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Eric Yamamoto, Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-civil Rights America (1999) |
7 Asian Law Journal 178 (December, 2000) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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In Brief |
10/12/2000 Vol.46 15 (10/12/2000) |
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2000 |
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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 |
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Initial Brief of Appellant Criminal Appeal |
(5/12/2000) |
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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) |
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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 |
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Irs Urges African-americans to Beware of Tax Refund Scams |
IR- 2000-69 (10/6/2000) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2000 |
| Barry A. Fisher |
Japan's Postwar Compensation Litigation |
22 Whittier Law Review 35 (2000) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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,) |
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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 |
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Letters |
86-DEC ABA Journal 13 (December, 2000) |
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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) |
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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 |
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Litigation Bulletin |
IRS LB 200041028 (10/13/2000) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2000 |
| Penelope E. Andrews |
Making Room for Critical Race Theory in International Law: Some Practical Pointers |
45 Villanova Law Review 855 (2000) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendants' Motions to Dismiss |
(1/28/2000) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. -- Kimberlé 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) |
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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,) |
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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) |
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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 |
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Reply Brief of Appellant Elsa Iwanowa |
(3/17/2000) |
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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 |
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Reply Brief of Appellants Martha Klein and Zelig Preis |
(3/17/2000) |
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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 |
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Reply Brief of Appellants Michael Vogel, Maria Dorenblat, Vernon Rusheen and Maria Richaman |
(3/17/2000) |
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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) |
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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 |
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Service Center Advisory |
IRS SCA 200034028 (8/25/2000) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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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) |
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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) |
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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.... |
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States, Etcetera |
2000-SEP National Association of Attorneys General: AG Bulletin Bull. (September, 2000) |
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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 |
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Supplemental Declaration of Professor Detlev Vagts |
(1/28/2000) |
Expert Materials |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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... |
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