As the nation marks the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (Saturday, Aug. 6), the original intent of the ground-breaking law faces serious challenges in the courts, congress and at polling places, says University of Maryland political scientist.
Given the flurry of new voting requirements in Georgia, Indiana, Ohio and other states, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 still resonates today with its federal protection of voters, says Devin Fergus, an expert on African-American political history.
Constitutional battles over civil liberties could intensify at the state level -- continuing a more than two-decade-long trend -- if the Supreme Court becomes more conservative under President Bush, according to University at Buffalo Law Professor James A. Gardner.
"As the United Nations observes World Refugee Day on June 20, possibly the biggest concern facing refugees around the globe is the practice of warehousing -- confining persons displaced from their home countries in camps or segregated settlements," says Judith Owens-Manley, co-author of Bosnian Refugees in America: New communities, new cultures.
Trial tactics that defy common sense are just one reason millions of Americans are drawn to the many law-related shows on television, says a Purdue University psychologist who studies persuasion in the courtroom.
Alice Herb, an attorney, medical ethicist, and faculty member in the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College, offers several guidelines to keep ethics and the law in line as Congress examines end-of-life healthcare issues after the Terri Schiavo case.
Laws and public policy will often miss their mark until they incorporate an understanding of why, biologically, humans behave as they do, scholars from Vanderbilt and Yale universities argue in the March issue of Columbia Law Review.
Since 9/11, U.S. government efforts to keep sensitive but unclassified materials out of the hands of terrorists have led to tangled regulations that too often bottle up needed information without providing adequate security, says a new report from the University of Maryland.
The Bush Administration has received a "C" on this year's second annual Presidential Human Rights Performance Report Card issued by the Center on Democratic Performance (CDP) at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
The U.S. government should take action to strengthen democracy by educating the public to be better citizens, argues Vanderbilt University philosopher Robert Talisse in his new book.
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