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  Eric Yamamoto, Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-civil Rights America (1999) 7 Asian Law Journal 178 (December, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Professor Yamamoto succeeds in developing a meaningful way of addressing justice claims among or between non-white racial groups. Yamamoto's interracial justice entails acknowledging the historical and contemporary ways in which racial groups harm one another and making affirmative efforts to redress justice grievances and restructure present-day... 2000
Melvyn R. Durchslag Forgotten Federalism: the Takings Clause and Local Land Use Decisions 59 Maryland Law Review 464 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Regulating land uses runs from a major activity of larger local governments to an obsession with those that are smaller and more rural. These regulations take many forms, the most familiar and venerable of which is zoning. In recent years, however, a host of other regulatory regimes have been used by local governments to restrict how one may use... 2000
Natsu Taylor Saito From Slavery and Seminoles to Aids in South Africa: an Essay on Race and Property in International Law 45 Villanova Law Review 1135 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction: Critical Race Theory, International Law and Property Rights. 1136 II. Slavery and Seminoles: People as Property. 1142 A. Setting the Stage: Maroons Before 1776. 1142 B. Slavery and International Law in the New Nation. 1145 C. The Seminole Wars: Liberty or Death. 1150 III. The Influence of Slaveholding Interests on Law and Policy.... 2000
Rhonda Copelon Gender Crimes as War Crimes: Integrating Crimes Against Women into International Criminal Law 46 McGill Law Journal 217 (November, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The author identifies the major goals and achievements in the area of recognizing women as full subjects of human rights and eliminating impunity for gender crimes, highlighting the role of non-governmental organizations (NGO's). Until the 1990s sexual violence in war was largely invisible, a point illustrated by examples of the comfort women... 2000
Penelope E. Andrews Globalization, Human Rights and Critical Race Feminism: Voices from the Margins 3 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 373 (Spring 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction II. Violence Against Women in South Africa and Aboriginal Women in Australia A. South Africa B. Australia III. Globalization and Feminist Intervention A. Our Global Neighborhood?: The Phenomenon of Globalization B. Hierarchies of Human Rights C. Women and Globalization D. Feminist Interventions in International Human Rights... 2000
Jeffrey Ghannam Going Head to Head 86-OCT ABA Journal 42 (October, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The presidential election has led to a virtual fog of campaign overload. The ABA Journal has attempted to slice through that fog. We asked Democratic Vice President Al Gore and his Republican opponent, Texas Gov. George Bush, to give us their opinions on issues of concern to lawyers. Both Gore 2000 and Bush for President would not commit the... 2000
Eric K. Yamamoto Healing Our Own 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 101 (Winter, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   For this keynote address, I will talk about something that links us, divides us, and has the potential to bind us closely--something, however, that we often find difficult to discuss and to write about. That something is, first, grievances among our communities of color that sometimes prevent us from building deep alliances, and second, ways to... 2000
Stuart M. Kreindler History's Accounting: Liability Issues Surrounding German Companies for the Use of Slave Labor by Their Corporate Forefathers 18 Dickinson Journal of International Law 343 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In the summer of 1998, two major Swiss banks agreed to settle claims with Holocaust survivors who had filed a federal class action lawsuit against them. Credit Suisse and Union Bank of Switzerland agreed to pay claimants $1.25 billion, the largest settlement in the history of human rights claims in the United States. The settlement was made in... 2000
  In Brief 10/12/2000 Vol.46 15 (10/12/2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources     2000
  In re Nazi Era Cases Against German Defendants Litigation 198 F.R.D. 429, United States District Court, D. New Jersey. (12/5/2000) Cases As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. INTERNATIONAL LAW - Reparations. Court would facilitate German war victim compensation. 2000
  Initial Brief of Appellant Criminal Appeal (5/12/2000) Briefs   Oral argument is requested. This case presents this Court with apparently its first opportunity to consider the effect of the Supreme Court's decision in Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1... 2000
Jacqueline E. Coleman, Special Editor Introduction 27-SPG Human Rights Rts. 2 (Spring, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Ezekiel 18:20 In the past decade, political and religious leaders--near and far--have apologized... 2000
  Irs Urges African-americans to Beware of Tax Refund Scams IR- 2000-69 (10/6/2000) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2000
Barry A. Fisher Japan's Postwar Compensation Litigation 22 Whittier Law Review 35 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   A growing number of surviving World War II rape victims have come forth and filed legal actions in Japanese courts seeking compensation for their injuries, and more will undoubtedly follow. While many of these cases remain pending, and two have settled at least in part, in only one of them, involving Korean Comfort Women, have the courts so far... 2000
Michael M. Honda Japan's War Crimes: Has Justice Been Served? 21 Whittier Law Review 621 (Spring, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I am here today to address Japan's War Crimes. I was invited to speak primarily because I authored an Assembly Joint Resolution this session calling for Japan to apologize formally for its war crimes and to pay reparations to the victims of those crimes. I am a teacher by training, but want to be clear that I am not an expert on war or its... 2000
Darcie L. Christopher Jus Cogens, Reparation Agreements, and Holocaust Slave Labor Litigation 31 Law and Policy in International Business 1227 (Summer, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Note discusses several issues involved in litigation concerning gross human rights violations. Specifically, it addresses human rights violations so serious they are included among those violations viewed as jus cogens: peremptory norms of international law from which no derogation is permitted. Two recent decisions in the District Court for... 2000
Anthony E. Cook King and the Beloved Community: a Communitarian Defense of Black Reparations 68 George Washington Law Review 959 (July/September,) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Much to the surprise and dismay of many, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated that America pay reparations to black Americans for the unpaid wages of slavery. This paper argues that King's call for reparations is wholly consistent with his conception of a Beloved Community, a socio-spiritual vision of a transformed America. As a communitarian who... 2000
  Letters 86-DEC ABA Journal 13 (December, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In response to the question on the November cover: Does he have a case for redress?the short answer should be an emphatic no. Almost every person has ancestors who were slaves. I believe I had some Hebrew relatives who were held in bondage by the ancient Egyptians and others who were enslaved under the Romans. Am I now to sue the modern... 2000
Derek Brown Litigating the Holocaust: a Consistent Theory in Tort for the Private Enforcement of Human Rights Violations 27 Pepperdine Law Review 553 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Survivors of the Holocaust have repeatedly attempted, with little apparent success, to recover the assets their families deposited in Swiss banks prior to World War II. Considering the claimants' subsequent-yet understandable lack of documentation, until now these survivors have had to rely solely on the banks' promises to expedite the return of... 2000
  Litigation Bulletin IRS LB 200041028 (10/13/2000) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2000
Penelope E. Andrews Making Room for Critical Race Theory in International Law: Some Practical Pointers 45 Villanova Law Review 855 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 856 II. Snapshots of Globalization, International Law and Human Rights. 858 III. Critical Race Theory and International Law: The Reconstructionist Project: How Does CRT Go Offshore?. 866 IV. Race and the Human Rights Movement. 868 V. Race and Critical Race Theory. 871 VI. Race and the Civil Rights Movement. 874 VII. Critical Race... 2000
Michael I. Krauss Nafta Meets the American Torts Process: O'keefe v. Loewen 9 George Mason Law Review 69 (Fall, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   A Mississippi jury's $500 million damage award in a clash between two funeral service companies has escalated into a NAFTA dispute that could significantly alter tort suits in the United States, international trade law, or perhaps even both. The circumstances that led to this award serve as a warning to foreign investors about the importance of... 2000
Philip C. Aka Nigeria: the Need for an Effective Policy of Ethnic Reconciliation in the New Century 14 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 327 (Fall 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Nigeria needs an effective policy of ethnic reconciliation as part of a broad-based strategy for conflict management in the new century. The issue is fair and equal treatment for all 248 or so ethnic groups that make up modern-day Nigeria. Should the country seek to achieve such equitable treatment through a specific policy of reconciliation for... 2000
Aaron J. Walker No Distinction Would Be Tolerated: Thaddeus Stevens, Disability, and the Original Intent of the Equal Protection Clause 19 Yale Law and Policy Review 265 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Almost fifty years ago, Thurgood Marshall looked upon the work of his staff with disappointment. He was preparing to argue for a second time before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education (Brown I), and the brief William Ming, Jr., and Alfred Kelly had prepared was lacking. It argued that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment were... 2000
Michael J. Bazyler Nuremberg in America: Litigating the Holocaust in United States Courts 34 University of Richmond Law Review Rev. 1 (March, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 5 II. Litigating Holocaust Claims before 1996. 19 A. Generali Insurance Litigation. 19 B. Bernstein Cases. 20 C. Handel v. Artukovic. 22 D. Princz Litigation. 23 E. Cases against the Claims Conference. 25 F. Early Nazi-Stolen Art Cases. 28 III. Claims against the Swiss. 31 A. Federal Class Action against Swiss Banks. 31 1.... 2000
  Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendants' Motions to Dismiss (1/28/2000) Trial Court Documents   Plaintiffs respectfully submit this memorandum of law in opposition to the Motions to Dismiss filed by defendants Ford Motor Company, Ford Werke AG. Siemens AG. Daimlerchrysler AG.... 2000
Marcus W. Eyth Princz v. Federal Republic of Germany: a Holocaust Survivor's Struggle to Bring Germany to Justice in American Courts Continues 9 Michigan State University-DCL Journal of International Law 339 (Fall, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Hugo Princz suffered severe physical and mental damages at the hands of the Nazis as a concentration camp prisoner and slave laborer during WWII. As one of a few surviving slave laborers who were forced to work at gun point and in inhumane working conditions for virtually non-existent wages in Nazi affiliated companies and factories, Mr. Princz... 2000
Christopher D. Booth Prosecuting the "Fog of War?" Examining the Legal Implications of an Alleged Massacre of South Korean Civilians by U.s. Forces During the Opening Days of the Korean War in the Village of No Gun Ri 33 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 933 (October, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In the Fall of 1999, the Associated Press reported a story of an alleged massacre of Korean civilians, conducted by U.S. troops at the beginning of the Korean War in the hamlet of No Gun Ri. The story had an incendiary effect, both in the United States and abroad. The story of an incident from half-a-century ago caused many to reexamine the conduct... 2000
David S. Casey, Jr. , Eric B. Strongin Protecting the Rights of Those Who Defended Us 21 Whittier Law Review 631 (Spring, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The landscape on litigation involving persons who were forced into slave labor during World War II was fundamentally altered with the filing of a case by Dr. Lester Tenney on August 13, 1999. Dr. Tenney's suit was the first individual case filed under a new California statute that permits slave and forced labor actions to be filed in California... 2000
Francisco Valdes Race, Ethnicity, and Hispanismo in a Triangular Perspective: the "Essential Latina/o" and Latcrit Theory 48 UCLA Law Review 305 (December, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The central theme of this Article is the questionable character and consequences of Hispanismo, a racial and ethnic ideology that prevails among Latina/o communities worldwide and that is promoted directly by Spain despite its problematic nature. Hispanismo is problematic for at least two reasons: first, because it perpetuates colonial-era... 2000
William C. Bradford Reclaiming Indigenous Legal Autonomy on the Path to Peaceful Coexistence: the Theory, Practice, and Limitations of Tribal Peacemaking in Indian Dispute Resolution 76 North Dakota Law Review 551 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Nothing is gained by dwelling upon the unhappy conflicts that have prevailed . . . . The generation of Indians who suffered the privations, indignities, and brutalities of the westward march of the white man have gone to the Happy Hunting Ground, and nothing that we can do can square the account with them. Whatever survives is a moral obligation... 2000
Hope Lewis Reflections on 'Blackcrit Theory': Human Rights 45 Villanova Law Review 1075 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The Colorline Belts the World. -- W.E.B. Du Bois[T]he left-liberal approach to globalization has yet to generate an adequate account of the connections between racial power and political economy in the New World Order. -- KimberlĂ© Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas AS the United Nations World Conference Against Racism... 2000
Harold S. Peckron Reparation Payments--an Exclusion Revisited 34 University of San Francisco Law Review 705 (Summer 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The spectre, or ghost, is one of the protagonists of our age. A ghost is always in between, neither wholly alive nor wholly dead. It haunts our memory today, yet it is past. IT HAUNTS OUR memory . . . yet it is past. This phrase aptly describes the nature of reparation payments. Generally, these payments have been made to the survivors of... 2000
Milner S. Ball Reparations and Repentance: a Response to Professor Cook 68 George Washington Law Review 1015 (July/September,) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Professor Anthony Cook is well-known as an interpreter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Of the several themes that he pursues in his symposium offering, one that lies at the heart of his article is the welcome reminder that Dr. King's work and vision were singular. Professor Cook thoughtfully proposes that Dr. King engaged in dialogue with both... 2000
Jeffrey Ghannam Reparing the past 86-Nov ABA Journal 38 (November, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   For years, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall pored over handwritten French, Spanish and English slave documents in a massive effort to document Afro-Louisiana history. With stunning authority, she untangled a history of African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid by slave owners,... 2000
  Reply Brief of Appellant Elsa Iwanowa (3/17/2000) Briefs   FN1. Three related appeals are pending before this Court: Iwanowa v. Ford Motor Company, Case No. 99-5832; Klein v. Siemens AG, Case No. 99-5848 and Vogel v. Degussa AG, Case No. 99-5831.... 2000
  Reply Brief of Appellants Martha Klein and Zelig Preis (3/17/2000) Briefs   FN1. Three related appeals are pending before this Court: Iwanowa v. Ford Motor Company, Case No. 99-5832; Klein v. Siemens AG, Case No. 99-5848 and Vogel v. Degussa AG, Case No. 99-5831.... 2000
  Reply Brief of Appellants Michael Vogel, Maria Dorenblat, Vernon Rusheen and Maria Richaman (3/17/2000) Briefs   FN1. Three related appeals are pending before this Court: Iwanowa v. Ford Motor Company, Case No. 99-5832; Klein v. Siemens AG, Case No. 99-5848 and Vogel v. Degussa AG, Case No. 99-5831.... 2000
Diane Richard Foos Righting past Wrongs or Interfering in International Relations? World War Ii-era Slave Labor Victims Receive State Legal Standing after Fifty Years 31 McGeorge Law Review 221 (Winter, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   My friends, I am under no illusions. Compared to the enormity of the evil visited upon the Jewish people by the Nazi war machine, these efforts constitute mere drops of justice. But, it is my hope that, one day, these drops of justice will far outnumber the tears of sorrow that accompany our memories. Prior to and during the Second World War, about... 2000
  Service Center Advisory IRS SCA 200034028 (8/25/2000) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     2000
Alicia L. Mioli Sheff v. O'neill: the Consequence of Educational Table-scraps for Poor Urban Minority Schools 27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1903 (August, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   It never ceases to amaze me that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. During the 1998-1999 school year, 95.6% of students in the public schools in Hartford, Connecticut were minorities. Compared to statistics from 1967, racial segregation in Hartford public schools has increased. The racial... 2000
Keith Aoki Space Invaders: Critical Geography, the 'Third World' in International Law and Critical Race Theory 45 Villanova Law Review 913 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction: Why Space Matters: A Paradox and a Question. 914 II. The Politics of Place and Space in the Condition of Postmodernity. 917 III. The Critique of Development in International Law: Where Exactly Is the Third World?. 924 IV. Liberal v. Cultural Nationalist Visions of Race . 931 V. Race, Place and Space Matter. 936 A.... 2000
  States, Etcetera 2000-SEP National Association of Attorneys General: AG Bulletin Bull. (September, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Computer Crimes-Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm has filed felony criminal charges against two Michigan men for unlawfully entering a third-party computer system or hacking. The charges are the first to be brought in Michigan since a state law made any unauthorized alteration, damage or use of a computer system a felony. In both cases,... 2000
  Supplemental Declaration of Professor Detlev Vagts (1/28/2000) Expert Materials   Detlev Vagts declares as follows: 1. I have read the decisions of Judges Debevoise and Greenaway in Burger-Fisher, et al. v. Degussa AG, et al., 98 Civ. 3958 (DRD) and Iwanowa v. Ford Motor... 2000
Donald Aquinas Lancaster, Jr. The Alchemy and Legacy of the United States of America's Sanction of Slavery and Segregation: a Property Law and Equitable Remedy Analysis of African American Reparations 43 Howard Law Journal 171 (Winter 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In the early to mid-1800s in Randolph County, Alabama, a brother and sister are slaves. Ruben, date of birth unknown, and Maryann, born in 1850, are the ancestors to generations of the Lancaster clan. Ruben, with wife Lydia, would sire one child, Henry Lancaster, on the eve of emancipation. Henry would beget 19 children with his wife Charlotte... 2000
Elizabeth Rho-Ng The Conscription of Asian Sex Slaves: Causes and Effects of U.s. Military Sex Colonialism in Thailand and the Call to Expand U.s. Asylum Law 7 Asian Law Journal 103 (December, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I'm an infantryman. That's what I'm paid to do, that's what my country expects me to do . The only reason we're here is to deter the communist aggression . We're needed over here . If you look at it, the fact is we spent so much money comin' down here . Their weapons are ours. Their equipment is ours, their vehicles, their chains . Everything is... 2000
Kenneth M. Casebeer The Empty State and Nobody's Market: the Political Economy of Non-responsibility and the Judicial Disappearing of the Civil Rights Movement 54 University of Miami Law Review 247 (January, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Power and Democracy -- The Rehnquist Court Agenda. 248 A. The Rehnquist Court Agenda. 250 II. Producing the Empty State and Nobody's Market. 253 A. The Empty State. 253 B. Nobody's Market. 256 C. Case Struggle. 257 1. state, market and race. 257 2. gender discrimination and nobody's market. 270 III. The Rehnquist Counter-Revolution and Civil... 2000
Anthony Gifford The Legal Basis of the Claim for Slavery Reparations 27-SPG Human Rights 16 (Spring, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Reparation, according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, means the action of making amends for a wrong done; amends; compensation. In international law, it means that when a country has committed an international crime such as the invasion of another country or the genocide of a people, it must make amends to the victims, including the... 2000
Steven A. Ramirez The New Cultural Diversity and Title Vii 6 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 127 (Fall 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   INTRODUCTION. 127 I. An Overview of the New Cultural Diversity in Business. 131 A. The Demographic Context of American Business. 132 B. The Case for Embracing Diversity. 134 C. The Empirical Proof to Date. 137 D. The Penalties for Ignoring Diversity. 139 E. Conclusion: The Need to Manage Diversity. 140 II. The Critique of Diversity. 141 A. An... 2000
William C. Kidder The Rise of the Testocracy : an Essay on the Lsat, Conventional Wisdom, and the Dismantling of Diversity 9 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 167 (Spring 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Test bias research that examines the predictive accuracy of the test for different groups typically is based on the assumption that the outcome variable (e.g., [first-year averages]) is not biased. Research to test the accuracy of that assumption is lacking. --Linda F. Wightman I. Introduction. 169 II. The Chronicle of the Discriminatory Law... 2000
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