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Normalizing Reproductive Genetic Innovation, Myrisha S. Lewis

Faculty Publications

Many societally accepted techniques were quite controversial at inception and for decades after. For example, historically, dialysis was “unnatural,” vaccination was “the poisoned quill,” and artificial insemination was akin to adultery. Despite social and cultural hurdles, the aforementioned medical techniques have today attained overall public acceptance, permissive legal treatment, and even health insurance coverage in some cases.

Unlike many now-routine treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg freezing, and organ transplantation, which flourished without significant governmental intervention, today’s controversial medical treatments, especially those involving reproductive genetic innovation, face intense regulatory barriers. Reproductive genetic innovation, which is the combination of IVF …

Biometrics And An Ai Bill Of Rights, Margaret Hu

Faculty Publications

This Article contends that an informed discussion on an AI Bill of Rights requires grappling with biometric data collection and its integration into emerging AI systems. Biometric AI systems serve a wide range of governmental purposes, including policing, border security and immigration enforcement, and biometric cyberintelligence and biometric-enabled warfare. These systems are increasingly categorized as "high-risk" when deployed in ways that may impact fundamental constitutional rights and human rights. There is growing recognition that high-risk biometric AI systems, such as facial recognition identification, can pose unprecedented challenges to criminal procedure rights. This Article concludes that a failure to recognize these …

Shades Of Life In Indian Abortion Law, Gauri Pillai

Articles

This case comment analyses the recent Kerala High Court decision in Cry of Life Society v Union of India, where a petition was filed to declare India's law on abortion unconstitutional for violating the right to life of the foetus. The High Court dismissed the petition, upholding the constitutionality of the legislation as protecting women's right to life. The author discusses the High Court's order, narrowing in on the right to life argument used by the Court, and the right to life argument that the Court missed. This analysis distills and responds to the 'shades of life' underlying abortion law …

How And Why Do Judges Cite Academics? Evidence From The Singapore High Court, Jerrold Soh, Yihan Goh

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Legal academics were once thought to be parasitic on the work of judges, so much so that citing academic work was said to weaken a judgment’s authority. Recent times have however seen prominent academics appointed to the highest courts, and judicial engagement with academic materials appears to have increased. In this light, this article empirically studies academic citation practices in the Singapore High Court. Using a dataset of 2,772 High Court judgments, we show that citation counts have indeed increased over time, even in this first-instance court. This increase was distributed across most legal areas, and was not limited to, …

Jd-Next: A Randomized Experiment Of An Online Scalable Program To Prepare Diverse Students For Law School, Katherine Cheng, Jessica Findley, Adriana Cimetta, Heidi Burross, Matt Charles, Cayley Balser, Ran Li, Christopher Robertson

Faculty Scholarship

As one of two companion papers, this article explains our efforts to create and evaluate a program called JD-Next, which exposed students to legal education, prepared them to succeed, and assessed their ability to do so. JD-Next is a fully online, noncredit, seven-and-a-half-week course to train potential JD students in case reading and analysis skills before their first year of law school. This article focuses on rigorously testing the exposure and preparation functions of this program in 2019 to determine whether participation in such a course can improve law school confidence and performance of matriculating students. In the companion article, …

Four Privacy Stories And Two Hard Cases, A Comment On Skinner-Thompson's Privacy At The Margins, Jessica Silbey

Faculty Scholarship

Scott Skinner-Thompson's new book, Privacy at the Margins, is what I would call a "fourth-generation" study of privacy law. Privacy's contours and justifications have been debated over the course of the twentieth century, first to establish it as a matter deserving legal protection (roughly the first half of the twentieth century), ² then to iterate its various common law and constitutional variations (starting in the 1960s), ³ and since the computer and internet revolution of the 1990s, to reevaluate privacy's growing importance but waning presence in the digitally-networked age.⁴ The third-generation of privacy scholarship has been a fast-growing area …

Governing For Transformative Change Across The Biodiversity-Climate-Society Nexus, Unai Pascual, Pamela D. Mcelwee, Sarah E. Diamond, Hien T. Ngo, Xuemei Bai, William W. L. Cheung, Michelle Mei Ling Lim, Nadja Steiner, John Agard, Camila I. Donatti, Carlos M. Duarte, Rik Leemans, Shunsuke Managi, Aliny P. F. Pires, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Christopher Trisos, Robert J. Scholes, Hans-Otto Portner

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Transformative governance is key to addressing the global environmental crisis. We explore how transformative governance of complex biodiversity–climate–society interactions can be achieved, drawing on the first joint report between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to reflect on the current opportunities, barriers, and challenges for transformative governance. We identify principles for transformative governance under a biodiversity–climate– society nexus frame using four case studies: forest ecosystems, marine ecosystems, urban environments, and the Arctic. The principles are focused on creating conditions to build multifunctional interventions, integration, and innovation across scales; coalitions of …

Gender-Based Violence In Pakistan And Public Health Measures: A Call To Action, Azza Sarfraz, Zouina Sarfraz, Muzna Sarfraz, Zul Qarnain

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

No abstract provided.

Mandating Early Neutral Evaluations: Efficient Or Excessive?, William J. Baker

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

This paper explores whether mandating alternative dispute resolution (ADR), specifically in the form of early neutral evaluations (ENEs), actually improves efficiency in federal courts. This paper attempts to challenge and test the presumption that ADR inherently promotes efficiency in all civil cases. Part I introduces the reader to ENEs, ADR, their presence in federal courts, and efficiency’s role within this framework. Part II challenges the notion that ADR and efficiency are inherently linked, and asks whether mandating ENEs can prove if this inherent efficiency exists. Part III presents the legal theory that addresses this question, tending to support the notion …

Kedudukan Anak Luar Kawin Sebagai Ahli Waris Pengganti (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia Nomor 688 Pk/Pdt/2016), Michelle Natasha Salamintargo

Indonesian Notary

This research explores on the status and the inheritance rights of an illegitimate child which has been legalized by the marriage of their parents and the legality of the status of an illegitimate child as a substitution heir in Verdict Number 688 PK/Pdt/2016. The problem being raised within this research is regarding how is the status and the inheritance rights of an illegitimate child which has been legalized by the marriage of their parents and how is the legality of the status of an illegitimate child as a substitution heir as shown within Verdict Number 688 PK/Pdt/2016. This research uses …

Penetapan Asal Usul Anak Yang Lahir Di Luar Perkawinan Dan Akibat Hukumnya Ditinjau Berdasarkan Hukum Kekeluargaan Islam (Studi Kasus Penetapan Pengadilan Agama Jakarta Selatan Nomor: 298/Pdt.P/2020/Pa.Js), Wahyu Fajar Ramadhan

Indonesian Notary

Di masa sekarang ini masih banyak ditemui kasus perkawinan di bawah tangan dimana pernikahan hanya dilakukan berdasarkan ketentuan agama dan tidak mencatatkan pernikahan mereka kepada Pegawai Pencatat Nikah. Sebagai akibatnya anak yang lahir dari perkawinan tersebut tidak dapat dikatakan sebagai anak yang lahir dari perkawinan yang sah atau biasa disebut anak luar kawin. Masalah yang timbul adalah apabila terhadap anak luar kawin tersebut, demi kesejahteraannya, ingin diakui dan disahkan sebagai anak sah. Pengajuan permohonan penetapan asal-usul anak kepada pengadilan adalah salah satu upaya pengakuan dan pengesahan anak luar kawin oleh orang tua biologisnya agar dapat diakui sebagai anak sah dan …

Kedudukan Anak Luar Kawin Sebagai Ahli Waris Pengganti (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia Nomor 688 Pk/Pdt/2016), Michelle Natasha Salamintargo

Indonesian Notary

This research explores on the status and the inheritance rights of an illegitimate child which has been legalized by the marriage of their parents and the legality of the status of an illegitimate child as a substitution heir in Verdict Number 688 PK/Pdt/2016. The problem being raised within this research is regarding how is the status and the inheritance rights of an illegitimate child which has been legalized by the marriage of their parents and how is the legality of the status of an illegitimate child as a substitution heir as shown within Verdict Number 688 PK/Pdt/2016. This research uses …

Sengketa Harta Bersama Setelah Terjadinya Perceraian (Analisis Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 1710 K/Pdt/2020), Astari Nadinne

Indonesian Notary

Setelah terjadinya perceraian, masalah yang sering timbul adalah pembagian harta benda perkawinan. Harta merupakan topik yang sensitif bagi semua manusia, sehingga timbul permasalahan bagaimana penyelesaian sengketa harta bersama antara suami dan istri setelah terjadinya perceraian. Adapun rumusan masalah yang dibahas adalah bagaimana status kepemilikan harta bersama suami istri yang telah melakukan perceraian dan penerapan asas pemisahan horizontal terhadap sengketa harta bersama sesuai dengan Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 1710 K/PDT/2020. Terhadap permasalahan tersebut, dilakukan penelitian untuk menemukan titik terang akan siapa yang berhak atas harta bersama yang diperoleh sepanjang masa perkawinan berlangsung. Pada akhirnya, hasil penelitian membawa pada bahwa perkawinan yang …

Neither Here Nor There: Nonbinary, Law, Student, Celia Meredith

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

No abstract provided.

Lawyers As Caregivers, Paula Schaefer

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

This Article argues that clients—much like patients in a healthcare setting—need their lawyers to be caregivers. The Article opens by developing a definition of caregiving in medicine and law. It then turns to five key components of caregiving in medicine, explaining the substantial research that this care is crucial for patient satisfaction, trust, and healing. Medical educators have drawn on this research to better prepare medical professionals to be excellent caregivers. The Article then explores the evidence that an attorney’s clients have the same needs and suffer similar harm when attorneys fail to meet these needs. Next, the Article turns …

Implementasi Akomodasi Yang Layak Bagi Penyandang Disabilitas Dalam Proses Penyidikan Di Kepolisian Kabupaten Sleman, Rosa Pijar Cahya Devi, Ignatius Loyola Iswaradatta Prasetio

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Indonesia is a country that upholds human rights. The manifestation of Indonesia's commitment to supporting human rights is to provide equal opportunities for every citizen to access justice. To provide fair treatment so that every citizen can access justice, Indonesia provides affirmative discrimination to vulnerable groups through laws and regulations. One of affirmative discrimination is provided to groups with disabilities. Through Government Regulation No. 39 of 2020 on Procedural Accommodation for Persons with Disabilities in the Judicial Process, Indonesia regulates what rights must be given to persons with disabilities to be able to participate in any judicial process based on …

A Helper For Patenting The “Unpredictable”: Artificial Intelligence, Shuang Liu

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Jd-Next: A Randomized Experiment Of An Online Scalable Program To Prepare Diverse Students For Law School, Katherine C. Cheng, Jessica Findley, Adriana Cimetta, Heidi Legg Burross, Matthew Charles, Cayley Balser, Ran Li, Christopher T. Robertson

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

“That’S What We Call ‘Aesthetics’”: The Social Construction Of Tap Water Mistrust In An Underbounded Community, Abby Vidmar

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Recent research on water insecurity in the United States has revealed that underbounded communities — urban disadvantaged unincorporated neighborhoods characterized by high-poverty and high residential density lying just outside the border of an incorporated municipality — often lack consistent access to clean and safe water. In these settings, poor water quality and inadequate infrastructure shape residents’ risk perceptions often leading to tap water mistrust. However, little is known about the broader social, political, and economic drivers of water quality in these settings and how such drivers inform the social construction of risk across different stakeholder groups. Using an underbounded African-American/Hispanic …

Sex Offender Legislation Ex Post Facto: The History And Constitutionality Of Michigan's Sex Offenders Registration Act, Alexander W. Furtaw

Journal of Legislation

Is Michigan’s Sex Offenders Registration Act (“MSORA”) constitutional? Until 2016, courts routinely said yes. In 2016, the Sixth Circuit in Does #1–5 v. Snyder held that the statute was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. In 2021, the Michigan Supreme Court echoed the Sixth Circuit’s holding in People v. Betts. In response, the Michigan legislature passed Public Law 295 of 2020 to amend MSORA, and courts treat the amended act as a “new” statute. Critical analysis of the amended statute’s legality is difficult because the state legislature has seemingly ignored constitutional issues with statutory proposals until after the fact, and …

Federal Courts: Article I, Ii, Iii, And Iv Adjudication, Laura K. Donohue, Jeremy Mccabe

Catholic University Law Review

The distinction among the several types of federal courts in the United States has gone almost unremarked in the academic literature. Instead, attention focuses on Article III “constitutional” courts with occasional discussion of how they differ from what are referred to as “non-constitutional” or “legislative” courts. At best, these labels are misleading: all federal courts have a constitutional locus. Most (but not all) are brought into being via legislation. The binary approach ignores the full range of adjudicatory bodies, which find root in different constitutional provisions: Article III, Section 1, Article I, Section 8; Article IV, Section 3; Article II, …

Deciphering Lessons From The Ashes: Saving The Amazon, Shannon K. Woulfe

Natural Resources Journal

For over forty years, Brazil, its subnational governments, Indigenous communities, other nations, non-governmental organizations, corporations, and individuals have worked to conserve the Amazon rainforest through a staggering number of diverse international initiatives. While some initiatives have supported Brazil in decreasing the rate of deforestation over the past fifteen years, the 2019 fires demonstrated that destruction continues. Left unchecked, this irreversible destruction promises to amplify. Fortunately, the long history of global involvement in Amazon conservation provides ample lessons for effective, place-based deforestation prevention. Thoughtful and coordinated international action can address the current lethal combination of destructive factors: Brazil’s environmentally hostile federal …

The Internet Immunity Escape Hatch, Gregory M. Dickinson

BYU Law Review

Internet immunity doctrine is broken, and Congress is helpless. Under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, online entities are absolutely immune from lawsuits related to content authored by third parties. The law has been essential to the internet’s development over the last twenty years, but it has not kept pace with the times and is now deeply flawed. Democrats demand accountability for online misinformation. Republicans decry politically motivated censorship. And all have come together to criticize Section 230’s protection of bad-actor websites. The law’s defects have put it at the center of public debate, with more than …

Thank You For Not Publishing (Unexamined Patent Applications), Lidiya Mishchenko

BYU Law Review

Since 2000, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (“PTO”) has published nearly all patent applications as they are submitted by applicants. Scholars and practitioners have praised this practice for providing timely notice of the potential legal rights the application may eventually cover. But maximizing timeliness and transparency in this way can also create significant costs, which may chill innovation and deter the development and funding of new research areas. This Article explores these often-unrecognized costs of publishing unexamined patent applications and proposes solutions that balance the benefits of early notice with the costs of patent system uncertainty. Published patent applications …

A (Partial And Principled) Defense Of Sentences Of Life Imprisonment, Mirko Bagaric, Jennifer Svilar

Cleveland State Law Review

There has been more than a five-fold increase in the number of life sentences in the United States over the past four decades. One in seven prisoners in the United States is serving a life (or virtual) life sentence. This amounts to over 200,000 prisoners. The increase has occurred against the backdrop of near universal condemnation by scholars and public policy advocates – many of whom are now advocating for the abolition of life sentences. Arguments that life sentences are not an effective deterrent or means of protecting the community have some merit. Yet, we argue that in a limited …

Actively Achieving Greater Racial Equity In Law School Classrooms, Catherine Bramble, Rory Bahadur

Cleveland State Law Review

2020 illustrated the ongoing pervasiveness of implicit and explicit racism in our society. Less well-acknowledged and recognized is the extent to which Socratic pedagogy also reflects those pervasive racist realities while simultaneously resulting in inferior learning based on a teaching method invented 150+ years ago. Despite this racist and outdated reality, the legal academy has been reluctant to alter the traditional method of teaching. Tangible, empirical evidence obtained from data-driven cognitive learning science research demonstrates that active learning not only improves learning outcomes for all students, but also mitigates the structural effects of racism in the classroom thereby increasing racial …

The Broad Institute Scores Another Victory In Its Battle With The University Of California Over The Patenting Of Cripsr, Christopher M. Holman

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Conference: The 1972 Stockholm Declaration At Fifty: Reflecting On A Half-Century Of International Environmental Law / International Environmental Law At Its Semicentennial: The Stockholm Legacy / Hosted By The Dean Rusk International Law Center And The Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law On October 8, 2021 In Athens, Georgia And Online, Melissa J. Durkee

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Accidents On The High Seas And Flags Of Convenience: Whether The Bbnj Draft Treaty Will Address Insufficient Regulatory Compliance By Open Registry States, Kaitlyn O'Hara

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

More Than The Daily Catch: How Regulating The Fishing Industry Can Help Keep Plastics From The Ocean, Katherine Payne

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.