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The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan 2023 American University in Cairo

The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan

Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of modern-nation states saw the end of the empirical era of exploitation and exercise of inherent racist tendencies towards the 'other'. However, the effect of that colonial system is still ever-present in the creation and governance of these newly independent states. While every new state aims to be 'modern', they adopt the international legal framework of the West as their own - a system they had initially wanted to escape. The concept of Muslim universality in the form of the ummah should have freed Pakistan from the shackles of its former colonial masters. Instead, this phenomenon was replaced …


Congressional Meddling In Presidential Elections: Still Unconstitutional After All These Years; A Comment On Sunstein, Gary S. Lawson, Jack M. Beermann 2023 Boston University School of Law

Congressional Meddling In Presidential Elections: Still Unconstitutional After All These Years; A Comment On Sunstein, Gary S. Lawson, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

In a prior article, see Jack Beermann & Gary Lawson, The Electoral Count Mess: The Electoral Count Act of 1887 Is Unconstitutional, and Other Fun Facts (Plus a Few Random Academic Speculations) about Counting Electoral Votes, 16 FIU L. REV. 297 (2022), we argued that much of the 1877 Electoral Count Act unconstitutionally gave Congress a role in counting and certifying electoral votes. In 2022, Congress amended the statute to make it marginally more constitutional in some respects and significantly less constitutional in others. In response to a forthcoming article by Cass Sunstein defending the new Electoral Count …


Just-Right Government: Interstate Compacts And Multistate Governance In An Era Of Political Polarization, Policy Paralysis, And Bad-Faith Partisanship, Jon Michaels, Emme M. Tyler 2023 University of California - Los Angeles

Just-Right Government: Interstate Compacts And Multistate Governance In An Era Of Political Polarization, Policy Paralysis, And Bad-Faith Partisanship, Jon Michaels, Emme M. Tyler

Indiana Law Journal

Those committed to addressing the political, economic, and moral crises of the day— voting rights, racial justice, reproductive autonomy, gaping inequality, LGBTQ rights, and public health and safety—don’t know where to turn. Federal legislative and regulatory pathways are choked off by senators quick to filibuster and by judges eager to strike down agency rules and orders. State pathways, in turn, are compromised by limited capacity, collective action problems, externalities, scant economies of scale, and—in many jurisdictions—a toxic political culture hostile to even the most anodyne government interventions. Recognizing the limited options available on a binary (that is, federal or state) …


U.S. Government Information Resources For Accountability On U.S. Assistance To Ukraine, Bert Chapman 2023 Purdue University

U.S. Government Information Resources For Accountability On U.S. Assistance To Ukraine, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides detailed coverage of U.S. Government information resources documenting accountability for U.S. civilian and military assistance to Ukraine. Includes U.S. laws, agencies involved in U.S. arms export policy, Defense Department resources and data, Defense Dept. Inspector General reports, Government Accountability Office reports, congressional committee hearings, a letter from a congressional committee to the Secretaries of Defense and State and U.S. Agency for International Development administrator, congressional debate, and congressional recorded votes.


Adat Sebagai Strategi Perjuangan Dan Mobilisasi Hukum, Yance Arizona 2023 Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Adat Sebagai Strategi Perjuangan Dan Mobilisasi Hukum, Yance Arizona

The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies

The word "adat" has several different meanings in Indonesia. Adat can be used to describe informal dispute settlement procedures, a habit that keeps repeating itself, or a norm that develops into a code of behavior. Adat is perceived in this article as a narrative and a strategy employed by oppressed groups to fight against various forms of exclusion, particularly in relation to land grabbing for resource extraction and conservation carried out by the state and private sectors. This article will analyze the evolution and distinctions of Adat-based studies and movements in Indonesia during the colonial and national periods. Using existing …


Rucho In The States: Districting Cases And The Nature Of State Judicial Power, Chad M. Oldfather 2023 Marquette University Law School

Rucho In The States: Districting Cases And The Nature Of State Judicial Power, Chad M. Oldfather

Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum

No abstract provided.


American Democracy In Peril, J. Michael Luttig 2023 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

American Democracy In Peril, J. Michael Luttig

Sibley Lecture Series

"American Democracy in Peril" was presented by Judge J. Michael Luttig as the 121st Sibley Lecture. Luttig served as a federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006. He also has worked with Boeing and Coca-Cola in the private sector.

This event was for members of the law school community only. It took place in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom at the University of Georgia School of Law March 22, 2023 at 3:30 pm. A reception followed in the Davenport Rotunda.


Upholding Longstanding Prohibitions On Firearm Possession Under Bruen, Mitchell Gordon 2023 Saint Louis University School of Law

Upholding Longstanding Prohibitions On Firearm Possession Under Bruen, Mitchell Gordon

SLU Law Journal Online

The Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen has cast doubt on the constitutionality of federal firearms possession laws, such as the prohibition on felons possessing guns. This piece examines how one federal district court upheld a federal restriction on felon gun possession in the recent wake of the Bruen decision. In this article, Mitchell Gordon especially focuses on the historical facts and analysis that are now required under Bruen in order to uphold a governmental restriction on Second Amendment rights.


Beyond The Watchdog: Using Law To Build Trust In The Press, Erin C. Carroll 2023 Georgetown University Law Center

Beyond The Watchdog: Using Law To Build Trust In The Press, Erin C. Carroll

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Declining trust in the American press has been longstanding and corrosive—both to our information environment and to democracy. It is tempting to think that if journalists could just repeatedly and brilliantly play their key role—that of watchdog—it might be redemptive. But doubling down on the watchdog function holds risks in our polarized climate. Research shows that some conservatives recoil from watchdog journalism, finding it too cynical and politicized.

This essay argues that a different journalistic function—one that has received far less attention and adulation from judges and legal scholars—should be encouraged and amplified. This is the press’s role as a …


Conspiracy Theory Belief And The Case For Abolishing The Insane Delusion Doctrine, Payton Yahn 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Conspiracy Theory Belief And The Case For Abolishing The Insane Delusion Doctrine, Payton Yahn

University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Hamiltonian Constitutionalism Through The Ages: In Defense Of Public Goods, Dr. Charles J. Reid, Jr. 2023 University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minnesota

Hamiltonian Constitutionalism Through The Ages: In Defense Of Public Goods, Dr. Charles J. Reid, Jr.

University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.


After Liberalism? Using Public Service Law To Advance Public Goods, Daniel R. Correa 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

After Liberalism? Using Public Service Law To Advance Public Goods, Daniel R. Correa

University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Well-Regulated For Well-Being: Public Health And The Public Good In 19th And Early 20th Century American Caselaw, Timon Cline 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Well-Regulated For Well-Being: Public Health And The Public Good In 19th And Early 20th Century American Caselaw, Timon Cline

University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.


The Biden Presidential Era: Ten Potential Bipartisan Areas Of Cooperation In Agriculture Policy, Chad G. Marzen 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

The Biden Presidential Era: Ten Potential Bipartisan Areas Of Cooperation In Agriculture Policy, Chad G. Marzen

University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.


First, Do No Harm: Prioritizing Patients Over Politics In The Battle Over Gender-Affirming Care, Greg Mercer 2023 Georgia State University College of Law

First, Do No Harm: Prioritizing Patients Over Politics In The Battle Over Gender-Affirming Care, Greg Mercer

Georgia State University Law Review

The medical community’s move to reclassify gender dysphoria as a condition that results in distress rather than a mental disorder has been instrumental in destigmatizing transgender people. However, state laws that aim to strip physicians of their ability to prescribe gender-affirming care, along with physicians’ refusal to comply with federal regulations requiring access to gender-affirming care, threaten to undo those gains. Opponents of gender-affirming care attempt to wield the concept of medical judgment as both a sword and a shield—preventing physicians from exercising their medical judgment to provide gender-affirming care while simultaneously allowing physicians to abstain from providing it. Although …


The Making And Unmaking Of Urban Citizenship In The Maspero Triangle, Nadine Abd El Razek 2023 American University in Cairo

The Making And Unmaking Of Urban Citizenship In The Maspero Triangle, Nadine Abd El Razek

Theses and Dissertations

Cairo is undergoing a moment of sharpened exclusion and inclusion, with the city’s residents of informal settlements disproportionately experiencing displacement and abrupt interruptions to their social fabric to make way for investment opportunities. In pursuit of achieving the status of a global city, the Egyptian state has effectively widened its practice of structural violence, in order to accumulate capital through dispossession. In the process of doing so, the state has problematized the contested status of urban citizenship, disenfranchising the urban dwellers of Cairo from their right to the city. Following the temporal shifts in the negotiation for urban citizenship, the …


Corporations, Foreign Investments, And U.S. Elections, Courtney Hostetler 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Corporations, Foreign Investments, And U.S. Elections, Courtney Hostetler

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Surveillance Wages: Private Governing Power And The Future Of Work, Zephyr Teachout 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Surveillance Wages: Private Governing Power And The Future Of Work, Zephyr Teachout

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Justice Brandeis' Dilemma Revisited: The Privileged Position Of Corporate Power In American Democracy, David Schultz 2023 University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Justice Brandeis' Dilemma Revisited: The Privileged Position Of Corporate Power In American Democracy, David Schultz

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Freedom In Serving Others: Arguments And Sources For Religious Institutional Freedom, Thomas C. Berg 2023 University of St. Thomas School of Law

Freedom In Serving Others: Arguments And Sources For Religious Institutional Freedom, Thomas C. Berg

University of St. Thomas Law Journal

No abstract provided.


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