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Lessons In Movement Lawyering from the Ferguson Uprising

) (informing the author’s definition of movement lawyering). 4 “Guildies” is a nickname for members of the National Lawyers Guild. 5 The Black Panthers were a revolutionary Marxist political organization ... secure individual representation and bond reductions for people with serious state-court charges. We were in a rapid-response moment and not focused on internal political alignment, counsel’s range of

Taking National Security Seriously: Navigating Japan’s Expanded Restrictions on Global Trade and Investment

) (providing a persuasive statement of this political philosophy). 95 See, e.g., ARTHUR LAFFER , The Laffer Curve: Past, Present, and Future, HERITAGE FOUND . REPORTS (June 1 , 2004 ), https://www.heritage.org ... and even ordinary citizens.6 South Korean President Moon Jaein condemned the decision, stating Korea “will never again lose to Japan.”7 Political pressure for a retaliatory response rapidly built in

Political Reconciliation or Forgiveness for Murder-Amnesty and its Application in Selected Cases

additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief Part of the Human Rights Law Commons Recommended Citation Santorum, Claudio R., and Antonio Maldonado. "Political Reconciliation or

The International Criminal Court’s Arbitrary Exercise of Its Duties Under the Rome Statute to the Benefit of Western Global Supremacy

efforts to undermine the ICC by framing any potential actions against U.S. nationals as inherently political.15 The United States shifted course when the ICC opened an investigation on Darfur, Sudan in ... 2005.16 Since then, the United States has supported ICC investigations and prosecutions against its political opponents in Africa.17 Within a decade, the ICC had conducted eight investigations, all

Religious Discrimination and Violation of Property Rights in Turkey

freedom in Turkey, which has lost a substantial portion of its citizens of Greek descent since the fall of the Ottoman Empire due to genocide and political strife within its borders.8 Longstanding ethnic ... and religious cleavages in Turkish society remain political hot button issues, with many experts positing that Turkey is attempting to marginalize over 160 foundations operating in the country for the

A Double Standard in Refugee Response: Contrasting the Treatment of Syrian Refugees with Ukrainian Refugees

represent a prejudiced threat to power dynamics and socio-political nativism.25 Although the EU is obligated to provide protection and assistance to refugees, and to respect the rights and dignity of all ... crisis. persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.”28 Article 3 of the 1967 Protocol specifically prohibits the discrimination of

The ecological dynamics of trumpet improvisation

. In: Ravn S, Høffding S , McGuirk J (eds) Philosophy of Improvisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice (1st edn) . Routledge, England Huron D , Berec J ( 2009 ) Characterizing ... ( 2021 ) Towards a wide approach to improvisation . In: Ravn S, Høffding S , McGuirk J (Eds.), Philosophy of improvisation: interdisciplinary perspectives on theory and practice McLean J ( 2018 ) A New Way

Movement Lawyering: Rebuilding Community Power & Decentering Law

Organizers in 2016, the organization trained over 3,000 individuals and held ten intensive community organizing fellowships. Elyssa herself has trained over 10,000 activists, political operatives, and ... worker cooperatives and partnered with community-based organizations to co-facilitate political education and co-develop policies and campaigns in English and Spanish. Professor Hill also has done

Unwinding “Law And Order”: How Second Look Mechanisms Resist Mass Incarceration and Increase Justice

Americans). 2 Schwartzapfel, supra note 1. 3 Id. (quoting Vesla Weaver, political scientist at John’s Hopkins University). 4 Amanda Onion, et al., The Great Migration, History.com (Aug. 30, 2022), https ... , disproportionately incarcerated.8 In the 1960s and 1970s, politicians spanning the political spectrum seized on “law and order” rhetoric, advocating for and “enacting harsh, punitive, and retributively oriented

Empiricism, sciences, and engineering: cognitive science as a zone of integration

of a pragmatist philosophy of science inspired by Herbert Simon’s classic (The sciences of the artificial (2nd edition 1981; 3rd edition 1996), MIT Press, Cambridge, 1969) reflections on the blurring ... process in the context of a large relevant literature in the philosophy of science generally, and in the philosophy of cognitive science specifically. I proceed as follows. Section “Falsifiability and

Convenient for Who? Apportioning State Income Taxes in the Context of Remote Work

Tax policy is an inherently political topic, and political concerns are central to any discussion of tax reform.101 Generally speaking, political leaders are incentivized to maximize tax revenue to ... political consequences for raising taxes, although the relationship is fairly loose in most modern states.103 Changes in tax policy are more likely when: [P]oliticians . . . are least likely to pay an

Social Services and Mutual Aid in Times of COVID-19 and Beyond: A Brief Critique

of Judea, Athens, and 127 Fred Miller,Aristotle’s Political Theory, Stanford EncycloRome (1836). pedia of Philosophy (1998), https://plato.stanford.edu/en121 See, e.g., Elmo Borges Koch et al.,The ... Director of the Center for Legal Information at Duquesne University School of Law, and Political Science Lecturer at Columbia University. A version of this paper was presented to After the WelfAre StAte

The Forgotten Sexual and Gender-Based Violence of the Vietnam-American War: Is Justice too Late for Vietnamese Victims and Survivors?

Technical, Military, Legal, and Political Aspects of CBW, and Possible Disarmament Measures, Vol. III, CBW and the Law of War 24, SIPRI (1973). Human Rights Brief, Vol. 26, Iss. 2 [], Art. 1 Vol. 26 Issue ... government would resort to international mechanisms of reparations for victims of these atrocities. In both the United States and South Korea, a lack of political will to criminally prosecute military

Text and the City: George Grosz, Neue Jugend, and the Political Power of Popular Media

they also depicted the new artist as someone capable of withstanding or even mastering these shocks and transforming them into instruments of political action. Appearing as they did in the newspaper

The Intemperate Regulation of Alcohol

Beer Wholesalers Association maintains the nation’s third-largest political action committee, and since 2000, it has donated $15.4 million to candidates for federal office.” Id. Further, a “chunk” of the ... charge led by primarily by women to define and the social spaces in which alcohol was acceptable, the initial political and legislative achievements of the Temperance Movement arose primarily at the local

Disunity Among the United States: Navigating Net-Metering Without Getting Electrocuted

examination of this industry, three startling conclusions will emerge. First, investor-owned utilities apply intense political pressure through lobbying efforts to maintain the current status quo of the utility ... financiers, political donors, and political lobbying groups across the fifty states. For example, Florida Power & Light, one of the four largest IOUs in the state, provides power to $4.8 million Floridians in