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Remedies For The Misappropriation Of Intellectual Property By State And Municipal Governments Before And After Seminole Tribe: The Eleventh Amendment And Other Immunity Doctrines, Paul J. Heald, Michael L. Wells

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Vigilantism Revisited: An Economic Analysis Of The Law Of Extra-Judicial Self-Help Or Why Can't Dick Shoot Henry For Stealing Jane's Truck? , Kelly D. Hine

American University Law Review

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From George Carlin To Matt Drudge: The Constitutional Implications Of Bringing The Paparazzi To America , Lyle Denniston

American University Law Review

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The Unnecessary Demise Of The Line Item Veto Act: The Clinton Administration's Costly Failure To Seek Acknowledgement Of "National Security Rescission" , Roy E. Brownell_Ii

American University Law Review

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Lifting Printz Off Dual Sovereignty: Back To A Functional Test For The Etiquette Of Federalism, Alfred R. Light

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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The Moral Failure Of The Clear And Present Danger Test, David R. Dow

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The clear and present danger test has been used for almost a century to determine the speech the government may restrain. This test assumes that at some point speech transforms into an act and at that moment the speech becomes punishable. Under the clear and present danger test, the First Amendment does not protect speech that is an incitement to imminent lawless action. Professor Dow suggests that the clear and present danger test protects too little speech. He posits that speech should be protected unless the following three conditions are met: (1) the speaker's specific intent in uttering the words …

Justice Or Injustice For The Poor?: A Look At The Constitutionality Of Congressional Restrictions On Legal Services, J. Dwight Yoder

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Upon enacting the Legal Services Corporation Act in 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which provides federal funding to grantees that perform legal services for low-income individuals. In recent years, Congress has enacted restrictions upon grantees' receipt of such federal funding, limiting the legal services these legal aid attorneys can provide to their clients. This move has sparked great debate. Proponents of the restrictions argue that they are needed to correct abuse and misuse of the legal services program, while opponents argue that the restrictions only harm low-income individuals.

In this Note, the author addresses this controversial issue …

"We The People" And Our Enduring Values, Susan Bandes

Michigan Law Review

Akhil Amar chides legal scholars for believing that the current system of criminal procedure, both substantive and remedial, is constitutionally compelled. He writes, "Scholars should know better, but too few of those who write in criminal procedure do serious, sustained scholarship in constitutional law generally, or in fields like federal jurisdiction and remedies" (p. 115). Amar believes, as I do, that criminal procedure has been impoverished by its failure to connect to "larger themes of constitutional, remedial and jurisdictional theory" (p. 115). But as one who has done serious, sustained scholarship in all the areas Amar mentions - or so …

Amending The Constitution, Erwen Chemerinsky

Michigan Law Review

The ultimate measure of a constitution is how it balances entrenchment and change. On the one hand, a constitution differs from all other laws in that it is much more difficult to revise. For example, the next session of Congress can amend or repeal a statute, but altering the U.S. Constitution requires a complex process involving supermajorities of both houses of Congress and the states. A constitution thus reflects a desire to place a society's core values of governance - such as the structure of government and the rights of individuals - in a document that is hard to revise. …

How Serious Is The Threat Of Impeachment? And To Whom?, Harold Baer Jr.

Michigan Law Review

While a slender volume, The Federal Impeachment Process offers the reader a variety of different insights on this topic, beginning with the debates at the Constitutional Convention and running to the modem-day practice of impeachment trials by committee rather than by the full senate. Impeachment is valuable reading, not just for those of us interested in American history, or those of us who are public officers of the United States, but for every American who wants to understand his or her morning newspaper better. Not only does it lift the veil of darkness surrounding the impeachment process, it provides a …

Takeover: German Reunification Under A Magnifying Glass, Mathias Reimann

Michigan Law Review

My first personal experience with the unification of my home country was an unlikely encounter in an unlikely place. In July 1990, I was strolling across the Ponte Vecchio in Florence when I saw something so bizarre that it stopped me in my tracks. At the southern end of the bridge, deep in the pedestrian zone - off limits to automobiles - and right in the middle of the tourist crowd, was a lonely car, occupied by four obviously disoriented people. It was not just any car but a small, drab, and amusingly antiquated vehicle puffing bluish smoke from a …

Lest We Forget: Buchanan V. Warley And Constitutional Jurisprudence Of The "Progressive Era", Richard A. Epstein

Vanderbilt Law Review

The two principal papers in this collection are devoted to an analysis of one of the Supreme Court's landmark decisions of the Progressive era, Buchanan v. Warley.' Both David Bernstein and Michael Klarman reveal ambitions that go beyond a single case, as each discusses in detail a large part of the Progressive era jurisprudence on race relations that set the stage for Buchanan v. Warley. A short introduction is hardly the place to quibble with these papers on points of detail. But it is the place to raise one neglected theme that requires fresh emphasis. The constitutional jurisprudence that led …

The Constitution In Congress: Jefferson And The West, 1801-1809, David P. Currie

William & Mary Law Review

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The Evolution Of Religious Beliefs In A Constitutional Text, Alfredo Quispe Correa

BYU Law Review

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Freedom Of Religion And Public Worship In Mexico: A Legal Commentary On The 1992 Federal Act On Religious Matters, Jorge A. Vargas

BYU Law Review

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Losing My Religion: Austria's New Religion Law In Light Of International And European Standards Of Religious Freedom, Christopher J. Miner

BYU Law Review

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Casey "Versus" Salerno: Determining An Appropriate Standard For Evaluating The Facial Constitutionality Of Abortion Statutes, Skye Gabel

Cardozo Law Review

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After Legal Indeterminacy: Carl Schmitt And The National Socialist Legal Order, 1933-1936, William E. Scheuerman

Cardozo Law Review

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Religion-Centered Free Exercise: A Tribute To Justice Brennan, Georgetown University Law Center

Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture

On April 22, 1998, Professor of Law, Stephen L. Carter of Yale Law School, delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s eighteenth Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture: "Religion-Centered Free Exercise: A Tribute to Justice Brennan."

Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. Among his courses are law and religion, the ethics of war, contracts, evidence, and professional responsibility. His most recent book is The Violence of Peace: America’s Wars in the Age of Obama (2011). Among his other books on law and politics are God’s Name in Vain: The …

Introduction: The First Amendment, Redeveloped, George Kannar

Buffalo Law Review

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Globalization And The United States Constitution: How Much Can It Accommodate, James M. Boyers

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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The Holy And The Handicapped: An Examination Of The Different Applications Of The Reasonable-Accommodation Clauses In Title Vii And The Ada, Alan D. Schuchman

Indiana Law Journal

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Zoning Out Free Expression: An Analysis Of New York City's Adult Zoning Resolution, Herald Price Fahringer

Buffalo Law Review

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Adult Use Zoning: New York City's Journey On The Well-Travelled Road From Suppression To Regulation Of Sexually Oriented Expression, Albert Fredericks

Buffalo Law Review

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Identifying The Enemy In The War On Drugs: A Critique Of The Developing Rule Permitting Visual Identification Of Indescript White Powder In Narcotics Prosecutions , Michael D. Blanchard, Gabriel J. Chin

American University Law Review

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Same-Sex Sexual Harassment Claims After Oncale: Defining The Boundaries Of Actionable Conduct , Richard F. Storrow

American University Law Review

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Antidiscrimination And Affirmative Action Policies: Economic Efficiency And The Constitution, Edward M. Iacobucci

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article assesses the economic efficiency of race-based antidiscrimination and affirmative action policies with a view to assessing relevant Canadian and American constitutional law. The article reviews economic arguments about why antidiscrimination laws may be efficient in addressing externalities, in hastening the exit of bigoted employers from the market, and in preventing the potentially inefficient use of race as a proxy for information; affirmative action may be efficient in accounting for differential signaling costs across race. The article concludes that economic analysis supports the approach in section 15 of the Charter which generally bans discriminatory government action, but recognizes that …

Private Bar Monitors Public Defense - Oversight Committee Sets Standards For Indigent Defense Providers, Adele Bernhard

Articles & Chapters

The oversight committee drafted standards and guidelines with the primary goal of creating a yardstick for defense services organizations against which to measure performance and the hope that a practical set of standards serve multiple purposes, including: educating a skeptical public about what it takes to provide quality defense services; promoting an understanding of why adequate funding is necessary (to engender public support for more spending); and providing notice to the organizations themselves of what is expected of a publicly funded defense office.

The Constitutional Future Of Religious Freedom Legislation, Thomas C. Berg

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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An Unfirm Foundation: The Regrettable Indefensibility Of Religious Exemptions, Frederick Mark Gedicks

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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