Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham Recent documents in John Brigham en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 07:18:52 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/20 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/20 Thu, 08 May 2008 03:52:06 PDT This paper examines the changing context for sexual images and the details that give law meaning. The details are evident in Congressional efforts to regulate sex on the Internet and the Supreme Court's response as well as various contexts for encountering forbidden images from stag films and peep shows to the local public library and sex sites on the web. The paper is part of a larger project on seeing law and the idea of "Blind Justice." It was originally developed for an issue of Law, Text, Culture that was called "Trouble With Pictures" where the focus was on pictures we are not supposed to see. John Brigham The Constitution http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/19 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/19 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:51:06 PST This paper examines the way state and federal authority is constituted in the United States by focusing on jurisdictions that do not have capital punishment as they respond to the federal death penalty. John Brigham The Constitution http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/18 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/18 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:28:38 PST John Brigham Sociology of Law http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/17 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/17 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:13:50 PST John Brigham Courses http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/16 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/16 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:05:36 PST John Brigham Material Law http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/15 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/15 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:01:29 PST John Brigham The Constitution http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/14 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/14 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:37:47 PST John Brigham Sociology of Law http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/13 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/13 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:33:56 PST John Brigham Sociology of Law http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/12 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/12 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:34:24 PST John Brigham Sociology of Law http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/11 http://works.bepress.com/john_brigham/11 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:31:27 PST This chapter is about the Supreme Court learning what it means to be gay. This happened between the Court's rulings on the Georgia sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick and the Texas law in Lawrence. Oral argument is placed at the center of this process, particularly the work of Paul M. Smith who argued against the constitutionality of the Texas law. Attorney Smith, described as openly gay, was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell in 1980-81. Powell's reassessment of his vote to uphold the Georgia law in Bowers laid the foundation for the way Lawrence was handled. I will examine the significance of the Court's public embrace of Smith's sexual orientation against the backdrop of denial and homophobia that was Bowers. John Brigham Jurisprudence