Results from a conference that brought together distinguished international academics and Australian legal practitioners who have litigated some of the most controversial cases in Australian asylum law.
Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms
A user's guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms. What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can Saturday Night Live be ......
This book examines the flaws in the origin, design, application, and operation of the Australian Constitution, including, but not limited to its racial basis, the misleading nature of the text, and the subjective, judicial interpretation of the High Court.
Why the First Amendment Should Not Protect Hate Speech and White Suprema
A controversial argument for reconsidering the limits of free speech Swirling in the midst of the resurgence of neo-Nazi demonstrations, hate speech, and acts of domestic terrorism are uncomfortable questions about the limits of free speech. The United States stands apart from many other countries in that citizens have the power to say ......
The Development of the Public Employment Relationship
Looks at the constitutional rights of federal employees from the nation's founding to the present. This book concludes that the current status of constitutional rights may reflect a shift to a model based on private sector practices.
How Our Voter ID Laws Fail Democracy and What to Do About It
Shows the maddening difficulties that voter ID requirements create for participants in US democracy and offers concrete solutions for every person's vote and voice to count Over the past decade, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of voter ID laws has skyrocketed, limiting the ability of nearly twenty-five million eligible voters ......
"In the context of the hyperviolent and racialized policing of cities across the US today, vigilant citizenship frames everyday policing as matters of personal blame and guilt-as problems of citizens"--
The book synthesizes the evolution of covenantal life from its inception in the Period of the Judges to American constitutionalism, from "I am the Lord" to ... "We the People."
Some wish the Founders had all agreed on a coherent vision for the United States, especially on how to interpret the Constitution. Such agreement has never existed, and Defining the Republic documents the dispute between two of the most important Founders: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
