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European Courts, American Rights: Extradition and Prison Conditions
(Brooklyn Law Review, 2002)
Part I of this Article discusses the rising number of extradition requests by the United States, the common grounds for denial of extradition, and the controversies that such
denials have aroused. Part II examines Soering ...
Human Rights Beyond the War on Terrorism: Extradition Defenses Based on Prison Conditions in the United States
(Santa Clara Law Review, 2002)
The death penalty presents an issue where a clearly stated norm that is widely held by U.S. allies exists in stark contrast to U.S. practices. The war on terrorism has shone a spotlight on European refusals to extradite ...
The Secret History of Race in the United States
(Yale Law Journal, 2003)
"Spencer v. Looney" was one of dozens of cases decided in the eras of slavery and segregation that hinged on the question of whether a plaintiff or defendant was white or black. During the past decade, legal historians ...
Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600-1860
(Minnesota Law Review, 2007)
Scholars describe the one-drop rule--the idea that any African ancestry makes a person black--as the American regime of race. While accounts of when the rule emerged vary widely, ranging from the 1660s to the 1920s, most ...