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The Torture Victim's Protection Act, The Alien Tort Claims Act, And Foucault's Archaeology Of Knowledge, Eric A. Engle
The Torture Victim's Protection Act, The Alien Tort Claims Act, And Foucault's Archaeology Of Knowledge, Eric A. Engle
Eric A. Engle
Outilnes the procedural obstacles to Alien Tort Statute Claims and discusses how to surmount them. Relates ATS to Foucaults power-knowledge and power-body discourses.
Tax Protest, A Homosexual, And Frivolity: A Deconstructionist Meditation, Anthony C. Infanti
Tax Protest, A Homosexual, And Frivolity: A Deconstructionist Meditation, Anthony C. Infanti
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In this contribution to a symposium entitled Out of the Closet and Into the Light: The Legal Issues of Sexual Orientation, I recount and then ponder the story of Robert Mueller. Mueller, a gay man, spent more than a decade protesting the discriminatory treatment of gays and lesbians under the Internal Revenue Code. As a result of his tax protest, Mueller was jailed for more than a year, and then was twice pursued by the IRS for taxes and penalties. In pondering Mueller's story, I consider it both as a telling example of the forcible closeting of gay and lesbian …