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The Indian Child Welfare Act, Political Classification Of “Indians,” And Preservation Of Tribal Sovereignty: Children, The Most Precious Resource, Rachel Yost

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reimagining Youngblood's Bad Faith Requirement: Safeguarding Criminal Defendants' Due Process Rights Through A Burden-Shifting Framework, Rita Elfarissi

Michigan Law Review

Criminal defendants face an uphill battle when attempting to prove that the government’s loss or destruction of evidence that could have played a significant role in their defense deprived them of their constitutional due process rights. To make this showing, the defendant must prove that the government lost or destroyed the evidence in bad faith. This requirement is problematic because direct evidence illustrating the subjective intent of the government officials who lost or destroyed the evidence is unlikely to exist, and in the off chance it does, the prosecution is unlikely to freely hand it over to the defendant. Thus, …

Scrutinizing The Bathroom Binary: Equal Protection Theories For Nonbinary Students, Annie Schuver

Michigan Law Review

Over the past decade, transgender students have challenged discriminatory school bathroom policies under the Equal Protection Clause with varying success. But another group of students, facing similar discrimination, has yet to see its day in court. Like their transgender peers, nonbinary students often lack access to gender-appropriate restrooms at school. Many K–12 schools offer only “boys” and “girls” restrooms, ignoring the needs of students who identify as neither boys nor girls, as both of those genders, or as something else entirely. Forced to use sex-segregated bathrooms (or no bathroom at all), nonbinary students suffer adverse health, safety, and educational outcomes. …

Local Visions For Patagonia: Drivers And Dynamics Of Collaborative Environmental Governance In Aysén, Chile, Zachary J. Hummel

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Collaborative governance (CG) has emerged as a tool for addressing increasingly complex societal problems by engaging a diverse of set of cross-sector actors in a deliberative process with the aim of realizing consensus-driven outcomes. Emerson et al.’s (2011) Integrated Framework for Collaborative Governance (IFCG) attempts to improve understanding of these arrangements by articulating causal connections between collaborative drivers and dynamics across different contexts. Answering researchers’ call for more empirical support for the IFCG in non-US/European contexts, I used the framework to guide 10 interviews with collaborative governance practitioners in the comanaged marine protected area, AMCP-MU Pitipalena Añihue, located in Aysén, …

Beside Marriage Equality: Conversations On Supriyo, Danish Sheikh, Rupali Samuel

Socio-Legal Review

This case comment takes the form of an epistolary exchange between the authors as they reflect on the Indian Supreme Court’s 2023 judgment in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty & Anr v Union of India, which denied the existence of a constitutional right to marriage and deferred the responsibility of legalising same-sex marriage to the legislature. Through a staged conversation, the comment explores personal subject positions, legal frameworks, and the intricate entanglements of intimacy and state recognition. The authors consider how the law leaves imprints on our bodies and, in turn, how our embodied lives reshape the law through acts …

Wipo Negotiations On Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources And Associated Traditional Knowledge, Peter K. Yu

Faculty Scholarship

At the 2000 General Assembly, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) established the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) to address intellectual property issues relating to genetic resources, traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs). Although the IGC initially focused its work on studying these issues, it obtained a new mandate to accelerate its work in October 2009 and began text-based negotiations on an international instrument, or international instruments, a few months later. These negotiations paved the way for WIPO to convene a diplomatic conference to conclude an International Legal Instrument Relating …

The Objectives Of Medicaid: A Statutory And Scholarly Examination Of America's Most Important Health Program, Barak D. Richman, Laura Richman

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

When Kentucky and Arkansas instituted work requirements in 2018 as a condition to receiving Medicaid benefits, residents from both states sued the Trump Administration to block the program, arguing that the requirements were contrary to the Medicaid statute. In Gresham v. Azar, the DC Circuit agreed, holding that "the objective of Medicaid was to furnish medical assistance." Even though the Secretary of Health and Human Services determined that the work requirements were "likely to assist in improving health outcomes," the court concluded that "better health outcomes as [an] objective of Medicaid… lacks textual support. Indeed, the statute makes no mention …

Bystanders To A Public Health Crisis: The Failures Of The U.S. Multi-Agency Regulatory Approach To Food Safety In The Face Of Persistent Organic Pollutants, Katya S. Cronin

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) are devastating our food systems and our health. Recent studies link even small exposure to PFAS to a host of adverse health outcomes, including cancer, autoimmune diseases, thyroid disease, liver damage, childhood obesity, infertility, and birth defects.

Food consumption is a primary route of PFAS exposure. PFAS are omnipresent at dangerous levels in our marine and agricultural environments, including in water, soil, fertilizers, compost, and air. From there, they can find their way into virtually every plant, fish, animal, and animal product, and ultimately (in the greatest concentration) into the consumer. In addition, PFAS-laden food …

Why Sustainable Procurement? Read All About It, Steven L. Schooner

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

As procurement professionals (knowingly or unknowingly) await regulations promulgated in an effort to adapt to and mitigate climate change, significant opportunities exist within current federal regulations and policy to affect change. For now, the burden to stimulate innovation falls upon procurement professionals, individually, and collectively. In that context, information is power. What better place to start than with a good book?

With an eye towards informing productive conversations across the federal acquisition community about evolving expectations, practices, and policies in sustainable procurement, this article suggests some reading from the massive and diverse body of work related to climate change.

This …

The New Gender Perspective: The Dawn Of Intersectional Autonomy In Women’S Rights, Rosa Celorio

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

International human rights jurisprudence has increasingly mandated state action which integrates a gender perspective, taking into consideration the discriminatory norms, harmful social practices, stereotypes, and violence that women have and still suffer. A range of supranational bodies have issued case decisions promoting the adoption of gender-sensitive legislation, policies, programs, and the establishment of administration of justice systems well-trained and equipped to address women’s rights violations.

This article discusses how the conception of this gender perspective has evolved over time and is now centered on the pursuit of autonomy for women. Autonomy is presented as a key ingredient to ensure due …

Disability, Race, And Immigration: The Intersectional Impact Of Policing, Tania N. Valdez

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Law enforcement officers commonly must respond to situations in which a person is experiencing acute symptoms of a mental illness. Yet from the first moment of police involvement, these community members face the possibility of negative outcomes. Consequences include officers' use of excessive force leading to injury or death, criminal arrest and prosecution that results in deprivation of liberty, separation from the community, and the creation of a permanent criminal record that affects other rights.

Although potential violence and criminalization are important reasons to avoid relying on police during mental health events, another key consideration is often ignored in the …

Mainstream Media Portrayal Of Banishment And Nation-Imposed Punishment, Keely Ormond

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

“In a traditional village, we wouldn’t have a teepee with no door on it and throw somebody in there. We wouldn’t cast them out, because banishment meant death. What we had to do was restore relationships” – Ryan Beardy (Thorpe, 2022).

The following project examines the representation of Indigenous traditions, customs, and issues in Canadian mainstream media. Specifically, this project is interested in the portrayal of banishment as an Indigenous practice in Canadian mainstream news outlets. This project is based on an interpretive paradigm informed by grounded theory and concepts of media framing, postcolonialism, settler colonialism and restorative justice. Nineteen …

Individualized Ideological Enclosures: The Generative Ai Crisis And How Consumers Can Reclaim Their Feeds, Sydney Rose

Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology

No abstract provided.

On The Cultural Stakes Of Deep Seabed Mining, Julian Arato, Aline Jaeckel, Lucas Lixinski

Other Publications

Ownership over the deep seabed and its mineral riches was unsettled until well into the twentieth century. Yet, by the 1960s, a remarkable spirit of universalism prevailed. States declared the deep seabed to be the common heritage of [hu]mankind, determining that its exploitation and protection would require collective management. The seabed beyond national jurisdiction (or, the “Area”) spans roughly half of the surface of the Earth. It contains critical minerals, such as cobalt and copper, which technological advances have rendered increasingly within reach. States have worked collectively and proactively to regulate the near-future exploitation of the deep seas, thus far …

Florida Queer K12 Teachers Perceptions Of School Climate Under “Don’T Say Gay”, Katherine E. Foley

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Florida's newest legislation leaves many Florida queer teachers feeling marginalized and unprotected in the classroom (Block, 2022). The “Parental Rights in Education” Bill (FL HB 1557 and FL HB 1069), infamously renamed “Don’t Say Gay”, was created ostensibly to help protect parental rights and choices in education. The new law prohibits the discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through twelfth grade classrooms. “Don’t Say Gay” provides vague guidelines for queer teachers on approaching topics like sexual orientation and gender identity. Despite the evidence that queer teachers who are open and honest about their identity often find themselves …

Durability, Flexibility And Plasticity In The U.N. Convention On The Law Of The Sea, Sean Murphy

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

The overall resilience of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea during the forty years since its adoption in 1982—its durability, its flexibility and its plasticity in the face of myriad challenges that have unfolded over time—is largely attributable to certain design features within the Convention, to a willingness to ‘bend’ the Convention toward practical outcomes when necessary, and to the foresight of the drafters in closely tying the Convention to other agreements and standards, as well as to the general field of international law, so that the Convention might evolve as the world evolves. There are risks …

The Battle Over Gender-Affirming Healthcare For Transgender Minors: Analyzing Anti-Transgender Healthcare Bills In Arkansas And Texas, Brandon Calton

Roger Williams University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Loot Boxes May Exploit Gamers, But Their Sale Does Not Constitute Unlawful Gambling, John J. Chung

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Consequences Of Mythology: Supreme Court Decisionmaking In Indian Country, M. Alexander Pearl

Faculty Articles

Ilanoli isht unowa. We tell our own stories. A single historical event has many stories. Although this nation's official chronicle expected and even hoped for Indigenous peoples to fade away, we are still here. Our histories are marked by resistance, survival, sovereignty, and renaissance. Only now, in the later stages of the American experiment, do our histories have the chance to matter in new forms and spaces. How much these stories matter within contemporary contexts depends upon where they are spoken and more importantly, who is listening. On the pages of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion, what stories are told …

The Cost Of Clarity: Closing The Floodgates On Wotus Ambiguity And The Bleak Future Of Wetlands Protections, Casey E. Lindstrom

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

The National Environmental Policy Act And Climate Change Adaptation Within Federal Natural Resource Management Agencies, Sara Sutherland

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Quiet Part Of The Fourteenth Amendment: Why Gender Identity Should Be A Protected Class Under The Equal Protection Clause, Robert F. Read Ii

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

มาตรการเพื่อส่งเสริมธุรกิจอาหารทางเลือกจากพืช, ณัฏฐา สงวนพงษ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

เอกัตศึกษาฉบับนี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อมีมาตรการ หรือแนวคิดริเริ่มเพื่อส่งเสริมธุรกิจอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชในประเทศไทยให้เติบโตมากขึ้น เพื่อสร้างประโยชน์ในระยะยาวให้กับเศรษฐกิจและสังคมไทยอย่างยั่งยืน ประโยชน์ของธุรกิจดังกล่าวส่งผลกระทบในด้านต่าง ๆ ดังนี้ (1) ประโยชน์ด้านสุขภาพ สามารถช่วยให้มีสุขภาพดีขึ้น รวมถึงลดความเสี่ยงต่อโรคต่าง ๆ (2) ประโยชน์ด้านสิ่งแวดล้อม การรับประทานอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชใช้ทรัพยากรต่าง ๆ เช่น ที่ดิน แหล่งน้ำ และพลังงาน น้อยกว่าอาหารที่มีส่วนผสมจากเนื้อสัตว์ จึงถือเป็นการประหยัดพลังงานและช่วยรักษาสิ่งแวดล้อมได้เป็นอย่างดี (3) ประโยชน์ด้านความมั่นคงทางอาหาร สามารถช่วยลดความเสี่ยงจากการขาดแคลนอาหาร เนื่องจากกระบวนการผลิตอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชใช้ทรัพยากรด้านต่าง ๆ น้อยกว่าผลิตภัณฑ์จากสัตว์ และ (4) ประโยชน์ด้านสวัสดิภาพสัตว์ การรับประทานอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชถือเป็นการคุ้มครองสัตว์ เพราะเป็นการลดการผลิตผลิตภัณฑ์จากเนื้อสัตว์ในฟาร์มเอกัตศึกษาฉบับนี้ มีการดำเนินการวิจัยด้วยวิธีการศึกษาเชิงเอกสาร (Documentary Research) โดยการศึกษาค้นคว้า รวบรวม วิเคราะห์ข้อมูล จากหนังสือ บทความ ตำรา วิทยานิพนธ์ เอกัตศึกษา เอกสารสิ่งพิมพ์ หลักภาษีอากร โดยมีการใช้ฐานข้อมูลออนไลน์ ที่มีบุคคลอื่นได้บันทึกหรือตีพิมพ์เผยแพร่ไว้เกี่ยวกับมาตรการเพื่อส่งเสริมธุรกิจอาหารทางเลือกจากพืช ทั้งในประเทศไทยและต่างประเทศ จากนั้นนำข้อมูลที่รวบรวมได้มาทำการศึกษา เรียบเรียง และวิเคราะห์อย่างเป็นระบบ เพื่อเสนอแนวทางการสร้างแรงจูงใจให้กับผู้ประกอบธุรกิจอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชจากการศึกษา พบว่า ในปัจจุบัน ไทยยังขาดมาตรการส่งเสริมธุรกิจอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชที่ชัดเจนและครอบคลุม เมื่อเทียบกับหลายประเทศที่ให้ความสำคัญกับเรื่องนี้ เช่น สหรัฐอเมริกา สหภาพยุโรป และสิงคโปร์ ทั้งนี้ เพื่อส่งเสริมธุรกิจอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชในไทยให้เติบโตอย่างยั่งยืน ควรมีการดำเนินการดังนี้ (1) จัดทำแผนยุทธศาสตร์ระดับชาติ และกฎหมายเฉพาะเพื่อส่งเสริมอาหารทางเลือกจากพืช: กำหนดเป้าหมายและแนวทางการดำเนินงานที่ชัดเจน (2) บูรณาการนโยบาย เชื่อมโยงนโยบายด้านอาหารกับนโยบายอื่น ๆ เช่น สุขภาพ สิ่งแวดล้อม และเศรษฐกิจ รวมถึงการสนับสนุนการวิจัยและพัฒนา เพื่อส่งเสริมการพัฒนานวัตกรรม ซึ่งจะเป็นองค์ประกอบสำคัญในการพัฒนาผลิตภัณฑ์ใหม่ ๆ และเทคโนโลยีที่เกี่ยวข้อง (3) ส่งเสริมด้านสิทธิประโยชน์ทางภาษีเพื่อส่งเสริมธุรกิจอาหารทางเลือกจากพืช ทั้งในส่วนที่ส่งผลกับอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชโดยตรง เช่น การพิจารณาปรับลดอัตราภาษีมูลค่าเพิ่มสำหรับอาหารทางเลือกจากพืช และส่วนที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการให้สิทธิประโยชน์ทางภาษีทางอ้อม เช่น การหักค่าใช้จ่ายที่ใช้สำหรับการวิจัย (4) สร้างความตระหนักรู้ และประชาสัมพันธ์ข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับประโยชน์ของอาหารจากพืช ทั้งต่อผู้บริโภคเอง และต่อสังคมในภาพรวม (5) สนับสนุนเกษตรกร และส่งเสริมการปลูกพืชที่ใช้เป็นวัตถุดิบในการผลิตอาหารจากพืชการดำเนินการเหล่านี้จะช่วยให้ไทยมีอุตสาหกรรมอาหารทางเลือกจากพืชที่แข็งแกร่ง สามารถแข่งขันในตลาดโลก และตอบสนองความต้องการของผู้บริโภคที่ใส่ใจสุขภาพและสิ่งแวดล้อมมากขึ้น นอกจากนี้ …

Female Offenders: Exploring Risk Factors For Adulthood Violence, Lauren N. Fowler

Theses and Dissertations

The number of females under correctional supervision has been increasing in the last four decades. For adult women, these offenses are generally drug offenses; however, there have also been increases in the number of women committing violent crimes. Unfortunately, violent females are an understudied population, which limits the data available to inform programs and policies that could address the problem. This study explored potential factors related to violent behavior among adult females by analyzing public-use data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016. More specifically, violent and nonviolent state and federal female inmates were assessed regarding …

Annotated Legal Bibliography

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Scales Project: Making Federal Court Records Free, Christopher A. Cotropia

Law Faculty Publications

Federal court records have been available online for nearly a quarter century, yet they remain frustratingly inaccessible to the public. This is due to two primary barriers: (1) the federal government’s prohibitively high fees to access the records at scale and (2) the unwieldy state of the records themselves, which are mostly text documents scattered across numerous systems. Official datasets produced by the judiciary, as well as third-party data collection efforts, are incomplete, inaccurate, and similarly inaccessible to the public. The result is a de facto data blackout that leaves an entire branch of the federal government shielded from empirical …

Book-And-Claim System For Sustainable Aviation Fuels, Christine Kranich, Sarah J. Haas

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

This Article provides an overview of the regulatory (legal) framework in which the decarbonisation of aviation is embedded, with a focus on European law. The Article further provides updates on EU-ETS, CORISA, RED III and the minimum quota of SAF supply in accordance with Refuel EU Aviation up to October 2023. Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) will be described in detail in this Article, and it is further explained that the use of SAF could significantly contribute to aviation becoming “greener”. As the availability of SAF is still rather scarce, the Article revolves around a mechanism of a global book-and-claim system …

Human Reproductive Cloning, Heritable Genome Editing, And The Future Of Novel Reproductive Technologies, Macintosh, Kerry Lynn

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

This Article compares human reproductive cloning (HRC) and heritable genome editing (HGE) to identify factors that encourage bans on novel reproductive technologies. HRC drew legislative opposition in part because it involved asexual reproduction and was incorrectly associated with copying. HGE and other technologies that involve sexual reproduction do not have those problematic qualities. HRC also became entangled with research in which human embryos were cloned to be harvested for their stem cells. HGE did not because scientists learned how to create and edit pluripotent stem cells without creating embryos. However, the legal history of HRC predicts that reproductive technologies strongly …

The Next Generation, Jeremiah Chin

Articles

What would the law look like if we let children remake it? Laws govern, classify, and circumscribe children who inherit the law and its consequences. Discourses of power invoke children as rhetorical strategies to gain political favor or obviate a position—yet children are uncritically excluded from participating in the systems that control them. Children are subjected to the laws and objects of legislation, but denied the rights, autonomy, or authority to participate in the making of law and policy. Even the conceptualization of the constitutional rights of children is treated as an assumption, ill-defined and under theorized by traditional legal …

Research Access To Social Media Data: Lessons From Clinical Trial Data Sharing, Christopher J. Morten, Gabriel Nicholas, Salomé Vilgoen

Articles

For years, social media companies have sparred with lawmakers over how much independent access to platform data they should provide researchers. Sharing data with researchers allows the public to better understand the risks and harms associated with social media, including areas such as misinformation, child safety, and political polarization. Yet researcher access is controversial. Privacy advocates and companies raise the potential privacy threats of researchers using such data irresponsibly. In addition, social media companies raise concerns over trade secrecy: the data these companies hold and the algorithms powered by that data are secretive sources of competitive advantage. This Article shows …