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This is a list of irredentist claims or disputes.Irredentism is any political or popular movement that seeks to claim or reclaim and occupy a land that the movement's members consider to be a "lost" (or "unredeemed") territory from their nation's past.
A different definition characterizes irredentism as the attempt of an ethnic minority to break away and join their "real" motherland even though this minority is a non-state actor. [ 4 ] The reason for engaging in territorial conflict is another issue, with some scholars stating that irredentism is primarily motivated by ethnicity.
Joseph L. Hoffmann (1984): professor at Indiana University Mauer School of Law [1] Shon Hopwood (2014): Bank robber turned jailhouse lawyer, D.C. Circuit law clerk, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center; Lucas A. Powe Jr. (1968): Professor at The University of Texas School of Law [2]
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Lauren Robel (1983), Val Nolan Professor of Law, Provost and Executive Vice President at Indiana University [1] George P. Smith II (1964), law professor, lecturer, scholar Business
This is also the definition that we use in the irredentism article. Admittedly, we have some sub-national irredentism movements (for example: Chechnya's claim on part of Dagestan) which I'm fine with. With the Kurdistan example, the only possible case of irredentism is with the Iraqi Kurdish claims on Kirkuk and parts of Nineveh and Diyala ...
DeFunis argued that materials brought to light during discovery and entered into evidence in the trial court showed that his initial denial of admission to the law school was the result of the operation of the law school's affirmative action policy, favoring the admission of minority applicants over better-qualified white candidates.