| Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Status | Summary | Year |
| Steven W. Bender , Keith Aoki |
Seekin' the Cause: Social Justice Movements and Latcrit Community |
81 Oregon Law Review 595 (Fall 2002) |
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These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wounds of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. We in... |
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Senegal |
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Service Center Advisory |
IRS SCA 200225004 (6/21/2002) |
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2002 |
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Service Center Advisory |
IRS SCA 200226044 (6/28/2002) |
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2002 |
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Service Issues Nationwide Alert for the 'Dirty Dozen' Tax Scams |
96 Journal of Taxation 255 (April, 2002) |
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This column provides an informal exchange of ideas, questions, and comments arising in everyday tax practice. Readers are invited to write to the editor: Sheldon I. Banoff, Suite 1600, 525 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60661-3693, Sheldon.Banoff@kmz.com. Government-issued nationwide alerts now extend to tax-cheating opportunities offered... |
2002 |
| Lisa Cardyn |
Sexualized Racism/gendered Violence: Outraging the Body Politic in the Reconstruction South |
100 Michigan Law Review 675 (February, 2002) |
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Introduction. 676 I. The Reconstruction-Era Klans. 680 II. Terrorizing Politics. 690 III. Sexualized Violence: Themes and Variations. 699 A. Whipping. 704 B. Rape. 716 C. Genital Torture and Mutilation. 736 D. Lynching. 745 IV. Terror's Objects. 762 A. Sexual Transgressions. 763 B. Social Transgressions. 770 C. Political Transgressions. 774 V.... |
2002 |
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Slave Descendants Seek $1.4 Trillion in Reparations from Fleetboston, Others Farmer-paellmann v. Fleetboston Fin. Corp. |
7 Andrews' Bank & Lender Liability Litigation Reporter Rep. 4 (4/4/2002) |
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A class action lawsuit filed on March 26 in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court seeks damages of as much as $1.4 trillion from FleetBoston Financial Corporation and two other major U.S. companies that allegedly profited from slavery more than 137 years ago. The plaintiff class would be made up of millions of black Americans whose ancestors were slaves... |
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Slave Descendants Seek $1.4 Trillion in Reparations from Fleetboston, Others Slavery Reparations |
12 Andrews Insurance Coverage Litigation Report 13 (4/5/2002) |
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A class action lawsuit filed on March 26 in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court seeks damages of as much as $1.4 trillion from FleetBoston Financial Corporation and two other major U.S. companies that allegedly profited from slavery more than 137 years ago. The plaintiff class would be made up of millions of black Americans whose ancestors were slaves... |
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Slavery Reparation Scams Surge, Irs Urges Taxpayers Not to File False Claims |
IR- 2002-08 (1/24/2002) |
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2002 |
| William N. Eskridge, Jr |
Some Effects of Identity-based Social Movements on Constitutional Law in the Twentieth Century |
100 Michigan Law Review 2062 (August, 2002) |
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I. Constitutional Arguments and Strategies Deployed by Three Twentieth Century Identity-Based Social Movements. 2069 A. The Civil Rights Movement. 2072 1. The Politics of Protection, 1913-40. 2073 2. The Politics of Recognition and Some Remediation, 1940-72. 2082 3. The Politics of Remediation and the New Politics of Preservation, 1972-Present.... |
2002 |
| Joseph William Singer |
Starting Property |
46 Saint Louis University Law Journal 565 (Summer 2002) |
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Indian occupation of land without government recognition of ownership creates no rights against taking or extinction by the United States protected by the Fifth Amendment or any other principle of law. Justice Stanley Reed Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States (1955) The juxtaposition of the rule of first (or prior) possession, and the rule of... |
2002 |
| Andrew Brownstein |
Suits Bring Debate over Slavery Reparations into the Courtroom |
38-DEC Trial 68 (December, 2002) |
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Under normal circumstances, four suits brought recently against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., and other corporate giants would not have caused the companies significant alarm. The cases had the sort of elements defense lawyers love: alleged actions more than a hundred years old; no living witnesses or victims... |
2002 |
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Supplemental Reply Brief of Burt Neuborne |
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Burt Neuborne, as appellant in 01-9229(C), and as appellee in 01-9193 (L), submits this Supplemental Reply Brief in response to assertions made by appellant Walter S. Zeisl for the first... |
2002 |
| Nicholas P. Van Deven |
Taking One for the Team: Principle of Treaty Adherence as a Social Imperative for Preserving Globalization and International Legal Legitimacy as Upheld in in re World War Ii Era Japanese Forced Labor Litigation |
46 Saint Louis University Law Journal 1091 (Fall 2002) |
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But among those in the political establishment who have followed the sparse Japanese media coverage of the suits, there is growing anxiety and barely concealed resentment. Some see greedy U.S. lawyers plotting to mug deep-pocket Japanese companies, which are vulnerable because they do business in the United States, over a reparations issue that... |
2002 |
| Harry N. Scheiber |
Taking Responsibility: Moral and Historical Perspectives on the Japanese War-reparations Issues |
20 Berkeley Journal of International Law 233 (2002) |
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A disturbing aspect of today's lawsuits and public controversies over World War II reparations claims by individuals and groups who suffered from war crimes is the fact that the issue has come to a climax only now--more than half a century after the war's end, and at a time when the people who indisputably were innocent victims of those crimes are... |
2002 |
| Ryan Michael Spitzer |
The African Holocaust: Should Europe Pay Reparations to Africa for Colonialism and Slavery? |
35 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1313 (October, 2002) |
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For many people of European descent, slavery is little more than an unpleasant memory of a bygone and distant era, largely remembered more for the glory of empires lost and faded dreams of conquest and exploration. For many Africans and African Americans, however, slavery remains an unhealed wound that is frequently, if not constantly, reopened by... |
2002 |
| Sharon E. Rush |
The Anticanonical Lesson of Huckleberry Finn |
11 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 577 (Summer 2002) |
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INTRODUCTION. 577 I. THE LITERARY IMAGINATION. 583 A. Identify with Huck. 585 B. Identify with Jim. 588 C. Identify with No One. 593 II. BEYOND THE LIMITS OF WHITES' GOODWILL TOWARD BLACKS. 594 A. Care about All Students. 595 B. Learn to be Less Defensive. 598 C. Learn to Think Multiculturally. 599 CONCLUSION. 601 |
2002 |
| Roger P. Alford |
The Claims Resolution Tribunal and Holocaust Claims Against Swiss Banks |
20 Berkeley Journal of International Law 250 (2002) |
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It is a privilege to be able to participate in the Stefan A. Riesenfeld symposium on Fifty Years in the Making: World War II Reparation and Restitution Claims. The participants gathered for this symposium at Boalt Hall provide a wonderful collection of voices from government, the bar and the academy on a host of difficult issues concerning... |
2002 |
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The Courts |
23 Judicial/Legislative Watch Report Rep. 8 (7/1/2002) |
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The First Amendment: Analysts are looking at the child pornography decision in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, No. 00-795 (Apr. 16, 2002), to see if the court's 6 to 3 broad interpretation of the First Amendment could give any indication of its predisposition in the NRA/Mitch McConnell challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign reform... |
2002 |
| DAVID J. TREVINO |
The Currency of Reparations: Affirmative Action in College Admissions |
4 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 439 (Spring 2002) |
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I. Prologue-Ignacious and Reilly. 440 II. Introduction-What Position Do Minorities Occupy in the Social, Political, and Educational Strata?. 441 III. Hopwood v. Texas-The Decline of Bakke. 442 IV. Doctrinal Framework-Basic Information and Background. 445 V. Bakke-The Genesis of Racial Diversity as a Compelling Governmental Interest. 449 VI. Gratz &... |
2002 |
| Adjoa A. Aiyetoro |
The Development of the Movement for Reparations for African Descendants |
3 Journal of Law in Society 133 (Winter, 2002) |
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The current movement for reparations for African descendants in the United States has its roots in the enslavement of African peoples. This demand for reparations has its ebbs and tides in terms of the numbers actively supporting it. There was a peak in the movement in the 1890s, resulting in the formation of the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty &... |
2002 |
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The 'Dirty Dozen': Irs Warns of 12 Common Scams |
IR- 2002-12 (1/31/2002) |
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2002 |
| Tom Lantos |
The Durban Debacle: an Insider's View of the Un World Conference Against Racism |
26-SPG Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 31 (Winter/Spring, 2002) |
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The terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11 have awakened President Bush and his administration to the importance of an engaged multilateral foreign policy. After months of unilateralism, the Bush administration, in response to the great challenge of September 11, quickly and effectively shifted toward a multilateral approach,... |
2002 |
| Mary De Ming Fan |
The Fallacy of the Sovereign Prerogative to Set De Minimis Liability Rules for Sexual Slavery |
27 Yale Journal of International Law 395 (Summer 2002) |
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I. Introduction. 395 II. State-Sponsored Commodified Sexual Slavery and its Aftermath: Doctrinal Reversion. 399 A. Commodified Sexual Slavery at the Point of a Sword. 399 B. Struggle for Justice Against a Political Tide. 402 C. Turn to U.S. Court: Hwang Geum Joo and its Holding on the Commercial Activity Waiver of Foreign Sovereign Immunity. 404 1.... |
2002 |
| Libby Adler , Peer Zumbansen |
The Forgetfulness of Noblesse: a Critique of the German Foundation Law Compensating Slave and Forced Laborers of the Third Reich |
39 Harvard Journal on Legislation Legis. 1 (Winter, 2002) |
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This Article analyzes the Law on the Creation of the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future which the German Legislature passed on July 17, 2000. The law established a foundation designed to compensate individuals who were victims of the Nazi slave and forced labor program. Because of their roles in this atrocity, the German government... |
2002 |
| Paul Schiff Berman |
The Globalization of Jurisdiction |
151 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 311 (December, 2002) |
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Supposing however that the Act [at issue] had said in terms, that though a person sued in the island [of Tobago] had never been present within the jurisdiction, yet that it should bind him upon proof of nailing up the summons at the Court door; how could that be obligatory upon the subjects of other countries? Can the island of Tobago pass a law to... |
2002 |
| Michael J. Bazyler |
The Holocaust Restitution Movement in Comparative Perspective |
20 Berkeley Journal of International Law 11 (2002) |
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This article examines the use of civil litigation in the United States to deal with human rights abuses committed during World War II. The specific scenario examined is the Holocaust restitution movement in the United States, whose aim is to obtain financial restitution from European and American corporations for their nefarious wartime activities.... |
2002 |
| Duncan Kennedy |
The Limited Equity Coop as a Vehicle for Affordable Housing in a Race and Class Divided Society |
46 Howard Law Journal 85 (Fall 2002) |
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The limited equity cooperative is a form of housing tenure in which shareholder residents manage their buildings, within limits imposed by a charter, and have the right to get back what they have paid for their shares plus an allowance for improvements, if and when they decide to leave. The limited equity cooperative (hereinafter LEC) is neither... |
2002 |
| Lindsay Glauner |
The Need for Accountability and Reparation: 1830-1976 the United States Government's Role in the Promotion, Implementation, and Execution of the Crime of Genocide Against Native Americans |
51 DePaul Law Review 911 (Spring 2002) |
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The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness; it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy; it's indifference. The opposite of life is not death; it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. Elie Wiesel. On September 8, 2000, the head of the Bureau of Indian... |
2002 |
| David Leon, UMICLR, Articles and Comments Editor |
The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-apartheid State, Richard A. Wilson. Cambridge University Press. 2001. Softcover. 294pp. $23.00. |
10 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 264 (2001-2002) |
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During the past twenty years, at least fifteen different post-authoritarian governments have used Truth Commissions as a tool to announce new democratic order and legitimize state institutions. Truth Commissions generally serve as quasi-judicial institutions, exposing and discrediting former regimes' atrocities with the aim of healing the national... |
2002 |
| Alexander Tsesis |
The Problem of Confederate Symbols: a Thirteenth Amendment Approach |
75 Temple Law Review 539 (Fall 2002) |
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Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -U.S. Const. amend. XIII We have been... |
2002 |
| Tobias Barrington Wolff |
The Thirteenth Amendment and Slavery in the Global Economy |
102 Columbia Law Review 973 (May, 2002) |
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With increasing frequency, U.S. firms are carrying on their foreign operations through the exploitation of involuntary or slave labor. As a result, slavery has once again become an active component of some American industries. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution proclaims that slavery shall not exist within the United States. But does the... |
2002 |
| Celina Romany, Katherine Culliton |
The Un World Conference Against Racism: a Race-ethnic and Gender Perspective |
9 Human Rights Brief 14 (Winter, 2002) |
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Over 10,000 delegates attended the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Related Forms of Intolerance (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa at an historic moment. Only seven years earlier, the mobilization of worldwide protest condemning racism as a crime against humanity through the UN system played a significant role in the... |
2002 |
| Anne Bayefsky |
The Un World Conference Against Racism: a Racist Anti-racism Conference |
96 American Society of International Law Proceedings 65 (3/16/2002) |
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The World Conference Against Racism (Conference) became a forum for racism. Human rights was used as a weapon of political interests antithetical to human rights protection. Durban challenged nongovernmental human rights organizations, permitted to be more closely connected to a world conference than ever before, and states alike, to clarity of... |
2002 |
| Gay McDougall |
The World Conference Against Racism: Through a Wider Lens |
26-FALL Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 135 (Summer/Fall, 2002) |
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The United Nations World Conference against Racism held in Durban, South Africa last September focused on one of the most persistent and threatening problems confronting the world. It did not just retread old ground. For the first time it addressed, in a United Nations governmental forum, the deep historical roots of this problem, confronting... |
2002 |
| Jerry V. Leaphart |
The World Conference Against Racism: What Was Really Achieved |
26-FALL Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 153 (Summer/Fall, 2002) |
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I attended the United Nations' World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR), in Durban, South Africa, from August 31 to September 8, 2001. While there, I had the opportunity to engage in a debate with Congressman Tom Lantos and another American delegate to WCAR broadcast on BBC radio. The... |
2002 |
| Alfred L. Brophy |
The World of Reparations: Slavery Reparations in Historical Perspective |
3 Journal of Law in Society 105 (Winter, 2002) |
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We are hearing a lot about the case for reparations these daysreparations for Japanese-Americans interned by the United States during World War II, victims of the Nazi holocaust, Native American property losses. We are also hearing about many forms of reparationsdirect cash payments, apologies, truth commissions. And now we are hearing much about... |
2002 |
| G. Robert Blakey , Brian J. Murray |
Threats, Free Speech, and the Jurisprudence of the Federal Criminal Law |
2002 Brigham Young University Law Review 829 (2002) |
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[A] true threat is not protected by the First Amendment. To the extent that the [lower] court's judgment rests on the ground that . . . citizens were intimidated by threats' of social ostracism, vilification, and traduction, it is flatly inconsistent with the First Amendment. If political discourse is to rally public opinion and challenge... |
2002 |
| Ruth B. Philips |
Too Close to Home? International Criminal Law, War Crimes and Family Violence |
24 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 229 (Spring 2002) |
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This paper uses the lens of international criminal law and the International Criminal Court Statute to explore the domestication of military sexual violence, or what has been described as re-surfacing or unburying the relationships between multiple forms of sexual violence. These relationships include the relationship between the group harm... |
2002 |
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U.s. v. Foster |
Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, United States District Court, E.D. Virginia. (10/18/2002) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
This matter is before the Court on the government's motion for summary judgment. The motion was filed by the government on August 30, 2002. The government's complaint and motion for summary judgment seek a permanent injunction against Mr. Foster, preventing him from acting as a tax return preparer and from preparing returns that contain claims for... |
2002 |
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U.s. v. Mims |
Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, United States District Court, S.D. Georgia, Statesboro Division. (11/14/2002) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
This cause comes before the Court on the parties' joint motion for entry of permanent injunction. The Court, having reviewed the motion, finds that the motion should be granted. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT: A. Pursuant to IRC ยง 7407, Defendants and their representatives, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and any persons in active concert or... |
2002 |
| John C. P. Goldberg |
Unloved: Tort in the Modern Legal Academy |
55 Vanderbilt Law Review 1501 (October, 2002) |
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In The Idea of Private Law, Ernest Weinrib makes an arresting claim. He says that private law--by which he means primarily the law of contract, restitution, and especially tort--is just like love. Even members of a discipline devoted to analogies may be forgiven for not immediately perceiving the point of this one, particularly if we focus on the... |
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Washington Alert |
5/9/2002 Vol.48 14 (5/9/2002) |
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2002 |
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What's Inside |
7 Andrews' Bank & Lender Liability Litigation Reporter Rep. 1 (4/4/2002) |
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The Court of Federal Claims has ruled that the owners of several banks adversely affected by tax benefit legislation are entitled to a partial restitution remedy as a result of the government's breach of their assistance agreement. The plaintiffs sought to disgorge from the United States sums retained from reimbursements paid to the banks for... |
2002 |
| James Boyd White |
What's Wrong with Our Talk about Race? On History, Particularity, and Affirmative Action |
100 Michigan Law Review 1927 (June, 2002) |
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One of the striking and original achievements of the Michigan Law Review in its first century was the publication in 1989 of a Symposium entitled Legal Storytelling. Organized by the remarkable editor-in-chief, Kevin Kennedy--who tragically died not long after his graduation--the Symposium not only brought an important topic to the forefront of... |
2002 |
| Eric Rakowski |
Who Should Pay for Bad Genes? |
90 California Law Review 1345 (October, 2002) |
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Parents have long been able to influence the genetic composition of their children through their choice of a reproductive partner, if only very approximately. They are, however, increasingly able to determine the genetic make-up of their children in other, more precise ways, such as by selecting a particular gamete or embryo or by genetically... |
2002 |
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Witnesses |
JCS- 4-02 NO 3 (5/14/2002) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2002 |
| Michelle E. Lyons |
World Conference Against Racism: New Avenues for Slavery Reparations? |
35 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1235 (October, 2002) |
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The reparations movement has had a long and tumultuous history, as past attempts to obtain equitable relief have failed through common law, international law, legislation, and constitutional law. However, recent developments in these areas have pushed the reparations movement to the forefront. For example, Farmer-Paellmann v. Fleetboston Financial... |
2002 |
| Curtis A. Bradley |
World War Ii Compensation and Foreign Relations Federalism |
20 Berkeley Journal of International Law 282 (2002) |
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In the past several years, numerous suits have been filed in U.S. courts seeking compensation for personal injury or loss of property relating to events associated with World War II. These suits have been brought against sovereign defendants, such as Germany and Japan, as well as private companies, such as companies that allegedly used slave labor... |
2002 |
| Maki Arakawa |
A New Forum for Comfort Women: Fighting Japan in United States Federal Court |
16 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 174 (2001) |
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The dwindling number of living former comfort women survivors of the approximately 200,000 women forcibly and repeatedly raped to satisfy the sexual needs of the Japanese military during World War II (WWII) continue their over fifty year wait for justice. The Japanese government continues to stonewall numerous requests made by former comfort... |
2001 |