Legislative Divorces and the Fourteenth Amendment

The bakke case and the fourteenth amendment.

The abortion right, originalism, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

Formal Models for a Legislative Grammar. Explicit Text Amendment

In this paper we will present a method for mining information within legal texts, in particular in regards to corpora of statutes. Text mining, or more in general Information Extraction, can provide a valuable help to people involved in research about the linguistic structure of statutes, and, as a side effect can be the seed for a new generation of applications for the validation and conversio...

Dialogic Fidelity: The Fourteenth Amendment, Historical Meaning, and Appropriate Scrutiny for Sex Discrimination

Last Term, the Supreme Court confronted constitutional issues of sex discrimination and search and seizure. First, in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista,1 the Court held that the Fourth Amendment creates no bar to the warrantless arrest of a citizen for a misdemeanor criminal offense. Then, in Nguyen v. INS,2 the Court upheld against an equal protection challenge a statute that imposed different req...

Fourteenth amendment--the right to refuse antipsychotic drugs masked by prison bars.