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National Socialism And Constitutional Law: Carl Schmitt, Otto Koellreutter, And The Debate Over The Nature Of The Nazi State, 1993-1937, Peter Caldwell

Cardozo Law Review

On January 30, 1933, President von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler chancellor of the German Republic. One year later, the conservative (and by then National Socialist) constitutional lawyer, Carl Schmitt noted that Hitler's chancellorship was an event that had "already led beyond the Weimar Constitution." But where had the seizure of power led? What was the nature of the new constitution of the German Empire? As historian David Schoenbaum has noted, 1933 was a kind of "constitutional no man's land"; it was unclear how the principles enumerated in the Nazi Party Program of 1920 would translate into the reality of the …

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Letting The Fox Into The Henhouse Under Cover Of Section 5 Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Marci A. Hamilton

Cardozo Law Review

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA") has now been in effect for over a year. RFRA is an understandable, but unconstitutional, attempt to supplement the contemporary Supreme Court's crabbed reading of the Free Exercise Clause. In a nutshell, RFRA sets the standard of review-the "compelling interest" test-to be applied to federal and state law burdening the free exercise of religious conduct. RFRA has already been employed to decide a series of cases, most of which were brought by prison inmates. The time rapidly approaches when the courts of appeals, and even the Supreme Court, will be asked to pass on …

El-Al Israel Airlines V. Danielowitz, Aharon Barak, Dalia Dorner, Yaakov Kedmi

Translated Opinions

Facts: The first respondent, who is employed by El-Al as a flight attendant, has a stable relationship with another man. Under a collective agreement, El-Al gives every permanent employee a free aeroplane ticket, every year, for that employee and his/her spouse (husband or wife). Under a collective arrangement, a free ticket is also given to a companion recognized publicly as the employee’s husband/wife. The first respondent asked El-Al to give him a free ticket for his companion, but his request was denied.

Held: (Majority opinion — Vice-President A. Barak, Justice D. Dorner) Not giving the respondent a free ticket for …

Racist Speech, Outsider Jurisprudence, And The Meaning Of America, Steven H. Shiffrin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Freedom From Incarceration: Why Is This Right Different From All Other Rights?, Sherry F. Colb

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

American constitutional jurisprudence has long accepted the notion that the exercise of certain rights can only be restricted by the government if the restriction satisfies strict scrutiny. The Supreme Court has identified such rights as fundamental often by relying on an expansive interpretation of the word "liberty" in the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. In this Article, Professor Colb argues that the Supreme Court has failed to recognize the right to physical liberty itself as a fundamental right. She demonstrates that at present conduct that is not itself constitutionally protected may serve as the basis for imprisonment even …

An Anatomy Of False Analysis: Original Intent, Raoul Berger

BYU Law Review

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Taking A Look At The Modem Takings Clause Jurisprudence: Finding Private Property Protection Under The Federal And Utah Constitutions, David W. Tufts

BYU Law Review

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Visions Of Habeas, David Mccord

BYU Law Review

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Israel Women’S Network V. Government Of Israel, Eliahu Mazza, Itzchak Zamir, Yaakov Kedmi

Translated Opinions

Facts: In 1993, the Government Corporations Law was amended, and s. 18A was added. This section provides that the boards of directors of Government corporations shall have equal representation of men and women, and until such time as this goal is achieved, members of the underrepresented sex should be appointed, ‘to the extent that circumstances allow’ (affirmative action).

After the new section came into effect, and despite the new section, men were appointed in two cases by Government ministers to boards of directors of Government corporations, on which there were no women directors.

The petitioner argued that the appointments were …

How To Prevent Another Larsen Affair, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals

On War And Justice, Jeffrey C. Tuomala

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Metaphor And Method: How Not To Think About Constitutional Interpretation, Thomas Morawetz

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Republican Constitutional Skepticism And Congressional Reform, Thomas Molnar Fisher

Indiana Law Journal

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Three Faces Of Federalism: Finding A Formula For The Future, Deborah J. Merritt

Vanderbilt Law Review

The first, and oldest, of the Supreme Court's concepts of federalism is the territorial model. This model recognizes that there is a discernible boundary between the subjects fit for national regulation and those reserved for state governance. Territorialists argue that the national government is supreme in some areas, while states reign sovereign in others. Adherents of this model, for example, might declare that the national government directs foreign affairs while the states control domestic relations.

Under the territorial model, federalism violations occur when the national government attempts to invade a substantive area of law reserved to the states. The Supreme …

Hate Speech In Context: The Case Of Verbal Threats, John T. Nockleby

Buffalo Law Review

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Justice Souter's "Keep-What-You-Want-And-Throw-Away-The-Rest" Interpretation Of Stare Decisis, David K. Koehler

Buffalo Law Review

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The Paradoxes Of National Self-Determination, Brian Slattery

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Some have argued that the right of national self-determination gives every national group the power to decide for itself whether to remain part of an existing state or to secede unilaterally and form its own state. Such a theory underpins the claim that Quebec is entitled to decide on its own whether or not to leave Canada. This paper examines the main philosophical arguments for the theory and finds them one-dimensional and inadequate; they fail to take account of the full range of complex issues arising in actual cases of proposed secession. If the right of national self-determination is understood …

Provincial Fiduciary Obligations To First Nations: The Nexus Between Governmental Power And Responsibility, Leonard I. Rotman

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The Canadian Crown's fiduciary duty to First Nations is entrenched in Canadian Aboriginal rights jurisprudence. More than ten years after the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Guerin, however, yet to be ascertained are the various emanations of the Crown bound by that duty. This paper argues that both federal and provincial Crowns are properly bound by fiduciary obligations to First Nations. It also suggests that the basis of this assertion may be found in existing jurisprudence, the Canadian Constitution, the spirit and intent of Indian treaties, and in Aboriginal understandings of "the Crown."

Constitutional Law—21 U.S.C. § 881 And The Eighth Amendment: Application Of The Proportionality Requirement To Civil Forfeitures. Austin V. United States, 113 S. Ct. 2801 (1993), T. Michelle Ator

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Five Views Of Federalism: "Converse-1983" In Context, Akhil R. Amar

Vanderbilt Law Review

In 1987, I published an overly long article in the Yale Law Journal entitled Of Sovereignty and Federalism. In it, I advanced a "converse-1983" model of federalism-a model that highlighted the ways in which state laws can provide remedies when federal officials violate federal constitutional rights. For example, prior to the 1971 landmark of Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Agents, citizens whose Fourth Amendment rights had been violated by federal officers had no clear federal cause of action; but state trespass law often provided a remedy, and enabled citizens to recover when their "persons, houses, papers, [or] effects" had been …

West Lynn Creamery And The Constitutionality Of State Tax Incentives, Walter Hellerstein

Scholarly Works

One of the more perplexing questions that has surfaced from time to time in the state tax field is how a constitutionally benign tax incentive program designed to attract industry to a state is to be distinguished from an unconstitutionally discriminatory taxing scheme that “forecloses tax-neutral decisions” and “provides a direct commercial advantage to local business.” On one hand, the U.S. Supreme Court has expressed the view that its decisions do “not prevent the States from structuring their tax systems to encourage the growth and development of intrastate commerce and industry.” On the other hand, the Court has frequently invalidated …

Applying The Eighth Amendment To Civil Forfeiture After Austin V. United States: Excessiveness And Proportionality, Douglas S. Reinhart

William & Mary Law Review

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We The Exceptional American People, James E. Fleming

Faculty Scholarship

I. INTRODUCTION: "AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM" There is an academic movement afoot-one with a long historical pedigree-to attribute the vitality of the American constitutional order to "American exceptionalism." The most prominent representative of this school of thought is Bruce Ackerman, whose We the People opens with a jeremiad against the "Europeanization" of American constitutional theory and urges us as Americans to "look inward" to rediscover our distinctive patterns, practices, and ideals.2 He maps the terrain of theory as being divided into monists ("Anglophiles"), rights foundationalists ("Germanophiles"), and dualists (red-blooded Americans).3 Only dualists have the "strength" to declare our American independence from British …

The First Amendment's Challenge Function And The Confusion In The Supreme Court's Contemporary Free Exercise Jurisprudence, Marci A. Hamilton

Articles

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Jurisprudence And Personality In The Work Of John Rawls, David G. Carlson

Articles

The article argues that John Rawls's concept of the person undergoes a significant shift between A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, necessitating a corresponding change in jurisprudence. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls employs a "correlative jurisprudence," where law is determinate, complete, and judges merely apply existing law. This approach is tied to a narrow, passive view of personality, treating individuals as mere loci of liberty and rights. In contrast, Political Liberalism presents a dynamic, contradictory conception of the person as a union of moral capacity and a determinate conception of the good. This shift, the article contends, requires …

Apple Of Gold: Constitutionalism In Israel And The United States, Michel Rosenfeld

Articles

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Public Law From The Bottom Up, William N. Eskridge Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

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Guns For Hire, Commercial Speech And Tort Liability: Making A Case For Preserving First Amendment Free Speech Rights, Stephen T. Raptis

West Virginia Law Review

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Antitrust And First Amendment Implications Of Professional Real Estate Investors, Gary Myers

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Media Violence And The Obscenity Exception To The First Amendment, Kevin W. Saunders

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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