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Ibrahim J. Gassama |
Transnational Critical Race Scholarship: Transcending Ethnic and National Chauvinism in the Era of Globalization |
5 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 133 (Fall 1999) |
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Globalization is compounding the gap between rich and poor nations and intensifying U.S. Dominance of the world's economic and cultural market. [M]ore than 1.3 billion people in the developing world still struggle to survive on less than a dollar a day, and the number continues to increase. Every year nearly 8 million children die from diseases... |
1999 |
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Lolita K. Buckner Inniss |
Tricky Magic: Blacks as Immigrants and the Paradox of Foreignness |
49 DePaul Law Review 85 (Fall 1999) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Since the beginning of the nation, white Americans have suffered from a deep inner uncertainty as to who they really are. One of the ways that has been used to simplify the answer has been to seize upon the presence of black Americans and use them as a marker, a symbol of limits, a metaphor for the outsider. Many whites could look at the social... |
1999 |
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Amy Small Bilyeu |
Trokosi--the Practice of Sexual Slavery in Ghana: Religious and Cultural Freedom Vs. Human Rights |
9 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 457 (1999) |
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It is widely believed that slavery no longer exists, but surprisingly it is still very common. Contemporary forms of human bondage include such practices as forced labor, servile marriage, debt bondage, child labor, and forced prostitution. Most countries have outlawed slavery, yet it continues to exist in many countries and seems to be most... |
1999 |
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U.s. Involvement in Claims by Victims of the German Holocaust or Their Heirs |
93 American Journal of International Law 883 (October, 1999) |
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In the aftermath of the Second World War, the major powers that occupied Germany enacted laws in their respective zones to restore property confiscated by the Nazis to the original owners. These laws did not address non-property loss, such as physical suffering or unjust deprivation of freedom, since the Allies contemplated that a new German... |
1999 |
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Michael Heller ; and Christopher Serkin |
Unjust Enrichment: a Study of Private Law and Public Values. By Hanoch Dagan. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. 185. $59.95. |
97 Michigan Law Review 1385 (May, 1999) |
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I. Introduction. 1385 II. Roadmap to Restitution. 1388 A. The Argument in Brief. 1388 B. The Translation Scheme. 1389 1. Definitions. 1389 2. American Law Application. 1390 C. Restitution and National Ethos. 1393 III. Putting Restitution to the Test. 1397 A. The Relationship Between Privatization and Restitution. 1397 B. The Variety of Restitution.... |
1999 |
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War Crimes Update |
76 Interpreter Releases 1360 (9/13/1999) |
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A variety of efforts have been made in recent weeks to bring war criminals to justice. Following are highlights of the recent activities: -Louis Freeh, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) director, announced that a team of 62 FBI personnel, including special agents, crime scene investigators, scientists, and forensic experts, have... |
1999 |
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Neil J. Kritz, United States Institute of Peace |
War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice. By Aryeh Neier. New York: Times Books, 1998. Pp. Xiv, 274. Index. $25; Can $35. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence. By Martha Minow. Bos |
93 American Journal of International Law 983 (October, 1999) |
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In recent years, the dilemma regarding how societies that are emerging from war or repression should deal with the legacy of mass abuse has been the focus of increasing attention. International diplomacy has undergone something of a paradigm shift in the past decade. Those attempting to mediate the conclusion of various conflicts have moved from... |
1999 |
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Brief of Plaintiffs in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss under Rule 19 Filed by Sisseton-wahpeton Sioux Tribe, Spirit Lake Tribe & Sisseton-wahpeton Sioux Council of the Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes |
(12/14/1999) |
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Plaintiffs, as a class, are those 1,969 persons on the Secretary of Interior's list of Indians who have proven they are in fact lineal descendants of the aboriginal Mississippi Sioux... |
1999 |
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Brief of the Federal Republic of Germany as Amicus Curiae |
(6/15/1999) |
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The government of the Federal Republic of Germany-supports the motion of the defendants. For the reasons given in defendants' comprehensive memorandum, Germany also believes that the... |
1999 |
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Joint Memorandum of Defendants Daimlerchrysler Ag, Thyssen Krupp Ag, Bayer Ag, Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag, Degussa-hâ€uls Ag, Continental Ag, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Hoechst Ag, Magna International Inc., Man Ag, Mannesmann Ag, Rheinmetall Ag, Volkswagen a G a |
(12/3/1999) |
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FN1. In addition to this Memorandum, defendants submit Appendices of Declarations in Support of Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and an Appendix of Exhibits. The Appendix of Exhibits (App.)... |
1999 |
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Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings as to Defendant-intervenors' Third Affirmative Defense |
(9/17/1999) |
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On November 10th, 1998, after receiving Plaintiffs' consent to their intervention without opposition and, subsequently, upon the signing of an order by this Court granting their previously... |
1999 |
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Fcc Proposes New Eeo Rules to Meet Lutheran Church Court Case Concerns |
(11/19/1998) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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1998 |
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In the Matter of Review of the Commission's Broadcast and Cable Equal Employment Opportunity Rules and Policies and Termination of the Eeo Streamlining Proceeding |
13 FCC Rcd. 23004 (11/20/1998) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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1998 |
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Press Briefing by Mike Mccurry 03/12/98 |
(3/13/1998) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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1998 |
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Press Briefing in Kampala Uganda 03/24/98 |
(4/14/1998) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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1998 |
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Appellant's Brief |
(7/20/1998) |
Briefs |
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Oral argument is requested by the Estate because the 11th Amendment immunity issue (abrogation by under the 13th and Privilege and Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendments, as well as the... |
1998 |
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Appellant's Reply Brief |
(8/28/1998) |
Briefs |
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This Reply Brief is preapred with a 10 pitch Courier typing element. This case represents the final phase toward closure of the apartheid-era claims against the State of Florida and several... |
1998 |
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Appellee, School Board of Washington County, Florida's Answer Brief |
(8/18/1998) |
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Appellee does not object to oral argument. However Appellee believes oral argument is unnecessary because the Order granting the motion to dismiss is reviewed de novo. The Eleventh Circuit... |
1998 |
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Million Youth March, Inc. v. Safir |
18 F.Supp.2d 334, United States District Court, S.D. New York. (9/4/1998) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
Organizers of proposed First Amendment-religious-political rally sought preliminary injunction ordering city officials, who had denied permit for rally, to allow rally to take place. The District Court, Kaplan, J., held that: (1) organizers' delay in seeking injunction did not warrant denial of relief; (2) organizers demonstrated... |
1998 |
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Helen Bishop Jenkins |
A Study of the Intersection of Dna Technology, Exhumation and Heirship Determination as it Relates to Modern-day Descendants of Slaves in America |
50 Alabama Law Review 39 (Fall, 1998) |
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Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. There has been a proliferation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing in the last few years to establish paternity, grand-paternity, great-grand-paternity and beyond. Evidence of paternity through DNA... |
1998 |
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Helen Bishop Jenkins |
A Study of the Intersection of Dna Technology, Exhumation and Heirship Determination as it Relates to Modern-day Descendants of Slaves in America |
50 Alabama Law Review 39 (Fall, 1998) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. There has been a proliferation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing in the last few years to establish paternity, grand-paternity, great-grand-paternity and beyond. Evidence of paternity through DNA... |
1998 |
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Denise Page Hood |
Affirmative Action: Where Is it Coming from and Where Is it Going? |
3 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 541 (Spring 1998) |
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Charles R. Lawrence III and Mari J. Matsuda blend their voices to make a legal, moral, and even patriotic case for affirmative action in their book, We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action. To say this is only a book about affirmative action, however, is not enough. Lawrence and Matsuda write to challenge opponents of affirmative... |
1998 |
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Leslie Espinoza , Angela P. Harris |
Afterword: Embracing the Tar-baby--latcrit Theory and the Sticky Mess of Race |
10 La Raza Law Journal 499 (Spring 1998) |
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In this Afterword, Leslie Espinoza and Angela Harris identify some of the submerged themes of this Symposium and reflect on LatCrit theory more generally. Professor Harris argues that LatCrit theory reveals tensions between scholars wishing to transcend the black-white paradigm and proponents of black exceptionalism. Professor Espinoza argues... |
1998 |
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Jack Alan Levy |
As Between Princz and King: Reassessing the Law of Foreign Sovereign Immunity as Applied to Jus Cogens Violators |
86 Georgetown Law Journal 2703 (July, 1998) |
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The King who would in his transports of fury take away the life of an innocent person, divests himself of his character, and is no longer to be considered in any other light than that of an unjust and outrageous enemy the enemy of humankind. Hugo Princz was a seventeen-year-old American boy who resided with his family in Czechoslovakia during... |
1998 |
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Martha Minow |
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Feminist Responses to Violent Injustice |
32 New England Law Review 967 (Summer 1998) |
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I am especially honored by the chance to speak in this series dedicated to Anna Hirsch. I have heard her described as a woman who persevered against the odds, and I am honored to participate in celebrating her and her example. I remember when Mary Joe Frug participated in the creation of this lectureship. Mary Joe, my dear friend, introduced me to... |
1998 |
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Anthony V. Alfieri |
Black and White |
10 La Raza Law Journal 561 (Spring 1998) |
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Critical Race Theory dreams in black and white. No rhapsody of color, only charred history and pale hope. Yet the dreams stamp hard, inspiring a jurisprudential movement of diverse scholars and earning an uneasy place in the postwar scholarship of the American legal academy. Having waged both theoretical and practical battles to gain that place,... |
1998 |
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Marian Nash (Leich) |
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law |
92 American Journal of International Law 251 (April, 1998) |
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By a note to the United Nations Secretary-General, dated October 30, 1997, the United States Mission submitted the response of the United States Government to the Secretary-General's request of February 12, 1997, for comments and observations of governments by January 1, 1998, on the draft articles on state responsibility adopted provisionally on... |
1998 |
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Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas |
Deconstructing Homo[geneous] Americanus: the White Ethnic Immigrant Narrative and its Exclusionary Effect |
72 Tulane Law Review 1493 (May, 1998) |
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This Article examines why the assumption of sameness is so pervasive in our society, and why the very idea of diversity is so resisted. The assumption and the corollary mandate to be the same are embedded in American cultural ideology, in how Americans think of themselves, in the stories that we tell regarding who we are and where we come from, in... |
1998 |
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Chin Kim , Stanley S. Kim |
Delayed Justice: the Case of the Japanese Imperial Military Sex Slaves |
16 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 263 (Spring, 1998) |
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On April 17, 1998, the Shimonoseki Branch of the Yamaguchi District Court in Japan ordered the Japanese government to pay $300,000.00 (equivalent to U.S $2,270.00) each to three South Korean Jugun ianfu, or military comfort women, who were forced to provide Imperial Japanese soldiers sexual service during World War II. The court ruled that upon... |
1998 |
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Teresa Y. Neely |
Diversity in Conflict |
90 Law Library Journal 587 (Fall, 1998) |
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Ms. Neely reviews some of the major aspects of modern American society, analyzing how they promote or exhibit racial inequity and diversity-related unrest. She then explores the significance of the state of race relations in these overarching areas of society for the practice of librarianship. She concludes by offering several strategies for... |
1998 |
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Katherine Hessler |
Early Efforts to Suppress Protest: Unwanted Abolitionist Speech |
7 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 185 (Spring 1998) |
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Abolitionists were among the earliest citizens in the history of this country to protest government policy. They worked on behalf of slaves who were without legal standing to speak for themselves and brought attention to the evils of the government's support of slavery and the slave trade. The abolitionists spoke strongly against these evils and... |
1998 |
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Mari J. Matsuda |
Foreword: Mccarthyism, the Internment and the Contradictions of Power |
40 Boston College Law Review Rev. 9 (December, 1998) |
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There is naked power, which grabs and smashes without need for denial or justification. There is legitimized power, which justifies without denying. There is masked power, which never justifies, because the denial of its own existence is complete. The articles in this symposium call to mind all three kinds of power. The internment, falling in the... |
1998 |
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Mari J. Matsuda |
Foreword: Mccarthyism, the Internment and the Contradictions of Power |
19 Boston College Third World Law Journal L.J. 9 (Fall, 1998) |
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There is naked power, which grabs and smashes without need for denial or justification. There is legitimized power, which justifies without denying. There is masked power, which never justifies, because the denial of its own existence is complete. The articles in this symposium call to mind all three kinds of power. The internment, falling in the... |
1998 |
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Marco Portales |
Hopwood, Race, Bakke and the Constitution |
4 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 29 (Spring 1998) |
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Race and color issues have quarrelsome, ideologically negative histories in the United States and in most parts of the world. The Hopwood opinion, which holds that race may not be considered as part of a college's admissions criteria, unless there is a compelling government interest, appears to be correct. Hopwood removes the fractious factor of... |
1998 |
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Natsu Taylor Saito |
Justice Held Hostage: U.s. Disregard for International Law in the World War Ii Internment of Japanese Peruvians - a Case Study |
40 Boston College Law Review 275 (December, 1998) |
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The federal government will pay $5,000 settlements and issue an apology to Japanese who were taken from their homes in Latin America and held in U.S. internment camps during World War II, a Justice Department official said Thursday. More than 2,200 Latin Americans, most of them of Japanese ancestry and a majority from Peru, forcibly were brought to... |
1998 |
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Natsu Taylor Saito |
Justice Held Hostage: U.s. Disregard for International Law in the World War Ii Internment of Japanese Peruvians - a Case Study |
19 Boston College Third World Law Journal 275 (Fall, 1998) |
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The federal government will pay $5,000 settlements and issue an apology to Japanese who were taken from their homes in Latin America and held in U.S. internment camps during World War II, a Justice Department official said Thursday. More than 2,200 Latin Americans, most of them of Japanese ancestry and a majority from Peru, forcibly were brought to... |
1998 |
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Davison M. Douglas |
Justifying Racial Reform |
76 Texas Law Review 1163 (April, 1998) |
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[African Americans] want what is due them, rather than pity and sympathy. They think that if you have to make people look bad or broken up before you can get the country to give them what they should have by right, then that's the same old racism and segregation at work.--African-American minister, 1965 African Americans have had an undeniably... |
1998 |
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Carolyn C. Jones |
Mapping Tax Narratives |
73 Tulane Law Review 653 (December, 1998) |
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Following scholars in other disciplines, some legal scholars have begun to analyze and use narrative. This interest in narrative has not, up to now, characterized tax scholarship. There is a world of tax narratives, and this essay proposes one map of the territory. Like all lawyers and legal scholars, tax scholars have been making, using, and... |
1998 |
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Tanya Katerí Hernández |
Multiracial Discourse: Racial Classifications in an Era of Color-blind Jurisprudence |
57 Maryland Law Review 97 (1998) |
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Introduction. 98 I. The Background and Motivation of the Multiracial Category Movement. 106 II. The Adverse Consequences of Multiracial Discourse. 115 A. The Reaffirmation of the Value of Whiteness in Racial Hierarchy. 115 B. The Dissociation of a Racially Subordinated Buffer Class from Equality Efforts. 121 C. The Continuation of the Color-Blind... |
1998 |
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Frank H. Wu |
New Paradigms of Civil Rights: a Review Essay |
66 George Washington Law Review 698 (March, 1998) |
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Can we become one America? In another era, the question might have been rhetorical. In our age, it sounds more like a plea than an inquiry. In a commencement address delivered at the University of California at San Diego on June 14, 1997, President William Jefferson Clinton asked, [C]an we become one America in the 21st Century? In his remarks,... |
1998 |
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Nathalie D. Martin |
Noneconomic Interests in Bankruptcy: Standing on the Outside Looking in |
59 Ohio State Law Journal 429 (1998) |
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In this Article, Professor Martin challenges traditional notions of bankruptcy court standing and concludes that the current majority view of such standing, which limits participation in bankruptcy cases to persons with pecuniary interests or claims in the debtor, is too narrow. Professor Martin reviews current case law, statutory law, and... |
1998 |
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Chris K. Iijima |
Political Accommodation and the Ideology of the "Model Minority": Building a Bridge to White Minority Rule in the 21st Century |
7 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal L.J. 1 (Summer 1998) |
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Recently, I overheard my father suddenly ask my eight year old son, Alan, whether he wanted to see his grandpa's war medals. I was surprised to hear him ask Alan this question since I never remembered him asking me when I was a child whether I had wanted to see them. My father had always seemed reluctant to talk about his war experiences. He was... |
1998 |
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Stephen A. Denburg |
Reclaiming Their Past: a Survey of Jewish Efforts to Restitute European Property |
18 Boston College Third World Law Journal 233 (Spring, 1998) |
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The current Swiss banking scandal has shed light on the fact that many European countries have not fully revealed the extent of, or have failed to compensate Jews for, the numerous assets and property holdings that were confiscated during the Nazi era. While the Swiss banks moved quickly to establish humanitarian funds and restitute Jewish assets,... |
1998 |
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Sumi Cho |
Redeeming Whiteness in the Shadow of Internment: Earl Warren, Brown, and a Theory of Racial Redemption |
40 Boston College Law Review 73 (December, 1998) |
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Earl Warren is a civil rights/civil liberties icon. During his reign as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1953-69, the Court set standards of liberal judicial activism on race issues by which future Courts would be judged. Chief Justice Warren presided over momentous decisions that outlawed segregation in public education and public... |
1998 |
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Sumi Cho |
Redeeming Whiteness in the Shadow of Internment: Earl Warren, Brown, and a Theory of Racial Redemption |
19 Boston College Third World Law Journal 73 (Fall, 1998) |
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Earl Warren is a civil rights/civil liberties icon. During his reign as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1953-69, the Court set standards of liberal judicial activism on race issues by which future Courts would be judged. Chief Justice Warren presided over momentous decisions that outlawed segregation in public education and public... |
1998 |
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James Boyd White |
Talking about Religion in the Language of the Law: Impossible but Necessary |
81 Marquette Law Review 177 (Winter 1998) |
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In speaking to this conference about religion and law I am in a decidedly peculiar position, for it may be that every one of you has thought longer and harder about the relation between these two forms of life than I have. When Scott Idleman first asked me to talk to you, I explained that I was no expert, to put it mildly, and that the most that I... |
1998 |
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Steven R. Ratner |
The Genocide Convention after Fifty Years |
92 American Society of International Law Proceedings Proc. 1 (April 1-4, 1998) |
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The panel was convened at 8:10 p.m., Wednesday, April 1, by its Chair, Steven Ratner, who introduced the panelists: B.G. Ramcharan, United Nations Division for Political Affairs; Payam Akhavan, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; and Delissa Ridgway, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, U.S. Department of Justice. Fifty... |
1998 |
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P. Mweti Munya |
The International Court of Justice and Peaceful Settlement of African Disputes: Problems, Challenges and Prospects |
7 Journal of International Law and Practice 159 (Summer, 1998) |
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I. Introduction. 160 II. The Colonial Experience and the Attitude of the African States Towards the International Court of Justice: The Early Decades (1960-1981). 164 III. The Changing Attitude of the African States Towards the International Court of Justice: 1982 to date. 173 A. Changing Global Power Equation. 173 B. Structural Transformation of... |
1998 |
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David E. Bernstein |
The Law and Economics of Post-civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration by African-americans |
76 Texas Law Review 781 (March, 1998) |
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A man has a right to go anywhere in this country he may choose. -- R.A. Peg Leg Williams, Southern emigrant agent In Williams v. Fears, the Supreme Court upheld a racist statute that imposed a prohibitive license fee on interstate labor recruiters known as emigrant agents. The result in Williams negatively affected the lives of millions of... |
1998 |
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Vincene Verdun |
The Only Lonely Remedy |
59 Ohio State Law Journal 793 (1998) |
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Affirmative action has been under attack for the last few decades and, as a result, is as misunderstood as it is unpopular. For all of its perceived shortcomings, affirmative action is the only remedy that has been offered to compensate for the injustices resulting from historic and present discrimination. This Essay uses storytelling to expound on... |
1998 |
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