2001 Symposium:

Federalism, Sovereignty, and Individual Rights

47 Wayne L. Rev. 841 (2001)

Topic Overview
The American Framers believed that a federal scheme would secure individual rights by dividing sovereignty. Were they correct—or does federalism in fact tend to impede the protection of rights? This Symposium explores the basic question in two important and timely contexts: the evolving constitutional relationship between the national and state governments in the U.S., and the emerging interaction between human rights norms and national federal systems on the international stage.

Speakers

Professor Jamie Cameron
Associate Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Professor Erwin Chemerinski
Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics & Political Science
University of Southern California Law School

Professor Gennady M. Danilenko
Professor of Law
Wayne State University Law School

Katherine M. Gorove
Attorney-Advisor, Office of the Legal Advisor
U.S. Department of State

Professor Marci A. Hamilton
Visiting Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Thomas H. Lee Chair in Public Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Professor Stefan Oeter
Director and Professor of Public and International Law
Institute of International Affairs, University of Hamburg

Professor Christopher J. Peters
Assistant Professor of Law
Wayne State University Law School

Professor Robert A. Sedler
Professor of Law, Gibbs Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Wayne State University Law School

Professor Mark V. Tushnet
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law
Georgetown University Law Center

Professor Kathleen Waits
Associate Professor of Law
University of Tulsa College of Law

Professor Jonathan Weinberg
Professor of Law
Wayne State University Law School

Articles

Mark Tushnet, Federalism and International Human Rights in the New Constitutional Order, 47 Wayne L. Rev. 841 (2001).

Stefan Oeter, International Human Rights and National Sovereignty in Federal Systems: The German Experience, 47 Wayne L. Rev. 871 (2001)

Brad R. Roth, Understanding the Understanding: Federalism Constraints on Human Rights Implementation, 47 Wayne L. Rev. 891 (2001)

Erwin Chemerinsky, Does Federalism Advance Liberty? 47 Wayne L. Rev. 911 (2001)

Marci A. Hamilton, Nine Shibboleths of the New Federalism, 47 Wayne L. Rev. 931 (2001)

Christopher J. Peters, Federalism and Two Conceptions of Rights, 47 Wayne L. Rev. 945 (2001)

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