Dawinder S. Sidhu

Hopwood & Singhal PLLC

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Scholarly Papers (30)

1.

Death as Punishment: An Analysis of Eight Arguments Against Capital Punishment

West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 111, p. 453, 2009
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
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capital punishment, death penalty, morality, cruel and unusual punishment, eighth amendment

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The Sikh Turban: Post-9/11 Challenges to this Article of Faith

Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 9, p. 10, 2008
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2009
Dawinder S. Sidhu and Neha Singh Gohil
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC and Columbia University - School of Journalism
Downloads 1,135 (38,458)

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Sikhs, civil rights, discrimination, multiculturalism, 9/11, religion, identity

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The Chilling Effect of Government Surveillance Programs on the Use of the Internet By Muslim-Americans

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, Vol. 7, p. 375, 2007
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 18 May 2014
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 887 (54,525)
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surveillance, monitoring, chilling effect, internet, 9/11, terrorism, pluralism, muslims

4.

Moneyball Sentencing

56 Boston College Law Review 671 (2015), UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2014-26
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 12 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2015
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 494 (115,550)

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sentencing, recidivism, actuarial risk assessment, theories of punishment, retribution, utilitarianism, equal protection

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The Immorality and Inefficiency of an Efficient Breach

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Vol. 8, p. 61, 2006
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2009
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 467 (123,604)
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contracts, efficient breach, morality

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Child Pornography and Criminal Justice Reform

Cardozo Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2022
Dawinder S. Sidhu and Kelsey Robinson
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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federal sentencing, sentencing guidelines, child pornography, criminal justice reform, circuit splits, variance, Kimbrough, Gall, appellate review, substantive reasonableness, mandatory minimums

7.

Arizona's Notice of Claim Statute: Guidance on Clearing this Procedural Hurdle and Suggestions for its Improvement

Phoenix Law Review, Vol. 3, No. 229
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2010
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 442 (131,881)

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Notice of Claim, Sovereign Immunity, Arizona, Procedure, Legislation

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The Unconstitutionality of Urban Poverty

DePaul Law Review, Forthcoming, UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-10
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 17 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2012
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
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urban, poverty, underclass, Thirteenth Amendment, Constitution, liberty, mobility

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First Korematsu and Now Ashcroft v. Iqbal: The Latest Chapter in the Wartime Supreme Court’s Disregard for Claims of Discrimination

Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 419, 2010
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 27 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2010
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 272 (224,013)

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Ashcroft, Iqbal, discrimination, profiling, Muslims, motion to dismiss, national security, terrorism, First Amendment, Equal Protection

10.

The History of the Original United States Sentencing Commission, 1985-1987

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 45, 2017
Number of pages: 142 Posted: 07 Sep 2017
Brent Evan Newton and Dawinder S. Sidhu
Georgetown University Law Center and Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 266 (229,072)
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sentencing law and policy

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Wartime America and The Wire: A Response to Posner’s Post-9/11 Constitutional Framework

George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal (CRLJ), Vol. 20, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 244 (249,694)

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liberty, security, 9/11, wartime, executive authority, profiling, torture, extraconstitutionalism

12.

Civic Education as an Instrument of Social Mobility

90 Denver University Law Review 977 (2013), UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-01
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2014
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 196 (306,995)

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civics, education, constitutional literacy, mobility, urban, law schools, high schools, students

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Sentencing Guidelines Abstention

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 60
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 27 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2022
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 189 (317,406)

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sentencing, sentencing guidelines, federal sentencing, sentencing disparity, criminal sentencing, criminal justice, Supreme Court, certiorari, circuit split, abstention

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Brief of Amici Curiae Thirteenth Amendment Scholars in Support of Plaintiff-Appellee and Affirmance

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 12-2040, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-31
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2013
University of Pittsburgh - School of Law, Hopwood & Singhal PLLC, Florida State University - College of Law and University of Toledo College of Law
Downloads 158 (371,217)

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Thirteenth Amendment, hate crimes, racial discrimination, disability, sexual orientation, Congress, enforcement clause power, Civil Rights, rationality standard, congruence and proportionality, private action, Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., City of Boerne

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Out of Sight, Out of Legal Recourse: Interpreting and Revising Title VII to Prohibit Workplace Segregation Premised on Religion

New York University Review of Law & Social Change, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2012
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 157 (373,132)
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Title VII, religious accommodation, reasonable accommodation, undue burden, segregation, customer preference, corporate image

16.

A Crisis of Confidence and Legal Theory: The Economic Downturn and the End of the Doctrine of Efficient Breach

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 24, p. 357
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 May 2010 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 149 (389,736)

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efficient breach, contracts, subprime, opportunism, recession, law and economics, legal scholarship

17.

Religious Freedom and Inmate Grooming Standards

66 University of Miami Law Review 923 (2012)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2013
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 138 (414,144)
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prison, inmates, incarceration, First Amendment, free exercise, grooming, hair, RLUIPA, Eleventh Circuit

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Judicial Review as Soft Power: How the Courts Can Help Us Win the Post-9/11 Conflict

American University - National Security Law Brief
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2010
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 138 (414,144)

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soft power, national security, rule of law, judicial review, foreign policy, 9/11, terrorism

19.

Cujo Goes to College: On the Use of Animals by Individuals with Disabilities in Postsecondary Institutions

38 University of Baltimore Law Review 267
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2009
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
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education, disability, colleges, universities, Title II, Section 504, animals

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Madison in Post-9/11 Cyberspace: Applying Federalist No. 10 to the Online Battle for ‘Hearts and Minds’

Journal of Internet Law, Vol. 13, No. 9 , p. 3
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2010
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
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Madison, Federalist 10, Internet, Framers, terrorists, 9/11, al Qaeda, governance, faction

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Are Blue and Pink the New Brown? The Permissibility of Sex-Segregated Education as Affirmative Action

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 17, p. 579, 2008
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 106 (505,815)

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single-sex, segregation, affirmative action, gender, education

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Lessons on Terrorism and 'Mistaken Identity' from Oak Creek, with a Coda on the Boston Marathon Bombings

113 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 76 (2013)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 May 2013 Last Revised: 13 May 2013
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
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Oak Creek, Sikhs, terrorism, hate crime, mistaken identity, regarded as, disability, mass violence, shootings

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Racial Mirroring

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming, UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2014-12
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2015
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 68 (671,853)

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equal protection, race, diversity, stereotypes, external legitimacy, Indian preference, affirmative action

Racial Mirroring

Federalist Society Review (2016), Vol. 17, Issue 2
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 May 2019
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 18 (1,074,198)

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Race, Race-Based Classifications, Equal Protection, External Legitimacy, Affirmative Action, Admissions, Indian Preference

24.

Shadowing the Flag: Extending the Habeas Writ Beyond Guantánamo

20 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 20, p. 39, 2011
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2011
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
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habeas corpus, jurisdiction, extraterritoriality, judicial review, Executive authority, Bagram

25.

Threshold Liberty

Cardozo Law Review, Forthcoming, UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-15
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2015
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 59 (707,605)

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Thirteenth Amendment, mobility, liberty, federalism, separation of powers, hate crimes

26.

Spatial Terrorism

Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 41, No. 79, 2013, UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2014-13
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 16 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2014
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 58 (713,107)

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terrorism, space, Boston, Tzarnaev, Oak Creek, Newtown, Lanza, Aurora, Holmes

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Response Essay: Temporal Variance, Hockey, and the Wartime Constitution

Georgetown Law Journal Online, Vol. 100, p. 1, 2011, UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-15
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2011
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 53 (742,683)

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temporal variance, sports, hockey, NHL, law, constitution, wartime, consistency, deterrence

28.

Interstate Commerce x Due Process

106 Iowa Law Review 1801 (2021)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2021
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
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interstate commerce, Commerce Clause, extraterritoriality, Wayfair, Due Process

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The Future of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra, Vol. 159, p. 127, 2010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Jan 2011
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 47 (781,508)
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civil rights, discrimination, equal protection, human rights, monitoring, compliance, oversight

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Towards the Second Founding of Federal Sentencing

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 77, No. 485, 2018
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 May 2019
Dawinder S. Sidhu
Hopwood & Singhal PLLC
Downloads 37 (855,731)

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sentencing, punishment, guidelines, sentencing guidelines, sentencing commission, booker, simplification