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What Is Criminal Law About?

and politics that we believe make criminal law interesting and important. Further, we argue that even if doctrinal instruction is the goal, achieving it requires consideration of political philosophy ... criminal law, are political as well as moral.9 While American criminal law, as a historical matter, owes more to utilitarian legal thought than to deontological moral philosophy, any body of criminal law is

The Political Safeguards of Horizontal Federalism

For decades, we have debated whether “political safeguards” preserve healthy relations between the states and the federal government and thus reduce or eliminate the need for judges to referee state ... safeguards don’t exist. This Article takes the opposite view and lays down the intellectual foundations for the political safeguards of horizontal federalism. If you want to know what unites the burgeoning

Disclosing 'Political

an ex ante disclosure regime is superior to proposals that judges be more receptive to political reasons in reviewing a particular agency action. Finally, this Article suggests that while some, but not ... accountability, such as rigorous judicial review.' In theory, presidential supervision can partially fill this gap by supplying political accountability. Further, anecdotal information suggests that executive

Development and Validation of the Youth Sociopolitical Action Scale for Social Media (SASSM)

young people are building movements that change norms and policies at national and global levels (Anyiwo et al., 2020) and can transcend structural barriers to political participation, such as the ... , in which youth learn about the root causes of systems of inequity; political efficacy, in which youth become empowered to create sociopolitical change; and sociopolitical action, where youth resist

Fighting Foreign-Corporate Political Access: Applying Corporate Veil-Piercing Doctrine to Domestic-Subsidiary Contributions

characteristics of corporations, however, may allow foreign corporations to exploit a loophole in the regulatory regime. A foreign corporation may contribute to political campaigns by acquiring a domestic

Political Economy of Vietnam: Market Reform, Growth, and the State

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF VIETNAM: MARKET REFORM, GROWTH, AND THE STATE Joshua M. Steinfeld Khi V. THAI 0 0 Joshua M. Steinfeld is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Administration at Florida ... Atlantic University. 1. General Statistics Office of Vietnam , Population and Employment in 2011 http:/ / , USA - 6 15 23 34 43 68 I. INTRODUCTION The evolution of Vietnam’s political economy is unlike

Political Economy of Vietnam: Market Reform, Growth, and the State

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF VIETNAM: MARKET REFORM, GROWTH, AND THE STATE Joshua M. Steinfeld Khi V. THAI 0 0 Joshua M. Steinfeld is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Administration at Florida ... Atlantic University. 1. General Statistics Office of Vietnam , Population and Employment in 2011 http:/ / , USA - 6 15 23 34 43 68 I. INTRODUCTION The evolution of Vietnam?s political economy is unlike

Thou Shalt Not Electioneer: Religious Nonprofit Political Activity and the Threat “God PACs” Pose to Democracy and Religion

political goals to spend unlimited amounts supporting candidates for federal office. Houses of worship and other religious nonprofits, however, remain strictly prohibited from engaging in partisan political ... partisan political activity as a condition of tax-exempt status under Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)( 3 ). Absent this “electioneering prohibition,” religious nonprofits would be very attractive vehicles

Fourth Amendment Fairness

reject. This approach is inspired by “contractualist” moral philosophy and has several advantages. It tracks widely held moral intuitions, comports with the Fourth Amendment’s historical meaning, and ... analysis. 79. See id. at 311 (discussing Atwater, 532 U.S. at 350). 80. See T.M. Scanlon, Contractualism and Utilitarianism, in The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy 124, 145 (2003

Precedent and Speech

expressive liberty, adherence to the past gives way. Unfettered speech, not legal continuity, is the touchstone. This practice is understandable. After all, free expression is crucial to political and social ... defends precedent as a tool for separating the content of constitutional law from contested matters of interpretive philosophy. The key premise is that a precedent’s perceived harmfulness should generally

Asian Political Scientists in North America: Professional and Ethnic Problems

theory. When we get to normative theory, we are close to the humanities and history. The usual thing is that Western political philosophy is taught historically from Plato to Machiavelli and from Machia­ ... Occassional Papers/Reprints Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, Inc. ASIAN POLITICAL SCIENTISTS IN NORTH AMERICA: PROFESSIONAL AND ETHNIC PROBLEMS About the Editor and the Contributors Introduction Chun

Private Rights and Private Wrongs

and Political Philosophy 146 (2009). Self-defense is a special case: self-defense involves innate rights, and the rights involved are considered to be enforceable.47 But once we depart from self ... , Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (2009)). to deny private parties the authority to enforce their rights against others in a state of nature. Tadros’s core example involves Jewish

Rank Among Equals

Dignity is on the march. Once regarded as a subject exclusively within the province of antiquated moral philosophy, dignity—that “shibboleth of all perplexed and empty-headed moralists”—has recently ... moral philosophy, dignity—that “shibboleth of all perplexed and empty-headed moralists”1—has recently developed into a cornerstone of contemporary legal discourse.2 Internationally, the concept of human

Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy

preferences of political majorities. This Article argues, to the contrary, that a moderate degree of bureaucratic insulation from political control alleviates rather than exacerbates the countermajoritarian

In Praise of Law Books and Law Reviews (And Jargon-Filled Academic Writing)

, psychology, and philosophy). Much academic writing in law is not intended for the bar, at least not in the short-term, but that is not a problem. Such writing is meant to add to the stock of knowledge. If it ... countervailing argument, and it comes from John Maynard Keynes: [T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood

Theorizing American Freedom

Some intellectual concepts once central to America's constitutional discourse are, for better and worse, no longer part of our political language. These concepts may be so alien to us that they would ... political philosophy" (p. 17), Rana fails to appreciate how deeply socially rooted-perhaps problematically so-much of this literature is. There are few better examples of this than Rawls's work. In broad

The Political Market for Criminal Justice

answer has been easy for most legal scholars: to them, the incarceration rate in the United States is too high, and reforms are necessary to lower sentences. But many political leaders and voters reach the ... institutional dynamics that produce them. If the political economy that produces sentencing laws suffers from an imbalance or defect of some kind, that could provide a reason for questioning the sen­ tencing

High-Stakes Interpretation

rational for courts to be more cautious when interpreting text in high-stakes cases than they would be if the stakes were low. Drawing on contemporary work in philosophy of language and epistemology, this ... Re , and participants at the Law, Language, and Normativity Workshop at the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy for helpful comments and suggestions , USA Part of the Courts Commons, Legislation

Ely at the Altar: Political Process Theory through the Lens of the Marriage Debate

Political process theory, closely associated with the work of John Hart Ely and footnote four in United States v. Carolene Products, has long been a staple of constitutional law and theory. It is ... featured extended testimony by opposing political scientists on gay and lesbianpoliticalpower The Article arguesthat the marriage debate reveals deep conceptual problems with process theory as it has been