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Paul Finkelman

Index Paul Finkelman

Paul Finkelman (born November 15, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American legal historian, and became the President of Gratz College, Melrose Park, PA in 2017. [1]

87 relations: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Affirmative action, Albany Law School, American Association of Law Libraries, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, American studies, Barry Bonds, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Binghamton University, Brian Leiter, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Law School, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Civil and political rights, Civil liberties, Cleveland–Marshall College of Law, CNN, CQ Press, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Duke University School of Law, ESPN, Glassroth v. Moore, Gratz College, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Hamline University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Historian, HuffPost, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, John Hope Franklin, Ken Burns, Ken Starr, Library of Congress, London, Louisiana State University, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, Mississippi State University, Nanzan University, National Constitution Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, New York (state), New York City, NPR, Osaka University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, PBS, Pike Hall Jr., Popov v. Hayashi, Roy Moore, ..., Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Seattle University, Separation of church and state, Slavery, St. Bonaventure University, Stanley Nider Katz, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court of Alabama, Supreme Court of the United States, Syracuse University, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, The Root (magazine), The Washington Post, Thomas Jefferson (film), Thomas Jefferson and slavery, Town of Greece v. Galloway, Transylvania University, United States Constitution, United States constitutional law, University of Akron School of Law, University of California, Irvine, University of Chicago, University of Miami, University of Ottawa, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, University of Saskatchewan College of Law, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas School of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, Up for Grabs (film), USA Today, Virginia Tech, Washington University in St. Louis, Watertown (city), New York, Yale University. Expand index (37 more) »

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC) was the Congressionally created 14-member federal commission focused on planning and commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States' 16th president on February 12, 2009.

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Affirmative action

Affirmative action, also known as reservation in India and Nepal, positive action in the UK, and employment equity (in a narrower context) in Canada and South Africa, is the policy of protecting members of groups that are known to have previously suffered from discrimination.

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Albany Law School

Albany Law School is a private, independent, American Bar Association-accredited law school founded in 1851 in Albany, New York making it the oldest law school in New York.

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American Association of Law Libraries

The American Association of Law Libraries "is a nonprofit educational organization with over 5,000 members nationwide.

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American Council of Learned Societies

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), founded in 1919, is a private, nonprofit federation of 75 scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 and located in Philadelphia, is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation that promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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American studies

American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American history, society, and culture.

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Barry Bonds

Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.

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Binghamton University

The State University of New York at Binghamton, commonly referred to as Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton, is a public research university with campuses in Binghamton, Vestal, and Johnson City, New York, United States.

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Brian Leiter

Brian Leiter (born 1963) is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Brooklyn Law School

Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a law school founded in 1901.

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Chicago-Kent College of Law

Chicago-Kent College of Law is a law school affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Civil liberties

Civil liberties or personal freedoms are personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge, either by law or by judicial interpretation, without due process.

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Cleveland–Marshall College of Law

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is the law school of Cleveland State University, located on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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CQ Press

CQ Press, a division of SAGE Publications, publishes books, directories, periodicals, and electronic products on American government and politics, with an expanding list in international affairs and journalism and mass communication.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott v. Sandford,, also known as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.

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Duke University School of Law

Duke University School of Law (also known as Duke Law School or Duke Law) is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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Glassroth v. Moore

Glassroth v. Moore, CV-01-T-1268-N, and its companion case Maddox and Howard v. Moore, CV-01-T-1269-N, 229 F. Supp. 2d 1290 (M.D. Ala. 2002), affirmed, 335 F.3d 1282 (11th Cir. 2003), concern then-Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore and a stone monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Gratz College

Gratz College is a private, coeducational Jewish college in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania.

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base,, The Independent, 29 April 2006 also referred to as Guantánamo or GTMO, which is on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.

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Hamline University School of Law

Hamline University School of Law is a defunct private law school formerly affiliated with Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

The (or Gakushin) is an Independent Administrative Institution in Japan, established for the purpose of contributing to the advancement of science in all fields of the natural and social sciences and the humanities.

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John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association.

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Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films.

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Ken Starr

Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer who has also been a United States circuit judge and U.S. solicitor general.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Louisiana State University

The Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Melrose Park, Pennsylvania

Melrose Park is an unincorporated section of Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania on the Philadelphia city line.

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Mississippi State University

The Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a comprehensive land-grant and public research university located adjacent to the city of Starkville in an unincorporated area of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.

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Nanzan University

is a private, coeducational Catholic university located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to the United States Constitution.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Osaka University

, or, is a national university located in Osaka, Japan.

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Paul M. Hebert Law Center

The Paul M. Hebert Law Center is a law school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, part of the Louisiana State University System and located on the main campus of Louisiana State University.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Pike Hall Jr.

William Pike Hall Jr., known as Pike Hall Jr. (May 27, 1931 – November 25, 1999), was an attorney, judge, and Democratic politician from his native Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana.

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Popov v. Hayashi

Popov v. Hayashi (WL 31833731 Ca. Sup. Ct. 2002) was a California Superior Court case involving scope of ownership between parties and conversion regarding a valuable baseball acquired at a Major League Baseball game.

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Roy Moore

Roy Stewart Moore (born February 11, 1947) is an American politician and jurist who served as the 27th and 31st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action

Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, 572 U.S. ___ (2014), was a case before the United States Supreme Court questioning whether a state violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by enshrining a ban on race- and sex-based discrimination on public university admissions in its state constitution.

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Seattle University

Seattle University (SU) is a Jesuit Catholic university in the northwestern United States, located in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

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Separation of church and state

The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the nation state.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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St. Bonaventure University

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Stanley Nider Katz

Stanley Nider Katz (born April 23, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American historian specializing in American legal and constitutional history and the history of philanthropy.

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Stephen Breyer

Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Supreme Court of Alabama

The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse University (commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.

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The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Root (magazine)

The Root is an online magazine launched on January 28, 2008, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald E. Graham, and was owned by Graham Holdings Company through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thomas Jefferson (film)

Thomas Jefferson is a 1997 two-part American documentary film directed and produced by Ken Burns.

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Thomas Jefferson and slavery

Thomas Jefferson, 1791 In U.S. history, the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and slavery was a complex one in that Jefferson passionately worked to gradually end the practice of slavery while himself owning hundreds of African-American slaves throughout his adult life.

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Town of Greece v. Galloway

Town of Greece v. Galloway,, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court decided that the Town of Greece, New York may permit volunteer chaplains to open each legislative session with a prayer.

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Transylvania University

Transylvania University is a private university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States.

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United States Constitution

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.

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United States constitutional law

United States constitutional law is the body of law governing the interpretation and implementation of the United States Constitution.

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University of Akron School of Law

The University of Akron School of Law is the law school at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, USA.

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University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a public research university located in Irvine, Orange County, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Miami

The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States.

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University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa (uOttawa or U of O) (Université d'Ottawa) is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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University of Pittsburgh School of Law

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law (sometimes referred to as Pitt Law) was founded in 1895.

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University of Saskatchewan College of Law

The College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan is the university's law school.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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University of Texas School of Law

The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is an ABA-certified law school on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

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University of Tulsa College of Law

The University of Tulsa College of Law is the law school of the private University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Up for Grabs (film)

Up for Grabs is a 2004 comedic documentary about two men who fought over custody of a baseball.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Virginia Tech

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech, and traditionally known as VPI since 1896, is an American public, land-grant, research university with a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, educational facilities in six regions statewide, and a study-abroad site in Lugano, Switzerland.

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Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St.

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Watertown (city), New York

Watertown is a city in the state of New York and the county seat of Jefferson County.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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