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The Ends And The Means: Indigenous Sovereignty, Climate-Related Legal Actions, And Frameworks Of Justice, Connor Marcum
The Ends And The Means: Indigenous Sovereignty, Climate-Related Legal Actions, And Frameworks Of Justice, Connor Marcum
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Philosophy professor Timothy Morton uses climate change as his foremost example of what he calls a hyperobject: an object that occupies both more physical space and more time than humans can usefully comprehend. For example, one can understand local meteorological occurrences in isolation without necessarily understanding that a given storm was more severe than it should have been because an overall increase in global temperatures makes for a more aggressive, active hydrological cycle. Environmental organizations focused on raising awareness understand this. Public campaigns to wed the nebulous idea of climate change to specific, concrete images are incredibly memorable: think of …
Introduction, Colin Crawford, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado
Introduction, Colin Crawford, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The papers gathered in this volume analyze access to justice in Latin America, Europe, and North America from a philosophical, legal, and sociological perspective. In these three regions of the world, as in the rest of the globe, liberal democracies face a troubling gap between the normative and the descriptive: the access to justice promises made by the legal and political system are not fully realized in practice. The studies collected here, therefore, share two baseline assumptions. First, the right of access to justice is fundamental in a liberal state. Access to justice ensures that citizens are able to defend …
Public Law, Precarity, And Access To Justice, Amnon Lev
Public Law, Precarity, And Access To Justice, Amnon Lev
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
In the first part, I examine Thomas Hobbes' theory of commonwealth to see how it situates subjects in relation to justice. Hobbes famously founds his commonwealth on the equal subjection of all to the Leviathan, which is the equal subjection of all to law. We need to understand why he nevertheless needs to accommodate the diversity of society-the basic fact that some are weak while others are not-into the operation of the public law machine. As we shall see, the accommodation of social diversity is tied to a proto-liberal distinction between social spheres that relegates much of human life to …
Access To Justice For Collective And Diffuse Rights: Theoretical Challenges And Opportunities For Social Contract Theory, Colin Crawford
Access To Justice For Collective And Diffuse Rights: Theoretical Challenges And Opportunities For Social Contract Theory, Colin Crawford
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This analysis consists of three principal parts. First, it briefly reviews the classical contract account that explains how and why individuals enter civil society, found in the writings of both Hobbes and Locke. The analysis then examines the limited extent to which classical contract theory treats questions of rights vindication or, in more modern terms, with questions of access to justice. Second, the analysis examines the nature of collective and diffuse rights claims and will make a case for their importance in the modern world. Third, the analysis seeks to identify arguments from the classical account that might be useful …
Movement Lawyering, Scott L. Cummings
Movement Lawyering, Scott L. Cummings
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article examines the relation between movement lawyering and American legal theory, explores the meaning and content of movement lawyering in the contemporary American context, and reflects on the implications of movement lawyering for the theory and practice of access to justice around the globe. It suggests that the rise of movement lawyering signals frustration with process-oriented solutions to fundamental problems of inequality and discrimination in the legal system, and challenges access to justice proponents to frame their work in connection with a political strategy that builds on movements for progressive legal change. In this sense, the article suggests that …
From Justice To Injustice: Lowering The Threshold Of European Consensus In Oliari And Others Versus Italy, Nazim Ziyadov
From Justice To Injustice: Lowering The Threshold Of European Consensus In Oliari And Others Versus Italy, Nazim Ziyadov
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Oliari and Others v. Italy, decided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2015, changed its case law. The ECHR changed its position stated in Schalk and Kopf v. Austria (2010) when evaluating an alleged violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It concluded that Italy has a positive obligation under the convention to guarantee alternative legal recognition for same-sex couples. The same conclusion was not reached in Schalk. In Oliari and Others, the ECHR heavily relied on the European consensus doctrine and eventually deepened formalization of two different institutions (marriage and civil unions). …
The Imposition Of Social Justice Morality In Legal Education, Julie D. Lawton
The Imposition Of Social Justice Morality In Legal Education, Julie D. Lawton
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
No abstract provided.
Le Concept Dé Dignité Le Droit Américain, Elisabeth Zoller
Le Concept Dé Dignité Le Droit Américain, Elisabeth Zoller
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
A Behavioral Theory Of Legal Ethics, Andrew M. Perlman
A Behavioral Theory Of Legal Ethics, Andrew M. Perlman
Indiana Law Journal
Behavioral insights have informed many areas of law, including the field of professional responsibility. Those insights, however, have had only a modest effect on the foundational theories of legal ethics, even though those theories are, at their core, prescriptions about human behavior. The reality is that lawyers’ conduct cannot be understood, theorized about, or used to produce the best possible regulations without an appreciation for the limits on human rationality and objectivity. A behavioral theory of legal ethics offers a way to incorporate those realties into the foundational debates on a lawyer’s professional role so that scholars can produce more …
Lost Life And Life Projects, Sean Hannon Williams
Lost Life And Life Projects, Sean Hannon Williams
Indiana Law Journal
This Article provides the first analysis of wrongful death damages from the perspective of individual justice accounts of tort law. There is a widespread belief that wrongful death damages are incoherent. Currently, tort law responds only to the harms of the decedent’s living relatives. Drawing on deterrence rationales, Cass Sunstein, Eric Posner, and others have recommended altering these damage awards so that they respond to the harms of the decedent herself by providing “lost life” damages. This Article offers a different and powerful new foundation for lost life damages rooted in corrective justice and its main competitor, civil recourse. At …
What Hope For The Future?: Learning The Lessons Of The Past, David Held
What Hope For The Future?: Learning The Lessons Of The Past, David Held
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Perceptions And Interpretations Of Law From Past To Present In The Subcontinent, Jayanth K. Krishnan
Book Review. Perceptions And Interpretations Of Law From Past To Present In The Subcontinent, Jayanth K. Krishnan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Justice In The 20th Century, Jerome Hall
Justice In The 20th Century, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Foreign Intercession On Behalf Of Justice By The United States In The 19th Century, I. Naamani Tarkow
Foreign Intercession On Behalf Of Justice By The United States In The 19th Century, I. Naamani Tarkow
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Brown, E. L., Lawyers And The Promotion Of Justice, Jerome Hall
Book Review. Brown, E. L., Lawyers And The Promotion Of Justice, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Lawyers And The Promotion Of Justice By Esther Lucille Brown, Fowler V. Harper
Book Review. Lawyers And The Promotion Of Justice By Esther Lucille Brown, Fowler V. Harper
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.