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Yale Law Journal - The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture

Many state and federal statutes provide that when property is used in certain prohibited ways, ownership of the property passes to the government. Often, the statutes allow these forfeitures to be declared in civil proceedings against the property itself, without the normal safeguards of the criminal process. Indeed, if no one claims the property after proper notice, the government’s assertion of ownership can become incontestable without any judicial proceedings at all. Statutes authorizing such civil or administrative forfeiture might seem like egregious violations of both property rights and criminal-procedure rights guaranteed by the federal Constitution. But while forfeiture statutes may be unfair and unwise, this Feature cautions originalists not to assume that they are unconstitutional. The Feature concludes that the original meaning of the Constitution (as liquidated by historical practice) does not foreclose the three key features of forfeiture … ....

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A.N. Kaul's 'The Domain of the Novel' Adds to Current Discourse on the Post-Colonial Novel


A.N. Kaul’s The Domain of the Novel Adds to Current Discourse on the Post-Colonial Novel
Kaul presciently raises concerns about ideology critique and “nationality and the novel” central to emerging debates in the early 21st century regarding the politics of literary texts.
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A slim volume of one hundred pages, A.N Kaul’s
The Domain of the Novel:  Reflections on Some Historical Definitions packs a huge punch: “nothing less than a synthesis of a lifetime’s work on the novel” by a legendary teacher and theorist of the form. Its ambition, couched in appropriately self-conscious disclaimers regarding its limits, nevertheless delivers, representing the immense range of cultural and critical work that the novel—particularly the 19th century English, Russian, and American novel—accomplishes through analyses that anticipate and/or are in tune with crucial theoretical preoccupations of ....

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