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Untying A Judicial Knot: Examining The Constitutional Infirmities Of Extrajudicial Service And Executive Review In U.S. Extradition Procedure, Matthew M. Curley

Vanderbilt Law Review

Consider the following situation. An investment banker embezzles millions of dollars from a bank in Italy and transfers the funds to an account in the United States. While he is vacationing in the United States, federal marshals apprehend him pursuant to a request by the Italian government. They bring him before a federal district court judge sitting as an extradition magistrate in the local federal courthouse. After determining that the evidence presented meets the requisite level of criminality, the judge declares that the banker is properly extraditable and binds the case over to the Secretary of State.

The President, however, …

"Who Are You To Say What My Best Interest Is?" Minor's Due Process Rights When Admitted By Parents For Inpatient Mental Health Treatment, Kelli Schmidt

Washington Law Review

In State ex rel. T.B. v. CPC Fairfax Hospital, the Washington Supreme Court determined that minors who refuse to consent to inpatient mental health treatment, but are admitted by their parents nonetheless, have a statutory right to a prompt judicial review of the admission decision. This Comment argues that confining mature minors in mental hospitals against their will is a deprivation of both liberty and privacy interests and, as such, stringent due process protections are required, not only by Washington's current statutory scheme, but also by the U.S. and Washington Constitutions. It concludes by stating that the current statutory …

Attainder And Amendment 2: Romer's Rightness, Akhil Reed Amar

Michigan Law Review

Call me silly. In fact, call me terminally silly. For despite Justice Scalia's remarkably confident claim, I believe, and shall try to prove below, that the Romer Court majority opinion invalidating Colorado's Amendment 2 was right both in form and in substance, both logically and sociologically. I stress "form" and "logic" at the outset because I share Justice Scalia's belief in the importance of these things in constitutional adjudication. I also share his commitment to constitutional text, history, and structure, and his suspicion of "free-form" constitutionalism. And so I shall highlight the text, history, and spirit of a constitutional clause …

Is Amendment 2 Really A Bill Of Attainder? Some Questions About Professor Amar's Analysis Of Romer, Roderick M. Hills Jr.

Michigan Law Review

As I first discovered as a law student in Professor Amar's classes on legal history and federal courts, it is generally an intellectual treat to listen to Professor Amar's legal analysis, even when he is attacking one's own arguments. So my pleasure at reading Professor Amar's analysis of the Court's decision in Romer v. Evans was only partly dampened by his disapproval of the respondents' brief that I and other plaintiffs' counsel filed with the Court. According to Amar, this respondents' brief provided the Court with "so little help" that it had to rely on an entirely different and much …

Providing Essential Services: Canada's Constitutional Commitment Under Section 36, Aymen Nader

Dalhousie Law Journal

This paper explores the history of constitutional negotiations that have led to the entrenchment of section 36 of the Constitution Act, 1982. The author argues that the intention of the federal proponents of this section was to entrench the federal spending power. The author further demonstrates that section 36 entails not just constitutional recognition of the spending power, but also a constitutional commitment or obligation for the exercise of that power to provide "essential public services of a reasonable quality to all Canadians" s. 36 (1)(c).

Mélanges Jean Beetz, Teresa Scassa

Dalhousie Law Journal

Melanges Jean Beetz is a collection of essays honouring the late Supreme Court of Canadajudge who died in 1991 after a lengthy battle with illness. The timing of the publication of the book, some five years after his death, places the work within what is perhaps a fitting social and political context. The constitutional crises that have plagued this country continue in what seems to be a period of heightened alienation between Quebec and the rest of Canada. An exploration of the contribution of Justice Beetz to the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada may be of assistance in …

Prometheus Unbound: Accepting A Mythless Concept Of Civil In Rem Forfeiture With Double Jeopardy Protection, Amy D. Ronner

Buffalo Law Review

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Surviving Strict Scrutiny: Upholding Federal Affirmative Action After Adarand Constructors, Inc. V. Pena, Kathryn K. Lee

Buffalo Law Review

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Grasping The Intangible: A Guide To Assessing Nonpecuniary Damages In The Eeoc Administrative Process , Douglas M. Staudmeister

American University Law Review

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Protecting Rights And Promoting Democracy: Judicial Review Under Section 1 Of The Charter, Martha Jackman

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The author argues that, under section 1 of the Charter, the courts must weigh carefully the democratic potential of rights guarantees against the democratic quality of government decisions which undermine those rights. The article points to the Egan and Eldridge cases as examples of decisions in which the willingness to uphold rights violations under section 1, in the name of deference to the legislature, actually undermines democratic values. The article examines the RIR-MacDonald decision as a starting point for a section 1 analysis which identifies the characteristics of government decisionmaking that must be present if rights violations are to be …

Pretrial Publicity In Criminal Cases Of National Notoriety: Constructing A Remedy For The Remediless Wrong , Robert Hardaway, Douglas B. Tumminello

American University Law Review

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Under Fire: The New Consensus On The Second Amendment, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Until the early 1980s the Second Amendment had received little attention or interest from legal scholars. In 1981 Northwestern University law professor Daniel D. Polsby ridiculed the individual rights view of the Amendment as "a lot of horsedung."

Research conducted through the 1980s has led legal scholars and historians to conclude, sometimes reluctantly, but with virtual unanimity, that there is no tenable textual or historical argument against a broad individual right view of the Second Amendment.

According to the broad individual right view, the right of the people to keep and bear arms is to be treated the same as …

Innocence, Privacy, And Targeting In Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Sherry F. Colb

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Constitutional Law—Supreme Court Upholds Thirty-Day Moratorium On Lawyers' Direct Mail Solicitation Of Accident Victims, Mark W. Hodge

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Constitutional Law—Equal Protection - Race Shall Not Be The Predominant Factor In Congressional District Drawing, Kevin G. Beckham

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Native American Life Stories And "Authorship": Legal And Ethical Issues, Lenora P. Ledwon

Faculty Articles

Juridical discourse concerning life stories has been primarily concerned with property and contract issues, and categories such as "ownership" and "authorship." Such legal discourse generally fails to acknowledge the unique nature of Native American life stories, particularly when such stories are written in collaboration with a non-Native editor or transcriber. This essay focuses on one fundamental question with overlapping legal and ethical aspects: how does a non-Native collaborator avoid a colonizing relationship to Native American texts? In suggesting possible answers to this vexing question, I always have on the horizon of my mind's eye two figures-Emmanuel Levinas, the philosopher, and …

Copyright And Free Speech Rights, L. Ray Patterson, Stanley F. Birch, Jr.

Scholarly Works

By letter of 1 March 1993, the Copyright Compliance Office of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) informed a copyshop that it had “without prior permission, made multiple copies of excerpts of copyrighted works for distribution to students in course anthologies.” Stating that this copying was an infringement of copyright, the letter requested the copyshop to sign an enclosed agreement stating it would not commit such acts again and to pay a penalty of “$2,500 to help defray the costs of the AAP's copyright enforcement program in this matter and to impress on your business the need to operate in …

The Anatomy Of An Appeal, Oregon Law Institute, Jeffrey M. Batchelor, Stephen S. Trott, Paul J. De Muniz, W. Michael Gillette, Susan M. Leeson, Rick T. Haselton, Paula A. Barran, James E. Mountain

Oregon Law Institute, 1996

Course Materials from the September 13, 1996 Program in Portland

Administrative Rulemaking (Testimony), David Schoenbrod

Other Publications

This post originally appeared on https://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/administrative-rulemaking

Nahmani V. Nahmani, Tzevi Eliyahu Tal, Dalia Dorner, Eliezer Goldberg, Yaakov Kedmi, Jacob Turkel, Gavriel Bach, Eliahu Mazza, Tova Strasberg-Cohen, Theodor Or, Itzchak Zamir, Aharon Barak

Translated Opinions

Facts: Ruth and Daniel Nahmani, a married couple, were unable to have a child because of an operation that Ruth underwent. They therefore decided to try in-vitro fertilization of Ruth’s ova with Daniel‟s sperm, with a view to implanting the fertilized ova in a surrogate mother. Under Israeli law, surrogacy was not permitted and in-vitro fertilization was only permitted for implantation in the woman from whom the ova were taken. Because of the great expense of the in-vitro fertilization procedure in the United States, the couple petitioned the Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, to allow …

Reflections On The Juvenile Death Penalty: Contravention Of Precedent And Public Opinion, Kim A. Lechner

In the Public Interest

No abstract provided.

Introduction: An Ambivalent View Of The Religious Equality Amendment, Frederick Mark Gedicks

BYU Law Review

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Constitutional Imperfection, Judicial Misinterpretation, And The Politics Of Constitutional Amendment: Thoughts Generated By Some Current Proposals To Amend The Constitution, Sanford Levinson

BYU Law Review

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The Fate Of “Megan’S Law” In New York, Alison Virag Greissman

Cardozo Law Review

Sexual crimes disgust, anger, and frighten Americans in a way that no other human act does. The transgressions of sex offenders leave victims with lifelong scars and violate society's most fundamental notions of right and wrong. Indeed, husbands beating their wives with frying pans, boyfriends punching their girlfriends with their fists, and men striking women with kitchen chairs and baseball bats in every city of our country are atrocities. Although barbaric, these examples of violent and often fatal attacks are not of the same nature as an assault in which a man desecrates a woman by invading the most intimate …

Golan V. Prisons Service, Eliahu Mazza, Mishael Cheshin, Dalia Dorner

Translated Opinions

Facts: The appellant asked the respondent for permission to publish articles about prison life in a local newspaper. The respondent refused. The appellant filed a petition in the District Court against this refusal, but his petition was rejected. Leave was given to appeal the District Court’s decision to the Supreme Court.

Held: (Majority opinion — Justices E. Mazza, D. Dorner) The respondent has a duty to uphold human rights, and it must make reasonable efforts and devote reasonable resources to do this.

(Minority opinion — Justice M. Cheshin) The respondent’s argument that it is not its task to censor newspaper …

Courting Disrespect, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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

The Limits Of Legal Language: Decisionmaking In Capital Cases, Jordan M. Steiker

Michigan Law Review

To make the case for the proposed changes, I will first describe briefly in Parts I and II the structure of pre- and post-Furman capital decisiorurtaking and the weaknesses of those approaches. I then will set forth in Part III the specific rationales for each proposed reform.

The scheme I propose raises a significant constitutional question. Can the death penalty be retained as a punishment if we abandon the pretense of providing meaningful guidance through detailed sentencing instructions? Would the reestablishment of relatively unstructured penalty phase deliberations similar to, but also importantly different from, those characteristic of pre-Furman …

A Peculiar Privilege In Historical Perspective: The Right To Remain Silent, Albert W. Alschuler

Michigan Law Review

Supreme Court decisions have vacillated between two incompatible readings of the Fifth Amendment guarantee that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." The Court sometimes sees this language as affording defendants and suspects a right to remain silent. This interpretation - a view that countless repetitions of the Miranda warnings have impressed upon the public - asserts that government officials have no legitimate claim to testimonial evidence tending to incriminate the person who possesses it. Although officials need not encourage a suspect to remain silent, they must remain at least neutral toward …

The Illiberal Court, David F. Forte

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Justice Scalia casts up a dire warning that not only has the Supreme Court in many ways removed the Constitution from the Framers, it is also removing the democratic process from the people and their representatives.

To Test Or Not To Test: Article I, Section 7 And Random Drug-Testing Of Washington's Public School Student-Athletes, Kristi L. Helgeson

Washington Law Review

In Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect the privacy interests of the nation's public school student-athletes from mandatory, random urinalysis drug-testing. This Comment argues that article I, section 7 of the Washington State Constitution provides Washington's student-athletes greater protection than the Fourth Amendment and, consequently, proscribes mandatory, random urinalysis drug-testing. It concludes by providing parameters for student-athlete drug-testing programs that will pass state constitutional muster.