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Owen Fiss

Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University.

Articles

Rather than dismantling Bush’s counterterrorism apparatus, Obama has in crucial respects perpetuated it.

Owen Fiss

Though both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions.

Owen Fiss

Forums

The state must undertake all action necessary to end the social processes that continue to perpetuate the near-caste structure of American society.

Owen Fiss

Laws imposing social disabilities on immigrants are at odds with constitutional guarantees of equality.

Owen Fiss

Forum Responses

The issue is not housing, nor even segregation. It is the underclass. The ghetto is not just another neighborhood that happens to be poor and black, but rather a social structure that...
Owen Fiss
These are dark and difficult days. The economy is flourishing, but the spirit is mean. Rather than using the freedom that prosperity brings to extend an extra hand to the needy, we...
Owen Fiss

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