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Toward A Pragmatic Model Of Judicial Decisionmaking: Why Tort Law Provides A Better Framework Than Constitutional Law For Deciding The Issue Of Medical Futility, Brent D. Lloyd Jan 1996

Toward A Pragmatic Model Of Judicial Decisionmaking: Why Tort Law Provides A Better Framework Than Constitutional Law For Deciding The Issue Of Medical Futility, Brent D. Lloyd

Seattle University Law Review

Recognizing that courts will eventually have to confront the issue of medical futility, this Comment argues that there is no principled basis for omitting these difficult questions from a legal analysis of the issue and that courts should therefore decide the issue in a manner that honestly confronts them. Specifically, the argument advanced here is that courts confronted with cases of medical futility should decide the issue under principles of tort law, rather than under principles of constitutional law. The crux of this argument is that tort principles provide an open-ended analytical framework conducive to considering troublesome questions like those …


Reflections On From Slaves To Citizens Bondage, Freedom And The Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship And Its Impact On Law And Legal Historiography, Robert J. Kaczorowski Jan 1995

Reflections On From Slaves To Citizens Bondage, Freedom And The Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship And Its Impact On Law And Legal Historiography, Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

The thesis of Professor Donald Nieman's paper, "From Slaves to Citizens: African-Americans, Rights Consciousness, and Reconstruction," is that the nation experienced a revolution in the United States Constitution and in the consciousness of African Americans. According to Professor Nieman, the Reconstruction Amendments represented "a dramatic departure from antebellum constitutional principles,"' because the Thirteenth Amendment reversed the pre-Civil War constitutional guarantee of slavery and "abolish[ed] slavery by federal authority." The Fourteenth Amendment rejected the Supreme Court's "racially-based definition of citizenship [in Dred Scott v. Sandford4], clearly establishing a color-blind citizenship” and the Fifteenth Amendment "wrote the principle of equality into the …


Rewriting Beginnings: The Lessons Of Gautreaux, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 57 (1994), Janet Koven Levit Jan 1994

Rewriting Beginnings: The Lessons Of Gautreaux, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 57 (1994), Janet Koven Levit

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fundamental Rights In The "Gray" Area: The Right Of Privacy Under The Minnesota Constitution, Michael K. Steenson Jan 1994

Fundamental Rights In The "Gray" Area: The Right Of Privacy Under The Minnesota Constitution, Michael K. Steenson

Faculty Scholarship

This Article explores the constitutional aspects of Minnesota privacy law. Part II briefly explains federal privacy law to provide a baseline for consideration of privacy law in Minnesota. Part III examines the right of privacy as it has evolved in the Minnesota common law. Part IV evaluates the Minnesota Supreme Court's application of federal privacy standards and then examines the court's decisions that outline the right of privacy under the Minnesota Constitution. Part V concludes by raising questions concerning the potential application of the court's concept of privacy under the Minnesota Constitution as applied to two areas: same-sex marriages and …


Jacob Burns And The Institute For Advanced Legal Studies, David G. Carlson Oct 1993

Jacob Burns And The Institute For Advanced Legal Studies, David G. Carlson

Cardozo Law Review

Jacob Burns lived a long and fabled life, which was obviously its own reward. Among the very many things that could be said, and the thing I would like to memorialize here, is the profound legacy Mr. Bums left behind at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he served as chairman of the board for many years and as founder of the Jacob Bums Institute for Advanced Legal Studies. In his memory, I would like to say a little about the history of this endeavor and Mr. Burns's role in it.


Legislative Inputs And Gender-Based Discrimination In The Burger Court, Earl M. Maltz Mar 1992

Legislative Inputs And Gender-Based Discrimination In The Burger Court, Earl M. Maltz

Michigan Law Review

In An Interpretive History of Modem Equal Protection, Michael Klarman poses a powerful challenge to the conventional wisdom regarding the structure of Burger Court jurisprudence. Most commentators have concluded that during the Burger era the Court lacked a coherent vision of constitutional law, and was given to a "rootless" activism or a "pragmatic" approach to constitutional analysis. Klarman argues that, at least in the area of equal protection analysis, the Burger Court's approach did reflect a unifying theme, which he describes as a focus on "legislative inputs." According to Klarman, this approach "directs judicial review towards purging legislative decision-making of …


Timeless Rules: Can Normative Closure And Legal Indeterminacy Be Reconciled?, Charles M. Yablon Mar 1992

Timeless Rules: Can Normative Closure And Legal Indeterminacy Be Reconciled?, Charles M. Yablon

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Forced Out Of The Closet: Sexual Orientation And The Legal Dilemma Of "Outing", David H. Pollack Jan 1992

Forced Out Of The Closet: Sexual Orientation And The Legal Dilemma Of "Outing", David H. Pollack

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Unemployment Compensation: Women And Children-The Denials, Elizabeth F. Thompson Jan 1992

Unemployment Compensation: Women And Children-The Denials, Elizabeth F. Thompson

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Can Two Real Men Eat Quiche Together? Storytelling, Gender-Role Stereotypes, And Legal Protection For Lesbians And Gay Men, Marc A. Fajer Jan 1992

Can Two Real Men Eat Quiche Together? Storytelling, Gender-Role Stereotypes, And Legal Protection For Lesbians And Gay Men, Marc A. Fajer

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Neutered Mother, Martha Albertson Fineman Jan 1992

The Neutered Mother, Martha Albertson Fineman

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Gender And Justice, Mary I. Coombs Jan 1992

Gender And Justice, Mary I. Coombs

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Managing The Military's Homosexual Exclusion Policy: Text And Subtext, Judith Hicks Stiehm Jan 1992

Managing The Military's Homosexual Exclusion Policy: Text And Subtext, Judith Hicks Stiehm

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


In Praise Of Macho Women: Price Waterhouse V. Hopkins, J. Cindy Eson Jan 1992

In Praise Of Macho Women: Price Waterhouse V. Hopkins, J. Cindy Eson

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Issues For Men In The 1990s, Michael S. Kimmel Jan 1992

Issues For Men In The 1990s, Michael S. Kimmel

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West Jan 1992

Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

It is commonly and rightly understood in this country that our constitutional system ensures, or seeks to ensure, that individuals are accorded the greatest degree of personal, political, social, and economic liberty possible, consistent with a like amount of liberty given to others, the duty and right of the community to establish the conditions for a moral and secure collective life, and the responsibility of the state to provide for the common defense of the community against outside aggression. Our distinctive cultural and constitutional commitment to individual liberty places very real restraints on what our elected representatives can do, even …


The Violence Of Contamination And The Violence Of The Pure, Arkady Plotnitsky Dec 1991

The Violence Of Contamination And The Violence Of The Pure, Arkady Plotnitsky

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Blue Bus Stop: On Professors' Stories And The Stories Plantiffs Tell, James Brook Nov 1991

The Blue Bus Stop: On Professors' Stories And The Stories Plantiffs Tell, James Brook

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Hiv/Aids And The Pre-Existing Health Condition Standard: Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 653 (1991), Barbara Lynn Pedersen Jan 1991

Hiv/Aids And The Pre-Existing Health Condition Standard: Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 653 (1991), Barbara Lynn Pedersen

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Voluntary Affirmative Action In Employment For Women And Minorities Under Title Vii Of The Civil Rights Act: Extending Possibilities For Employers To Engage In Preferential Treatment To Achieve Equal Employment Opportunity, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 731 (1991), Chris Engels Jan 1991

Voluntary Affirmative Action In Employment For Women And Minorities Under Title Vii Of The Civil Rights Act: Extending Possibilities For Employers To Engage In Preferential Treatment To Achieve Equal Employment Opportunity, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 731 (1991), Chris Engels

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Affirmative Action, Douglas Scherer, John Dunne Jan 1991

Affirmative Action, Douglas Scherer, John Dunne

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Civil Rights Clause Jan 1991

Civil Rights Clause

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Authoritarianism And The Rule Of Law, Lynne Henderson Jan 1991

Authoritarianism And The Rule Of Law, Lynne Henderson

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of Affirmative Action After Metro Broadcasting V. Fcc: The Solution Almost Nobody Wanted, Douglas O. Linder Jan 1991

Review Of Affirmative Action After Metro Broadcasting V. Fcc: The Solution Almost Nobody Wanted, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Ideal Of Liberty: A Comment On Michael H. V. Gerald D., Robin West Jan 1991

The Ideal Of Liberty: A Comment On Michael H. V. Gerald D., Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

What is the meaning and content of the "liberty" protected by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment? In Michael H. v. Gerald D. Justices Brennan and Scalia spelled out what at first blush appear to be sharply contrasting understandings of the meaning of liberty and of the substantive limits liberty imposes on state action. Justice Scalia argued that the "liberty" protected by a substantive interpretation of due process is only the liberty to engage in activities historically protected against state intervention by firmly entrenched societal traditions. I will sometimes call this the "traditionalist" interpretation of liberty. Justice Brennan, …


Toward An Abolitionist Interpretation Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Robin West Jan 1991

Toward An Abolitionist Interpretation Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

It is by now an open secret that current interpretations of the meaning of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and of its relevance and mandate for contemporary problems of racial, gender, and economic justice, are deeply and, in a sense, hopelessly conflicted. The conflict, simply stated, is this: to the current Supreme Court, and to a sizeable and influential number of constitutional theorists, the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Constitution is essentially a guarantee that the categories delineated by legal rules will be "rational" and will be rationally related to legitimate state ends. To …


The First Amendment, Burt Neuborne Jan 1991

The First Amendment, Burt Neuborne

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection Jan 1991

Equal Protection

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Deconstruction And The Impossibility Of Justice, Thomas Keenan Jul 1990

Deconstruction And The Impossibility Of Justice, Thomas Keenan

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Natural Law Of Rhythm And Equality, John W. Ragsdale Jr Jan 1990

The Natural Law Of Rhythm And Equality, John W. Ragsdale Jr

Faculty Works

The quest for natural law can easily seem futile to the secularist, and the legal terrain beyond human institutions has often been abandoned to the theologians and the supernaturalists. Most contemporary legal philosophers tend to focus on law as process, on legal positivism and legal realism, on the relativity of values or on the legal masking of class, race or gender interests. This piece will not do direct battle with these philosophies, all of which may have internal integrity and legitimacy within their chosen spheres. Instead, this piece will reexplore the possibility and propriety of linking the reality of law …