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Presentation
The Future of the Insular Cases
HRLR 2022 Symposium (2022)
  • Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Abstract
The Insular Cases are a series of century-old, widely criticized cases that rest on indefensible racial biases and devised a new category of “unincorporated” territories to provide constitutional cover for ruling the populations of overseas territories without regard to traditional constitutional limits. Despite calls to overturn these cases, the Insular Cases remain good law today. On the 100th anniversary of the last of the Insular Cases, Balzac v. Porto Rico (1922), and as the U.S. Supreme Court decides cases like Fitisemanu and Vaello-Madero, join the Columbia Human Rights Law Review as we engage our Special Issue authors on a discussions on the future of these cases which continue to have far-reaching consequences on the lives of the people of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, among others.
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 8, 2022
Location
Zoom
Citation Information
Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud. "The Future of the Insular Cases" HRLR 2022 Symposium (2022)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/emmanuel-arnaud/7/