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Insurrection-Proofing The Courts: Judicial Tools To Protect The Legal System From Litigation Abuse In The Wake Of The 2024 Election, Raymond H. Brescia Nov 2024

Insurrection-Proofing The Courts: Judicial Tools To Protect The Legal System From Litigation Abuse In The Wake Of The 2024 Election, Raymond H. Brescia

SMU Law Review Forum

In the wake of the 2020 presidential election in the United States, lawyers sought to overturn the results of that election filing baseless and far-fetched claims. Courts sanctioned many of those lawyers and at least some of them have been disbarred or are in the last throes of disbarment proceedings. Yet such punishment has come nearly four years after the events that precipitated the need for such professional discipline. Are there things courts can do now, on the immediate eve of the next presidential contest, to “insurrection-proof” their courtrooms to make sure that the legal system is not used, once …


Equality, Morality, & Religious Liberty, Mitchell F. Crusto Oct 2024

Equality, Morality, & Religious Liberty, Mitchell F. Crusto

SMU Law Review Forum

On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that the use of a specific race-conscious “tool” in the admission decisions of public and private colleges to achieve diversity is unconstitutional. However, in his nuanced opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to renew the Court’s commitment to the anti-discrimination vision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its progeny. Furthermore, the Court’s decision provided the possibility of an exception for its stated restriction, that is, for military service academies. Nonetheless, the Court’s ban on a race-conscious tool is expected to have a substantial, negative effect on the application and enrollment …


Donald Trump And The Collapse Of Checks And Balances, David M. Driesen Oct 2024

Donald Trump And The Collapse Of Checks And Balances, David M. Driesen

SMU Law Review Forum

This Essay analyzes Donald Trump’s erosion of checks and balances during his presidency and how President Trump will likely seek to complete their collapse if he regains power. Its First Part shows that congressional willingness to check presidential abuses of power declined during Trump’s presidency and will likely get much weaker in a second term. It also shows that President Trump figured out how to evade checks and balances from Congress in his first term and examines his plans to further usurp congressional powers. Part Two looks at the judicial role in facilitating or checking presidential power through a lens …


Remote Court Hearings (Past, Present, And Future): Arizona’S Next Steps For A New World To Enhance Access To Justice, Samuel A. Thumma, Marcus W. Reinkensmeyer Sep 2024

Remote Court Hearings (Past, Present, And Future): Arizona’S Next Steps For A New World To Enhance Access To Justice, Samuel A. Thumma, Marcus W. Reinkensmeyer

SMU Law Review Forum

In this article, the Arizona Supreme Court COVID-19 Continuity of Court Operations During a Public Health Emergency Workgroup (“Plan B Workgroup”) provides an update from its prior efforts, building on the Post-pandemic Recommendations: COVID-19 Continuity of Court Operations During a Public Health Emergency Workgroup, 75 SMU LAW REVIEW FORUM 1 (2022). This article focuses on the Plan B Workgroup’s February 2022 Recommended Remote and In-Person Hearings in the Arizona State Courts in the Post-Pandemic World and developments after those Recommendations. The article highlights the consideration and adoption of the Recommendations by the Arizona Judicial Council and the Arizona Supreme Court, …


The Relationship Between Force Majeure Clauses And The Excuse Defenses, Gregory Crespi Jun 2024

The Relationship Between Force Majeure Clauses And The Excuse Defenses, Gregory Crespi

SMU Law Review Forum

Many commercial contracts include force majeure clauses that excuse the parties from performing some or all of their obligations upon the occurrence of specified supervening events. The law is unclear as to the proper relationship between such clauses and the assertion of common law or statutory excuse defenses such as impossibility, impracticability, or frustration of purpose with regard to supervening events that are outside of the scope of such clauses. In particular, under what circumstances, if any, should a force majeure clause be regarded as preclusive of these excuse defenses with regard to those supervening events that the clause does …


The President’S Criminal Immunity, Amandeep S. Grewal Jun 2024

The President’S Criminal Immunity, Amandeep S. Grewal

SMU Law Review Forum

This Article addresses a monumental question that the Supreme Court will soon decide: does the President enjoy criminal immunity for her official acts? This Article argues that she does.

The potential criminal immunity for official acts has drawn exceptionally sharp critiques. Some scholars believe that the immunity is nonsensical, absurd, or downright offensive. Judge Florence Pan of the D.C. Circuit even posited that criminal immunity would allow the President to murder her political enemies with SEAL Team Six.

This Article shows that the critics are profoundly mistaken. Criminal immunity for a president’s official acts finds a strong foothold in Supreme …


Systemic Racism Transformed To Shalom Justice., Bobby West May 2024

Systemic Racism Transformed To Shalom Justice., Bobby West

Doctor of Ministry Projects and Theses

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April 27, 2024

SYSTEMIC RACISM TRANSFORMED TO SHALOM JUSTICE

This study examines the pervasive culture of systemic racism in the church and non-church communities and its impact on America. It argues how culture and systemic racism impact marginalized people (particularly African Americans and brown people) through policies and systems related to money, employment, education, health care, etc. Providing a description or argument for systemic racism formation offers a historical context of changes to shalom justice (society race in the image of God), relational and unilateral power with, power to, power within transformation from injustice to Shalom justice. An exploration …


School Leaders Supporting Undocumented Asian And Black Students, Lorena Tule-Romain May 2024

School Leaders Supporting Undocumented Asian And Black Students, Lorena Tule-Romain

Education Policy and Leadership Theses and Dissertations

There are 5.6 million K-12 students who are either undocumented or living with at least one undocumented parent (Passel & Cohn, 2018). In 2021, FWD.us estimated that approximately 620,000 K-12 students are undocumented; 34% of these students migrated from countries in Asia, sub-Saharan African, and Caribbean countries. These students have unique needs in schools, such as support for lower frequency language services, wraparound supports, and classroom curricula that should account for their cultural heritages and traditions. While scholars have conducted research on the largest group of undocumented students, Latinx, existing knowledge of the students coming from Asian and African countries …


Ending Arkansas’ First Appearance Crisis, Malia N. Brink, Pamela R. Metzger, Claire Buetow, Terrence Cain May 2024

Ending Arkansas’ First Appearance Crisis, Malia N. Brink, Pamela R. Metzger, Claire Buetow, Terrence Cain

Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center

Arkansas law is clear: every arrested person has the right to an attorney’s help the first time they see a judge. But across the state, people often face a judge at first appearance without a lawyer by their side. Even worse, a shortage of attorneys means people sometimes wait months for a lawyer’s help. The Constitution promises that every person in jail will have access to the courts and to counsel. Yet far too often, Arkansas allows people to languish in jail alone, afraid, and undefended.

This policy brief outlines research-based solutions for Arkansas to honor the Constitution’s promises by …


Protect Trans Kids: A Call To Action, Suzi Goebel May 2024

Protect Trans Kids: A Call To Action, Suzi Goebel

SMU Law Review Forum

The last several years have seen an increasing number of attacks on marginalized groups in the United States, including people of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Most recently, some state legislatures have focused their efforts on preventing transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming medical care. Despite a virtually unanimous consensus on the importance and benefits of gender-affirming care, many conservative politicians have taken aim at vulnerable children, standing in the way of potentially life-saving treatment and accusing their families and doctors of child abuse. Laws preventing transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care are just one battle in the …


South Asia/Oceania & India, Kavita Mohan, Aseem Chawla, Kriti Jaiswal, Tushar Rustgi, Jonathan Blank, Namrata Patodia Rastogi, Arshad Paku Khan, Ebaad Nawaz Khan, Arunabh Choudhary, Aditi Joshi, Rishabh Rela, Amit Gupta, Katherine Maddox Davis Mar 2024

South Asia/Oceania & India, Kavita Mohan, Aseem Chawla, Kriti Jaiswal, Tushar Rustgi, Jonathan Blank, Namrata Patodia Rastogi, Arshad Paku Khan, Ebaad Nawaz Khan, Arunabh Choudhary, Aditi Joshi, Rishabh Rela, Amit Gupta, Katherine Maddox Davis

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Middle East, Kelly Blount, Howard L. Stovall, Mamoun Aidoud, Tania Tossa, Hassan Radhi, Noor Radhi, Nicolas Bremer, Joseph Busa Arop, Seyed Mohsen Rowhani, Jeremy Benjamin, Elad Sharabi, Sam Habbas, Ibrahim Sattout, Fouad Debs, Michela Cocchi, Ravinder Singh, Mansoor Malik, Khalid Rehman, Frank Lucente, Yessine Ferah, Anne Bodley Mar 2024

Middle East, Kelly Blount, Howard L. Stovall, Mamoun Aidoud, Tania Tossa, Hassan Radhi, Noor Radhi, Nicolas Bremer, Joseph Busa Arop, Seyed Mohsen Rowhani, Jeremy Benjamin, Elad Sharabi, Sam Habbas, Ibrahim Sattout, Fouad Debs, Michela Cocchi, Ravinder Singh, Mansoor Malik, Khalid Rehman, Frank Lucente, Yessine Ferah, Anne Bodley

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Mexico, Oliver Fernando Buenrostro Figueroa, Bárbara Ávalos García, Matías Medina Sánchez, Susan Burns, Eduardo Sánchez Madrigal, Luis Armendariz, Alan Zamarripa, Ana Sofía Villa Hernández, Enrique García Mar 2024

Mexico, Oliver Fernando Buenrostro Figueroa, Bárbara Ávalos García, Matías Medina Sánchez, Susan Burns, Eduardo Sánchez Madrigal, Luis Armendariz, Alan Zamarripa, Ana Sofía Villa Hernández, Enrique García

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


European Law, James Henry Bergeron, Serj Kiyasov, Matthew Soper, Konstantinos Tsimaras, Harry Stamelos, Valeria Camboni Miller, Willem Den Hertog Mar 2024

European Law, James Henry Bergeron, Serj Kiyasov, Matthew Soper, Konstantinos Tsimaras, Harry Stamelos, Valeria Camboni Miller, Willem Den Hertog

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Eurasia/Russia, Kimberly Reed, Elena Novikova, Ksenia Tarkhova, Anastasia Sidorenko, Diana Tsutieva, Timur Bondaryev, Oksana Karel, Daryna Hrebeniuk Mar 2024

Eurasia/Russia, Kimberly Reed, Elena Novikova, Ksenia Tarkhova, Anastasia Sidorenko, Diana Tsutieva, Timur Bondaryev, Oksana Karel, Daryna Hrebeniuk

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Central/East Asia And China, Jingbing Li, Yanling Zheng, Wesley Pang Mar 2024

Central/East Asia And China, Jingbing Li, Yanling Zheng, Wesley Pang

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Canada, Jesse Goldman, Julia Webster, Jacob Mantle Mar 2024

Canada, Jesse Goldman, Julia Webster, Jacob Mantle

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Africa, Stella Amanuel Araya, Joseph Arop, Victor Nsoh Azure, Reshma Baig, Twasiima Bigirwa, Anne Bodley, Nicolas Bremer, Michela Cocchi, D. Porpoise Evans, Sara Frazão, Angela Gallerizzo, Laverne Lewis Gaskins, Chileke Sakala, John Mukum Mbaku, Jenny Spencer Medina, Alexandra Meise, Luís Miranda, Beverly Mumbo, Connie Nawaigo, Ricardo Alves Silva, Tania Tossa, Marc Weitz Mar 2024

Africa, Stella Amanuel Araya, Joseph Arop, Victor Nsoh Azure, Reshma Baig, Twasiima Bigirwa, Anne Bodley, Nicolas Bremer, Michela Cocchi, D. Porpoise Evans, Sara Frazão, Angela Gallerizzo, Laverne Lewis Gaskins, Chileke Sakala, John Mukum Mbaku, Jenny Spencer Medina, Alexandra Meise, Luís Miranda, Beverly Mumbo, Connie Nawaigo, Ricardo Alves Silva, Tania Tossa, Marc Weitz

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


National Security Law, Geoffrey M. Goodale, Jonathan Meyer, Mario Mancuso, Lucille Hague, Matthew O'Hare, Faith Dibble, Bonnie H. Weinstein, Sergio L. Suarez, Christopher A. Vallandingham, Guy C. Quinlin Mar 2024

National Security Law, Geoffrey M. Goodale, Jonathan Meyer, Mario Mancuso, Lucille Hague, Matthew O'Hare, Faith Dibble, Bonnie H. Weinstein, Sergio L. Suarez, Christopher A. Vallandingham, Guy C. Quinlin

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Life Sciences & Health Law, Carly M. Toepke, Gerald P. Schneeweis, Andrew J. Bayne Mar 2024

Life Sciences & Health Law, Carly M. Toepke, Gerald P. Schneeweis, Andrew J. Bayne

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


International Human Rights, Shekinah Apedo, Daniel L. Appelman, Jaclyn Fortini Laing, Corinne Lewis, Tschika Mcbean, Constance Z. Wagner Mar 2024

International Human Rights, Shekinah Apedo, Daniel L. Appelman, Jaclyn Fortini Laing, Corinne Lewis, Tschika Mcbean, Constance Z. Wagner

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


International Art And Cultural Heritage, Nicole Y. Silver, Wendy J. Dickieson, Tess Davis, Patty Gerstenblith, Kevin P. Ray Mar 2024

International Art And Cultural Heritage, Nicole Y. Silver, Wendy J. Dickieson, Tess Davis, Patty Gerstenblith, Kevin P. Ray

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


International Animal Law, Frances Arricale, Daina Bray, Paula Cardoso, Matthew Collis, Giuliana D'Esopo, Erica Lyman, Jill Mariani, Omar Andrew Nimri, Megan O'Toole, Rajesh K. Reddy, Joan Schaffner, Fawn Schanz, Susan Schwartz, Malcolm Seheult Mar 2024

International Animal Law, Frances Arricale, Daina Bray, Paula Cardoso, Matthew Collis, Giuliana D'Esopo, Erica Lyman, Jill Mariani, Omar Andrew Nimri, Megan O'Toole, Rajesh K. Reddy, Joan Schaffner, Fawn Schanz, Susan Schwartz, Malcolm Seheult

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Anti-Corruption, Ann Sultan, Nicole Gokcebay, Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, Frank Fariello, Dmitri Lohvinski Mar 2024

Anti-Corruption, Ann Sultan, Nicole Gokcebay, Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, Frank Fariello, Dmitri Lohvinski

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


International Tax, Sunita Doobay, Pamela A. Fuller, Henrique Lopes, Alexis Maguina, Robert J. Misey Jr., Luís Flávio Neto, Ricardo Rendón Pimentel, Eva Stadler Mar 2024

International Tax, Sunita Doobay, Pamela A. Fuller, Henrique Lopes, Alexis Maguina, Robert J. Misey Jr., Luís Flávio Neto, Ricardo Rendón Pimentel, Eva Stadler

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Cross-Border Real Estate, Timur Bondaryev, Tetiana Storozhuk, Bohdan Shmorhun Mar 2024

Cross-Border Real Estate, Timur Bondaryev, Tetiana Storozhuk, Bohdan Shmorhun

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Women's Interest Network, Dana Katz Ed., Lisa Savitt Ed., Hannah Alderks, Marie Elena Angulo, Melodie K. Arian, Michela Cocchi, Estefanía Díaz González, Haydee Dijkstal, Angela M. Gallerizzo, Dolly Hernandez, Kristina J. Holm, Elisa Kim, Christine Korper, Molly O'Casey, Sierra Paola, Sandhya Taneja, Leanna R. E. Torres Mar 2024

Women's Interest Network, Dana Katz Ed., Lisa Savitt Ed., Hannah Alderks, Marie Elena Angulo, Melodie K. Arian, Michela Cocchi, Estefanía Díaz González, Haydee Dijkstal, Angela M. Gallerizzo, Dolly Hernandez, Kristina J. Holm, Elisa Kim, Christine Korper, Molly O'Casey, Sierra Paola, Sandhya Taneja, Leanna R. E. Torres

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, Mark E. Wojcik Mar 2024

Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, Mark E. Wojcik

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


International Transportation Law, James Henry Bergeron, Attilio M. Costabel, James Border, Greg Maddaleni, Jay Choi, Martin Abadi Mar 2024

International Transportation Law, James Henry Bergeron, Attilio M. Costabel, James Border, Greg Maddaleni, Jay Choi, Martin Abadi

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.


International Energy And Natural Resources Law, Mathias Dantin, Ricardo Alves Silva, Sara Frazão Mar 2024

International Energy And Natural Resources Law, Mathias Dantin, Ricardo Alves Silva, Sara Frazão

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.