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The American Dream And The Politics Of Promise: Presidential Rhetoric Against Reality On Inequality, Education, And Assistance Since 2000, Abigail Demonte

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: How The New York Appellate Division Slowed The Progress Of Judge Cardozo’S Effort In Macpherson V. Buick Motor Co. To End Privity’S Stranglehold Over Negligence Claims In Product Injury Cases, Jeffrey A. Van Detta

Touro Law Review

This article aims to tell the story of how the various Departments of the New York State Appellate Division sometimes helped—and just as often hindered—the development of the product injury law in the wake of MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. (1916). Hailed for loosening the privity requirement that barred persons injured by products from suing manufacturers and suppliers for negligence, MacPherson has become the stuff of legal legend. No one put it more picturesquely than Dean William L. Prosser, who in a justly famous law review article described privity as a “citadel” and presented MacPherson’s author, Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, …

The Role Of Legal Uncertainty, Risk, Institutional Size, And Mission In Presidential Selection: Is The Trend To Lawyer-Presidents An Unmitigated Good?, Nora V. Demleitner

Touro Law Review

This Article builds on Patricia Salkin’s May It Please the Campus which documents the extent to which legally trained persons have led U.S. institutions of higher education since colonial times. It explains the perennial attraction of lawyer-presidents despite substantial changes in legal training, in the professional formation of attorneys, and the transformation of higher education, especially with the rise of the modern research university, governmental investment, and heightened regulation of colleges and universities. Governing boards are increasingly attracted to the skills ascribed to lawyers and their personal characteristics, including the common law appreciation for slow change. This Article highlights how …

Standard Textualism, James A. Macleod

Michigan Law Review

For as long as legal scholars have been writing about the rules-versus-standards distinction, textualism has been understood to produce characteristically rule-like law. This Article argues for the opposite view. Far from generating the “law of rules” that Scalia famously envisioned, the rule of modern textualism produces a law of standards—much more so than anybody, proponent of textualism or critic, appears to have recognized.

Two aspects of today’s textualism produce this result. The first is its emphasis on ordinary language and communication. Modern textualism typically produces standards because ordinary language and communication are typically standard-like. The second is modern textualism’s drive …

Unsuccessful? Universal Human Rights And The United Nations: Russian Imperialism In Ukraine And The Post-Udhr International System, Sofiia Novytska

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Human universality has always stood as a controversial subject and remains politically contentious today. Following the humanitarian crisis of World War II, the international community was determined to protect the integrity and dignity of people worldwide by developing the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, universal human rights were not invented by the Declaration and were already conceptually established in global ancient thought, further evolved into Early Modern scholarship, and later paved the way for modern humanitarian frameworks. The UDHR was not universally well-received, and was criticized for its revolutionary legal character, postcolonial contestation, and practical ambiguity. The …

Oklahoma’S Bible Policy: The Evolving Establishment Clause From Lemon To Kennedy, Carson Douglas Shaw

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rivers Of Sovereignty: The Epa’S New Water Quality Standards Rule As A Potential Channel For Revitalizing Tribal Reserved Water Rights, Mostyn Josty

Cardozo Law Review

This Note explores the federal government’s evolving approach to its obligation to protect tribal reserved water rights through a case study of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2024 Water Quality Standards Regulatory Revisions to Protect Tribal Reserved Rights rule (the “WQS Rule”). It argues that while the WQS Rule represents a step forward in safeguarding tribal water rights, the legal challenge it faces underscores broader issues of federalism, administrative authority, and the country’s fluctuating commitment to tribal sovereignty. The Note examines the WQS Rule’s legal foundation, its potential challenges, and the implications for tribal self-determination, emphasizing the need for a …

Pertanggungjawaban Perusahaan Pengangkut Pada Tindakan General Average Terhadap Kerugian Kargo Yang Diangkut, Sandra A. M. Lova, Zahry Vandawati Chumaida

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Maritime transportation plays a vital role in supporting trade, yet risks such as perils of the sea or ship accidents caused by unseaworthiness often lead to disputes, particularly when General Average is declared. This practice, recognized since Roman times, has evolved into a legal concept in marine insurance to distribute deliberate sacrifices made for the safety of the vessel and its cargo. This study aims to analyze the liability of carriers in General Average actions and to evaluate the concept as a fair mechanism for loss distribution. The research employs a normative juridical method with statutory, conceptual, and comparative approaches, …

Tinjauan Frasa “Setiap Orang” Dalam Pasal 3 Ayat (1) Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 56 Tahun 2021 Tentang Pengelolaan Royalti Hak Cipta Lagu Dan/Atau Musik, Fajar Hidayansyah Ilham, Luna Dezeana Ticoalu

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Copyright is one form of legal protection for intellectual works, occupying an important position within the intellectual property law system. The Copyright Law explicitly grants exclusive rights to creators, encompassing both moral rights and economic rights. Economic rights, as stipulated in Article 9 paragraph (1), allow creators to obtain economic benefits from their works, ranging from publication, reproduction, distribution, performance, to communication to the public. This provision shows that creators hold a primary position as legal subjects entitled to protection, while also serving as central actors in the creative industry ecosystem. In practice, the mechanism for copyright protection requires implementing …

Neofeudalism And Its Historical Unraveling. A Review Of Jodi Dean’S Capital’S Grave: Neofeudalism And The New Class Struggle (Verso Books, 2025), Jiang Lan

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

American Marxism political scholar Jodi Dean’s concept stands out from the numerous neofeudalism intellectual currents. In her early work, she proposed the concept of “communicative capitalism” as a more advanced form relative to traditional capitalism. However, in the development of her thought during the early 21st century, she demonstrated a trajectory from political critique to the critique of communicative political economy. Having become aware of the issue raised by McKenzie Wark in Capital is Dead concerning capitalism’s descent into an even more dire historical phase, Dean too perceives contemporary capitalism as potentially entering a state of decline, transitioning into a …

Chantal Mouffe And Albena Azmanova, Forty Years After Hegemony And Socialist Strategy (A Conversation), Chantal Mouffe, Albena Azmanova

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

No abstract provided.

Borderlands, Nepantla And Interdependence: Some Notes About Onto-Epistemology In Gloria Anzaldúa’S Work, Martha Palacio Avendaño

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

The purpose of this piece is to introduce some of the key concepts in Gloria Anzaldúa’s work. A Chicana feminist philosopher, Anzaldúa was born in a little town in Texas in 1942 and passed away in 2004. I am going beyond her idea of borderlands to point out that her idea of Nepantla offers multiple options for approaching our social reality, such as tracing diagnoses and evaluating the social conditions for the constitution of an emancipatory political subjectivity. Nepantla constitutes an analytical way for understanding the plurality of gender experience as well as a path of knowledge in the process …

Translating The “Preposition + Which” Construction In English Legal Texts Into Indonesian, Doni Jaya

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Legal text translation is challenging because of its emphasis on semantic and syntactic faithfulness, while ST structures do not always have correspondent TL equivalents. One of such structures is the English “preposition + which” (PW) construction. This construction can be difficult to translate into Indonesian because the language does not always have ready-to-use connectors to produce a structurally faithful translation, often forcing translators to take the easy way of using ungrammatical and unnatural connectors which becomes the hallmark of the Indonesian legalese style. This research seeks to examine various ways to translate PW constructions in a more grammatical and …

Gamesmanship In Civil Litigation, Edith Beerdsen

Georgia Law Review

In civil litigation, strategy is everywhere. Some of it is explicitly envisioned by rules of procedure, but other forms of strategy rely more on clever exploitation of gaps in the rules, sometimes through trickery, surprise, or psychological mind games. The role strategy plays in civil litigation is underexamined, which raises two concerns: first, this lack of attention entrenches strategy by default as a procedural value in competition with accuracy, efficiency, and other procedural values. Second, it amplifies the disadvantages experienced by unrepresented litigants. This Article builds on earlier work to examine how courts shape the space that litigants have for …

Gravitational Property Theory, Monika U. Ehrman

Georgia Law Review

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein defined and redefined the field of physics. Their theoretical work on gravity is still considered a monumental discovery of their respective times. Although born centuries apart, the theory of gravity each advanced is still essential. Newton’s theory is applied on Earth and throughout much of the solar system, while Einstein’s theory is used in special environments, such as near black holes. Neither theory is discarded, but instead used where appropriate. Likewise, gravitational property theory proposes that simple property theory—the ad coelum doctrine—is still appropriate for simple property, like stationary or vertical objects. And complex property …

The Original E-Discovery: Civil Justice Reform And A Return To The Equitable Origins Of Discovery, Patricia I. Mcmahon

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

In the autumn of 2023, the Chief Justice and Attorney General of Ontario announced a broad new effort to review the rules of civil procedure to make civil dispute resolution more efficient and less expensive to enhance access to justice in the province. However, such efforts to reform the rules of civil procedure are nothing new.

This article examines the historical and contemporary aspects of civil justice reform in Ontario, focusing on the pre-trial discovery process. Among the most expensive aspects of the civil litigation process, discovery began as an equitable tool, with roots in the English Court of Chancery. …

Reapproaching International Law Through Twail: Reclaiming Marine Sovereignty And Rights Of The Global South Within Law Of The Sea, Ria Wierma Putri, Febryani Sabatira, Orima Melati Davey, Afandi Sitamala

Padjadjaran Jurnal Ilmu Hukum (Journal of Law)

Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), also understood as a theory of decolonizing international law, offers a critical framework for analyzing the historical evolution of international law and its continuing impact on Global South nations. This article examines TWAIL's perspective within the Law of the Sea, with particular attention to the ways in which the dominance of marine resource use by industrialized states perpetuates structural inequities over less powerful states. Since the 1950s, TWAIL scholars have emphasized the importance of amplifying Global South voices to challenge entrenched colonial legacies and reshape the future of international law. The purpose of …

Debating Expert Authority In Corruption Cases: The Challenge Of Interpreting State Financial Losses Under The 2023 Indonesian Criminal Code, Wendy Kenafiana Assanti, Hendry Julian Noor

Padjadjaran Jurnal Ilmu Hukum (Journal of Law)

The 2023 Indonesian Criminal Code revises the formulation of corruption offenses, including rules on proving state financial losses; however, the elucidation of Article 603 raises questions regarding the competent institution and the evidentiary weight of audit results. This study examines how the provision may perpetuate ongoing debates over experts’ authority to determine state financial losses, which are often perceived as affecting legal certainty, and proposes a reformulation to provide clearer legal guidance. This doctrinal study employs statutory and case law approaches, utilizes qualitative methods, and applies Gustav Radbruch’s perspective as an analytical lens. It finds that Article 603’s elucidation uses …

Fair Use Or Foul Play? Copyright Law’S Battle Over Using Sound Recordings In Ai Training, Matthew Schurz

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

Lahirnya Tensi Metafisik Di Urat-Leher Projek-Projek Interpretasi Konstruktif, Herman Bakir, Mukhtasar Syamsuddin

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This project is a legal hermeneutics. The aim is to elaborate the paradigm of the law as integrity theory, Ronald Dworkin’s work, which has received recognition as one of the most influential philosophical systems in the world of law throughout the last century. The issues discussed are divided into three subjects: (1) the interpretation role in legitimizing “law” as a corpus that has a “soul”; (2) a concept of interpretation from the womb of the law as integrity theory; (3) the dual capacity of “constructive interpretation” in [a] “returning” law to its roots; and [b] housing “morals” within the body …

หลักความคาดหวังอันชอบธรรมในกฎหมายปกครอง: พัฒนาการ แนวคิดเชิงเปรียบเทียบ และบทวิเคราะห์สำหรับประเทศไทย (The Principle Of Legitimate Expectations In Administrative Law: Development, Comparative Concepts, And Analysis For Thailand), Paphanphon Paphangkornphurin

Chulalongkorn University Law Journal

หลักความคาดหวังอันชอบธรรมเป็นกลไกสำคัญในระบบกฎหมายปกครองสมัยใหม่ที่มุ่งคุ้มครองความไว้วางใจของประชาชนต่อการกระทำของรัฐ บทความนี้ศึกษาพัฒนาการและสาระสำคัญของหลักการดังกล่าวในระบบกฎหมายเปรียบเทียบ ได้แก่ ระบบกฎหมายเยอรมนีที่หลักความคาดหวังอันชอบธรรมได้รับการยอมรับเป็น “หลักรัฐธรรมนูญทั่วไป” ภายใต้หลักนิติรัฐ และเชื่อมโยงกับหลักความมั่นคงแน่นอนทางกฎหมายและหลักความได้สัดส่วน ในอังกฤษหลักนี้มีจุดเริ่มต้นจากแนวคิดเรื่องความเป็นธรรมในกระบวนการก่อนขยายไปสู่การคุ้มครองผลประโยชน์เชิงเนื้อหาโดยใช้หลักการถ่วงดุลกับประโยชน์สาธารณะ ส่วนประเทศอื่น เช่น ออสเตรเลีย แคนาดา โปแลนด์ อินเดีย และฝรั่งเศส ต่างมีลักษณะการปรับใช้เฉพาะที่สะท้อนเป้าหมายร่วมกันในการจำกัดอำนาจรัฐและคุ้มครองความไว้วางใจของประชาชน สำหรับประเทศไทย ศาลปกครองไทยได้วางหลักการตีความสำคัญหลายประการทั้งการคุ้มครองเชิงเนื้อหาที่รับรองฐานะทางกฎหมายแม้คำสั่งจะถูกเพิกถอนในภายหลัง การชั่งน้ำหนักระหว่างความคาดหวังส่วนบุคคลกับประโยชน์สาธารณะ การเชื่อมโยงหลักความคาดหวังอันชอบธรรมกับหลักนิติรัฐ ข้อยกเว้นกรณีประมาทเลินเล่อร้ายแรงและการปกปิดข้อเท็จจริงที่มีสาระสำคัญ อย่างไรก็ตาม การปรับใช้ยังขาดความสม่ำเสมอในสาระสำคัญของการคุ้มครองความไว้วางใจของประชาชน บทความจึงนำเสนอแนวทางการพัฒนากฎหมายปกครองไทย ทั้งการปรับปรุงกฎหมายที่มีอยู่ให้ครอบคลุมรูปแบบความคาดหวังที่หลากหลาย การพัฒนาแนวทางการตีความของศาลที่ยอมรับการคุ้มครองทั้งในเชิงกระบวนการและเชิงเนื้อหา และการสร้างกลไกทางกฎหมายใหม่ เช่น คณะกรรมการไกล่เกลี่ยข้อพิพาท อันจะนำไปสู่การพัฒนาระบบกฎหมายปกครองไทยที่เป็นธรรม โปร่งใส และสอดคล้องกับหลักนิติรัฐอย่างแท้จริง

Book Review: The Role Of Civil Society In Transitional Justice: The Case Of Russia, Myra Dahgaypaw

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This book review evaluates Selbi Durdiyeva's The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia as a vital contribution to genocide prevention scholarship, which is particularly timely given Russia's mass atrocity crimes in Ukraine and their connection to domestic repression. The book's theoretical innovation in challenging state-centric transitional justice paradigms through rigorous analysis of Memorial NGO, Orthodox Church activities, and revisionist groups across three decades of post-Soviet Russia is critical for the transitional justice field. It is worth highlighting Durdiyeva's unique postcolonial perspective as someone from a former Soviet territory studying the metropole, and her demonstration that …

Rightly Dividing Jus Ad Bellum And Jus In Bello In The Israel/Hamas War, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Pace International Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Illusory Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Kelsey Rohr

Arkansas Law Review

This Note addresses the insufficiency of the current system in protecting criminal defendants’ privilege against self-incrimination. Part II will outline the background legal principles of the issue, including the privilege against self-incrimination, the presumption of innocence, and the no-impeachment rule. This part will also address the Supreme Court’s sole judicial exception to the no-impeachment rule as laid out in Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado. Part III will address the statistical significance of juror bias against criminal defendants who invoke the privilege, highlight the widespread nature of the bias, and argue that the procedural safeguards currently in place are insufficient to protect.

A Modest Proposal: Is Covenant Marriage A Reasonable Accommodation For Religious Faith Or State-Sponsored Theology?, Breck Radulovic

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Religious Liberty And The Constitution, Steven J. Heyman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Jurisdictional Diversity, Tradition, And The Religion Clauses, Steven D. Smith

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bicentennial Volume (1825-2025), Olivier Moréteau

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Consideration, Detrimental Reliance, Promissory Estoppel Or The 1984 Commonlaw “Rodents” In The Louisiana Civil Code Of 1825, Alain Levasseur

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

The Bicentennial Of The 1825 Civil Code Of Louisiana, Olivier Moréteau, Agustín Parise

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.