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To date, about 1,000 people have signed up.
Professors can now take advantage of the discounted $5 signup fee. Enjoy.
I am making several big changes (like developing Leagues and some other cool stuff). Stay tuned, and tell your friends.
“A Vain and Idle Enactment: Could McDonald v. Chicago Un-Slaughter the Privileges or Immunities Clause?”
Alan Gura, Partner, Gura & Possessky, PLLC; Lead Counsel, District of Columbia v. Heller; Lead Counsel, McDonald v. Chicago; Georgetown Law Class of 1995
Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center
Kurt Lash, James P. Bradley Chair of Constitutional Law, Loyola Law School; Author, The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause (Georgetown Law Journal, forthcoming)
David Gans, Program Director, Constitutional Accountability Center; Author, The Gem of the Constitution: The Text and History of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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Webcast: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=960
Gura
Important to look to original public meaning of the text. Every provision should have a fixed meaning. The Civil War was not fought to allow people to have a passport, visit American embassies, visit treasuries in Washington, and other trivial things listed as rights of national citizenship listed in Slaughterhouse. It was fought for slavery, and to remedy pre-war oppression of free American citizens, both black and white, and denying them all kinds of rights. North won the war, and they got to make the rules. Those rules are 14th amendment.
“No state shall make or enforce…”
What are privileges or immunities? Mean any sort of right protected in a free government. Concept of natural rights. IF you lived in a free society, basic human rights were going to be respected. THe leading source of this understanding is Justice Washington’s opinion in Corfield v. Coryel. These included certain economic and natural rights of citizenships under Article IV Privileges AND Immunities clause.
Abolitionists considered certain rights codified in Bill of Rights as Privileges or Immunities. They also protected certain rights of life and property.
Senator Jacob Howard who sponsored the 14th amendment, quoted Corfield rights, to these massive privileges or immunities, add personal guarantees of First 8 amendments. These are the understandings people had in the public at the time of ratification. Newspapers picked up these stories.
More, after the jump.
One of my favorite Professors from GMU, David Bernstein, was kind enough to give me a few moments of his time.
Definitely check out his new book, Rehabilitating Lochner, coming soon. It will show you that everything you thought about Lochner was wrong. And maybe give you a new found distaste for healthful bread.
Fantastic discussion from Professor Barnett.
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From AFP:
Switzerland’s data protection commissioner on Friday announced that he was taking Google to court in a dispute over privacy concerns on the US Switzerland’s data protection commissioner on Friday announced that he was taking Google to court in a dispute over privacy concerns on the US Internet giant’s “Street View” facility.
Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, Hanspeter Thuer, said in a statement that he was taking the case to the Federal Administrative Tribunal after Google had refused to apply the majority of measures he had recommended.
Although American and Swiss privacy laws are substantially different, this case highlights the tenuous balance privacy hangs in when a company like Google aggregates so much information about so many people in so many different environs. See my article on Omniveillance and posts here.