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Who Said The Crawford Revolution Would Be Easy?, Richard D. Friedman

Articles

One of the central protections of our system of criminal justice is the right of the accused in all criminal prosecutions "to be confronted with the witnesses against him." It provides assurance that prosecution witnesses will give their testimony in the way demanded for centuries by Anglo-American courts-in the presence of the accused, subject to cross-examination- rather than in any other way. Witnesses may not, for example, testify by speaking privately to governmental agents in a police station or in their living rooms. Since shortly after it was adopted, however, the confrontation right became obscured by the ascendance of a …

The Law Of Nations As Constitutional Law, Anthony J. Bellia, Bradford R. Clark

Journal Articles

Courts and scholars continue to debate the status of customary international law in U.S. courts, but have paid insufficient attention to the role that such law plays in interpreting and upholding several specific provisions of the Constitution. The modern position argues that courts should treat customary international law as federal common law. The revisionist position contends that customary international law applies only to the extent that positive federal or state law has adopted it. Neither approach adequately takes account of the Constitution’s allocation of powers to the federal political branches in Articles I and II or the effect of these …

Building Democracy In Japan, Mary Alice Haddad

Mary Alice Haddad

How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building Democracy in Japan. Using the Japanese experience as starting point, this book develops a new approach to the study of democratization that examines state-society interactions as a country adjusts its existing political culture to accommodate new democratic values, institutions and practices. With reference to the country's history, the book focuses on …

The Supreme Court Sourcebook (Forthcoming), Joseph Thai, Richard Seamon, Andrew Siegel, Kathryn Watts

Joseph T Thai

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Symposium Introduction: The Competing Claims Of Law And Religion: Who Should Influence Whom?, Michael Helfand

Michael A Helfand

This introduction provides a preface to the Pepperdine Law Review symposium from the Third Annual Religious Legal Theory Conference on "The Competing Claims of Law & Religion: Who Should Influence Whom." As the introduction notes, the relationship between law and religion is both fraught with tension but also provides great opportunity. In so doing, the introduction sketches some of the varied responses to conflicts between law and religion, providing a brief overview of the papers included in the symposium issue.

Legislating Inclusion, Lia Epperson

Lia Epperson

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Robinson V. California: From Revolutionary Constitutional Doctrine To Model Ban On Status Crimes, Erik Luna

Erik Luna

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Linking The Questions: Judicial Supremacy As A Matter Of Constitutional Interpretation, Tabatha Abu El-Haj

Tabatha Abu El-Haj

This Article explains that what has been missing from the debate between advocates of popular constitutionalism and defenders of judicial supremacy is any account of the practice of constitutional interpretation. Without a clear sense of what constitutional interpretation involves, we cannot assess the prevailing assumption that the Supreme Court is uniquely positioned to interpret the Constitution or explore an expertise-based justification for its claim to finality. The Article, therefore, revisits the debate about judicial supremacy by starting, not with history or politics, but with constitutional interpretation itself.

Having explored the practice of constitutional interpretation, it concludes that the Supreme Court …

Strategies And Techniques For Teaching Constitutional Law, Robert Power

Robert C Power

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Migration And Immigrants In International Declarations And United States Law, Michael Scaperlanda

Michael A. Scaperlanda

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Of Cheerios And Sequined Heels: A Response To Darren Rosenblum's "Unsex Mothering: Toward A Culture Of New Parenting", Libby Adler

Libby S. Adler

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The Prosecutor In Transnational Perspective, Erik Luna, Marianne Wade

Erik Luna

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Presentations On The Myth Of Choice, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield has delivered over 30 public lectures and presentations to a wide variety of audiences in support of his book, The Myth of Choice, including presentations at the Center for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley, the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN.

Decisional Minimalism And The Judicial Evaluation Of Gun Regulations, Richard Boldt

Richard C. Boldt

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Поняття «Виборча Система»: Вітчизняний Та Зарубіжний Досвід, Maryana Afanasyeva

Maryana V. Afanasyeva

В статті робиться висновок про недоцільність виокремлення вузького та широкого значення дефініції "виборча система". Системний аналіз політико-правового явища - виборча система - обґрунтовує його авторське визначення. Автор зазначає, що виборча система - це політико-правовий інститут, який забезпечує реалізацію виборчих прав громадян, формування владних виборних органів та певний тип організації публічної влади через сукупність відносно самостійних, але взаємообумовлених та взаємодіючих в межах виборчого процесу, конституційно-правових технологій (способів, прийомів, методів, критеріїв) балотування кандидатів на виборні посади, голосування виборців, підрахунку голосів та встановлення результатів виборів. В статье делается вывод о нецелесообразности выделения узкого и широкого значения дефиниции "избирательная система". Системный анализ политико-правового явления …

Circumstance And Strategy: Jointly Authored Supreme Court Opinions, Laura Ray

Laura K. Ray

The standard form of authorship for a Supreme Court opinion is a single author who then may be joined by any colleagues who are in agreement. There is, however, a significant and overlooked variant of this form, one used in a small cluster of major cases, most of them landmark decisions, over the past seventy years: the jointly authored opinion. In these cases, there may be as many as nine authors signing an opinion (as in Cooper v. Aaron) or as few as two (as in McConnell v. FEC). All the signatories may be credited with the entire opinion (as …

To Swear Or Not To Swear: Using Foul Language During A Supreme Court Oral Argument, Alan Garfield

Alan E Garfield

This essay considers the provocative question of whether it is strategically wise for a lawyer to use foul language during a Supreme Court oral argument. This issue doesn’t come up often. But it does when a lawyer claims his client’s First Amendment rights were violated when the government punished him for using foul language. If the lawyer doesn’t use his client’s offensive words, he risks conceding that these words are so horrid they warrant suppression. But if he does use the words, he risks alienating justices who find the words unseemly. The essay uses the “fleeting expletives” case that was …

Limited Government And The Bill Of Rights, Patrick Garry

Patrick M. Garry

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Western Union, The American Federation Of Labor, Google, And The Changing Face Of Privacy Advocates, Wesley Oliver

Wesley M Oliver

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Invisible Federalism And The Electoral College, Derek Muller

Derek T. Muller

What role do States have when the Electoral College disappears? With the enactment of the National Popular Vote on the horizon and an imminent presidential election in which a nationwide popular vote determines the winner, States would continue to do what they have done for hundreds of years — administer elections. The Constitution empowers States to decide who votes for president, and States choose who qualifies to vote based on factors like age or felon status. This power of States, a kind of “invisible federalism,” is all but ignored in Electoral College reform efforts. In fact, the power of the …