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Interview With Daniel L. Greenberg, Ria C. Momblanco, Daniel L. Greenberg, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Daniel L. Greenberg oversees the pro bono program at Schulte Roth & Zable LLP. From 1987 to 1995 he directed clinical legal programs at Harvard Law School, and from 1995 to 2004 he was executive director of New York City's Legal Aid Society. He has been named an honorary fellow of Penn Law School.

Interview With André L. Dennis, Joanna L. Levine, André L. Dennis, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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André L. Dennis practices in Philadelphia in the areas of civil rights and product liability, among others.. He represented Ramona Africa in her lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia after the 1985 MOVE bombing. In 1997 he was named an honorary fellow of Penn Law School.

Interview With E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., Erik Lieberman, E. Clinton Bamberger Jr., Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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E. Clinton Bamberger Jr. was the first director of legal services in the federal Office of Economic Opportunity, and later of Community Legal Services. He practiced law in Baltimore, where he represented the petitioner in the landmark case of Brady v. Maryland. In 1981 he was made an honorary fellow of Penn Law School. He died in 2013.

Interview With Rhonda Copelon, Elizabeth Carrott, Rhonda Copelon, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Interview With Bruce J. Terris, Corinne Levy, Bruce J. Terris, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Bruce J. Terris was an assistant in the US Solicitor General's office from 1958 to 1965, where he argued sixteen cases before the Supreme Court. In 1970 he went into private practice. He was counsel in many landmark environmental law cases and was active in numerous District of Columbia-area nonprofits. In 1977 he was named a Penn Law honorary fellow. He died in 2017.

Interview With Hans F. Loeser, Larry Seymour, Hans F. Loeser, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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A graduate of Harvard Law School, Hans Loeser joined the Boston firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot, where he founded one of the country's first pro bono programs. He co-founded and chaired the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law of the Boston Bar Association and the Boston Lawyers Vietnam Committee, which earned him a spot on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list." He has been named an honorary fellow of the Penn Law School. He died in 2010.

Interview With Justice Cruz Reynoso, Will Proctor, Cruz Reynoso, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Cruz Reynoso served as associate justice for the Third District Court of Appeals (1976-1981) and the Supreme Court (1981-1986) of California. From 1993 to 2000 he was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights. He has been named an honorary fellow of Penn Law School.

Interview With Ira J. Kurzban, Kristin Smith, Ira J. Kurzban, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Ira J. Kurzban is a partner in the law firm of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt, P.A., of Miami, Florida, and serves as adjunct faculty member in Immigration and Nationality Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He is also a founding board member of Immigrants' List, a political action committee focusing on immigration issues. He was a founder of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and served as Board Chair from 2004-2019. He has been named an honorary fellow of Penn …

Interview With Eli Rosenbaum, Deborah Weisbein, Eli Rosenbaum, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Eli M. Rosenbaum (WG'77) served as director of the U.S. DOJ Office of Special Investigations, which was primarily responsible for identifying, denaturalizing, and deporting Nazi war criminals, from 1994 to 2010, when the office was merged into the new Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section. He is now the Director of Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy in the new Department of Justice section. He is the primary author of Betrayal: The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation, which narrates the inquiry he led …

The Equal Access Act And Public Schools: What Are The Legal Issues Related To Recognizing Gay Student Groups?, Ralph D. Mawdsley

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

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"A Lawyer Class": Views On Marriage And "Sexual Orientation" In The Legal Profession, William C. Duncan

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Interview With William R. Klaus, Rosanna V. Perretta, William R. Klaus, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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The State Of The Canon In Constitutional Law: Lessons From The Jurisprudence Of John Marshall, David E. Marion

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Constitutional law has been an active battlefield as competing groups within the academy seek to deconstruct, reconstruct, and/or relegitimize the teaching and practice of law in the United States. Much of the rhetoric of the debate is couched in the language of rights. There is a danger that diminished attention to powers in the rhetoric and teaching of constitutional law may compromise sober and moderate constitutional reasoning. By reinvigorating reflection on powers-related issues, the legal profession can do its part to promote sobriety, and hence an added dose of prudence, in constitutional reflection and discourse by a democratic citizenry whose …

Morality And God, John Hare

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, January 18,2001 with the title, "Does Morality Need God?"

Lawful Deeds: The Entitlements Of Marriage In Shakespeare’S All’S Well That Ends Well, A.G. Harmon

Scholarly Articles

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Why Do They Strike Us?, James Polchin

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Over the past two years since the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie Wyoming, the circumstances of his death have held a symbolic place in the story of violence against gay men and lesbians nationally. University of Wyoming Professor Beth Loffreda's book Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder is on the "Lambda Book Report" best-sellers list and MTV has recently premiered "Anatomy of a Hate Crime: The Matthew Shepard Story" that dramatized the events of October 6th, 1998. The telling and retelling of Shepard's murder in both academic books and popular culture suggests …

The Lobbyist No. 31 (Winter 2001), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Two Men On A Plank, Claire Oakes Finkelstein

All Faculty Scholarship

Can two individuals, each of whom needs a certain resource for his survival, have equal and conflicting rights to that resource? If so, is each entitled to try to exclude the other from its use? An old chestnut of moral and legal philosophy raises the problem. Following a shipwreck, two men converge simultaneously on a plank floating in the sea. There is no other plank available and no immediate hope of rescue. Unfortunately the plank can support only one; it sinks if two try to cling to it. Is it permissible for each to attempt to secure his own survival …

Mary Joe Frug's Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto Ten Years Later: Reflections On The State Of Feminism Today·, Regina Austin, Elizabeth M. Schneider

All Faculty Scholarship

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"Closet Case": Boy Scouts Of America V. Dale And The Reinforcement Of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Invisibility, Darren L. Hutchinson

Faculty Articles

This Article argues that the Supreme Courts decision in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale misapplies and ignores controlling First Amendment precedent and incorrectly dermes "sexual identity" as a clinical or biological imposition that exists apart from expression or speech. This Article provides a doctrinal alternative to Dale that would protect vital interests in both equality and liberty and that would not condition, as does Dale, sexual "equality" upon the silencing of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

Regulation Of Religious Proselytism In The United States, Howard O. Hunter, Polly J. Price

Faculty Articles

This article will consider various aspects of the U.S. legal system that affect proselytism. Although the United States has had a longstanding constitutional guarantee of the “free exercise” of religion, there are nonetheless significant constraints upon free exercise directly relating to proselytism. Some legal commentators, including Douglas Laycock, have argued that our decentralized system of government leads to insufficient protection of religious liberty, especially for religious minorities.Most case law on the subject in the United States, as well as most attempts to regulate behavior by ordinance or statute, have developed in response to groups or individuals that are outside the …

The Principles Of Justice, Richard W. Wright

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Image Of Paul Robeson:Role Model For The Student And Athlete, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

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Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Is the family subject to principles of justice? In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls includes the (monogamous) family along with the market and the government as among the "basic institutions of society" to which principles of justice apply. Justice, he famously insists, is primary in politics as truth is in science: the only excuse for tolerating injustice is that no lesser injustice is possible. The point of the present paper is that Rawls doesn't actually mean this. When it comes to the family, and in particular its impact on fair equal opportunity (the first part of the the Difference …

"Simply So Different": The Uniquely Expressive Character Of The Openly Gay Individual After Boy Scouts V. Dale, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

Boy Scouts v. Dale was uniformly considered a set back for gay rights. Undeniably, it was not a good result for James Dale or other openly gay individuals who would like to participate in the largest youth organization in the U.S. This Article views Boy Scouts v. Dale in a different light and suggests that the expressive character of the openly gay individual endorsed by the majority may signal an opportunity to argue for greater First Amendment protections. The majority recognized that a single avowal of homosexuality imbues the openly gay individual with a uniquely expressive character. Wherever he goes, …

Origin Of Communist Policing In The People's Republic Of China, Kam C. Wong

Kam C. Wong

This is an investigation into the origin of Communist policing in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Existing literature on the PRC police (baowei, gongan, jingcha) are not in agreement as to the origin of Communist policing. Most sources, particularly western ones, point to the formation of the Ministry of Public Security in November of 1949 as the origination of Communist police. Others, particularly the PRC police historians, have traced the starting date to November of 1931 when the Chinese Soviet government in Shan-Gan-Ning border area established the Political Security Department (zhengzhi baoweiju). Still, a minority have suggested that Communist …

Naar Een Onafhankelijke En Meertalige Stadsstaat Brussel ?, Serge Gutwirth, And Others

Serge Gutwirth

Dit is een opiniestuk van 2001 dat 9 jaar later nog niet aan actualiteit is ingeboet. Hoe los je het probleem van de onbestuurbaarheid van Brussel op ? Hier wordt gedacht in de richting van de creatie van een onafhankelijke stadsstaat, door de erkenning van een Brusselse meertalige gemeenschap, naast de Vlaamse voor Vlaanderen en de Franstalige voor Wallonië

Trente Ans De Théorie Du Droit De L'Environnement, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

Une vue d'ensemble de trente ans de théorie du droit de l'environnement révèle une discussion marquée par le conflit entre deux conceptions diamétralement opposées. Dans une perspective anthropocentrique forte, l'homme se trouve à la place du roi et règne sur le non-humain. A l'opposé, la perspective non anthropocentrique soutient que l'humanité est une part non privilégiée d'un ensemble écologique. L'échange entre ces extrêmes a toutefois donné naissance à une série de concepts qui occupent une position médiane et peuvent fonctionner comme base pour la cohésion théorique du droit de l'environnement.

Trente Ans De Théorie Du Droit De L'Environnement, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

Une vue d'ensemble de trente ans de théorie du droit de l'environnement révèle une discussion marquée par le conflit entre deux conceptions diamétralement opposées. Dans une perspective anthropocentrique forte, l'homme se trouve à la place du roi et règne sur le non-humain. A l'opposé, la perspective non anthropocentrique soutient que l'humanité est une part non privilégiée d'un ensemble écologique. L'échange entre ces extrêmes a toutefois donné naissance à une série de concepts qui occupent une position médiane et peuvent fonctionner comme base pour la cohésion théorique du droit de l'environnement.

Une Petite Réflexion Sur L’Importance De La Flibusterie Épistémologique Des Littéraires. Dostoïevski, La Criminologie, Les Sciences, Le Droit Et La Littérature, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

L'on sait le grand intérêt des juristes pour la littérature. En témoignent les nombreux ouvrages, articles et commentaires dans lesquels des juristes, toutes branches de droit confondues, évoquent des œuvres littéraires afin d'éclaircir ou de faire comprendre certaines questions ou positions. Combien d'articles et d'ouvrages juridiques ne portent-ils pas de citation littéraire en exergue ? Combien de réflexions juridiques ne se font-elles pas à partir d'un questionnement formulé préalablement par la littérature ? Combien de questions juridiques ne furent pas déjà abordées et posées dans la littérature ? Les exemples abondent, et l'on peut assurément conclure que les juristes manient, …