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February 5, 2011: What Is The Relationship Among Democracy, Religion, Science And Capitalism?, Bruce Ledewitz 2011 Duquesne University

February 5, 2011: What Is The Relationship Among Democracy, Religion, Science And Capitalism?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What is the Relationship Among Democracy, Religion, Science and Capitalism?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Comment On The Paper By Gladys Acosta, Martin D. Farrell 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Comment On The Paper By Gladys Acosta, Martin D. Farrell

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Parental Rights And The Best Interests Of The Child: Implications Of The Adoption And Safe Families Act Of 1997 On Domestic Violence Victims' Rights, Rachel Venier 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Parental Rights And The Best Interests Of The Child: Implications Of The Adoption And Safe Families Act Of 1997 On Domestic Violence Victims' Rights, Rachel Venier

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Schwarzenegger V. Entertainment Merchants Association, Beatrice M. Hahn 2011 Duke Law

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Schwarzenegger V. Entertainment Merchants Association, Beatrice M. Hahn

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

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February 2, 2011: How Is Religion Special?, Bruce Ledewitz 2011 Duquesne University

February 2, 2011: How Is Religion Special?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “How is Religion Special?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Bruesewitz V. Wyeth: The “Unavoidable” Vaccine Problem, Sara Wexler 2011 Duke Law

Bruesewitz V. Wyeth: The “Unavoidable” Vaccine Problem, Sara Wexler

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

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Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Comments On Martha Fineman's Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, , Suzanna Danuta Walters 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Comments On Martha Fineman's Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, , Suzanna Danuta Walters

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Why Lesbians And Gay Men Should Read Martha Fineman, Nancy D. Polikoff 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Why Lesbians And Gay Men Should Read Martha Fineman, Nancy D. Polikoff

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Illinois V. Wardlow , 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Illinois V. Wardlow

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Baehr V. Miike, 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Baehr V. Miike

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Comments On Martha Fineman's Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, , Suzanna Danuta Walters 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Comments On Martha Fineman's Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, , Suzanna Danuta Walters

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Why Lesbians And Gay Men Should Read Martha Fineman, Nancy D. Polikoff 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Why Lesbians And Gay Men Should Read Martha Fineman, Nancy D. Polikoff

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry 2011 American University Washington College of Law

Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Reimagining Democratic Theory For Social Individuals, Steven L. Winter Walter S. Gibbs Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law 2011 Wayne State University Law School

Reimagining Democratic Theory For Social Individuals, Steven L. Winter Walter S. Gibbs Distinguished Professor Of Constitutional Law

Law Faculty Research Publications

The Western conception of the individual as a rational, self-directing agent is a mythology that organizes and distorts religion, science, economics, and politics. It produces an abstracted and atomized form of engagement that is fatal to collective self-governance. And it turns democracy into the enemy of equality. Considering the meaning of democracy and autonomy from a perspective that takes the subject as truly social would refocus our attention on the constitutive contexts and practices necessary for the production of citizens who are capable of meaningful self-governance. Under modern conditions, it is in the development of sexual autonomy that we learn …


May It Please The Senate: An Empirical Analysis Of The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings Of Supreme Court Nominees, 1939-2009, Lori A. Ringhand, Paul M. Collins Jr. 2011 University of Georgia School of Law

May It Please The Senate: An Empirical Analysis Of The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings Of Supreme Court Nominees, 1939-2009, Lori A. Ringhand, Paul M. Collins Jr.

Scholarly Works

This paper examines the questions asked and answers given by every Supreme Court nominee who has appeared to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee since 1939. In doing so, it uses a new dataset developed by the authors. This database, which provides a much-needed empirical foundation for scholarship in emerging areas of constitutional law and political science, captures all of the statements made at the hearings and codes these comments by issue area, subissue area, party of the appointing president, and party of the questioning senator. The dataset allows us to quantify for the fist time such things as which …


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