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Same-Sex Marriage Judgment Asks Queer Citizens To Wait For True Equality At A Future Time That May Never Arrive, Kunal Ambasta

Popular Media

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"For about the last 15 years, the queer rights movement has enriched the constitutional law of this country. Some of the most cherished constitutional values and rights have been fleshed out with the movement as its springboards at the Supreme Court.... The Court fully acknowledges, in abstract, the rights of queer couples to equal treatment before the law, dignity, and of the numerous tangible and intangible benefits of the institution of marriage, but refuses to ensure any of these rights to a clear case of legal discrimination or to craft a suitable remedy."

Turn Up The Volume: The Connick Pickering Test As A Remedy For Quiet Quitting And The Covid-19 Pandemic’S Impact On Critical Private Employment Issues, Megan E. Bowling

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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Inactive Exercise & Unequal Protection: Espinoza & Carson Under The Equal Protection Clause, Griffith B. Bludworth

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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Education, The First Amendment, And The Constitution, Erwin Chemerinsky

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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School Matters, Ronna Greff Schneider

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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Brief Of Amicus Curiae Tax Professors In Support Of Respondent In Moore V. United States, Donald B. Tobin, Ellen P. Aprill

Faculty Scholarship

Petitioners in Moore v. United States have argued to the Supreme Court that the word “incomes” in the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes only the taxation of “realized” income. Thus, they assert, a repatriation tax (referred to as MRT) in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is invalid because it taxes unrealized gains. While other briefs in the case explain that, as properly understood, the tax at issue taxes only realized gains, this brief counters the petitioners’ Sixteenth Amendment argument. It explains that economists, accountants, and lawyers in the early twentieth century all defined income in broad terms, embracing the definition of …

Marriage Equality Judgment: The Missing Case Of International Covenants, Nanditta Batra, Naveen Batra

Popular Media

This article analyses the judgement on marriage equality delivered by a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India on 17 October 2o23. The authors argue that, in holding that there is no fundamental right to marry under the Indian Constitution, the court has not taken into account binding international human rights treatises that categorically state the right to marry as a human right.

Press Freedom Under Threat In Europe: Slapps And Democracy, Maya Oleary-Cyr

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

This paper critically examines the legal systems of European countries and their relationship to press freedom, particularly the vexatious legal threats used by government officials and corporations to silence journalists. These legal threats are known as SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation) and their use has increased exponentially in the last decade. Although the issue is global, this research analyzes the issue through the lens of Greece, Italy, and Hungary. As member states, each one of these countries has an obligation to uphold the democratic standards put forth by the EU. Journalists are a vital aspect of the democratic process …

The Immorality Of Originalism, Jack M. Beermann

Catholic University Law Review

The central claim of this essay is that in interpreting the U.S. Constitution, it is immoral to choose original intent over social welfare, broadly conceived. Once this argument is laid out and defended on its own terms, I support the central claim with a variety of arguments, including the defective process pursuant to which the Constitution was enacted, the deeply flawed substantive content of the Constitution, the incongruity of fidelity to the views of a generation of revolutionaries, the current virtual imperviousness of the Constitution to amendment, the failure of the Constitution to resolve fundamental questions concerning the allocation of …

Defending Against Projects Of Faction: Reforming The Congressional Investigation Process, John Sullivan

Catholic University Law Review

Throughout American history, the power to investigate has been one of key powers of the U.S. Congress. This power, shaped by the Congress itself and the courts, has evolved into a critical tool used to hold parties accountable and to promote effective legislation for the American people. Yet as much as it can be used to further the interests of all Americans, so too can it be used to further a party’s own political agenda. Today, the congressional investigation process has become overly-politicized, misused for fundraising purposes, and overseen by members of Congress who are not investigators by trade.

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America’S Two Pastimes: Baseball And Constitutional Law; Review Of Adrian Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism, Paul J. Larkin

Catholic University Law Review

For the last 50 years, the two prevailing constitutional interpretation methodologies have been Originalism and Living Constitutionalism. The former treats the Constitution almost like a contract and demands that interpreters focus on the ordinary contemporary understanding its terms would have received when they became law. The latter treats the Constitution as a charter for the structure of a new government that would survive and mature as needed to protect both the nation and its people as new threats to government and civil liberties arise. Professor Adrian Vermeule’s book Common Good Constitutionalism offers a new approach to constitutional interpretation, one that …

Symposium On A Pluralist Theory Of Constitutional Justice, Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy

2023–2024 Flyers

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Symposium On A Pluralist Theory Of Constitutional Justice, Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy

2023 Event Invitations

Illiberalism and populism challenge liberal constitutionalism and its nexus to distributive justice in its three dimensions of material welfare, identitarian recognition and democratic representation. A Pluralist Theory of Constitutional Justice by University Professor Michel Rosenfeld (Oxford University Press 2022) develops a pluralist approach leading to the “justice essentials” designed to meet the above challenge and to reinvigorate liberal constitutionalism.

Spanish In Action! Spanish Program Collaboration With The Non-Profit Organization Concerned Citizens For Migrants At Morehead, Ann Colbert, Itza Zavala-Garrett, Holly Hendrix, Shelby Barker

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Spanish in Action! Spanish Program Collaboration with the Non-Profit Organization Concerned Citizens for Migrants at Morehead," given by Ann Colbert, Itza Zavala-Garrett, Holly Hendrix, and Shelby Barker at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 11, 2023.

The Unspoken Obvious: There Are Queer Children, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "The Unspoken Obvious: There are Queer Children," given by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 11, 2023.

A Historical Account Of The Orderly Payment Of Debts Act Reference: Limiting Provincial Efforts To Protect Insolvent Debtors, Thomas Gw Telfer, Virginia Torrie

Dalhousie Law Journal

This paper analyzes the history of the Alberta Orderly Payment of Debts Act and the constitutional controversy that followed. The legislation sought to protect debtors by imposing restrictions on creditors. In 1960, the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Validity of Orderly Payment of Debts Act, 1959 (Alberta) ruled that the legislation was ultra vires on the basis that it interfered with the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power. The Orderly Payment of Debts Act reference is the capstone in a trilogy of cases in which provincial legislation was invalidated for encroaching upon the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power. The …

Responding To Sexual Assault Disclosures: How To Have A Hard Conversation, Megan Rookard

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Responding to Sexual Assault Disclosure: How to have a Hard Conversation," given by Megan Rookard at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 11, 2023.

Community Organizing & Social Justice, Henry R. Cunningham

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Community Organizing & Social Justice," given by Henry R. Cunningham at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 11, 2023.

Yes, No, Maybe So: A Conversation About Consent, Megan Rookard, Morgan Ferguson

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Yes, No, Maybe So: A Conversation About Consent," given by Megan Rookard and Megan Ferguson at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 11, 2023.

Mythbusting: Transgender Truths, Bernadette Barton, Meg Akers, Stephanie Perry

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

A PowerPoint presentation, titled "Mythbusting: Transgender Truths," given by Bernadette Barton, Meg Akers, and Stephanie Perry at the Justice Festival held on the campus of Morehead State University on October 11, 2023.