| Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Status | Summary | Year |
| Seth Davis |
The Thirteenth Amendment and Self-determination |
104 Cornell Law Review Online 88 (September, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Slavery in the American South was a system of government that denied self-determination to Black communities. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution promised that [n]either slavery nor involuntary servitude . shall exist within the United States. Today, Black communities and other subordinated communities are demanding... |
2019 |
| Rose Cuison Villazor , Kevin R. Johnson |
The Trump Administration and the War on Immigration Diversity |
54 Wake Forest Law Review 575 (Spring, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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As candidate and President, Donald Trump has unabashedly expressed his disdain for immigrants of color and demonstrated an unmistakable commitment to restrict their immigration to the United States. Contemptuous words about immigrants translated into concrete policies designed to restrict the number of immigrants entering and remaining in the... |
2019 |
| Vladyslav Lanovoy, Associate Legal Officer, International Court of Justice |
Third-party Countermeasures in International Law. By Martin Dawidowicz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. Xxiv, 431. Index |
113 American Journal of International Law 200 (January, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Martin Dawidowicz's monograph examines the concept of third-party countermeasures in international law, also known as collective, solidarity, or general interest measures. The author, a lecturer in public international law at the University of Oxford, defines a third-party countermeasure as an otherwise unlawful act of a peaceful character taken by... |
2019 |
| Rachel Frazin |
Top House Dem Dismisses Reparations as 2020 Candidates Endorse Idea |
The Hill (3/5/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said that he takes issue with using reparations to lessen racial inequality, as 2020 candidates have come out in favor of the idea, The Post and Courier reported Tuesday. |
2019 |
| Manal Totry-Jubran |
Transitional Justice in Housing Injustice: the Case of Housing Rights Violations Within Settler Democracies |
52 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 795 (October, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The right to housing is recognized by international human rights treaties as an integral part of the right to an adequate standard of living. Many states have ratified these treaties and incorporated protection of some aspects of housing rights into their constitutions and domestic legislation. Other states have not enacted any legislation in... |
2019 |
| Brett Samuels |
Trump Honors 'Indomitable Spirit of African Americans' on Juneteenth |
The Hill (6/19/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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President Trump on Wednesday paid tribute to African Americans on Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery. |
2019 |
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United Kingdom 2018 Human Rights Report |
(3/1/2019) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2019 |
| Michael Burke |
Warren, Harris Back Reparations for Black Americans Affected by Slavery |
The Hill (2/21/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), who are both running for president, have reportedly said they support reparations for black Americans affected by slavery. |
2019 |
| Chan Tov McNamarah |
White Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication and Existing While Black |
24 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 335 (Spring, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Over the past year, reports to the police about Black persons engaged in innocuous behaviors have bombarded the American consciousness. What do we make of them? And, equally important, what are the consequences of such reports? This Article is the first to argue that the recent spike in calls to the police against Black persons who are simply... |
2019 |
| Seokwoo Lee, Seryon Lee, Inha University Law School, Korea, Chonbuk National University Law School, Korea |
Yeo Woon Taek v. New Nippon Steel Corporation. 2013 Da 61381. Compensation for Damages (Others). Supreme Court of Republic of Korea, October 30, 2018 |
113 American Journal of International Law 592 (July, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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On October 30, 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court, in an 11-2 decision, upheld the judgment of the lower court, which ordered New Nippon Steel Corporation, a Japanese company, to provide KRW 100 million (approximately USD 84,000) in compensation to each of the four plaintiffs, who were forced to work at Japanese steel mills during World War II.... |
2019 |
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2018 Vt Reg Text 482656 (Ns) |
(2/12/2018) |
Regulations (Proposed & Adopted) |
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This rule implements two changes to the Reach Up program required by Act 29 (2017): (1) increasing the resource limit from $2,000 to $9,000; and (2) excluding funds in retirement accounts and qualified child education savings accounts from consideration as resources. Additionally, this rule modifies provisions in the Reach First and Reach Up program rules related to interviews and orientation, Department of Labor (DOL) reporting requirements, the housing allowance, lump sum payments, matched savings accounts, and time limits. The proposed changes incorporate the concepts of behavioral science,... |
2018 |
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2018 Vt Reg Text 482656 (Ns) |
(5/11/2018) |
Regulations (Proposed & Adopted) |
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This rule implements two changes to the Reach Up program required by Act 29 (2017): (1) increasing the resource limit from $2,000 to $9,000; and (2) excluding funds in retirement accounts and qualified child education savings accounts from consideration as resources. Additionally, this rule modifies provisions in the Reach First and Reach Up program rules related to interviews and orientation, Department of Labor (DOL) reporting requirements, the housing allowance, lump sum payments, matched savings accounts, and time limits. The proposed changes incorporate the concepts of behavioral science,... |
2018 |
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2018 Vt Reg Text 503570 (Ns) |
(9/11/2018) |
Regulations (Proposed & Adopted) |
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This proposed rulemaking and the five that are being filed contemporaneously amend the Health Benefits Eligibility and Enrollment (HBEE) rules which were last amended effective January 1, 2018. The parts of HBEE that are being amended at this time are as follows: General Provisions and Definitions (Part 1), Eligibility Standards (Part 2), Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements (Part 3), Special Rules for Medicaid Coverage of Long-Term Care Services and Supports - Eligibility and Post-Eligibility (Part 4), Financial Methodologies (Part 5), and Eligibility and Enrollment Procedures (Part 7).... |
2018 |
| Latiqua Liles |
A "Legacy Preference" for Descendants of Slaves: Why Georgetown's Approach to Admissions Is Misguided |
19 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 25 (2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In recent years, many of the United States' oldest Universities have begun examining their past associations with the institution of slavery. Recently, Georgetown University (Georgetown or the University) and more than a dozen other universities including Harvard, Brown, Colombia, and the University of Virginia, have publicly recognized their... |
2018 |
| Chiraag Bains |
A Few Bad Apples: How the Narrative of Isolated Misconduct Distorts Civil Rights Doctrine |
93 Indiana Law Journal 29 (Winter, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Viral videos of fatal police force used against unarmed or nondangerous individuals, many of them black men, are driving a conversation about race and policing in America. The names are familiar by now, part of a macabre roll of modern American tragedy. Eric Garner was choked to death in Staten Island, repeating I can't breathe before he died.... |
2018 |
| Susan K. Serrano |
A Reparative Justice Approach to Assessing Ancestral Classifications Aimed at Colonization's Harms |
27 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 501 (December, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Introduction. 501 I. Davis V. Guam in Legal-Political Context. 506 A. The Dismantling of Justice. 507 B. Rice v. Cayetano: Ancestry as Proxy for Race. 510 C. Davis v. Guam: Ancestry as Invidious Racial Purpose. 514 II. A Reparative Justice Approach to Remedying the Harms of Colonization. 518 A. Ancestry and Race as Key to Colonization. 519 B.... |
2018 |
| Thomas E. Simmons |
A Will for Willa Cather |
83 Missouri Law Review 641 (Summer, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Abstract. 642 I. Introduction. 642 II. Discussion. 647 A. Artistic Sensibilities and the Desire to Preserve and Obscure. 648 B. Origins and a Brief Introduction to Trust Architecture. 665 C. Types of Trusts: A Proposed Taxonomy. 671 1. Charitable Purpose Trusts. 674 2. Noncharitable Purpose Trusts. 679 a. Trusts for Masses, Gravesites, etc. 680 b.... |
2018 |
| Adriana Chira |
Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817-68 |
36 Law and History Review Rev. 1 (February, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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On a sweltering August day in 1858, a man by the name of José Alejo Contreras and his legal counsel filed a freedom suit in the musty offices of the First District Court in Santiago de Cuba. At the time, Santiago was the second largest urban area in Cuba, and yet, to the foreign visitor, this underdeveloped Caribbean borderland surrounded by lush... |
2018 |
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Amended Brief for Defendant-appellee M%22av |
(2/27/2018) |
Briefs |
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FN1. This Court also rejected Plaintiffs' numerous other excuses for failing to exhaust, including the statute of limitations - because it was formally extended for Holocaust-related... |
2018 |
| Karen Bradshaw |
Animal Property Rights |
89 University of Colorado Law Review 809 (Summer, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The animal rights movement largely focuses on protecting species whose suffering is most visible to humans, such as pets, livestock, and captive mammals. Yet, we do not observe how unsustainable land development and fishing practices are harming many species of wildlife and sea creatures. Fish and wildlife populations have recently suffered... |
2018 |
| Michael J. Kelly |
Atrocities by Corporate Actors: a Historical Perspective |
50 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 49 (Spring, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Corporations have been around for centuries. Their entire operating principle is to generate profit. All other purposes are ancillary. However, people within corporations and running corporations make decisions for these entities and sometimes those decisions lead to criminal conduct in pursuit of that profit motive. History provides several... |
2018 |
| Maxine Burkett |
Behind the Veil: Climate Migration, Regime Shift, and a New Theory of Justice |
53 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 445 (Fall, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Climate change is as much a sociopolitical phenomenon as it is a geophysical one. Beyond contentious domestic politics and the intricacies of global climate governance, evinced by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and over 25 years of subsequent negotiation, unabated climate change promises to upend centuries-old... |
2018 |
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Belle v. Detroit City Clerk |
Not Reported in N.W. Rptr., Court of Appeals of Michigan. (8/23/2018) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Plaintiff appeals as of right the trial court's order denying her motion for injunctive relief and dismissing her complaint for declaratory relief in this election fraud action. We affirm. On appeal, plaintiff argues that the trial court erred when it dismissed her complaint without discovery being conducted or a motion for summary disposition... |
2018 |
| Ariela J. Gross |
Bob Gordon's Critical Historicism and the Pursuit of Justice |
70 Stanford Law Review 1633 (May, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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My initial encounter with critical legal historicism was as a graduate student in history at Stanford trying to decide whether to stay in graduate school, teach, and do research, or go to law school to pursue politics. During my first year, I lurked around the law school, attending my first legal history workshop. It was a discussion of Bob... |
2018 |
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Book Notes |
43 Law and Social Inquiry 1130 (Summer, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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L1-2CONTENTS Civil Rights. 1131 Constitutional Theory and History. 1131 Courts and Judges. 1131 Criminal Justice and Social Control. 1132 Human Rights. 1133 Jurisprudence and Sociolegal Theory. 1133 Justice and the University. 1134 Law and Family Relationships. 1134 Law and Immigration. 1134 Law and Indigenous Peoples. 1134 Law and Islam. 1135 Law... |
2018 |
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Brief for Defendant-appellee Mav |
(2/15/2018) |
Briefs |
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(1) The full name of every party that the attorney represents in the case (if the party is a corporation, you must provide the corporate disclosure information required by Fed. R. App. P.... |
2018 |
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Brief of the Petitioner-appellant with Separately Bound Appendix Parts 1 and 2 |
(5/16/2018) |
Briefs |
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FN1. The very first offer from the state was 10 to 18 years imprisonment. 10/2/17T5. FN2. Attorney O'Brien testified that Judge Alexander, the sentencing judge, had a very low opinion of... |
2018 |
| Lynn M.G. Ta, Benjamin A.T. Graham |
Can Quasi-judicial Bodies at the World Bank Provide Justice in Human Rights Cases? |
50 Georgetown Journal of International Law 113 (Fall, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The Inspection Panel and Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) are quasi-judicial bodies that hear human rights complaints related to World Bank projects. The Inspection Panel and CAO have adjudicated nearly 250 complaints, and at least seventeen other development finance institutions have created similar bodies in their likeness. Unfortunately, we... |
2018 |
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Ceasar v. U.s.a.a. |
Slip Copy, United States District Court, W.D. Texas, San Antonio Division. (8/20/2018) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
On this date the Court considered United States Magistrate Judge Henry J. Bemporad's Report and Recommendation in the above-numbered and styled case, filed August 3, 2018, (Docket no. 5) and Plaintiff R. Ceasar's objections thereto (Docket no. 8). After careful consideration, the Court ACCEPTS Magistrate Judge Bemporad's recommendation and... |
2018 |
| Christine Gibbons |
Cedaw, the Islamic State, and Conflict-related Sexual Violence |
51 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1423 (November, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Tales of the Islamic State (ISIL) and the group's brutality shocked the world for several years. Now, however, ISIL has been nearly defeated. As ISIL has lost territorial control, the world has learned more details about its cruel enslavement system, including the severe sexual violence that ISIL inflicted on the Yazidis. Now, many advocates are... |
2018 |
| Ann Kennedy |
Chronic Harm |
25 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 131 (Fall, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Introduction I. Reproductive Justice and the Anti-archive II. Chronic Harm: Reproductive Justice and the Exploitation of Care Labor In this Article, I argue that critical race feminism provides a lens for dismantling the current system of U.S. laws that regulate labor and reproduction, a set of laws that are often represented as unrelated race- and... |
2018 |
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Complaint |
(12/28/2018) |
Trial Court Documents |
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FN* Erica Maricich, Lee Stark, and Aaron Tucek, University of Chicago Law students, provided substantial assistance in the preparation of this document. Case No. JURY TRIAL DEMANDED NOW... |
2018 |
| Twila L. Perry |
Conscious and Strategic Representations of Race: Prince, Music, Black Lives, and Race Scholarship |
27 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 549 (Spring, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Prince has often been described in the media as an artist who transcended barriers of race, gender and music genre. However, the context of race has received much less attention than the contexts of gender and music. Although discussions of Prince in the media have seldom focused on his racial identity as an African-American, an examination of... |
2018 |
| Leszek Bosek , Katarzyna Królikowska |
Constitutional Dimensions of the Judicial Restitution of Wrongfully Expropriated Property in Poland |
41 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 369 (Winter 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The issue of post-war property nationalization and its possible restitution is important for all Central Eastern European countries, but definitely holds a special significance for Poland. This article deals with the legal difficulties associated with restituting property and receiving compensation for property taken in the process of mass... |
2018 |
| John Tehranian |
Copyright's Male Gaze: Authorship and Inequality in a Panoptic World |
41 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 343 (Summer, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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When Erin Andrews found out that an intimate recording of her had leaked online, the authorship-as-fixation doctrine told her that the felon who illicitly captured the footage owned the copyright, not her. When Lynn Thomson's creative partner, Jonathan Larson, died tragically just hours after the final rehearsal for the musical Rent, joint... |
2018 |
| Carrie L. Rosenbaum |
Crimmigration--structural Tools of Settler Colonialism |
16 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law L. 9 (Fall, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The systems of immigration and criminal law come together in many important ways, one of which being their role in instilling difference and undermining inclusion and integration. In this article, I will begin a discussion examining the concept of integration, simplistically described as inclusion into American life, not in the more traversed... |
2018 |
| Anjali Vats , Deidré A. Keller |
Critical Race Ip |
36 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 735 (2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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ABSTRACT. 736 Introduction. 737 I. Why Critical Race IP. 743 A. The Rise of the Intellectual Property Economy. 746 B. From CLS to Critical IP. 752 II. Locating Critical Race IP. 755 A. What is the Race in Critical Race IP?. 759 B. What is the IP in Critical Race IP?. 762 C. (Un)bounding Critical Race IP. 764 1. Storytelling as Critical Race IP... |
2018 |
| Peter Margulies |
Curbing Remedies for Official Wrongs: the Need for Bivens Suits in National Security Cases |
68 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1153 (Summer, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Introduction. 1153 I. History and Founding Era. 1156 II. Abbasi and the Story of the Post-9/11 Immigration Roundup. 1164 A. Immigration, Detention, and National Security. 1164 B. Retrenching on Remedies: The Court's Decision in Ziglar v. Abbasi. 1167 III. Critiquing Abbasi's Anti-Remedy Presumption. 1171 A. The Difference Between Constitutional and... |
2018 |
| Lateef Mtima |
Digital Tools and Copyright Clay: Restoring the Artist/audience Symbiosis |
38 Whittier Law Review 104 (Spring, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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©Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice. I would like to thank the participants in the Whittier Law Review Symposium Emerging Dilemmas in Entertainment Law: Resolving Technology's New Ethical Concerns for their insights and also Professor Tuneen Chisolm for... |
2018 |
| Timothy Webster |
Discursive Justice: Interpreting World War Ii Litigation in Japan |
58 Virginia Journal of International Law 161 (Fall, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Since the 1980s, human rights litigation has spread around the world. I propose an analytical framework by which to interpret the multiple motivations and results of human rights litigation. By examining a recent spate of lawsuits brought by victims of World War II against Japan and Japanese corporations, this Article illuminates the... |
2018 |
| David A. Singleton |
Disrupting Victim Exploitation |
69 Mercer Law Review 805 (Spring, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Violent-crime survivors have powerful stories to tell. Prosecutors use these stories to convict the accused and advocate for harsh sentences. Legislators use these narratives to pass punitive sentencing measures locking away the convicted for increasing periods of time. Though prosecutors and legislators serve the entire community, many present... |
2018 |
| David B. Oppenheimer |
Dr. King's Dream of Affirmative Action |
21 Harvard Latinx Law Review 55 (Spring, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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President Trump and Attorney General Sessions have decided to challenge affirmative action policies in higher education as a form of discrimination against white people. We should expect them to soon be citing Dr. King's I Have A Dream speech as evidence that Dr. King would be supporting their position if he were still alive. We should also expect... |
2018 |
| Bill Piat |
Entrada: Slavery, Religion and Reconciliation |
13 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review Rev. 1 (2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Santa Fe is a beautiful, culturally rich and diverse city. I am a native Santa Fean, and my mixed Hispanic/Indian/Anglo/African blood reflects the ethnic makeup of the region. Each year the city celebrates a Fiesta. One component, the Entrada, celebrates the peaceful re-conquest of the Indigenous people by the Spanish colonizers. Controversy has... |
2018 |
| Carla M. Newman |
Essay: Bartering from the Bench: a Tennessee Judge Prevents Reproduction of Social Undesirables; Historic Analysis of Involuntary Sterilization of African American Women |
10 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 53 (Spring, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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At various points during American history, there have been stark moments where the autonomy of the African American female body has been compromised, degraded, and subjected to abuse due to the status of African American women. African American women who were victims of the slave trade experienced exploitation not only because of their race, but... |
2018 |
| Steven M. Richman, Esq. |
Ethical Issues for Business Lawyers under the United Nations Guiding Principles |
51 International Lawyer 423 (2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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We are all human rights lawyers now. Such concerns are no longer the sole province of public interest lawyers or those who otherwise specialize in human rights issues. Commercial lawyers in private practice representing private companies must be attentive to human rights issues. This article arose from various presentations made during my tenure as... |
2018 |
| Charles Cronin |
Ethical Quandaries: the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act and Claims for Works in Public Museums |
92 Saint John's Law Review 509 (Fall, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In 2016 agents from United States Homeland Security Investigations stopped by Craig Gilmore's house in Los Angeles to determine whether he owned a painting by the seventeenth-century artist Melchior Geldorp. The picture they were seeking, Portrait of a Lady, had been owned by the National Museum in Warsaw, but had disappeared when the Nazis... |
2018 |
| Stephen R. Munzer |
Examining Nontherapeutic Circumcision |
28 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine Matrix 1 (2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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C1-2Contents I. Introduction. 2 II. Nature of the Inquiry. 2 III. Circumcision and Possible Harms. 4 IV. Bodily Integrity and Autonomy. 8 V. A Tissue Loss Argument. 11 VI. A Genital Salience Argument. 17 VII. A Permanent Modification Argument. 25 VIII. A Gender Equality Argument. 28 IX. Asserted Medical Benefits of Neonatal Circumcision. 35 X.... |
2018 |
| April Johnson |
Fair Housing Issues: a Call for Mandated Housing Integration |
50 University of Toledo Law Review 107 (Fall, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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OWNING a home has long been regarded as having a slice of the American Dream. Yet, as history has shown us, homeownership in integrated communities is increasingly unavailable for African Americans and other minorities. In essence, it is far more difficult for African Americans to realize the American Dream--by purchasing a home--than it is for... |
2018 |
| Christophe Geiger |
Freedom of Artistic Creativity and Copyright Law: a Compatible Combination? |
8 UC Irvine Law Review 413 (May, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Copyright was originally intended to serve creators as an engine of free expression, protecting them from the interference of others and from all risk of censorship. To this end, a balance was conceived between exclusive control and freedom in order to enable future creativity. Some uses were kept outside the control of the right owner through... |
2018 |
| Barak Atiram |
From Brown to Rule 23: the Rise and Fall of the Social Reform Class Action |
37 Review of Litigation 47 (Winter, 2018) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In modern class action lawsuits, we've grown accustomed to clientless representation. Class action attorneys usually initiate the legal suit and assume the active role of determining its claims and requested remedies, while class members remain passive, and in most cases oblivious, to the fact that a legal suit is filed and litigated on their... |
2018 |