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In The Name Of National Security Or Insecurity?: The Potential Indefinite Detention Of Non-Citizen Certified Terrorists In The United States And The United Kingdom In The Aftermath Of September 11, 2001, Dana L. Keith Sep 2003

In The Name Of National Security Or Insecurity?: The Potential Indefinite Detention Of Non-Citizen Certified Terrorists In The United States And The United Kingdom In The Aftermath Of September 11, 2001, Dana L. Keith

ExpressO

No abstract provided.


Man Who Gave In To Jealous Wife's Demands By Firing Pregnant Secretary Committed Pregnancy Discrimination, Says The New York Court Of Appeals, Amanda Jordan Sep 2003

Man Who Gave In To Jealous Wife's Demands By Firing Pregnant Secretary Committed Pregnancy Discrimination, Says The New York Court Of Appeals, Amanda Jordan

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Adams V. Florida Power Corp. And The Trend Of Lowering An Employer's Burden Of Proof To Rebut Age Discrimination Claims, Daniel K. Brough Sep 2003

Adams V. Florida Power Corp. And The Trend Of Lowering An Employer's Burden Of Proof To Rebut Age Discrimination Claims, Daniel K. Brough

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lawrence And Same-Sex Marriage Bans: On Constitutional Interpretation And Sophistical Rhetoric, Mark Strasser Aug 2003

Lawrence And Same-Sex Marriage Bans: On Constitutional Interpretation And Sophistical Rhetoric, Mark Strasser

ExpressO

No abstract provided.


Affirmative Action: More Efficient Than Color Blindness, Abraham Lee Wickelgren Aug 2003

Affirmative Action: More Efficient Than Color Blindness, Abraham Lee Wickelgren

ExpressO

One of the most compelling reasons against affirmative action is the principle of color blindness, that is, the idea that race is an irrelevant characteristic that should not affect higher education admissions or hiring decisions. Despite its intuitive appeal, this paper shows that adherence to this principle impedes economic efficiency when there has been past discrimination based on color. Past discrimination creates inefficiencies in the economy that persist across generations. Because of this persistence, race is not an irrelevant characteristic for firms and universities looking to hire or admit the best candidates. Affirmative action, not color-blindness, is necessary to reduce …


Discrimination: The Law Vs. Morality, Walter E. Williams Aug 2003

Discrimination: The Law Vs. Morality, Walter E. Williams

ExpressO

Terminology in racial literature is such that various behaviors are confused with one another making for less than rigorous analysis of racial problems. For some writers prejudice is used in a fashion signifying distaste for a particular race; others use the term suggesting the use of racial stereotypes; yet others use the term as a substitute for discrimination. Similar confusion surrounds the term segregation. Writers frequently refer to school segregation, meaning that few blacks in attendance at a predominantly white school but the same writers would never apply the term to an opera performance with few or no blacks in …


The Secretary's Commission On Opportunity In Athletics Squandered Its Opportunity: Commercial College Sports And Why Title Ix Cannot Achieve Full Gender Equality Or Prevent The Elimination Of Minor Men's Teams, Suzanne Sangree Aug 2003

The Secretary's Commission On Opportunity In Athletics Squandered Its Opportunity: Commercial College Sports And Why Title Ix Cannot Achieve Full Gender Equality Or Prevent The Elimination Of Minor Men's Teams, Suzanne Sangree

ExpressO

The Department of Education recently announced that it would not revise the regulations which apply Title IX to athletics, thus rejecting the recommendations of its Commission on Opportunity in Athletics. The Commission’s recommendations would have drastically undercut Title IX’s efficacy and established a Bush Administration model for turning civil rights protections on their heads. Fortunately, the Administration heeded the public critique of the Commission’s recommendations and retreated from its previously stated intention to implement them. Instead, it reiterated its support for the principles of gender equality embodied in Title IX. We thus narrowly averted a civil rights disaster. The great …


Group Therapy For Incarcerated Women Who Experienced Interpersonal Violence: A Pilot Study, Rebekah G. Bradley, Diane R. Follingstad Aug 2003

Group Therapy For Incarcerated Women Who Experienced Interpersonal Violence: A Pilot Study, Rebekah G. Bradley, Diane R. Follingstad

CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles

This study evaluated effectiveness of group therapy for incarcerated women with histories of childhood sexual and/or physical abuse. The intervention was based on a two-stage model of trauma treatment and included Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and writing assignments. We randomly assigned 24 participants to group treatment (13 completed) and 25 to a no-contact comparison condition (18 completed). We evaluated treatment effects, using the Beck Depression Inventory, Inventory of Interpersonal Problems, and Trauma Symptom Inventory. The data demonstrate significant reductions in PTSD, mood, and interpersonal symptoms in the treatment group.


Democracy Frozen In Devonian Amber: The Racial Impact Of Permanent Felon Disenfranchisement In Florida, Carlos M. Portugal Jul 2003

Democracy Frozen In Devonian Amber: The Racial Impact Of Permanent Felon Disenfranchisement In Florida, Carlos M. Portugal

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Factless Jurisprudence, Darren Lenard Hutchinson Jul 2003

Factless Jurisprudence, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

UF Law Faculty Publications

Professor Terry Smith has written a very important work on the inadequacy of juridical approaches to antidiscrimination law in the context of Title VII litigation. Smith argues that the anti-retaliation provisions of Title VII can serve more broadly as a mechanism for protecting workers of color from prohibited racial discrimination. Smith contends that contemporary equality jurisprudence, however, impedes the protective scope of the anti-retaliation provision because courts fail to appreciate the broader context of racial antagonism in which persons of color live. Particularly, courts often misinterpret lawful racial protest in the workplace as disruptive and appropriately regulated to the detriment …


Digital Propertization Of The New Artifacts: The Application Of Technologies For "Soft" Representations Of The Physical And Metaphysical, Mark Perry Jul 2003

Digital Propertization Of The New Artifacts: The Application Of Technologies For "Soft" Representations Of The Physical And Metaphysical, Mark Perry

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The article explores how digital technology is revolutionizing the representation and ownership of artifacts, complicating traditional notions of intellectual property and cultural preservation. It argues that high-quality digital reproductions, such as MP3 files and digital images, challenge existing legal frameworks, highlighting the need for more flexible and culturally sensitive approaches to intellectual property rights.


What Would You Do - With A Taniwha At The Table?, Ian Macduff Jul 2003

What Would You Do - With A Taniwha At The Table?, Ian Macduff

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

In New Zealand, a complicating factor in some disputes may involve the presence (whether one believes it or not) of a taniwha, or spirit, as a major part of the negotiations. What advice would you have for mediators who face such significant cross-cultural, identity-based issues? The author hopes readers of this journal will be able to provide some insighful advice.


The Consequences Of Race-Blindness: Revisiting Prediction Models With Current Law School Data, Linda F. Wightman Jun 2003

The Consequences Of Race-Blindness: Revisiting Prediction Models With Current Law School Data, Linda F. Wightman

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Reinforcing Representation: Congressional Power To Enforce The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Amendments In The Rehnquist And Waite Courts, Ellen D. Katz Jun 2003

Reinforcing Representation: Congressional Power To Enforce The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Amendments In The Rehnquist And Waite Courts, Ellen D. Katz

Michigan Law Review

A large body of academic scholarship accuses the Rehnquist Court of "undoing the Second Reconstruction," just as the Waite Court has long been blamed for facilitating the end of the First. This critique captures much of what is meant by those generally charging the Rehnquist Court with "conservative judicial activism." It posits that the present Court wants to dismantle decades' worth of federal antidiscrimination measures that are aimed at the "reconstruction" of public and private relationships at the local level. It sees the Waite Court as having similarly nullified the civil-rights initiatives enacted by Congress following the Civil War to …


First Amendment Equal Protection: On Discretion, Inequality, And Participation, Daniel P. Tokaji Jun 2003

First Amendment Equal Protection: On Discretion, Inequality, And Participation, Daniel P. Tokaji

Michigan Law Review

The tension between equality and discretion lies at the heart of some of the most vexing questions of constitutional law. The considerable discretion that many official decisionmakers wield raises the spectre that violations of equality norms will sometimes escape detection. This is true in a variety of settings, whether discretion lies over speakers' access to public fora, implementation of the death penalty, or the recounting of votes. Is the First Amendment violated, for example, when a city ordinance gives local officials broad discretion to determine the conditions under which political demonstrations may take place? Is equal protection denied where the …


Protected From Their Own Beliefs: Religious Objectors And Paternalistic Laws, Adam Fraser May 2003

Protected From Their Own Beliefs: Religious Objectors And Paternalistic Laws, Adam Fraser

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.


Finding Fundamental Fairness: Protecting The Rights Of Homosexuals Under European Union Accession Law, Travis J. Langenkamp May 2003

Finding Fundamental Fairness: Protecting The Rights Of Homosexuals Under European Union Accession Law, Travis J. Langenkamp

San Diego International Law Journal

In tackling the issue of sexual orientation discrimination, the European Union must make significant efforts to conform or, perhaps, eradicate incongruous legislation within Applicant Countries. The difficulty of this endeavor is two-fold: first, in terms of the number and complexity of the laws of each Applicant Country; and, second, in the absence of any detailed and systematic documentation of sexual orientation discrimination within those same Applicant Countries. Compounding, if not confounding, such legitimate endeavors are the inconsistent anti-gay legislation prevalent within the present Member States. The stakes are high for Member States and Applicant Countries alike. Thus, the European Union's …


Classes, Persons, Equal Protection, And Village Of Willowbrook V. Olech, Robert C. Farrell May 2003

Classes, Persons, Equal Protection, And Village Of Willowbrook V. Olech, Robert C. Farrell

Washington Law Review

In most contexts, the Equal Protection Clause serves as a limitation on government classifications, but it has also been used as a protector of individual rights. These competing versions of equal protection are contradictory, but courts have for the most part ignored this problem. In Village of Willowbrook v. Olech, the United States Supreme Court determined that an individual homeowner had stated a valid equal protection claim when she alleged that she alone, without regard to her membership in any class, had been treated differently from other similarly situated homeowners. The Court's decision in Olech has created a powerful …


Nigeria Since May 1999: Understanding The Paradox Of Civil Rule And Human Rights Violations Under President Olusegun Obasanjo, Philip C. Aka May 2003

Nigeria Since May 1999: Understanding The Paradox Of Civil Rule And Human Rights Violations Under President Olusegun Obasanjo, Philip C. Aka

San Diego International Law Journal

This Article seeks to understand why much of the hope for improved human rights has remained unrealized. It has four parts, in addition to this introduction and a conclusion. Part II provides a definition of human rights, the history of these rights in Nigeria, and the machinery that has evolved over the years, all the way up to the Obasanjo presidency, for the enforcement of these rights. Part III describes the practice of human rights in Nigeria before 1999. The section integrates General Obasanjo's role and it points to the legacy of British colonialism in Nigeria as a major factor …


Brady Behind Bars: The Prosecutor's Disclosure Obligations Regarding Dna In The Post-Conviction Arena, Brian T. Kohn May 2003

Brady Behind Bars: The Prosecutor's Disclosure Obligations Regarding Dna In The Post-Conviction Arena, Brian T. Kohn

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

The article argues that the constitutional obligation of prosecutors to disclose exculpatory evidence, as established by Brady v. Maryland and its progeny, extends beyond a defendant's conviction and applies to postconviction DNA testing requests. It asserts that denying access to such testing violates both constitutional rights and the ethical duties of prosecutors, who are tasked with seeking justice rather than merely securing convictions. The analysis highlights the conflict in federal courts regarding the applicability of Brady to postconviction DNA testing and advocates for a broader interpretation of the doctrine to ensure innocence is not wrongly imprisoned.


Foreword: "Just Do It!": Title Ix As A Threat To University Autonomy, Richard A. Epstein May 2003

Foreword: "Just Do It!": Title Ix As A Threat To University Autonomy, Richard A. Epstein

Michigan Law Review

For a short time I was stymied to identify a suitable theme for the Foreword to the 2003 Survey of Books in the Michigan Law Review. The task is surely a daunting one, because it is never possible to write a Foreword that offers the reader a Cook's Tour of the many distinguished offerings reviewed in its pages. Therefore I hope to link one broad theme to one narrow topic, knowing that at first it may look as though they have little in common. In taking this approach, I prefer dangerous shoals to well-marked channels. I shall therefore begin with …


Ifeminism, Ashlie Warnick May 2003

Ifeminism, Ashlie Warnick

Michigan Law Review

Laws should be judged not by their words or intentions, but by their effects and consequences. When government enacts laws designed to benefit one group, society should judge those laws first by examining whether they have, in practice, provided a net benefit to the law's intended beneficiaries. Next, any such benefit must be weighed against the costs imposed on the rest of society. If the benefits outweigh the costs, this is a socially efficient law. Government should repeal a law when the costs it imposes outweigh its benefits. When laws do not provide a net benefit to the group they …


Live And Let Love: Self-Determination In Matters Of Intimacy And Identity, Kim Forde-Mazrui May 2003

Live And Let Love: Self-Determination In Matters Of Intimacy And Identity, Kim Forde-Mazrui

Michigan Law Review

Are you free to choose the race of your spouse, . . . of your child, . . . of yourself? Historically, the legal and social answer to these questions was No. Matters of racial identity and interracial intimacy were strictly circumscribed by ideologies of racial essentialism and separation, ostensibly rooted in science, morality, and religion. In contrast, according to Professor Randall Kennedy in his new book, Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption, the answer to all three questions should be a resounding Yes. The exclusive source of racial identification and intimacy should be individual choice, free from legal …


The Arrangements Of Race, Frank H. Wu May 2003

The Arrangements Of Race, Frank H. Wu

Michigan Law Review

In his debut novel, Stephen Carter takes pains to explain that although he and his protagonist, Talcott Garland (who goes by "Misha"), share superficial aspects of their identities, they should not be confused as twins. Carter and Misha may both be middle-aged professors at prestigious East Coast universities who grew up as members of the African-American elite that summered on Martha's Vineyard as segregation was officially ending; and they may both be passionate about chess. Beyond that, however, they are dissimilar. Carter drives no faster than the speed limit and otherwise leads a life that appears to be boring beyond …


Unexpected Racial Assertions: A Counter-Reply To David Horowitz, David Boyle Apr 2003

Unexpected Racial Assertions: A Counter-Reply To David Horowitz, David Boyle

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Response To Boyle's Comment, David Horowitz Apr 2003

Response To Boyle's Comment, David Horowitz

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


From Hutchins Hall To Hyderabad And Beyond: A Comparative Look At Affirmative Action In Three Jurisdictions, Jason Morgan-Foster Apr 2003

From Hutchins Hall To Hyderabad And Beyond: A Comparative Look At Affirmative Action In Three Jurisdictions, Jason Morgan-Foster

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Pretender In Paradise, J. Richard Cohen Apr 2003

Pretender In Paradise, J. Richard Cohen

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law—Privacy And Equal Protection—Arkansas Joins Other States In A Revival Of State Constitutions As Guardians Of Individual Rights, Establishing New Protections For Arkansas Gays And Lesbians. Jegley V. Picado, 349 Ark. 600, 80 S.W.3d 332 (2002)., Bonnie Johnson Apr 2003

Constitutional Law—Privacy And Equal Protection—Arkansas Joins Other States In A Revival Of State Constitutions As Guardians Of Individual Rights, Establishing New Protections For Arkansas Gays And Lesbians. Jegley V. Picado, 349 Ark. 600, 80 S.W.3d 332 (2002)., Bonnie Johnson

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


Unsavory White Omissions? A Review Of Uncivil Wars, David Boyle Apr 2003

Unsavory White Omissions? A Review Of Uncivil Wars, David Boyle

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.