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Rules Of The Road: The Constitutional Limits Of Restricting Indecent Speech On The Information Superhighway, Stacey J. Rappaport
Rules Of The Road: The Constitutional Limits Of Restricting Indecent Speech On The Information Superhighway, Stacey J. Rappaport
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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Losing The Struggle For Another Voice: The Case Of Family Law, Carol Smart
Losing The Struggle For Another Voice: The Case Of Family Law, Carol Smart
Dalhousie Law Journal
This paper is based on empirical work in progress concerning co-parenting and the ways in which mothers and fathers organize the care of children after separation. It deals with two foundational issues: Gilligan's concept of "another voice" and its congruence with recent developments in family law in the United Kingdom and otherdeveloped countries including Canada and the United States. The author concludes that the ethic of care incorporated in the British legislation and given some expression in the judicial system does not fully recognize two kinds of caring. There is caring about and caring for. The caring about of fathers …
Mikmaw Tenure In Atlantic Canada, James [Sákéj] Youngblood Henderson
Mikmaw Tenure In Atlantic Canada, James [Sákéj] Youngblood Henderson
Dalhousie Law Journal
The Supreme Court of Canada has characterized aboriginal title to land as a sui generis legal interest. This essay describes the sui generis interest of Mikmaw tenure in Atlantic Canada from a Mikmaq linguistic perspective. The author argues the prerogative treaties and legislation of the eighteenth century suggest it is a reserved and protected tenure, which in Eurocentric law might be reconceptualized as allodial tenure.
Congressional Risk Proposals, Dalton G. Paxman
Congressional Risk Proposals, Dalton G. Paxman
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Paxman relates how an ambitious environmental agenda supported by the Administration and many members of the 103d Congress was ultimately derailed. He associates this with an apparently ever-growing interest in risk assessment.
Reclaiming Self-Determination: A Call For Intraracial Adoption, Jacinda T. Townsend
Reclaiming Self-Determination: A Call For Intraracial Adoption, Jacinda T. Townsend
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economic interests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sons and daughters who were traded away from their parents would later struggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and their countries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in the transient slave communities were continually fragmented as children and their caretakers were merchanted to different plantations according to the whims of White slavemasters. 1 Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Black community continues to lose its children. At present, government sponsored entities, 2 …
The Dignity Of Legislation , Jeremy Waldron
United States Tort Liability For War Crimes Abroad: An Assessment And Recommendation, Kenneth Bullock
United States Tort Liability For War Crimes Abroad: An Assessment And Recommendation, Kenneth Bullock
Law and Contemporary Problems
Bullock proposes that victims of war crimes be permitted to recover against the US government through administrative procedures similar to those of the Foreign Claims Act.
Process And Progress: Reviewing The Criminal Justice Act, Edward C. Prado
Process And Progress: Reviewing The Criminal Justice Act, Edward C. Prado
Law and Contemporary Problems
Prado describes the results of a comprehensive study of the federal defender program and concludes that as the federal criminal justice system evolves, the Criminal Justice Act program must adapt to ever-changing conditions.