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Policing Hatred: Police Bias Units And The Construction Of Hate Crime, Jeannine Bell Jan 1997

Policing Hatred: Police Bias Units And The Construction Of Hate Crime, Jeannine Bell

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Much of the scholarly debate about hate crime laws focuses on a discussion of their constitutionality under the First Amendment. Part of a larger empirical study of police methods of investigating hate crimes, this Note attempts to shift thinking in this area beyond the existing debate over the constitutionality of hate crime legislation to a discussion of how low-level criminal justice personnel, such as the police, enforce hate crime laws. This Note argues that, since hate crimes are an area in which police have great discretion in enforcing the law, their understanding of the First Amendment and how it relates …


"Do Justice!": Variations Of A Thrice-Told Tale, Michael Herz Feb 1996

"Do Justice!": Variations Of A Thrice-Told Tale, Michael Herz

Articles

Although recent debates would suggest that narrative scholarship is brand new,4 lawyers, judges, and law professors, like all humankind, have always offered stories for illustration or support or to make a point in an indirect, and often more effective, way. Learned Hand's story about telling Justice Holmes to "do justice" is one widely-used example, offered by many writers in addition to Judge Bork and Professor Chayes. Its popularity is easy to understand. The story has a substantive message, pithily expressed, on a basic jurisprudential issue; it involves two members of the pantheon; and it crams a lot of human interest …


Rights And Freedoms Under The State Constitution: A New Deal For Welfare Rights, Sandra M. Stevenson, Eve Cary, Mary Falk, Helen Hershkoff, Robert A. Heverly Jan 1996

Rights And Freedoms Under The State Constitution: A New Deal For Welfare Rights, Sandra M. Stevenson, Eve Cary, Mary Falk, Helen Hershkoff, Robert A. Heverly

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Sexual Harassment On Campus: Does The Accused Have Any Rights?, Richard C. Cahn Jan 1995

Sexual Harassment On Campus: Does The Accused Have Any Rights?, Richard C. Cahn

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Section 1983, Honorable George C. Pratt, Martin A. Schwartz, Leon Friedman Jan 1991

Section 1983, Honorable George C. Pratt, Martin A. Schwartz, Leon Friedman

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Racism, David Kretzmer Feb 1987

Freedom Of Speech And Racism, David Kretzmer

Cardozo Law Review

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Civil Liberties: Adherence To Established Principles, Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Rosalie Levinson Jan 1982

Civil Liberties: Adherence To Established Principles, Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Rosalie Levinson

Law Faculty Publications

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The Right To Religious Freedom And World Public Order: The Emerging Norms Of Nondiscrimination, Myers Mcdougal, Harold Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen Jan 1976

The Right To Religious Freedom And World Public Order: The Emerging Norms Of Nondiscrimination, Myers Mcdougal, Harold Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen

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