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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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
  U.s. Involvement in Claims by Victims of the German Holocaust or Their Heirs 93 American Journal of International Law 883 (October, 1999) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
  War Crimes Update 76 Interpreter Releases 1360 (9/13/1999) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
  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) Trial Court Documents   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  
  Brief of the Federal Republic of Germany as Amicus Curiae (6/15/1999) Trial Court Documents   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  
  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) Trial Court Documents   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  
  Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings as to Defendant-intervenors' Third Affirmative Defense (9/17/1999) Trial Court Documents   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  
  Fcc Proposes New Eeo Rules to Meet Lutheran Church Court Case Concerns (11/19/1998) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     1998  
  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     1998  
  Press Briefing by Mike Mccurry 03/12/98 (3/13/1998) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     1998  
  Press Briefing in Kampala Uganda 03/24/98 (4/14/1998) Administrative Decisions & Guidance     1998  
  Appellant's Brief (7/20/1998) Briefs   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  
  Appellant's Reply Brief (8/28/1998) Briefs   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  
  Appellee, School Board of Washington County, Florida's Answer Brief (8/18/1998) Briefs   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  
  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  
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   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  
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   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Martha Minow Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Feminist Responses to Violent Injustice 32 New England Law Review 967 (Summer 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Anthony V. Alfieri Black and White 10 La Raza Law Journal 561 (Spring 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Marian Nash (Leich) Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law 92 American Journal of International Law 251 (April, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas Deconstructing Homo[geneous] Americanus: the White Ethnic Immigrant Narrative and its Exclusionary Effect 72 Tulane Law Review 1493 (May, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Teresa Y. Neely Diversity in Conflict 90 Law Library Journal 587 (Fall, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Katherine Hessler Early Efforts to Suppress Protest: Unwanted Abolitionist Speech 7 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 185 (Spring 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Mari J. Matsuda Foreword: Mccarthyism, the Internment and the Contradictions of Power 40 Boston College Law Review Rev. 9 (December, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Mari J. Matsuda Foreword: Mccarthyism, the Internment and the Contradictions of Power 19 Boston College Third World Law Journal L.J. 9 (Fall, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Marco Portales Hopwood, Race, Bakke and the Constitution 4 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 29 (Spring 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Davison M. Douglas Justifying Racial Reform 76 Texas Law Review 1163 (April, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   [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  
Carolyn C. Jones Mapping Tax Narratives 73 Tulane Law Review 653 (December, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Tanya Katerí Hernández Multiracial Discourse: Racial Classifications in an Era of Color-blind Jurisprudence 57 Maryland Law Review 97 (1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Frank H. Wu New Paradigms of Civil Rights: a Review Essay 66 George Washington Law Review 698 (March, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Nathalie D. Martin Noneconomic Interests in Bankruptcy: Standing on the Outside Looking in 59 Ohio State Law Journal 429 (1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
James Boyd White Talking about Religion in the Language of the Law: Impossible but Necessary 81 Marquette Law Review 177 (Winter 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Steven R. Ratner The Genocide Convention after Fifty Years 92 American Society of International Law Proceedings Proc. 1 (April 1-4, 1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
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) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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  
Vincene Verdun The Only Lonely Remedy 59 Ohio State Law Journal 793 (1998) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   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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