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Symposium: Gender, Health and the Constitution: More than Merely "Two-legged Wombs": Lessons on Metaphor and Body Politics from Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale (1985)

Tale inspires closer attention to figurative language’s real-world impact on health law and policy, particularly in moments of environmental catastrophe and political unrest. ... seemingly innocuous, joke epitomizes his political philosophy. To the Commander, the individual is subsumed by the collective, no longer independent or autonomous. Yet the women his joke depicts, like Offred

Symposium; Gender, Health, and the Constitution: Hysteria Redux: Gaslighting in the Age of Covid

This article addresses the relationship among hysteria, gaslighting, and gender during the Covid pandemic in the political and public-health messaging about Covid. It analyzes the U.S. public health ... political costs of saving a life exceed the benefits of doing so.1 - of those infected and seemingly recovered later develop cardiovascular, cognitive, and other major disorders related to that infection

Response: The Constitution Has Never Recognized Us as Full Persons: Or to What Politics are Our "Protections

what is on the horizon for LGBTQ rights. The response calls for a reframing of the conversation by starting from the understanding that the Constitution, and by extension the law, is a political document ... political economy. Cultural politics and the political economy operate in tandem although they are constantly cast as operating in separate domains. The so-called cultural issues of abortion, gun violence

The New Intersectional and Anti-Racist LGBTQIA + Politics: Some Thoughts on the Path Ahead

-racist LGBTQIA+ political consciousness and action. ... political consciousness in directions and to a scale not seen before. These changes to LGBTQIA+ consciousness-and the politics they are producing-would not be happening without the great works of multiple

Beyond the Ban: One Major Challenge Facing the FTC Non-Compete Rule

political significance” unless the U.S. Congress has explicitly given the agencies the authority to act in those situations. 23 The recent opinion in Biden v. Nebraska further expanded the major questions ... doctrine, the Supreme Court has rejected agency claims of regulatory authority when (1) the underlying claim of authority concerns an issue of “vast ‘economic and political significance,’” and (2) Congress

Symposium: The Future of Reproductive Rights: Reevaluating Regional Law Reform Strategies After Dobbs

at the center of their activism—not abortion alone. They leveraged, as a political fault line, the contradiction of these states’ governors’ perceived disgust relating to basic women’s reproductive ... environments and, accordingly, law reform outcomes in one state cannot necessarily be replicated to yield the same results in another state. Rather, our modern state legal and political landscape is vastly

Symposium: Gender, Health, and the Constitution: Gender-Affirming Care and Children's Liberty

, political action around gender-affirming care received a push in 2019 when conservative thinktank The Heritage Foundation organized a series of events discussing the supposed medical risks of gender-affirming ... Children Constitute Child Abuse (Feb. 18, 2022), https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/ sites/default/files/global/KP-0401.pdf/. Arthur Leonard has outlined the political pressures weighing on both Attorney

Remedies Symposium: On Critical Junctures, Intercurrence, and Dynamic Political Orders

Relying on contemporary historical-institutionalist literature concerning processes of American political development, this article argues that the nebulous status of religious rights in the United ... ON CRITICAL JUNCTURES, INTERCURRENCE, AND DYNAMIC POLITICAL ORDERS Paul Baumgardner 0 0 Doctoral Candidate, Department of Politics and the Humanities Council, Princeton University REMEDIES

Institutionalizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Independence

political intervention in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) efforts to provide guidance and help pandemic response. The concern was strong enough that four previous CDC Directors, in an ... expert advice in public health should be science-based and less, rather than more, political. It can also protect CDC's long-standing independence, while preserving some political control. - means all of

Symposium: Gender, Health, and the Constitution: The New Gender Panic in Sport: Why State Laws Banning Transgender Athletes are Unconstitutional

laws support the denial of individual agency on matters central to personhood. They normalize the displacement of individual judgment in favor of state orthodoxy, substituting the state’s political views ... achieved remarkable political success, furthered by a seeming alliance with some advocates for girls’ and women’s sports. A few high-profile advocates of women’s sports equality have taken public positions

Philosophy, Abstract Thought, and the Dilemmas of Philosophy

and acquaintance with the fact that his procedure was willfully creative in the matter of the coinage of words. 4 Richard Kraut, Aristotle: Political Philosophy (New York, NY: Oxford University Press ... difficulty of translating abstract language hold in regards to practical matters, outside of the realm of Quine’s experiment of radical translation? Considering philosophy as a study typically involving

Symposium: Examining Black Citizenship from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter: Black Citizenship, Dehumanization, and the Fourteenth Amendment

explicit commitment to ending their dehumanization. This essay examines the concept of dehumanization and its connection to formal, political, civil, and social citizenship. It elaborates on the less ... four layers of citizenship: formal, political, civil, and social citizenship. While the first three types of citizenship are familiar, social citizenship is a neglected yet crucial aspect of full

Fellow Citizens

, Educate.” These became the core principles of Black Reconstruction as Black leaders and their white allies sought to secure civil freedom, free labor, equal suffrage and political power, and access to ... political and economic action. I will also briefly suggest how the limitations of these amendments opened paths for failures of equal citizenship. I. EMANCIPATE, ENFRANCHISE, EDUCATE On February 12, 1865

Book Review: Dershowitz on Presidential Impeachment: An Analysis of The Case Against Impeaching Trump

on political party affiliation. Dershowitz, a strong Hillary Clinton supporter, provides a neutral examination of the issue. This review contains analysis of the current state of impeachment efforts ... School of Law 2007; MBA from Oklahoma City University 2004; postgraduate certificate in law from University of London 2010; Masters in Philosophy of Religion from Biola University 2015. I can be reached at

Symposium: 19th Amendment at 100: "We Must Forget Every Difference and Unite in a Common Cause - Votes For Women": Lessons From the Woman Suffrage Movement (Or, Before the Notorius RBG, There Were the Notorious RBGs)

professionals to secure, for all women, full social, civil, political, and legal rights. It examines the work of Rosa Goodrich Boido, a late nineteenth century doctor, and her daughter, Rosalind Goodrich Bates ... consider both the history of the woman's suffrage movement that led to the Amendment as well as the efficacy of the Amendment to secure women's full legal, political, civil, and social equality. Our

Restoring Nobility to the Constitution: A Modern Approach to a Founding Principle

the vast and growing political class in America. Our political office holders (and their favored constituents) can, and do, pick and choose which laws apply to them and, more importantly, which laws ... structural mechanisms embedded in the Constitution, they do not always work as intended and, in fact, at times they fail utterly to prevent blatant abuses of the rule of law by the political class in America

Symposium: Erie at Eighty: Choice of Law Across the Disciplines: Erie as a Way of Life

tendencies, on both the political Left and Right, to collapse the distinction between law as a set of positivist choices adopted by government and law as the principles that we think are just, right, and true ... because they’re grounded in a political theory of strong democracy and equality. They are rights because they are true, not because they have been endorsed by any positivist sovereign. It is a leftwing form

Symposium: The Future of Reproductive Rights: Situating Dobbs

or de facto, as a consequence of statutes or constitutional amendments. Some of the rights I discuss are formal political rights/privileges like voting. Others are what I would characterize as quasi ... local political infighting. 23 As a result, the state legislature withdrew the right to vote from its women citizens by enacting another piece of legislation in 1807 that “excluded women from the polls

Symposium: 19th Amendment at 100: Many Pathways to Suffrage, Other Than the 19th Amendment

obscured. This essay looks at a variety of ways that women tried to break through the male monopoly of political power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the earliest days of agitation ... for equal political rights articulated their aspirations, no one imagined ending up with an ambiguous instrument of political change like the Nineteenth Amendment. In the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls

Symposium: 50 Years with the 25th Amendment: The Role of the White House Counsel in the Twenty-fifth Amendment: Advising on Presidential Disability

admission of "disability" will weaken a president's political influence. The White House Counsel must often navigate between the legal and constitutional requirements of the amendment, on the one hand, and ... THE ROLE OF THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT: ADVISING ON PRESIDENTIAL DISABILITY Nancy Kassop 0 0 Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations