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Electing One Of Our Own: The Importance Of Black Communities In The Context Of Local Government , Royce Brooks

The Modern American

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Foreword: A Symposium Exploring The Modern Legacy Of William Jennings Bryan, Susan Franck

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

William Jennings Bryan, known as "The Great Commoner," is one of the most controversial lawyers to hail from Nebraska.' While he may be best-known as a failed three-time Democratic nominee for U.S. President and the legal defender of creationism at the Scopes Monkey Trial, fundamental aspects of Bryan's life have been overlooked.

In a new biography, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, Professor Michael Kazin re-evaluates Bryan's legacy and charges us to consider the profound impact Bryan had upon the political, economic and legal reality of the United States. The book has been the subject of controversy. …

Humanitarian Intervention: The New Missing Link In The Fight To Prevent Crimes Against Humanity And Genocide, Paul Williams

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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What The Swiss Miss (Review Of Friedrich Durrenmatt, Selected Writings), Kenneth Anderson

Popular Media

The Swiss playwright and novelist Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) is remembered among English-language audiences primarily as the author of the 1956 play, The Visit of the Old Lady. He is, however, a leading playwright and novelist, primarily of detective fiction, of Europe and the German language in the post-war period. This review from the Wall Street Journal examines the full body of his work in a three volume selection of his writings published by the University of Chicago. One important consideration is Durrenmatt's place as a German language writer, yet Swiss, rather than German, following the horrors of the Second World …

Law And Terror, Kenneth Anderson

Popular Media

This short policy article argues that both the Bush administration, in its final two years in office, and Congress have an obligation and interest in taking US counterterrorism policy beyond the current "war on terror" operated on the basis of executive power and discretion, to comprehensively institutionalize it for the long term through Congressional legislation. It argues that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is mistakenly aimed merely at satisfying the narrow requirements of the Hamdan decision, and is far from the comprehensive legislation that institutionalizing counterterrorism policy requires in order both to have democratic legitimacy with the American people …

Deconstructing The Politics Of Being Yellow, Leeann O'Neill

The Modern American

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Theorizing Agency, Susan Carle

American University Law Review

Progressive legal scholars today exhibit contrasting views on the scope of legal actors' agency in making "choices" about how to lead their lives. Feminist legal scholar Joan C. Williams, for example, challenges claims that women who leave the paid workforce to stay home with children have made a voluntary choice to take this path. Critical race scholar Ian Haney López, on the other hand, argues that the social construction of racial identity occurs precisely through the many voluntary choices members of both subordinated and dominant racial groups make about matters that implicate racial meanings. Williams contests the idea of voluntary …

The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos And Blacks And What It Means For America , Leeann O’Neill

The Modern American

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African Americans And The Republican Party: Positioning For 2008, Sophia A. Nelson

The Modern American

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South Asian Americans In U.S. Politics, Roopa Nemi, Amala Nath

The Modern American

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The Millennium Challenge Account And The Program Assessment Rating Tool: The Difficulties Of Measuring Accountability, Ayako Sato

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Re-Balancing State And Federal Power: Toward A Political Principle Of Subsidiarity In The United States, Jared Bayer

American University Law Review

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Monolith Or Mosaic: Can The Federal Communications Commission Legitimately Pursue A Repetition Of Local Content At The Expense Of Local Diversity?, Cheryl A. Leanza

American University Law Review

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The Politics And Policy Of Media Ownership, Ben Scott

American University Law Review

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Media Concentration: A Case Of Power, Ego, And Greed Confronting Our Sensibilities, W. Curtiss Priest

American University Law Review

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Toward A Unifying Theory Of The Separation Of Powers, Bruce G. Peabody, John D. Nugent

American University Law Review

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The Freedom Of Information Act Post-9/11: Balancing The Public's Right To Know, Critical Infrastructure Protection, And Homeland Security, Kristen Elizabeth Uhl

American University Law Review

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Earned Sovereignty: The Road To Resolving The Conflict Over Kosovo's Final Status, Paul Williams

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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The Guatemalan Ways Of Death, Kenneth Anderson

Book Reviews

Book review of Allen J. Christenson, Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community; Garrett W. Cook, Renewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in a Highland Town; Diane M. Nelson, A Finger in the Wound: Body Politic in Quincentennial Guatemala; June C. Nash, Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization.

2002, Rhetoric And Reality: Human Rights And The World Bank, Korinna Horta

CAO General 1999-Present

This statement by the World Bank in the context of its support for the largest private sector investment project in sub-Saharan Africa illustrates the problem in a nutshell. Can the world’s most powerful development agency achieve its goal of reducing poverty where political rights are repressed, where freedom of expression and discussion are absent and opposition forces are persecuted? This Article reflects a perspective drawn from the experience of Northern environmental organizations, such as Environmental Defense, which work closely with community groups, church groups, and development and human rights organizations as well as trade unions in many devel¬ oping countries. …

Conceptions Of Lawyers' Agency In Legal Ethics Scholarship, Susan Carle

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Re-Valuing Lawyering For Middle-Income Clients, Susan Carle

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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The American Prosecutor: Independence, Power, And The Threat Of Tyranny, Angela J. Davis

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This Article compares the power, practices, and policies of the Independent Counsel with those of ordinary state and federal prosecutors and suggests that the purported distinctions turn out to be illusory. Part I charts the principal structural characteristics of the Independent Counsel and regular prosecutors, with particular focus on prosecutorial discretion and the charging power. This section notes the public outrage over former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and argues that the American prosecutor deserves similar scrutiny. Using illustrations from the author’s former experience as a public defender, this Part explains how regular prosecutors engage in the same acts of misconduct …

The Limits Of Pragmatism In American Foreign Policy: Unsolicited Advice To The Bush Administration On Relations With International Nongovernmental Organizations, Kenneth Anderson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

The Bush Administration has tended to see international nongovernmental organizations in a pragmatic way, as functionally the international equivalent of domestic "volunteer" organizations. This article argues that the Bush Administration ought to see international nongovernmental organizations as organizations seeking to substitute so-called "international civil society," on the one hand, and public international organizations, on the other, for the authority of democratically sovereign states. Looking beyond the particular issues on which international NGOs press political agendas - human rights, environmentalism, etc. - the function of international NGOs is to delegitimize democratic sovereignty in favor of liberal internationalism. The article argues that …

After Seattle: Public International Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos), And Democratic Legitimacy In An Era Of Globalization: An Essay In Contested Legitimacy, Kenneth Anderson

Working Papers

This working monograph (about 120,000 words) analyzes the relationship between public international organizations such as the United Nations system and international non-governmental organizations under conditions of globalization. It argues that international organizations and international NGOs are locked in an embrace of mutual legitimation, each giving the other important political legitimacy, in favor of liberal internationalism and at the expense of democratic sovereignty. The monograph argues that the legitimacy that each gives the other is based on flawed assumptions about the nature of civil society and "international civil society," on the one hand, and global governance and the possibilities of international, …

The Ottawa Convention Banning Landmines, The Role Of International Non-Governmental Organizations And The Idea Of International Civil Society, Kenneth Anderson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Establishment of the Ottawa Convention Banning Landmines was regarded by many international law scholars, international activists, diplomats and international organization personnel as a defining, 'democratizing' change in the way international law is made. By bringing international NGOs - what is often called 'international civil society' - into the diplomatic and international law-making process, many believe that the Ottawa Convention represented both a democratization of, and a new source of legitimacy for, international law, in part because it was presumably made 'from below'. This article sharply questions whether the Ottawa Convention and the process leading up to it represents and real …

Census Politics Revisited: What To Do When The Government Can't Count? , Benjamin J. Razi

American University Law Review

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The First "First Gentleman": The Role Of President Jane Doe's Husband , John Dwight Ingram

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Fostering Balance On The Federal Courts , Carl Tobias

American University Law Review

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The Party Expenditure Provision's Near Death Experience: Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee V. Federal Election Commission , Robert M. Knop

American University Law Review

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