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Bray V. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic: Women Under Siege, Dianne Olivia Fischer
Bray V. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic: Women Under Siege, Dianne Olivia Fischer
University of Miami Law Review
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The Australian Reluctance About Rights, Hilary Charlesworth
The Australian Reluctance About Rights, Hilary Charlesworth
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article examines the way in which the Australian legal system protects human rights. It discusses the paucity of constitutionally protected rights and the failure of various attempts made to amend the Constitution in this respect. The paper looks at the inadequacy of the Australian common law and legislation in the protection of rights. It argues that the politics of both federalism and legalism have produced a culture wary of rights discourse. The paper concludes by considering how the Australian protection of rights can be improved and suggests that one way ahead would be to introduce an Australian charter of …
America's Counterrevolution - Unlearned Lessons, Nathaniel R. Jones
America's Counterrevolution - Unlearned Lessons, Nathaniel R. Jones
Cleveland State Law Review
"America's Counterrevolution - Unlearned Lessons" is about America's social revolution -which saw this nation change from a state that constitutionally sanctioned human degradation in the form of slavery and segregation, into one that enshrined in its basic charter human rights and guarantees of equality before the law for all persons. The revolution, in what Justice Marshall calls our "system of constitutional government", made our legal system the wonder of the world, which others constantly seek to emulate. In order to understand what is required of Americans as they find themselves in this counterrevolutionary period with respect to civil rights, there …