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Pretext

A pretext (adj: pretextual) is an excuse to do something or say something that is not accurate. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in… 
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2017
2017
Intimate Liberties and Antidiscrimination Law
In assessing laws that regulate marriage, procreation, and sexual intimacy, the Supreme Court has recognized a “synergy” between… 
2012
2012
Confronting the One-Man Wolf Pack: Adapting Law Enforcement and Prosecution Responses to the Threat of Lone Wolf Terrorism
In recent years, a new type of terrorist threat has emerged: the "lone wolf." Lone Wolves present a challenge for current law… 
2010
2010
Nationalisms of and Against Zainichi Koreans in Japan
The North Korean association in Japan, Chongryun, which lacks independence from the North Korean regime, has preoccupied itself… 
2009
2009
Photographing dispossession, forgetting solidarity: waiting for social justice in Wentworth, South Africa
South Africans today inhabit a fragmented and discontinuous landscape, often despite their most cosmopolitan intentions. Grounded… 
2007
2007
Advanced Polymorphic Techniques
Nowadays viruses use polymorphic techniques to mutate their code on each replication, thus evading detection by antiviruses… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
The Public Use Question as a Takings Problem
Government officials regularly use the power of eminent domain to benefit private entities, and just as regularly justify their… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A mind is a wonderful thing to waste: “think like a commodity”, become a CPA
Technical excess in accounting education has always been a source of discontent among educational reformers, however, two recent… 
1997
1997
The Bylaw Battlefield: Can Institutions Change the Outcome of Corporate Control Contests?
1993
1993
Multi-Culturalism Redux: Science, Law, and Politics
A third of a century has now passed since the British writer C.P. Snow sounded an alarm about the "two cultures" problem.2 By… 
1992
1992
Between the Visionaries and the Luddites: Collection Development and Electronic Resources in the Humanities
THE INCORPORATION OF electronic resources in the humanities into the traditional practice of collection development presents… 
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