Individualizing justice through multiculturalism: The liberals' dilemma

Columbia Law Review

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1093-1094

  Coleman, Doriane Lambelet ^a  

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EID: 0041320538     PISSN: 00101958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1123402     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. See Myrna Oliver, Immigrant Crimes: Cultural Defense - A Legal Tactic, L.A. Times, July 15, 1988, at 1, 30.
2. See Cathy Young, Equal Cultures - or Equality? Wash. Post, Mar. 29, 1992, at C5 (noting that Chen received five years probation on the lesser charge of manslaughter).
3. See Oliver, supra note 1, at 1.
4. See Jane Hansen & Deborah Scroggins, Female Circumcision: U.S., Georgia Forced to Face Medical, Legal Issues, Atlanta J. & Const., Nov. 15, 1992, at A1, A11; Richard Lacayo, The "Cultural" Defense, Time, Fall 1993, at 61, 61 (special issue).
5. See Jane Hansen & Deborah Scroggins, Female Circumcision: U.S., Georgia Forced to Face Medical, Legal Issues, Atlanta J. & Const., Nov. 15, 1992, at A1, A11; Richard Lacayo, The "Cultural" Defense, Time, Fall 1993, at 61, 61 (special issue).
6. See Leti Volpp, (Mis)Identifying Culture: Asian Women and the "Cultural Defense," 17 Harv. Women's L.J. 57, 57 (1994) (defining the cultural defense as a "legal strategy that defendants use in attempts to excuse criminal behavior or to mitigate culpability based on a lack of requisite mens rea"); Oliver, supra note 1 at 30 (judge noting that in a special intent crime like murder the cultural defense could "go all the way to acquittal").
7. See Leti Volpp, (Mis)Identifying Culture: Asian Women and the "Cultural Defense," 17 Harv. Women's L.J. 57, 57 (1994) (defining the cultural defense as a "legal strategy that defendants use in attempts to excuse criminal behavior or to mitigate culpability based on a lack of requisite mens rea"); Oliver, supra note 1 at 30 (judge noting that in a special intent crime like murder the cultural defense could "go all the way to acquittal").
8. See, e.g., Michael Lind, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution 259-98 (1995) (discussing the issue generally, and concluding that while America is now in a multicultural phase, a new phase that incorporates a unifying cultural concept of "American liberal nationalism" can and should be reached).
9. See infra Part III.B (discussing antidiscrimination principle).