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Hypothetically Punished: Why the Court Should Heed Justice Thomas's Call in United States v. Taylor to End Its "Journey Through The Looking Glass"

hundreds of convictions— unconstitutional.16 Instead of abandoning the categorical approach, the philosophy of justice and it has significantly impacted the American legal system. David Dolinko, Three ... sentencing is retribution,212 which reflects the leading213 and, arguably, correct214 philosophy of justice and punishment: retributivism. Put very simply, the retributivist theory of justice says, “we are

Racial-Ethnic Harm and Healing: Comparative National Mechanisms for Social Remorse and Repair

racism but mostly lacked corresponding political activism. The tensions and divergences between attitudinal and structural approaches to interracial cooperation that existed a half-century ago persist ... Gender Studies at University of South Africa. As a political scientist and Baptist minister, he works at intersections of Christianity and public life. ESSAY RACIAL–ETHNIC HARM AND HEALING: COMPARATIVE

The Fallacy of Systemic Racism in the American Criminal Justice System

numerous laws to bar racial discrimination in public and private decision-making.12 Atop that, today’s criminal justice institutions are not your grandaddy’s systems. There are numerous legal and political ... ) to increase civilian oversight of the police, or (4) to reduce police funding. See Eaglin, supra note 4, at 124–34. That is, to be polite, political salesmanship. If you think that some of the

International Religious Liberty and Human Rights Law as a Response to Totalitarian Legal and Political Discourses: The Cases of Iran, Myanmar, and North Korea

global COVID-19 pandemic is not only undermining international economic relations but is also affecting sovereign states’ social and economic development and the functioning of their political systems.1

What if Critical Race Theory Were Just a Legal Theory? A Christian Critique

, and political power. We believe that our work can provide a useful theoretical vocabulary for the practice of progressive racial politics in contemporary America.”6 In truth, CRT scholarship ... is “read in departments of education, cultural studies, English, sociology, comparative literature, political science, history, and anthropology . . . .”8 Delgado and Stefancic add that its ideas are

There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957

Silencing the Ballot: Judicial Attempts to Limit Political Movements

: - MichaelJ.Levens' I. INTRODUCTION Over time, courts have become more involved-often by necessity-in contentious political and cultural issues such as abortion, pornography,' capital punishment, hate speech

Fulton's Answer: State Constitutional Rejections of Employment Division v. Smith as a Practical Model for the Restoration of the Free Exercise Clause

conscience, having a more fundamental quality than mere civil and political rights.47 In 1868, New Hampshire’s highest court emphasized that if an individual acts according to religious conviction “in a way ... . Hershberger, 462 N.W.2d 393, 396 (Minn. 1990)). that places free exercise in a subordinate, instead of preferred, position.”180 Unlike Smith, the Washington “court . . . has rejected the idea that a political

Arbitrary Government Intrusion of the Home: Warrantless Pole Camera Home Surveillance Survives Katz but Violates the Fourth Amendment

and cell phone location data “provide[] an intimate window into a person’s life, revealing not only his particular movements, but through them his ‘familial, political, professional, religious, and ... possibly political purposes.”284 Day after day and night after night, the government can catalog when a resident leaves, ascertain the license plate number from the vehicle the resident enters, track where

The Stock Act Is Inadequate: U.S. Index Funds Are the Solution to Political Insider Trading

Liberty University School of Law at 1 Law Review: Vol. 7: Iss. 2, Article 5. Available at: THE STOCK ACT IS INADEQUATE: U.S. INDEX FUNDS ARE THE SOLUTION TO POLITICAL INSIDER TRADING Kevin W. Fritzt I ... political insider trading, and it consists of politicians trading in the stock market on nonpublic information, such as upcoming market changing information, gained from their position. Babatunde Onabajo, Ban

Al-Aulaqi v. Obama: Must Eliminating Dangerous Terrorists Entail Accepting Dangerous Political Doctrines?

the political question doctrine made the issue of executive kill-lists nonjusticiable." Nasser lost his legal battle for his son's life and chose not to appeal his case." Nasser's greatest loss, however

Shuttering the New Star Chamber: Toward a Populist Strategy Against Criminal Equity in the Family Court

giving political support in exchange for Republican party backing on religious matters (abortion, gay marriage),”41 but rather that “[e]vangelicals f[ou]nd their support for Trump in their religious ... principles and traditional, localist small-government-ism, which has been an important value and lesson in evangelical religio-political history.”42 Though Muslim Turkey is currently drawing the most heat in

Using Numbers to Persuade: Hidden Rhetoric of Statistics

Philosophy of current knowledge distinguishes facts from values. It maintains that facts are objective, indisputable, universally verifiable and do not require to persuade. Since rhetoric is ... philosophy of logical positivism transformed rhetoric from a respected art to a contemptible form of trickery and deceit is both extremely important, and largely unknown and unfamiliar. This story is too

Evidence, rationality, and ignorance: Agnotological issues in COVID-19 science

; Epidemiology; Knowledge; Philosophy. ... region22. In a country where responses to COVID-19 lead to serious political disputes23, a report on the early detection of SARS-CoV-2 positivity in sewage samples cannot be readily translated as evidence of

Models and Reality: How Did Models Divorced from Reality Become Epistemologically Acceptable?

paper sketches trends in philosophy of science which led to a methodology which permits creation of mental models disconnected from reality. A key development was the separation of the observable ... with imaginary toy models? Opinions diverge radically on this issue, which is quite embarrassing from both the scientific and the political point of view.” Instead of joining this debate, we take the

Reimagining Resistance: The Voting Rights Act's Immediate Resistance

C.R., POLITICAL PARTICIPATION 1 (1968). 2 See JULIAN MAXWELL HAYTER, THE DREAM IS LOST: VOTING RIGHTS AND THE POLITICS OF RACE IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 62 (2017). 474 [Vol. 17:3 demands for full ... political process—from unpropertied White men during the Revolutionary Era, to people of color during and 3 DONALD G. NIEMAN, PROMISES TO KEEP: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER, 1776 TO THE

Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias

. Giannakidou , Anastasia, and Alda Mari . 2018 . The semantic roots of positive polarity: Epistemic modal verbs and adverbs . Linguistics and Philosophy 41 : 623 - 664 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018- 9235 ... . Hans J. Eikmeyer and Hannes Rieser , 38 - 74 . Berlin: de Gruyter. Kratzer , Angelika. 1989 . An investigation of the lumps of thought . Linguistics and Philosophy 12 : 607 - 653 . Kratzer , Angelika

Comments on “Limits of Econometrics” by David Freedman

David Freedman’s impressive paper reveals well his deep understanding of not only statistical techniques and their uses but also of scientific methodology and its philosophy. On visits to Berkeley ... ,” namely that any area of study, be it physics, astronomy, economics, political science, etc., can be scientific if scientific methods are employed in producing, analyzing and learning from data. Now it may

In Defense of Law: The Common-Sense Jurisprudence of Aquinas

personal political philosophy. Indeed, Aquinas argues that a law made by a man who lacks law-making authority is unjust. 56 For these reasons, Aquinas concludes, "[s]ince then the animated justice of the ... -American political philosophy, specifically Classical Liberalism in its various forms, regards the common good as nothing more than the composite of the individual goods of survival and pleasure and economic

A Matter of Principle: Why the Ministerial Exception Categorically Bars Ministers from Bringing Hostile Work Environment Claims Against Their Religious Employers

, 523 U.S. at 81. 290 Hosanna-Tabor, 565 U.S. at 194. are political heresy. But in matters of religion, churches get to define heresy, not the government.291 The list of hypotheticals has no end, and the