Litigating War: The Justiciability of Executive War Power

Courts frequently dismiss claims against the Executive’s use of the war power as being non-justiciable political questions. This lack of a judicial check has created a situation in which meaningful checks and balances on the war power are found only in the Executive Branch itself. But the Constitution places the bulk of war powers in the hands of Congress. Executive usurpation of Congress’s constitutional prerogative to initiate hostilities has significantly weakened the separation of powers. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Congress sought to reassert its constitutional authority over war-making decisions by passing the War Powers Resolution. The Resolution created a private right of action for claims against the executive war power. But courts have dismissed virtually all of these claims as presenting political questions. The courts are incorrect. Claims against the executive’s exercise of the war power have judicially discoverable and manageable standards and therefore do not pose political questions. To ensure that courts properly assess the justiciability of these claims, Congress should modernize the War Powers Resolution

Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute: How Can States Maintain Their Voter Rolls?

In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Ohio’s Supplemental Process for maintaining its voter rolls violates the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”) and the Help America Vote Act (“HAVA”). The Court’s opinion will shape the landscape of voting rights, as many states are struggling to meet the dual mandates of election sanctity and increased voter access. This commentary argues that the Supreme Court can give states a guideline for what is an acceptable process that complies with the conflicting federal policies in the NVRA and HAVA. The Court should hold that Ohio’s Supplemental Process is in accordance with the NVRA and HAVA

The implementation of a multimedia learning environment for graduate civil engineers

This paper examines the underpinning theory, design and implementation of a computer‐based Multimedia Learning Environment (MLE) for graduate civil engineers. The MLE brings together multimedia technology and Intelligent Tutoring Systems techniques for the purpose of developing in the graduate engineer the skills and understanding needed to produce initial design proposals for real‐world dam spillway design problems

Europeanisation, Bosman and the financial 'crisis' in English professional football: some sociological comments

Paper given at the 10th annual European Union Studies Association conference in Montreal, Canada, 17-19 May 2007.This paper discusses an sociological explaination as to the extent to which Europeanisation process, among others, have contributed to an increasingly unequal concentration of financial resources among a small number of English football clubs. The impact of the Bosman case is discussed

Ontology: Towards a new synthesis

This introduction to the second international conference on Formal Ontology and Information Systems presents a brief history of ontology as a discipline spanning the boundaries of philosophy and information science. We sketch some of the reasons for the growth of ontology in the information science field, and offer a preliminary stocktaking of how the term ‘ontology’ is currently used. We conclude by suggesting some grounds for optimism as concerns the future collaboration between philosophical ontologists and information scientists

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Epilogue

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