scholarly journals Sexual Harassment and Objectivity

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Jenna Tomasello
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Ronald Dworkin ◽  
Savings Bank ◽  
Supreme Court Case ◽  
The U.S

Sexual harassment is often understood as a subjective notion that asks the woman if she has been victimized. This paper argues that we need not ask women if they are victims by conceptualizing sexual harassment as an objective notion that holds the perpetrator accountable for his actions. In making my case, I will apply an objective conception of sexual harassment to the U.S. Supreme Court case Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson by drawing on the feminist view of sexual harassment given by Anita Superson and the role of equality and autonomy as motivated by Ronald Dworkin and James Griffin, respectively.

23. Defences

2019 ◽  
pp. 745-787
Author(s):  
Simon Deakin ◽  
Zoe Adams
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Contributory Negligence ◽  
Supreme Court Case ◽  
The Law ◽  
Limitation Of Action

This chapter begins with a brief discussion of the role of defences in the law of torts. It then considers their application to torts which require proof of damage in order to be actionable, and in particular with the tort of negligence. The discussions cover contributory negligence; consent; exclusion and limitation of liability; illegality; necessity; inevitable accident; authorisation; and limitation of action. The chapter takes into account recent statutory developments including the effects of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 on the law governing exclusion and limitation of liability. It also examines the extensive Supreme Court case law reexamining the defence of illegality.

Voluntary integration in uncertain times

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Jeremy Anderson ◽  
Erica Frankenberg
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Supreme Court Case ◽  
Socioeconomic Segregation ◽  
The U.S

Sixty-five years after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, the federal and judicial role in school desegregation has declined. In a more difficult political and legal environment, it has fallen on school districts to develop and implement voluntary integration plans through diversity-minded student assignment policies. In this article, Jeremy Anderson and Erika Frankenberg discuss how many and what types of voluntary integration policies currently exist in the U.S. and assess how effective they are at reducing racial and socioeconomic segregation.

scholarly journals Ley Nacional del Causante, autonomía de la voluntad conflictual y reenvío. Una obra en tres actos. Breves notas a la sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de 15 enero 2019 = National law of the deceased, party autonomy and renvoi. A play in three acts. Comments on the spanish supreme court judgement of 15th January 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 472
Author(s):  
Javier Carrascosa González
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Party Autonomy ◽  
Supreme Court Case ◽  
The Law

Resumen: Este trabajo realiza una lectura crítica y positiva de varios elementos presentes en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo: el papel de la Ley nacional en las sucesiones internacionales, el reenvío de primer grado, y la elección de la Ley sucesoria por el causante. El trabajo pone de relieve que el reenvío de primer grado, entendido en un sentido selectivo, puede ser empleado para lograr la aplicación de la Ley del país más vinculado con una sucesión internacional en los casos en los que la el país de la nacionalidad del causante no mantiene una vinculación sustancial con el caso.Palabras clave: sucesión mortis causa, ley nacional, causante, sucesiones, reenvío, autonomía de la voluntad, professio juris.Abstract: This work makes a critical and positive reading of several elements than may be found in the Spanish Supreme Court case law, such as the role of the National Law in international successions, renvoi at first degree, and the party autonomy of the deceased with regard to the law governing succession. The apper highlights that renvoi at first degree, understood in a selective sense, can be used to achieve the application of the Law of the country most connected to an international succession in cases in which the country of the nationality of the deceased does not maintain a substantial link with the case.Keywords: succession mortis causa, national law, deceased, successions, renovi, party autonomy, professio juris.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
J. Scott Carter ◽  
Cameron D. Lippard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Court Case ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Supreme Court Case

The attack on affirmative action has come from a select few individuals with resource. This fight was thought to have culminated with the end of affirmative action signaled by the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin Supreme Court case. However, the policy received a surprising victory and continues to be an object of disdain by many conservatives today. With that being said, this chapter outlines the role of elite actors in framing prominent social issues, including affirmative action. This chapter also describes how certain frames may be used to not only minimize the discussion of race surrounding the policy but will also attempt to use threat and emotion to produce animosity in order to remove the policy from higher education.

Definition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Camper
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Single Term ◽  
Supreme Court Case

Chapter 3 explores the interpretive stasis of definition, where there is a question concerning the intended or appropriate scope of the basic sense of a term in a text. The chapter shows how rhetors, by persuasively articulating a definition and resorting to various lines of argument, can shift the meaning of passages and reframe controversies hinging on a text’s interpretation by adjusting the scope of a single term. But only linchpin terms (similar to Burke’s and Weaver’s ultimate terms) have this governing quality. The chapter’s central example consists of oral arguments from the 2010 Supreme Court case McDonald v. City of Chicago that ultimately determined US citizens have a fundamental right to bear arms. The case partly rested on whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s phrase privileges or immunities, generally protected from state infringement, includes this right within its scope. The centrality of definitional disputes to legal interpretation is also considered.

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