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Diploma Privilege And The Constitution, Claudia Angelos, Sara Berman, Mary Lu Bilek, Carol L. Chomsky, Andrea Anne Curcio, Marsha Griggs, Joan W. Howarth, Eileen R. Kaufman, Deborah Jones Merritt, Patricia Salkin, Judith W. Wegner

All Faculty Scholarship

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shutdowns are affecting every aspect of society. The legal profession and the justice system have been profoundly disrupted at precisely the time when there is an unprecedented need for legal services to deal with a host of legal issues generated by the pandemic, including disaster relief, health law, insurance, labor law, criminal justice, domestic violence, and civil rights. The need for lawyers to address these issues is great but the prospect of licensing new lawyers is challenging due to the serious health consequences of administering the bar examination during the pandemic.

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Emoluments, The (Nearly) Unlitigated Clauses Of The Constitution, Dan Blair

SLU Law Journal Online

Dan Blair discusses the ongoing case of District of Columbia v. Trump, including the court’s definition of “emoluments” under the Constitution, and whether domestic and foreign government representatives staying at the president’s hotel violates the Domestic Emoluments Clause or the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

Teaching The Forgotten Fourteenth Amendment And The Constitution Of Memory, Mark A. Graber

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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The Founders’ Foreign Affairs Constitution: Improvising Among Empires, Daniel J. Hulsebosch

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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If Roe Were Overruled: Abortion And The Constitution In A Post-Roe World, Richard H. Fallon Jr.

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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Tom Eagleton And The “Curse To Our Constitution”, William H. Freivogel

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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The Equality Paradise: Paradoxes Of The Law's Power To Advance Equality, Marcia L. Mccormick

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This paper, written for Texas Wesleyan Law School's Gloucester Conference, ¿Too Pure an Air: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equality,¿ is a brief exploration of a broader project. Every civil rights movement must struggle with how to allocate scarce resources to accomplish the broadest change possible. This paper compares the legal and political strategies of the Black rights movement and the women's rights movement in the United States, comparing both the strategy choices and the results. These two movement followed essentially the same strategies. Where they have attained success and where each has failed demonstrates the limits …

Does The Constitution Apply To The Actions Of The United States Anti-Doping Agency?, Dionne L. Koller

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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It’S More Than A Constitution, Mark R. Killenbeck

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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The Clean Air Act And The Constitution, Lisa Heinzerling

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

On February 27, 2001, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Clean Air Act against a constitutional challenge based on the nondelegation doctrine. The Court held that the Act provided the requisite “intelligible principle” for assignments of authority to the executive, and it also held that the D.C. Circuit had erred in allowing an administrative agency to decide the scope of its own authority under what that court had held was an impermissibly broad assignment of authority. This article was written before the Supreme Court issued its decision.

Does Israel Have A Constitution?, Honorable Dalia Dorner

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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