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Domestic Violence Law Poses Challenges For The Courts, Jane C. Murphy, Judith Wolfer Jun 1992

Domestic Violence Law Poses Challenges For The Courts, Jane C. Murphy, Judith Wolfer

All Faculty Scholarship

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Tort Remedies For Victims Of Domestic Abuse, Douglas D. Scherer Apr 1992

Tort Remedies For Victims Of Domestic Abuse, Douglas D. Scherer

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Clinical Scholarship And The Justice Mission, Robert Dinerstein Jan 1992

Clinical Scholarship And The Justice Mission, Robert Dinerstein

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Homicide And History, Edward L. Ayers Jan 1992

Homicide And History, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

Violence seems more threatening today than in the relatively recent past. For centuries, crime was kept out of sight. The "criminal classes" were segregated from the rest of society. Newspapers, police, and courts paid relatively little attention to crimes among the poor. Today, things are different: television news thrives on scenes of flashing lights, distraught parents, and bloody sidewalks. Police continually patrol parts of town they used to ignore. Modern transportation permits members of the "dangerous classes" to range more widely than before. As a result, the general population is far more aware of violence now than in the past.


State Support Of International Terrorism: Legal, Political And Economic Dimensions, Christopher L. Blakesley Jan 1992

State Support Of International Terrorism: Legal, Political And Economic Dimensions, Christopher L. Blakesley

Scholarly Works

In this piece, Professor Blakesley reviews “State Support of International Terrorism: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions” by John F. Murphy.


Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West Jan 1992

Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

It is commonly and rightly understood in this country that our constitutional system ensures, or seeks to ensure, that individuals are accorded the greatest degree of personal, political, social, and economic liberty possible, consistent with a like amount of liberty given to others, the duty and right of the community to establish the conditions for a moral and secure collective life, and the responsibility of the state to provide for the common defense of the community against outside aggression. Our distinctive cultural and constitutional commitment to individual liberty places very real restraints on what our elected representatives can do, even …