Nation In Hate: Apartheid In South Africa, Tamara Rice Lave Jan 1994

A Nation At Prayer, A Nation In Hate: Apartheid In South Africa, Tamara Rice Lave

Articles

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The Word On Trial, Robin West Jan 1994

The Word On Trial, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Milner Ball's extraordinary book, The Word and the Law, begins with a narrative account of "seven practices in law." The seven practitioners Ball brings to life for the reader share two powerful traits: they all, in quite different ways, use law to lessen the multiple sufferings of various communities of poor people, and they all, by doing so, strengthen the communities within which and for which they labor. The reader gains from these accounts not only a sympathetic understanding of the lives of seven lawyers, but a renewed sense of the possibilities their practices present. This can be put any …