| Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Case Status | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| Michele Goodwin |
Race as Proxy: an Introduction |
53 DePaul Law Review 931 (Spring 2004) |
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That America's forefathers debated whether blacks were worthy of citizenship, and ultimately decided that they were undeserving, is formula and precedent by which some scholars suggest blacks continue to be judged. By declaring that blacks would never be full citizens, but rather hold a quasi - type citizenship, those who helped to shape... |
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| A. Mechele Dickerson |
Race Matters in Bankruptcy |
61 Washington and Lee Law Review 1725 (Fall, 2004) |
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C1-6Table of Contents I. L2-5,T5Introduction 1726 II. L2-5,T5Bankruptcy Relief 1727 A. L3-5,T5Goals 1727 B. L3-5,T5Structure 1731 1. L4-5,T5Treatment of Debts 1731. 2. L4-5,T5Treatment of Assets 1735. C. L3-5,T5Criticisms and Uses of Existing Bankruptcy Laws 1738 D. L3-5,T5Costs 1741 III. L2-5,T5Racial Impact of Bankruptcy Relief 1743 A.... |
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| Suzanne E. Eckes |
Race-conscious Admissions Programs: Where Do Universities Go from Gratz and Grutter? |
33 Journal of Law and Education 21 (January, 2004) |
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Twenty-five years after Bakke and amid much uncertainty, the U.S. Supreme Court once again revisited the topic of race-conscious admissions. On April 1, 2003, the Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging the constitutionality of affirmative action programs at the University of Michigan. On June 23, 2003, in Gratz v. Bollinger the Court... |
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| Leonard M. Baynes |
Racial Justice in the New Millennium; from Brown to Grutter: Methods to Achieve Non-discrimination and Comparable Racial Equality |
80 Notre Dame Law Review 243 (November, 2004) |
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From June 13-15, 2004, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) held a midyear workshop on Racial Justice in the New Millennium. This workshop commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the first anniversary of Grutter v. Bollinger. At the workshop, scholars came together to assess and evaluate racial equality... |
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| Kendall Thomas |
Racial Justice: Moral or Political? |
17 National Black Law Journal 222 (2003-2004) |
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In the present century, black people are believed to be totally different from whites in race and origin, yet totally equal to them with regard to human rights. In the sixteenth century, when blacks were thought to come from the same roots and to be of the same family as whites, it was held . . . that with regards to rights blacks were by nature... |
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| Rhonda V. Magee Andrews |
Racial Suffering as Human Suffering: an Existentially-grounded Humanity Consciousness as a Guide to a Fourteenth Amendment Reborn |
13 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 891 (Spring 2004) |
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Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one. Paulo Freire Brazilian philosopher of education On the occasion of my elevation to the status of tenured Professor, the Dean of my law school was kind enough to send flowers. When they arrived at my home in an over-priced and almost exclusively white neighborhood, I opened the door to a tall,... |
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| Jared Bayer |
Re-balancing State and Federal Power: Toward a Political Principle of Subsidiarity in the United States |
53 American University Law Review 1421 (August, 2004) |
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Introduction. 1422 I. U.S. Federalism Jurisprudence Fails to Properly Balance State and Federal Legislative Authority. 1425 A. Federal Preemption of State Law Prevents the States from Addressing the Localized Specifics of Policy Problems. 1428 1. Example: Civil remedy for victims of slave labor. 1428 a. Federal policy to resolve World War... |
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| Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow |
Remembrance of Things Past? The Relationship of past to Future in Pursuing Justice in Mediation |
5 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 97 (Spring 2004) |
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The process [the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa] was backward-looking in the sense of being expected to document and deal with the gross human rights violations of the past, but it was forward-looking in trying to prevent future tyranny. -- James L. Gibson, Truth, Reconciliation, and the Creation of a Human Rights Culture in... |
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| Troy Duster |
Repairing the National Memory by Acknowledging the Living Presence of 'Our Childhood Locked in the Closet' |
6 African-American Law and Policy Report 43 (2004) |
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Yesterday, Randall Robinson quoted William Faulkner who wrote: The past is never dead. It's not even past. This brings to mind an interview with the great Swedish filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman. If you are a film buff, you know that Bergman brought dark and psychologically foreboding themes to the screen through brilliant and disturbing films. While... |
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| Prof. Makau Mutua, Chairperson |
Republic of Kenya Report of the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission |
10 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 15 (2004) |
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On April 17, 2003, the Republic of Kenya appointed the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission. Its mandate was to find out if a truth commission was necessary for Kenya, and if so, to make recommendations on the type of truth commission that ought to be established. The Task Force has drawn its... |
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| Jack M. Balkin |
Respect-worthy: Frank Michelman and the Legitimate Constitution |
39 Tulsa Law Review 485 (Spring 2004) |
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When people gather to celebrate the contributions of a preeminent scholar like Frank Michelman, the most likely focus of discussion will be the important papers that scholar wrote in years past that have helped define a field and have taken on a canonical status. Frank has certainly written his share of those, and in a number of different areas of... |
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| Hanoch Dagan |
Restitution and Slavery: on Incomplete Commodification, Intergenerational Justice, and Legal Transitions |
84 Boston University Law Review 1139 (December, 2004) |
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Introduction. 1139 I. Restitution: An Arbitrary and Dangerous Strategy?. 1143 II. Restitution of Profits and Human Rights. 1146 III. Limitations, Good Faith Purchase for Value, and Intergenerational Justice. 1152 IV. Descendibility of Restitutionary Rights. 1158 V. Legal Transitions and Moral Progress. 1164 Conclusion. 1175 |
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| Andrew Kull |
Restitution in Favor of Former Slaves |
84 Boston University Law Review 1277 (December, 2004) |
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The idea that a modern claim in restitution might be a vehicle to redress unjust enrichment stemming from American slavery has an other-worldly quality about it, because the manifest difficulties confronting such a claim would form a whole series of obstacles, each insuperable by itself, in any litigation governed by ordinary rules of private law.... |
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| Howard S. Master |
Revisiting the Takings-based Argument for Compensating the Wrongfully Convicted |
60 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 97 (2004) |
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This Note argues that eminent domain principles may compel governments to compensate individuals who have been wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Professor Edwin Borchard raised the takings-based argument in favor of compensation as early as 1913 but was unsuccessful in persuading more than a handful of legislatures to adopt statutory... |
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| Mark A. Drumbl |
Rights, Culture, and Crime: the Role of Rule of Law for the Women of Afghanistan |
42 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 349 (2004) |
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This Article explores the role of rule of law in redressing crimes and human rights abuses committed against the women of Afghanistan. Mainstream discourse approaches the situation binarily, obliging women to choose between international and often distant human rights, on the one hand, or proximate cultural/religious norms, on the other, in order... |
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| Kevin R. Johnson |
Roll over Beethoven : "A Critical Examination of Recent Writing about Race" |
82 Texas Law Review 717 (February, 2004) |
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Richard Delgado, an influential civil rights scholar, has written foundational work on hate speech, storytelling in legal scholarship, and countless other areas of civil rights law. One of the founders of Critical Race Theory, Delgado's award-winning series of narratives-- the Rodrigo Chronicles--have been published in some of the most prestigious... |
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| Harold McDougall |
School Desegregation or Affirmative Action? |
44 Washburn Law Journal 65 (Fall 2004) |
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We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest [of diversity in public higher education]. - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor [C]onscious and unconscious race bias, even rank discrimination based on race, remain alive in our land, impeding realization of our highest values and ideals. -... |
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| Keith N. Hylton |
Slavery and Tort Law |
84 Boston University Law Review 1209 (December, 2004) |
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Introduction. 1209 I. Torts of Slavery. 1213 II. Derivative Claims. 1237 A. Tort Law and Derivative Claims. 1238 B. Reparations as a Derivative Claim. 1240 C. The Normative Question. 1248 III. The Accounting Claim. 1251 Conclusion. 1254 |
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| William H. Simon |
Solving Problems Vs. Claiming Rights: the Pragmatist Challenge to Legal Liberalism |
46 William and Mary Law Review 127 (October, 2004) |
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Recent developments in both theory and practice have inspired a new understanding of public interest lawyering. The theoretical development is an intensified interest in Pragmatism. The practical development is the emergence of a style of social reform that seeks to institutionalize the Pragmatist vision of democratic governance as learning and... |
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| Detlev F. Vagts |
Sovereign Bankruptcy: in re Germany (1953), in re Iraq (2004) |
98 American Journal of International Law 302 (April, 2004) |
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Of late various sovereign states have been unable to pay their external debts. In the absence of an international bankruptcy process, questions have arisen as to how they should be treated and claims should be settled. The latter is made more difficult as claimants with minority holdings attempt to leverage their position by rejecting solutions... |
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| Russell L. Christopher |
Symposium Foreword |
39 Tulsa Law Review 737 (Summer 2004) |
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Criminal law is a species of political and moral philosophy. Thus begins George Fletcher's 1978 book, Rethinking Criminal Law (Rethinking), which is the subject of this symposium conceived to mark and honor the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book's initial publication. While it has become fairly common for a symposium to honor the life work of... |
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| Bryan K. Fair |
Taking Educational Caste Seriously: Why Grutter Will Help Very Little |
78 Tulane Law Review 1843 (June, 2004) |
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Why do children of different races perform differently on standardized tests in reading and math? Is there a biological explanation? Are some races intellectually superior? Are slavery, segregation, and discrimination in educational opportunities relevant to current disparities? Are the disparities statistically significant? Should those with the... |
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| John Haberstroh |
The Alien Tort Claims Act & Doe v. Unocal: a Paquete Habana Approach to the Rescue |
32 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 231 (Spring 2004) |
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The requirement that a rule command the general assent of civilized nations to become binding upon them all is a stringent one. Were this not so, the courts of one nation might feel free to impose idiosyncratic legal rules upon others, in the name of applying international law. The exalted power of administering judicially the law of nations . .... |
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| Sarah H. Cleveland |
The Alien Tort Statute, Civil Society, and Corporate Responsibility |
56 Rutgers Law Review 971 (Summer 2004) |
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The topic of this panel is civil participation in the global trading system, with a particular focus on Doe v. Unocal Corp. and use of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) to enforce fundamental human rights norms against multinational corporations. These comments will therefore attempt to locate Doe v. Unocal and other ATS litigation in the broader... |
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| Anthony Paul Farley |
The Apogee of the Commodity |
53 DePaul Law Review 1229 (Spring 2004) |
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If commodities could speak . . . -- Karl Marx I would be sorry if they understood me. Until now it has gone according to my wishes with these people; and I hope even now that this exordium will so bewilder them that from now on they see nothing but letters on the page, while what passes for mind in them is torn hither and thither by the caged anger... |
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| Ronald C. Slye |
The Cambodian Amnesties: Beneficiaries and the Temporal Reach of Amnesties for Gross Violation of Human Rights |
22 Wisconsin International Law Journal 99 (Winter 2004) |
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The Cambodian government passed two successive amnesties in the last decade in response to the lingering question of how to respond to the legacy of the Khmer Rouge. Negotiations aimed at creating a judicial mechanism for holding individuals accountable for atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge have lurched forward and backward, while... |
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| Girardeau A. Spann |
The Dark Side of Grutter |
42 Constitutional Commentary 221 (Spring 2004) |
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Liberals have generally cheered the Supreme Court's decision in Grutter v. Bollinger as validating the continued use of affirmative action in the struggle against racial injustice. But the Supreme Court's modern race cases rest on a misunderstanding of the nature of contemporary racial discrimination. From Brown, to Bakke, to Grutter, the Court has... |
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| Bryan K. Fair |
The Darker Face of Brown: the Promise and Reality of the Decision Remain Unreconciled |
88 Judicature 80 (September-October 2004) |
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For many people, Brown v. Board of Education is the most significant U.S. Supreme Court decision of the 20th century. As I mark its 50th anniversary, I am filled at once with exuberance and frustration because Brown is vexing, like so much of American law, appearing to give substantive reform with one hand only to take it away with the other. Brown... |
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| Francisco Forrest Martin |
The International Human Rights & Ethical Aspects of the Forum non Conveniens Doctrine |
35 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 101 (Fall-Winter 2003-) |
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This article addresses the forum non conveniens [FNC] doctrine within the context of international human rights and ethics. First, this article will examine the availability and adequacy of using international tribunals for circumventing the FNC doctrine in national courts for plaintiffs claiming human rights violations, as well as the possible... |
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| Harry T. Edwards |
The Journey from Brown v. Board of Education to Grutter v. Bollinger: from Racial Assimilation to Diversity |
102 Michigan Law Review 944 (March, 2004) |
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Fifty years ago, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court confronted a precise and straightforward question: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other tangible factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational... |
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| Maria Grahn-Farley |
The Master Norm: on the Question of Redressing Slavery |
53 DePaul Law Review 1215 (Spring 2004) |
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As all the negroes introduced into America were brought as slaves, the black color of the race raises the presumption of slavery, contrary to the principles of common law, which would presume freedom . . . . This presumption is extended, in most of the States, to mulattoes or persons of mixed blood, casting upon them the onus of proving a free... |
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| Kimberlianne Podlas |
The Monster in the Television: the Media's Contribution to the Consumer Litigation Boogeyman |
34 Golden Gate University Law Review 239 (Spring 2004) |
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Any American who has picked up a newspaper or turned on a television in the last decade has heard how litigation against business has run amok. Empirical evidence, however, suggests these claims lack basis. Nonetheless, the resulting litigation anxiety exerts a profound impact on the strategic and operational decisions of business. Unfortunately,... |
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| Brant T. Lee |
The Network Economic Effects of Whiteness |
53 American University Law Review 1259 (August, 2004) |
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Introduction 1260 I. White Network Economics: How Whiteness Works as a Network Standard 1267 A.Network Economics and Standards 1268 B.A Dominant Racial Standard 1270 C.Interoperability: Communication and Culture 1271 1.Verbal communication: language, dialect, and accent 1272 2.Culture 1276 3.Stereotypes 1278 4.In general 1280 II. The Persistence of... |
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| Terrion L. Williamson |
The Plight of "Nappy-headed" Indians: the Role of Tribal Sovereignty in the Systematic Discrimination Against Black Freedmen by the Federal Government and Native American Tribes |
10 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 233 (Fall 2004) |
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INTRODUCTION. 234 I. Background. 237 A. Freedmen Within the Seminole Nation. 237 B. Davis v. United States. 239 C. Freedmen Within the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations. 240 1. Cherokee Freedmen. 240 2. Creek Freedmen. 241 3. Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen. 242 D. The Legacy of Slavery in the United States. 243 1. Remnants of Slavery.... |
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| Kris Song |
The Present Contours of Asian American Legal Scholarship: its Themes, Objectives, and the Search for an Asian American Legal Perspective |
9 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 83 (Fall 2004) |
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I. Introduction. 84 II. Defining Asian American Legal Scholarship. 85 A. Critical Race Theory. 86 B. AALS and the Ideological Succession. 87 C. The Themes of AALS. 89 III. AALS Mapped According to its Themes: A Quasi-Bibliography. 90 A. Community Issues. 91 B. Asian American Legal History and Other Narrative Histories. 91 C. The Model Minority... |
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| Kevin Brown |
The Racial Gap in Ability: from the Fifteenth Century to Grutter and Gratz |
78 Tulane Law Review 2061 (June, 2004) |
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Justice O'Connor's opinion for the United States Supreme Court in Grutter v Bollinger upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action plan. Beneficiaries of affirmative action clearly meet the necessary qualifications for admissions to selective colleges, universities, and graduate programs. But, the justifications for affirmative... |
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| Afreen R. Ahmed |
The Shame of Hwang v. Japan: How the International Community Has Failed Asia's "Comfort Women" |
14 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 121 (Fall 2004) |
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I. Introduction. 121 II. Background: From the Battlefield to the Courtroom. 123 A. The Comfort System in World War II. 123 B. After the War. 126 C. Not Yet Forgotten. 127 D. Why a Resolution is Needed. 128 III. Post-War Inaction: No Excuses. 129 A. An Open Secret. 129 B. Clear Violations of Customary International Law. 130 IV. Despite the Law:... |
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| David B. Kopel |
The Torah and Self-defense |
109 Penn State Law Review 17 (Summer 2004) |
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The first five books of the Bible are sometimes called the Pentateuch. Jews call them the Torah, which means teaching or instruction. The Torah is by far the most important of Jewish scriptures. The Jewish Bible contains the same books as what Christians call the Old Testament. Accordingly, the Torah is the foundation of Christian scriptures.... |
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| Felice D. Gaer, Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights |
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: the Challenges of International Protection. By Bertrand G. Ramcharan. The Hague, London, New York: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2002. Pp. Xx, 250. Index. $130, €96 |
98 American Journal of International Law 391 (April, 2004) |
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For many, the highlight of the June 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna was its support for the creation of a UN high commissioner for human rights. The General Assembly's approval of this long hoped for post in December 1993 signaled that a new era of commitment to ensuring human rights had arrived. Bertrand Ramcharan's book, The UN... |
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| Jennifer K. Murata |
To See or Not to See? The Real Question Behind the Supreme Court's Grutter & Gratz Decisions |
27 University of Hawaii Law Review 165 (Winter 2004) |
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In issuing the companion decisions of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger on June 23, 2003, the United States Supreme Court answered several questions regarding affirmative action in higher education that had remained unanswered since the Court's fragmented decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke more than twenty-five... |
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| Roy L. Brooks |
Toward a Perpetrator-focused Model of Slave Redress |
6 African-American Law and Policy Report 49 (2004) |
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When most Americans think of black reparations or slave redress--meaning redress for slavery and Jim Crow --they envision a victim-focused model. This approach to slave redress--the tort model--is essentially compensatory and backward-looking. Past and present, the tort model has been African Americans' primary approach to achieving slave... |
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| Mohamed Y. Mattar |
Trafficking in Persons: an Annotated Legal Bibliography |
96 Law Library Journal 669 (Fall, 2004) |
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Since the 1990s, trafficking in persons as an international human rights issue has garnered significant attention on both international and national levels. As a result, there has been an increase in the number of scholarly articles that have analyzed the problem, its root causes, and its forms, and discussed the international and national efforts... |
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| Eric A. Posner , Adrian Vermeule |
Transitional Justice as Ordinary Justice |
117 Harvard Law Review 761 (January, 2004) |
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I. Overview. 765 A. Conceptual Framework. 765 B. Criteria for Evaluating Transitions. 768 C. Transition Processes. 769 D. Some History and Examples. 770 II. Analysis. 777 A. Depleting the New Regime of Skilled Officials. 777 1. Postbellum Lustration of Confederate Officials. 780 2. The Development of the Civil Service. 781 3. The Canonization of... |
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| Anthony J. Sebok |
Two Concepts of Injustice in Restitution for Slavery |
84 Boston University Law Review 1405 (December, 2004) |
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I. The Rise of Mass Restitution. 1405 A. Holocaust Litigation. 1406 B. Tobacco Litigation. 1410 C. American Slavery and Mass Restitution. 1416 II. The Risks of Mass Restitution. 1422 A. Commodification. 1423 B. Legal Fictions. 1427 III. The Harm of Loss of Control and Commodification. 1431 Conclusion. 1441 |
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| Susan Montalvo-Gesser |
Unilateral Versus Multilateral Approach to Labor Migration: Search for an Adequate Way of Negotiating Foreign Workers' & Domestic Employers' Interests and National Economic Vitality |
43 Brandeis Law Journal 261 (2004-05) |
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In his address to the U.S. Congress September 6, 2001, Mexican President Vicente Fox revealed his hope for a new era of cooperation between the United States and Mexico. Fox pled, [o]ur new frontier will be conquered not by confrontation, but through cooperation; not by threats, but by common aspirations; not by fear, but by trust. The U.S.... |
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| K. Lee Boyd |
Universal Jurisdiction and Structural Reasonableness |
40 Texas International Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall 2004) |
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I. Introduction. 1 II. The Relevance of Universal Jurisdiction to Civil Litigation. 7 III. Structural Checks on Universal Jurisdiction. 12 A. The Political Question Doctrine and Governmental Interests. 12 B. Forum Non Conveniens and Nexus, Exhaustion of Remedies, and Reasonableness. 16 1. Sovereign Interests. 17 2. Nexus to Forum. 18 3. Exhaustion... |
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| Scott E. Vincent, Vincent, Fontg & Chartier LLC, Kansas City |
Watch out for the "Dirty Dozen" Tax Scams |
60 Journal of the Missouri Bar 92 (March-April,) |
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On March 1 the IRS updated its list of tax scams and illegal tax avoidance schemes, which the agency likes to call its Dirty Dozen. The IRS commonly updates this list around tax preparation time as an annual warning to taxpayers and return preparers. The list also provides us, as practitioners, with red flags for planning ideas that clients may... |
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| Randall Robinson |
What America Owes to Blacks and What Blacks Owe to Each Other |
6 African-American Law and Policy Report Rep. 1 (2004) |
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This community, this university, this Berkeley, has done so much to change the course of American policy. So many wonderful traditions. And in no other place in our memory is it more keenly felt and recognized by young people that our young are the moral and social conscience of our society. In no other place is it more clearly recognized that... |
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11 Andrews Class Action Litigation Reporter Rep. 1 (3/3/2004) |
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The 11th Circuit has declined to review the merits of the proposed $16.8 million attorney fee award in a $67.5 million class-action settlement with the Bank of Bermuda. The court said the receiver representing the interests of investors who lost money in a Ponzi scheme lacked standing to appeal the award because he was not a party to the... |
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| John C. Holmes |
What's So Great about America by Dinesh D'souza Regnery Publishing, Washington, Dc, 2002. 218 Pages, $27.95 (Cloth), $15.00 (Paper) |
51-DEC Federal Lawyer 71 (November/December, 2004) |
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As the title of this book implies, Dinesh D'Souza is an unabashed cheerleader for the United States and its values. Far from being a blind patriot, however, he sees America not as a utopia, but as it is warts and all. His perspective gains credence from the fact that he himself is an immigrant from India. Some people in the world hate the... |
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