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Judicial Recantation, Mark A. Graber
The Gentleman From Hagerstown: How Maryland Jews Won The Right To Vote, Kenneth Lasson
The Gentleman From Hagerstown: How Maryland Jews Won The Right To Vote, Kenneth Lasson
All Faculty Scholarship
This article discusses the early history of Maryland in the context of religious discrimination, specifically in reference to discrimination against those of the Jewish faith, even though the state "was founded as a haven of religious liberty and beacon of toleration." It also highlights a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Thomas Kennedy, a Christian, as being the leader of the movement to ultimately correct this injustice. Part of the problem were clauses in the state's constitution requiring officeholders to be Christians. Kennedy lost his seat in the House, but didn't give up the battle. Ha had tried several …
Torture, With Apologies, Thomas P. Crocker
The Four Freedoms: Good Neighbors Make Good Law And Good Policy In A Time Of Insecurity, Mark R. Shulman
The Four Freedoms: Good Neighbors Make Good Law And Good Policy In A Time Of Insecurity, Mark R. Shulman
Fordham Law Review
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Democracy On Trial: Terrorism, Crime, And National Security Policy In A Post 9-11 World, David A. Schultz
Democracy On Trial: Terrorism, Crime, And National Security Policy In A Post 9-11 World, David A. Schultz
David A Schultz
Post 9-11 concerns in the United States, among the European Union (EU) members, and other western democracies regarding international terrorism forced convergence of the traditionally distinct policy areas of domestic criminal justice and national security. This convergence has produced several policy and institutional conflicts that pit individual rights against homeland security, domestic law and institutions against international norms and tribunals, and criminal justice agencies against national security organizations. This Article examines regime responses to international terrorism, principally in the United States, in comparison to the European Union, seeking to describe the consequences of the merger of criminal justice norms with …