Keeping the faith: Justice David Souter and the First Amendment religion clauses.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... First Amendment, U.S. Constitution Since his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court by President George Bush in 1990, Justice David Souter has not followed a straight ideological line, for he...

Freedom of the press and Catholic social thought: reflections on the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church in the United States.
FROM THE FIRST REPORTS in the 1980s in the National Catholic Reporter to the Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in 2002 in the Boston Globe, the free American press played a central role in uncovering the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in the United States. That role has been...

Liberty, community, and censorship: hate speech and freedom of expression in Canada and the United States.
Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of expression. First Amendment to the United States Constitution Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression... s. 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...

.Edu dilema: the web accessibility challenge facing public and private universities.
ABSTRACT In the early days of the World Wide Web a popular metaphor used to capture the essence of the web was the frontier days of the American "Wild, Wild West." It was a wide-open, self-policing, unregulated frontier and newcomers had best beware! As the Web has...

Detention and the anti-terrorism legislation.
This special edition of the University of Western Sydney Law Review on detention without trial has proven timely. As we entered the final stages of production, the Australian federal, state and territory governments were in the process of pushing through their respective parliaments far-reaching Anti-Terrorism Bills that introduce two...

On civil liberties on campus.
Ever since I took Tom Emerson's course on political and civil rights and liberties at Yale Law School in the late 1950s, I have thought of myself as a First Amendment absolutist. I still do, even though I understand that technically there can be no such thing. ...

Visibility, accountability and discourse as essential to democracy: the underlying theme of Alan Dershowitz's writing and teaching.
I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law Journal. (1) Since that time, I have published nearly thirty books and hundreds of articles covering a wide range...

Secret state, transparent subject: the Australian security intelligence organisation in the age of terror.
This article describes the secrecy provisions embodied in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment Act 2003 (Cwlth).The article explains how these provisions curb freedom of speech and remove ASIO's activities from the domain of public scrutiny. It argues that by effectively criminalising open discussion of ASIO's activities the...

Nadine Strossen: 'I find the pro-censorship feminists politically naive.' (Interview)
At forty-three, Nadine Strossen, law professor, writer, legal theorist, is the youngest lawyer and the first woman to head the American Civil Liberties Union. As a young woman, Strossen had no dreams of lawyering. "I had ever met a woman lawyer," the dark-haired Strossen explains on a frozen New...

The 7 wonders of the world of disabilities.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I'm sure you saw the coverage in 2007--everywhere from USA Today to National Geographic. The New 7 Wonders of the World organization announced a shiny new list of the world's premier candidates. (For more information, visit www.new7wonders.com) A whopping 100 million global citizens cast their...