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labor unions have been greatly diminished, the economic situation of the middle class has stagnated for 40 years, and America’s free-market economic and political philosophy has led to governmental ... trade” philosophy, which led to the “most favored nation” status for China and, ultimately, the admission of China to the World Trade Organization. Unfortunately, China has never observed WTO principles
office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of
could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very
popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms
Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no
, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq
is (prima facie) wrongful because it puts wrongful pressure on [the target’s] freedom to do otherwise.”); Mitchell Berman, Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 37, 62 ... personal or social characteristics such as psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, and experience of natural disasters or political instability.56
Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology Commons; and the Criminology and Criminal - AFTERWORD TO "LUNATICS AND ANARCHISTS: POLITICAL HOMICIDE IN
principles of any political or economic system or philosophy directed toward the destruction of free competitive enterprise and the revolutionary overthrow of representative governments .... Evans, supra note
Arms and the Brunt of M.A. A26851062 v. INS, 14 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 139 (1991). Available at: - The Conscientious Objector Applying for Political Asylum: Forced to Bear Arms and the Brunt
developments suggest that American penal philosophy may be inching toward norms—dignity, proportionality, legitimacy, and rehabilitation—that have checked draconian prison terms in Europe, Canada, and beyond. In ... divergence or convergence in penal philosophy. Notwithstanding the ebb and flow of penal attitudes, certain long-term trends have emerged in Western societies. They encompass a narrowing scope of offenders
rights of those on death row are subject to the changing tides of political philosophy and future American petitioners must reflect on whether, because of this, if the Inter-American Commission is the most ... President Trump was voted out of power, the most executions a U.S. President has overseen in the last 120 years.2 * J.D. Candidate, May 2022, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; B.A. Political Science and Women’s
later bureaucratic policing institutions through taxes and political influence.25 In the North, those “mercantile interests” were “commercial elites” who wanted to transfer the costs of protecting their ... equal human, economic, and political rights.39 Meanwhile, police in general, including in the North, steadily grew into pervasive control mechanisms over an “underclass” comprised “primarily of the poor
PHILOSOPHY, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/consequentialism-rule [https://perma.cc/ 9JT2-FG52] (observing that consequentialists almost never defend a purely “actconsequentialist decision ... these activities.”); Gideon Yaffe, The Voluntary Act Requirement in THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 174, 176 (Andrei Marmor ed., 2012) (“If a defendant is . . . shown to have engaged in a
wave of calls for social and political reforms. These included a policy of aggressive prosecutions of dissidents; the creation of new institutions such as the Home Office designed to enhance the powers ... calls for social and political reforms. These included a policy of aggressive prosecutions of dissidents; the creation of new institutions such as the Home * Assistant Professor of Law at the Chinese
situations). 14. See Thomas Cristiano, The arbitrary circumscription of the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, 23 CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 352 ( 2020 ... , Jurisprudence Commons, Law and Philosophy 6 Commons, Human Rights Law Commons, International Humanitarian Law Commons , International Law Recommended Citation - Commons Can the International Criminal Court