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William W. Van Alstyne Affirmative Actions 46 Wayne Law Review 1517 (Fall, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Liberals and progressives have been slow to realize that their preferred vocabulary has been hijacked and that when they respond to once-hallowed phrases they are responding to a ghost now animated by a new machine. The point is not a small one, for in any debate, especially one fought in the arena of public opinion, the battle is won not by... 2000  
Martha Minow , Kerry O'Shea Gorgone Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence 24 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 211 (Winter, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Never again! is the credo promoted after every instance of genocide and mass violence. Never again, however, has proven little more than an aspiration; recent decades have seen repeated violations of basic human rights in countries all over the world. The unimaginable atrocity of the Holocaust, the systematic abuse of South African blacks under... 2000  
Eric K. Yamamoto Beyond Redress: Japanese Americans' Unfinished Business 7 Asian Law Journal 131 (December, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I am honored to be here at such a diverse gathering. This Day of Remembrance will likely mean many different things for different people. It will mean one thing for those who suffered the internment, struggled for redress and received an apology and reparations. It will mean something different for children and grandchildren of internees who have... 2000  
Edgar S. Cahn Co-producing Justice: the New Imperative 5 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 105 (Fall 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Articles on the delivery of legal services to the poor understandably focus on needs and on ways to meet those needs. Those who have worked in the trenches know the magnitude of those needs. When we confront a case of official lawlessness, denial of a right or invasion of a right by officials, we know we are where we need to be. When we provide... 2000  
Chantal Thomas Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Development Theory: Observations on Methodology 45 Villanova Law Review 1195 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   IN recent years, increasing interest has arisen as to the potential applications for Critical Race Theory (CRT) in international legal critique. This Essay raises the question in methodological form. I begin by identifying four strands of critical methodology that have been used in CRT: external, internal, legitimate-ideological and... 2000  
Richard Delgado Derrick Bell's Toolkit--fit to Dismantle That Famous House? 75 New York University Law Review 283 (May, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Does United States antidiscrimination law embrace a black/white binary paradigm of race, in which other, nonblack minority groups must compare their treatment to that of African Americans in order to gain redress? In this Derrick Bell Lecture, Professor Richard Delgado argues that it does, and that other minorities also fall from time to time into... 2000  
Ann Luerssen Crowther Empty Gestures: the (In)significance of Recent Attempts to Liberalize Algerian Family Law 6 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 611 (Spring, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In April 1998, Algerian lawmakers made two noteworthy changes concerning family law legislation. On the surface, these changes seemed to signify important progress in the battle to reestablish rights for women in Algeria, a country with a strong feminist past and a violent and undeniably anti-feminist present. Early in April 1998, the Algerian... 2000  
James Q. Whitman Enforcing Civility and Respect: Three Societies 109 Yale Law Journal 1279 (April, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Prolegomena. 1287 II. The German Culture of Insult. 1295 III. The Roots of the Law of Insult in Premodern Social Hierarchy. 1313 IV. Hate Speech and Insult Between Honor and Human Dignity . 1331 V. The Fate of Insult in France. 1344 VI. Nonlegal Regulation in France. 1360 VII. The American Case. 1371 VIII. Leveling Up/Leveling Down. 1383 IX.... 2000  
Angela P. Harris Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-century Race Law 88 California Law Review 1923 (December, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Introduction. 1925 I. The First Reconstruction: Prelude to the Twentieth Century. 1930 A. The Legal Structure of the First Reconstruction. 1931 B. Dismantling Reconstruction: The Southern Redemption. 1936 II. Race Law in the Age Of Difference. 1937 A. Civilization and Self-Determination: The Increasing Importance of Race. 1938 B. Race Law and... 2000  
  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  
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  
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  
  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  
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  
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  
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  
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  
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  
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  
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  
Meaghan Shaughnessy The United Nations Global Compact and the Continuing Debate about the Effectiveness of Corporate Voluntary Codes of Conduct 2000 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 159 (2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In 1997, Burmese citizens brought suit against Unocal, a U.S. corporation, for human rights violations that took place in connection with Unocal's operations in Burma (Myanmar). The plaintiffs alleged that the de facto government of Burma, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), used a program of violence and intimidation to further a... 2000  
Kyeyoung Park The Unspeakable Experiences of Korean Women under Japanese Rule 21 Whittier Law Review 567 (Spring, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The powers of the state used the police to trap and kidnap helpless women from Japan's colonial territories, and ship them off to the battlefield where they were held as prisoners and gang-raped for one to two years, and then abandoned by the retreating Japanese Army. Of the Koreans enslaved, half of the men and all 950 of the women died.... 2000  
By: Jeffrey L. Winograd Washington Alert 10/12/2000 Vol.46 11 (10/12/2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources     2000  
Clark Freshman Whatever Happened to Anti-semitism? How Social Science Theories Identify Discrimination and Promote Coalitions Between "Different" Minorities 85 Cornell Law Review 313 (January, 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Prologue. 315 I. Introduction. 319 A. Atomized and Generalized Discrimination. 320 B. The Litigant Payoff: The Lily White Organization and Intersectionality's Sibling. 326 C. The Societal Payoff: Coalition Effects, Empathy and Prevention. 329 D. Racism, Prejudice, and the Metaphors of Disease. 330 E. Overview and Roadmap. 332 II. Generalized... 2000  
Robert S. Adler ; Elliot M. Silverstein When David Meets Goliath: Dealing with Power Differentials in Negotiations 5 Harvard Negotiation Law Review Rev. 1 (Spring 2000) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   [T]he fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Bertrand Russell Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money-and much easier to talk about sex-than it is to talk about power. Rosabeth Moss Kantor I. Introduction. 4 II. Power: What it is and Where... 2000  
  Amended Complaint (8/28/2000) Trial Court Documents   This is an amended civil rights action filed by Charles L. Cutler. et. al fof damages and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. 1983 alleging civil and constitutional violation of the 4th, 5th,... 2000  
  Class Action Complaent (9/5/2000) Trial Court Documents   3. Unless otherwise indicated, the Background section of this Complaint is stated upon information and belief, based on published research concerning SNCF's activities during and after... 2000  
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