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Doe ex Rel. Roe v. Backpage.com, Llc |
104 F.Supp.3d 149, United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. (5/15/2015) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
ENERGY AND UTILITIES - Telecommunications. Immunity provision of the Communications Decency Act precluded trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act claim. |
2015 |
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Hannon v. Holder |
Not Reported in F.Supp.3d, United States District Court, S.D. Ohio, Eastern Division. (3/25/2015) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Plaintiff, James Hannon, a non-prisoner pro se litigant, filed this action asking for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Mr. Hannon qualifies financially for in forma pauperis status, so his motion for leave to proceed (Doc. 1) is granted. However, the Court will recommend that the complaint be dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which... |
2015 |
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Tatum v. U.s. |
Not Reported in F.Supp.3d, United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin. (7/8/2015) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
The pro se plaintiff, who is incarcerated at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, filed a complaint on behalf of all African American Black people born in the United States. This matter comes before the Court on the plaintiff's petition to proceed in forma pauperis. He has been assessed and paid an initial partial filing fee of $3.71. The Court... |
2015 |
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Venton v. Million Dollar Round Table |
Not Reported in F.Supp.3d, United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division. (6/16/2015) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Plaintiff, Marilyn Venton (Venton), filed a pro se complaint alleging employment discrimination based on race against defendant Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT). Venton alleges that MDRT failed to promote her, failed to stop harassment, and retaliated against her in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981.... |
2015 |
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| Angela P. Harris |
[Re]integrating Spaces: the Color of Farming |
2 Savannah Law Review 157 (2015) |
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The middle-aged man and woman stand stiffly at the very front of the painting, the peak of the house behind them visible between their shoulders. The man looks directly forward, his face expressionless, almost grim. He--nearly bald, dressed in overalls, and wearing spectacles--grips a pitchfork firmly. She-- equally unsmiling, her hair pulled... |
2015 |
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| Cheryl Nelson Butler |
A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in America |
27 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 95 (2015) |
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Abstract: This Article is one of the first to apply critical race feminism (CRF) to explore prostitution and sex trafficking in the United States. Several scholars have applied critical race feminism to explore several forms of sexual exploitation, including sexual harassment, domestic violence, and rape, but have yet to extend this discourse into... |
2015 |
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| Anders Walker |
A Lawyer Looks at Civil Disobedience: Why Lewis F. Powell Jr. Divorced Diversity from Affirmative Action |
86 University of Colorado Law Review 1229 (Fall 2015) |
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This Article reconstructs Lewis F. Powell Jr.'s thoughts on the civil rights movement by focusing on a series of little-known speeches that he delivered in the 1960s lamenting the practice of civil disobedience endorsed by Martin Luther King Jr. Convinced that the law had done all it could for blacks, Powell took issue with King's Letter from... |
2015 |
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| Chris Sagers |
A Statute by Any Other Name Might Smell less like S.p.a.m., Or, the Congress of the United States Grows Increasingly D.u.m.b. |
103 Georgetown Law Journal 1307 (June, 2015) |
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By focusing on the presentation, structure, and style of legal documents rather than just their literal meaning, we approach the world in which they were written through variables that were generally deployed and altered subconsciously .. What is revealed through the assumptions and procedures that a society does not question will often tell us... |
2015 |
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| Barbara F. Berenson |
America's Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community by Robert L. Tsai (Harvard University Press) 2014 |
96 Massachusetts Law Review 120 (August, 2015) |
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What does it mean to be an American? In our multi-cultural nation, this question brings forth a diversity of responses. But many agree that Americans may be best described as many people united (e pluribus unum) by adherence to the beliefs and structure of government set forth in the nation's two foundation documents: the Declaration of... |
2015 |
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| Benjamin J. Hogan |
Awakening the Spirit of the Nlra: the Future of Concerted Activity Through Social Media |
118 West Virginia Law Review 841 (Winter 2015) |
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I. Introduction. 842 II. The National Labor Relations Act. 845 A. History and Purpose of the NLRA. 845 B. Implementation, Interpretation, and Enforcement of the NLRA: The National Labor Relations Board. 849 III. Employees' Rights Under the NLRA and the Rule of Protected Concerted Activity. 852 A. Employees' Right to Communicate. 854 B. Protected... |
2015 |
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| Vickie Casanova Willis, Standish E. Willis |
Black People Against Police Torture: the Importance of Building a People-centered Human Rights Movement |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 235 (Symposium, 2015) |
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. - Thurgood Marshall That power concedes nothing without a demand is an oft-quoted concept. When Frederick Douglass made this declaration in 1857 as part of his West India Emancipation speech, he also foretold the Chicago Police Torture saga in stating Who would be free, themselves must strike... |
2015 |
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| Lolita Buckner Inniss |
Cherokee Freedmen and the Color of Belonging |
5 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 100 (2015) |
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This Article addresses the Cherokee Nation and its historic conflict with the descendants of its former black slaves, designated Cherokee Freedmen. This Article specifically addresses how historic discussions of black, red, and white skin colors, designating the African-ancestored, aboriginal (Native American), and European-ancestored people of the... |
2015 |
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| Anita Bernstein |
Common Law Fundamentals of the Right to Abortion |
63 Buffalo Law Review 1141 (December, 2015) |
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Introduction. 1142 I. Abortion Prohibition = State-Imposed Detriment. 1148 A. Physical Detriments: Pain, Morbidity, Mortality. 1149 B. Non-Physical Detriments. 1154 C. Offsets: A Few Benefits of Remaining Pregnant. 1155 II. Prior Voluntary Conduct Needed Before the State May Impose Detriment: Three Common Law Possibilities Dispatched. 1159 A.... |
2015 |
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| Amanda Werner |
Corporations Are (White) People: How Corporate Privilege Reifies Whiteness as Property |
31 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 129 (Spring 2015) |
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In 1993, renowned legal scholar and Critical Race theorist Cheryl Harris's Whiteness as Property examined how property rights interact with and reinforce race. Harris documents how the American property regime developed in tandem with conceptions of race to inhere the white identity with protected legal value, shaping historical patterns of... |
2015 |
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| Amy J. Sepinwall, J.D., Ph.D. |
Crossing the Fault Line in Corporate Criminal Law |
40 Journal of Corporation Law 439 (Winter 2015) |
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The financial crisis left a few individuals responsible for it very rich while its consequences made millions not responsible for it much poorer. If this involves no crime then we have failed to define or prosecute crime appropriately. I. Introduction. 440 II. Financial Wrongdoing and Undistributed Responsibility. 446 A. The Tension Between... |
2015 |
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| Jacqueline D. Lipton, John Tehranian |
Derivative Works 2.0: Reconsidering Transformative Use in the Age of Crowdsourced Creation |
109 Northwestern University Law Review 383 (Winter 2015) |
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Abstract--Apple invites us to Rip. Mix. Burn. while Sony exhorts us to make.believe. Digital service providers enable us to create new forms of derivative work--work based substantially on one or more preexisting works. But can we, in a carefree and creative spirit, remix music, movies, and television shows without fear of copyright... |
2015 |
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| Carmen G. Gonzalez |
Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and the Global South |
13 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 151 (2015) |
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From the Ogoni people devastated by oil drilling in Nigeria to the Inuit and other indigenous populations threatened by climate change, communities disparately burdened by environmental degradation are increasingly framing their demands for environmental justice in the language of human rights. Domestic and international tribunals have concluded... |
2015 |
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| Dr. Jeremy I. Levitt |
Fuck Your Breath: Black Men and Youth, State Violence, and Human Rights in the 21st Century |
49 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 87 (2015) |
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. --Maya Angelou I cherish my breath; it is an invaluable gift that I... |
2015 |
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| Alan K. Chen , Justin Marceau |
High Value Lies, Ugly Truths, and the First Amendment |
68 Vanderbilt Law Review 1435 (November, 2015) |
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I. Introduction. 1437 II. Constitutional Doctrine: The Treatment of Lies as Expression. 1440 A. Lies as No Value Speech. 1441 B. Lies That May Be Prohibited Because of a Strong Government Interest. 1444 C. Lies That Are Protected in Order to Avoid Chilling (as Opposed to Generating) Truthful Speech. 1447 D. The Beginning of a New Era: Protecting... |
2015 |
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| Federico Villegas Beltrán |
Human Rights in Argentina: its International Projection |
43 International Journal of Legal Information 45 (Spring, 2015) |
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The international law of human rights is a set of standards that each day increases the sphere of protection of our rights. But, how does one build a space of this nature? The response includes various actors: families and victims reporting and crying for justice, Human rights defenders, legal practitioners, government officials, international... |
2015 |
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| Gabriel H. Rubinstein |
Hungry in the "Land of Pleasant Living": Combating the Effects of Baltimore's Food Deserts on Childhood Education Through Eminent Domain |
15 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 386 (Fall 2015) |
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In 1848, American reformer Horace Mann called education the great equalizer of the conditions of men--the balance wheel of the social machinery. Education by itself, however, has failed to bring equal socio-economic mobility to certain segments of the American population. A barrier to education emerges in low-income neighborhoods where children... |
2015 |
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| Rebecca Tsosie |
Indigenous Peoples and the Ethics of Remediation: Redressing the Legacy of Radioactive Contamination for Native Peoples and Native Lands |
13 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 203 (2015) |
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Most readers probably paid little attention to the small entry in a local New Mexico newspaper on December 28, 2013: Uranium project on Navajo Nation gets green light. According to the article, Navajo lawmakers voted to grant a mining company permission to operate a demonstration uranium recovery project on lands within the Church Rock chapter... |
2015 |
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| Asad G. Kiyani |
International Crime and the Politics of Criminal Theory: Voices and Conduct of Exclusion |
48 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 129 (Fall, 2015) |
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For all the attention that critical scholars give to the enforcement of international criminal law (ICL), comparatively little is paid to the philosophy of criminal law on which the discipline rests. As a consequence, critical scholarship and perspectives are often dismissed as simply political or overly subjective, and thus tangential to the... |
2015 |
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| Cindy S. Woods |
It Isn't a State Problem: the Minas Conga Mine Controversy and the Need for Binding International Obligations on Corporate Actors |
46 Georgetown Journal of International Law 629 (Winter, 2015) |
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After years of implacable neoliberal globalization, multinational corporations have moved from the periphery to the center of the international legal agenda. Human rights advocates have long called for greater corporate accountability in the international arena. The creation of the Global Compact in 2000, while aimed at fostering greater corporate... |
2015 |
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| Tanya Washington |
Jurisprudential Ties That Blind: the Means to End Affirmative Action |
2015 Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice Online Online 1 (2015) |
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For the past twenty-five years, policies and practices designed to address obstacles to educational opportunities, resulting from this nation's rich history of racial discrimination, have been losing popular appeal and legal ground. The promise of equal educational opportunity as a protected civil right that grounded the decision in Brown v. Board... |
2015 |
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| Lisa J. Laplante |
Just Repair |
48 Cornell International Law Journal 513 (Fall 2015) |
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Just Repair offers, for the first time, a comprehensive account of the author's original theory of reparations for redressing atrocities. Responding to a gap in the literature concerning theoretical models for reparations, this novel theory aids governments in satisfying their international obligation to guarantee just repair for victims who have... |
2015 |
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| André Bywater, Cordery, London, England |
Law Report: Modern Slavery Act and Consultation |
28-SPG International Law Practicum 76 (Spring, 2015) |
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The United Kingdom now has new legislation aimed at combatting slavery and human trafficking in the form of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the Act), which received Royal Assent on 26 March 2015. The Act consolidates and expands upon existing legislation, setting up a systematic approach to combatting modern slavery. The Act also imposes... |
2015 |
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| Gary Peller |
Legal Education and the Legitimation of Racial Power |
65 Journal of Legal Education 405 (November, 2015) |
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Thank you for your invitation to talk with you today about how the recent uproar about police killings of African-Americans in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country might connect to your experience in elite legal education-- what might Harvard Law School have to do with what is going on? I will talk about the way that racial justice is... |
2015 |
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| Dr. Thomas Weatherall |
Lessons from the Alien Tort Statute: Jus Cogens as the Law of Nations |
103 Georgetown Law Journal 1359 (June, 2015) |
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This Note considers a judicial practice that identifies jus cogens as the law of nations by evaluating Alien Tort Statute jurisprudence. While it is generally accepted that a norm belonging to jus cogens is sufficient to fall within the jurisdictional scope of the Alien Tort Statute, this Note examines the stronger claim that jus cogens constitutes... |
2015 |
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| Miranda Perry Fleischer |
Libertarianism and the Charitable Tax Subsidies |
56 Boston College Law Review 1345 (September, 2015) |
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Abstract: Despite libertarianism's political popularity, tax scholarship is largely silent about the interaction between libertarian principles and the structure of our tax system. To fill that gap, this Article mines the nuances of libertarian theory for insights into one feature of our tax system--the charitable tax subsidies--and finds some... |
2015 |
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| Joseph R. Reisert |
Living Dogma |
50 Tulsa Law Review 397 (Winter 2015) |
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Justin Buckley Dyer, Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning (2013) Pp. 202. Paperback $29.99. David Lyons, Confronting Injustice: Moral History and Political Theory (2013). Pp. 256. Hardcover $60.00. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. When Abraham Lincoln wrote those words in April of 1864 to the editor of a... |
2015 |
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| R.A. Lenhardt |
Marriage as Black Citizenship? |
66 Hastings Law Journal 1317 (June, 2015) |
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The narrative of black marriage as citizenship enhancing has been pervasive in American history. As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Moynihan Report and prepare to celebrate the 150 th anniversary of Thirteenth Amendment, this Article argues that this narrative is one that we should resist. The complete story of marriage is one that involves... |
2015 |
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| Cortelyou C. Kenney |
Measuring Transnational Human Rights |
84 Fordham Law Review 1053 (December, 2015) |
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Over the past three and a half decades, hundreds of transnational human rights civil suits--i.e., suits seeking monetary compensation for atrocities committed abroad ranging from torture and extrajudicial killing to forced labor and human trafficking--have been filed in the United States. Exhaustive qualitative research chronicles plaintiff... |
2015 |
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| Ariela J. Gross |
Never Forget? Jewish Identity, History, Memory, Slavery and the Constitution |
16 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 294 (Spring, 2015) |
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People often ask me how I became interested in the topics I work on: the history of law, slavery, race and racism, and the relationship between our Constitution and the achievement of racial justice and equality. Sometimes what the questioner really means is, How did a nice white (Jewish) girl like you start writing about race? This essay will be... |
2015 |
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| Bill Quigley , Sara Godchaux |
Prisoner Human Rights Advocacy |
16 Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law 359 (Spring 2015) |
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I. Introduction II. A Human Rights Approach to Injustice III. Overview of United Nations Human Rights for Prisoners A. Protection of Prisoners from Torture and Mistreatment B. Guarantee of an Adequate Standard of Living and Conditions of Confinement C. Health and Healthcare Rights of Prisoners i. General Medical Services for Prisoners ii.... |
2015 |
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| Gwendoline Alphonso |
Public & Private Order: Law, Race, Morality, and the Antebellum Courts of Louisiana, 1830-1860 |
23 Journal of Southern Legal History 117 (2015) |
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In the summer of 1852, Mildred Ann Jackson, a good-looking quadroon who worked as a seamstress and hairdresser in New Orleans, broke through three doors to escape out of a negro yard. Jackson then disguised herself in male attire and successfully fled to France. In another instance, Charlotte Levy, a white woman, signed a lease in... |
2015 |
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| Anthony V. Alfieri |
Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom Before Dred Scott. By Lea Vandervelde. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 305 Pages. $29.95. |
93 Texas Law Review 1459 (May, 2015) |
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And those poor people that lived down there on Washington, I mean, they caught the blues. They got it all. They got the smell, the fumes, excuse me the maggots, and everything else around there. It was just terrible around there. It was contaminated badly. --Jimmie Ingraham In 1834, twenty-three years before the United States Supreme Court's... |
2015 |
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| Joshua Castellino |
Refereeing Boundaries: Why the World Needs the World Court |
33 Wisconsin International Law Journal 427 (Winter 2015) |
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Introduction. 428 I. The Lines, the Lines . . . They are Blurring . . .. 430 II. The Adjudication of Disputes: The Rules of the Game Thus Far. 438 A. Inviolability and Intangibility of Frontiers with Consent Required for Change.. 439 B. Uti Possidetis Juris & Terra Nullius. 439 C. Snap-shot or Critical Date. 441 D. Applicable Evidence,... |
2015 |
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| Thalia González |
Reorienting Restorative Justice: Initiating a New Dialogue of Rights Consciousness, Community Empowerment and Politicization |
16 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 457 (Winter, 2015) |
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For the last three decades scholars have explored the practice of restorative justice as a crime control mechanism in a multitude of settings. Much of the discourse has focused on restorative justice as an alternative to traditional punitive and retributive criminal justice processes. Whether restorative or punitive, criminal justice processes that... |
2015 |
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| Nick J. Sciullo |
Richard Sherman, Rhetoric, and Racial Animus in the Rebirth of the Bogeyman Myth |
37 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (COMM/ENT) 201 (2015) |
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I. Introduction. 201 II. The Richard Sherman Interview in Theory. 204 III. The Rhetoric of Black Danger. 206 IV. Racial Animus in Sports Media. 212 V. The Rebirth of the Bogeyman Myth. 220 A. The Legend of the Bogeyman; or, a Chance at Weak Ontology. 221 B. Francisco Goya y Que viene el Coco. 225 C. Wer Hat Angst Vorm Schwarzen Mann?. 227 VI.... |
2015 |
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| Katrin B. Anacker |
Saving While Black: from the Freedman's Savings Bank, to Public Policy Missing in Action, to a New Downpayment Savings Product and Policy |
34 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 11 (December, 2015) |
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In an article published in The Atlantic in June 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates argued for the case of reparations. Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. Reparations would... |
2015 |
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| Andreas Schloenhardt , Hannah Bowcock |
'Sex Slaves' and Shrewd Business Women: the Role of Victim Consent in Trafficking in Persons in Australia |
39 Melbourne University Law Review 592 (2015) |
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This article explores and analyses the judicial treatment of victim consent in cases of trafficking in persons in Australia. Using available case law, this article examines how victim consent has been dealt with in the prosecution and sentencing of trafficking offenders, and how discussions of consent have, in certain cases, been used to undermine... |
2015 |
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| Riccardo Pavoni, University of Siena |
Simoncioni v. Germany. Judgment No. 238/2014, Gazzetta Ufficiale (Spec. Ser.), No. 45, Oct. 29, 2014. Corte Costituzionale Della Repubblica Italiana, October 22, 2014 |
109 American Journal of International Law 400 (April, 2015) |
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With Judgment No. 238/2014, the Italian Constitutional Court (hereinafter Court) quashed the Italian legislation setting out the obligation to comply with the sections of the 2012 decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy; Greece intervening) ( Jurisdictional Immunities or... |
2015 |
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| Emily M.S. Houh |
Sketches of a Redemptive Theory of Contract Law |
66 Hastings Law Journal 951 (May, 2015) |
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This Article is about the game we call contract law and what it does and means to those who, at one time or another, have been categorically barred from play. How have outsider players -- such as racial minorities, women, and sexual minorities -- entered the game and, subsequently, how have its governing rules -- that is, contract doctrines --... |
2015 |
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| Evan J. Criddle |
Standing for Human Rights Abroad |
100 Cornell Law Review 269 (January, 2015) |
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When may states impose coercive measures such as asset freezes, trade embargos, and investment restrictions to protect the human rights of foreign nationals abroad? Drawing inspiration from Hugo Grotius's guardianship account of humanitarian intervention, this Article offers a new theory of states' standing to enforce human rights abroad: under... |
2015 |
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| Risa E. Kaufman |
The Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network: a Profile |
41-DEC Human Rights 20 (December, 2015) |
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Social justice lawyers in the United States have long engaged with the international human rights system to inform their U.S.-focused work. For example, building on the traditions of abolitionists, early women's rights advocates, and indigenous peoples, civil rights leaders in the post-war period employed human rights norms and mechanisms in their... |
2015 |
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| Anthony Cook |
The Ghosts of 1964: Race, Reagan, and the Neo-conservative Backlash to the Civil Rights Movement |
6 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 81 (2015) |
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I. Introduction. 81 II. Anatomy of a Backlash: Interest Alignment. 84 III. Anatomy of a Backlash: Constructing the Other . 89 IV. Anatomy of a Backlash: Revisionist Narrative. 96 A. Colorblind Justice. 97 B. Individual Merit. 101 C. American Exceptionalism. 104 V. Backlash, Reaganomics, and the Neo-Conservative movement. 107 A. The Neo-Cons. 109... |
2015 |
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| Roger-Claude Liwanga |
The Meaning of "Gross Violation" of Human Rights: a Focus on International Tribunals' Decisions over the Drc Conflicts |
44 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 67 (Fall 2015) |
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In December 2005, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a judgment on the case--between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda--concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo, declaring that the killings, tortures, and destruction of properties of the DRC civilian population by Uganda and its army... |
2015 |
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| Leonid A. Krasnozhon, Pedro A. Benitez, Walter E. Block |
The Privatization of Antarctica |
6 Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment 379 (2015) |
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The seventh continent, Antarctica, is a no man's land in terms of economic development. This is not due to its harsh weather conditions. Parts of Alaska, Canada and Russia are almost equally inhospitable. Rather, this Article argues that Antarctica's economic isolation is the result of political paralysis and a lack of appreciation for private... |
2015 |
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| Cheryl Nelson Butler |
The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking |
62 UCLA Law Review 1464 (August, 2015) |
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This Article explores the role of race in the prostitution and sex trafficking of people of color, particularly minority youth, and the evolving legal and social responses in the United States. Child sex trafficking has become a vital topic of discussion among scholars and advocates, and public outcry has led to safe harbor legislation aimed at... |
2015 |
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