UD Professor Emeritus Dies at Age 80

News release announces that Robert Brendan O\u27Donnell, professor emeritus of English at the University of Dayton, died of natural causes at Miami Valley Hospital

MMU: 02/28/22–03/06/22

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Hard Cases Make Bad Law: Extraterritorial Application of the United States Constitution

The Constitution’s extraterritorial scope does not arise often in litigation. Two recent decisions broached the issue. Both arrived at opposite conclusions. And these decisions share a common thread: They confuse more than they clarify while begetting novel questions of law. Does the Constitution protect noncitizens abroad? If so, how? If not, why not? This Note addresses each of these questions in turn. Ultimately, this Note concludes that the Constitution does not have any extraterritorial application whatsoever to noncitizens abroad

America\u27s Tax System and How to Fix It

Abraham Lincoln signed into law the first national income tax on August 5, 1861. Since 1913, the content of the Internal Revenue Code has increased from the 27-page tax law of that year to over 5000 pages today. As time has passed and the length of this document has increased, so has the expense and complexity of abiding by its statutes. The inefficiencies of the current system indicate that something must be done about the United States tax system, but no one has agreed on what to do. Many proposals to correct the problem have been brought forward over the years, and those proposals need to be studied and analyzed to find the one that is best for America and its people. The results of the analysis indicate that the FairTax would best suit the needs of the United States government and its people

Masthead, Volume 13, Number 2, 2016

Masthead for Volume 13, Issue Number Two