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The Potholes Of Offender-Funded Driving Diversion: How Minnesota's Driving Diversion Program Fails The People It Is Supposed To Help Jun 2019

The Potholes Of Offender-Funded Driving Diversion: How Minnesota's Driving Diversion Program Fails The People It Is Supposed To Help

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


What Is A Confederate Monument?: An Examination Of Confederate Monuments In The Context Of The Compelled Speech And Government Speech Doctrines Jun 2019

What Is A Confederate Monument?: An Examination Of Confederate Monuments In The Context Of The Compelled Speech And Government Speech Doctrines

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


Gun Control And The Color Of Law Jun 2019

Gun Control And The Color Of Law

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


The Case Against Absolute Judicial Immunity For Immigration Judges Jun 2019

The Case Against Absolute Judicial Immunity For Immigration Judges

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

A federal regulation states that immigration hearings shall be open to the public. Courts and scholars also have located a right to observe these proceedings in the First Amendment. And yet immigration judges (IJ) have excluded members of the press and other observers from hearings for no stated legal reasons, thus effectively eliminating public scrutiny of proceedings that affect millions of citizens and non-citizens in the United States. In response to a lawsuit pursuing monetary, injunctive, and declaratory relief after an IJ ordered guards to remove a reporter from a federal building, an Eleventh Circuit panel held IJs have absolute …


Racial States Of Municipal Governance: Policing Bodies And Space For Revenue In North St. Louis County, Mo Jun 2019

Racial States Of Municipal Governance: Policing Bodies And Space For Revenue In North St. Louis County, Mo

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


Minneapolis Municipal Construction Contracts: Awarding Methodologies And Affirmative Action Apr 2019

Minneapolis Municipal Construction Contracts: Awarding Methodologies And Affirmative Action

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


Finding Their Feet: How Reentry Court Changes The Path Ofreturning Citizens In The District Of Minnesota Apr 2019

Finding Their Feet: How Reentry Court Changes The Path Ofreturning Citizens In The District Of Minnesota

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


Precarious Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Naturalization 1918 To 1925 Apr 2019

Precarious Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Naturalization 1918 To 1925

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

During the height of the exclusion era, when Asian immigrants were prohibited from naturalizing and becoming United States citizens, state and federal court judges around the country naturalized at least 500 Asian immigrant servicepersons and veterans. Between 1918 and 1925, Federal Bureau of Naturalization officials and state and federal court judges had to determine whether the military naturalization provisions enacted in 1918 included the same racial restrictions that the general naturalization provisions included. This Article tells the story of how these officials and judges navigated statutory text, congressional intent, and the reality of Asian immigrant membership in the United States …


Eleven Things They Don’T Tell You About Law & Economics: An Informal Introduction To Political Economy And Law Apr 2019

Eleven Things They Don’T Tell You About Law & Economics: An Informal Introduction To Political Economy And Law

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

Many legal scholars have critiqued the dominant law and economics paradigm. However, important work is all too often neglected because it is not popularized in an accessible form. This Article features experts who synthesize their key insights into memorable and concise vignettes. Our 11 Things project is inspired by the work of the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, who distilled many facets of his work into a book called 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. That book was a runaway success, translated for markets around the globe, because it challenged conventional economic reasoning with a series of short and …


A Case For Legalizing Polygamy In Western Societies: Lessons From The Global South Apr 2019

A Case For Legalizing Polygamy In Western Societies: Lessons From The Global South

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


Uncommon Misconceptions: Holding Physicians Accountable For Insemination Fraud Apr 2019

Uncommon Misconceptions: Holding Physicians Accountable For Insemination Fraud

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


Report Of A National Meeting: Parental Involvement Laws And The Judicial Bypass Apr 2019

Report Of A National Meeting: Parental Involvement Laws And The Judicial Bypass

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


Equality, Equity, And Dignity Apr 2019

Equality, Equity, And Dignity

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.


Introduction Apr 2019

Introduction

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

Introduction of articles published as a part of the North American Regional Meeting of the International Society of Family Law