Richard Stith

Valparaiso University School of Law

Professor of Law

656 S. Greenwich St.

Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493

United States

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Scholarly Papers (14)

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If Dorothy Had Not Had Toto to Pull Back the Wizard’s Curtain: The Fabrication of Human Rights as a World Religion

Valparaiso University Law Review, Vol. 44, 2010
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 May 2010 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2016
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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Human rights, international human rights, United Nations, civil religion, rights antinomies, global governance, cultural imperialism, cultural hegemony, rights as religion, world religion

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Her Choice, Her Problem: How Having a Choice Diminishes Family Solidarity

International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family, Forthcoming, Valparaiso University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-12
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2012
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, voluntary euthanasia, choice, freedom of choice, right to choose, anti-choice, solidarity, family, family unity, parenting, alienation, sympathy

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On the Legal Validation of Sexual Relationships

THE JURISPRUDENCE OF MARRIAGE AND OTHER INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, Scott FitzGibbon, Lynn Wardle, A. Scott Loveless, eds., William S. Hein & Co. Inc., 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Dec 2010
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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same-sex marriage, gay marriage, homosexual marriage, civil unions, elder marriage, same-sex adoption, gay adoption, homosexual adoption, validation, invalidation, non-validation, prohibition, nature, liberal thought, libertarian, liberty, equality, fairness, Scalia, Lawrence v. Texas, Rawls, Kant

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Securing the Rule of Law Through Interpretive Pluralism: An Argument From Comparative Law

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 35, p. 401, 2008
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Aug 2009
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Rule of Law, Constitutional Interpretation, Interpretation, Pluralism, Departmentalism, Popular Constitutionalism, Stare Decisis, Precedent, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances

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The Priority of Respect: How Our Common Humanity Can Ground Our Individual Dignity

International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 44, p. 165, 2004
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2010
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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Person, Respect, Dignity, Value, Abortion, Euthanasia, Death Penalty, Jeffrey Reiman, Ronald Dworkin, Ontology, Axiology

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Excluding Religion Excludes More than Religion

Matters of Life and Death: Religion and Law at the Crossroad, Boston College Law School, 2008
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 30 Oct 2009
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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Religion, Reason, Public Reason, Embryo

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Aborto, Explotación De La Mujer, Abandono De La Mujer, Izquierda

Her Choice, Her Problem: How Having a Choice Can Diminish Family Solidarity

 2 Intl. J. Jurisprudence Fam. (2011) 179
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Aug 2018
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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Her Choice, Her Problem: How Having a Choice Can Diminish Family Solidarity

Richard Stith, Her Choice, Her Problem: How Having a Choice Can Diminish Family Solidarity, 2 Int'l J. Jurisprudence Fam. 179 (2011).
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Oct 2018
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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Jurisprudence, Voluntary Euthanasia, Family Solidarity

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Rechazos fundamentales de la doctrina de Roe v. Wade (Fundamental Rejections of Roe v. Wade)

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Mar 2017
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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aborto, Roe v. Wade, Corte Suprema de los EE.UU.

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Aborto, Imaginación, Desarrollo, Gestación, Embrión, Células Madre

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Making Death Easier Makes Life Harder

Public Discourse, 2018/09/20
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Feb 2019
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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Suicide, Physician-Assisted Suicide, Voluntary Euthanasia

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Construction vs. Development: Polarizing Models of Human Gestation

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Volume 24, Number 4, December 2014, pp. 345-384
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Mar 2017
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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making, construction, development, embryo, abortion, ontology of gestation, limits of imagination, polarization of abortion debate

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Hacer La Muerte Más Fácil Hace La Vida Más Difícil (Making Death Easier Makes Life Harder)

PUBLIC DISCOURSE 2018/09/20
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 22 Apr 2019
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law
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suicidio, suicidio asistido, suicidio médico, eutanasia voluntaria

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Punishment, Invalidation, and Nonvalidation: What H. L. A. Hart Did Not Explain

Legal Theory, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2008
Posted: 08 Apr 2011
Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law

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