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Linguistic Estoppel: A Custodial Interrogation Subject’S Reliance On Traditional Language Customs When Facing Unknown Expectations For Legally Efficacious Speech, Taylor J. Smith
BYU Law Review
For various reasons, speakers often communicate indirectly, hiding their words’ true meaning beneath an apparent surface meaning. For example, a woman trying to brush off her co-worker’s date invitation might respond, “I have to prepare for a presentation tomorrow.” While the words’ surface meaning doesn’t relate to the date invitation, the hearer usually understands the underlying message—that is to say, the words’ function differs from their form. However, because the law’s language ideology requires directness and surface-level meaning, lay-speaking interrogation subjects often have difficulty effectively invoking their Miranda rights. Because the legal system’s search for determinacy often results in reliance …
Christian Accounts Of Religious Liberty: Two Views Of Conscience, Joel Harrison
Christian Accounts Of Religious Liberty: Two Views Of Conscience, Joel Harrison
BYU Law Review
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Catholicism, Liberalism, And Populism, Andrea Pin, Luca P. Vanoni
Catholicism, Liberalism, And Populism, Andrea Pin, Luca P. Vanoni
BYU Law Review
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Dignity And Discrimination, Frederick Mark Gedicks
Dignity And Discrimination, Frederick Mark Gedicks
BYU Law Review
Delivered as the Dignity in Law Symposium keynote address, this essay surveys uses of dignity in U.S. constitutional law, with a focus on conflicts between the dignities attached to citizenship and religious conscience. Parts I and II discuss dignity as state sovereignty and hierarchical status. Part III examines the collision of dignities in the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision. Part IV argues that attention to the public or private nature of the site where religious accommodation is demanded clarifies when accommodation is appropriate, using a house of worship and a government office as illustration s. Part V lists other sites of accommodation …
Compelling Suspects To Unlock Their Phones: Recommendations For Prosecutors And Law Enforcement, Carissa A. Uresk
Compelling Suspects To Unlock Their Phones: Recommendations For Prosecutors And Law Enforcement, Carissa A. Uresk
BYU Law Review
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False Positivism: The Failure Of The Newest Originalism, Guha Krishnamurthi
False Positivism: The Failure Of The Newest Originalism, Guha Krishnamurthi
BYU Law Review
Originalism is a juggernaut. It pervades our constitutional discourse and it has become a fort and font of constitutional legitimacy. A number of our most prominent jurists and legal thinkers are self-described originalists and, in myriad constitutional cases, originalist argumentation demands our serious attention. Notwithstanding, originalists have struggled to forge any meaningful consensus on the most foundational issues. Among the serious problems, originalist theories have each struggled to navigate between preserving core features and fixed stars of our law and remaining a distinctive theory with fidelity to "original meaning."The newest effort in this struggle is the so called "positive" turn …