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Driving Financial Inclusion Through Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Methodology For Cbdc Implementation, Heng Wang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This publication outlines a methodology for the design, testing, and implementation of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to advance financial inclusion. As an increasing number of central banks around the world explore this novel form of financial infrastructure, this paper focuses on the potential of CBDCs to address key access and price barriers in developing and emerging economies. CBDCs, especially retail ones, can offer unique opportunities for enhancing financial services accessibility, affordability, and usability for unserved and underserved populations, if implemented responsibly through a structured, inclusive and user-centric approach.

Ai Governance And Algorithmic Auditing In Financial Institutions: Lessons From Singapore, Nydia Remolina Leon

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This paper examines the role of algorithmic auditing as a mechanism for responsible AI development and deployment in the financial sector, with a particular focus on Singapore’s regulatory and institutional initiatives. Against the backdrop of fragmented global artificial intelligence (AI) governance frameworks, the study analyses how Singapore has developed operational tools — such as the Veritas Toolkit, AI Verify, Project Moonshot and Project Mindforge — that go beyond abstract ethical principles to provide measurable, use-case-specific standards for auditing AI systems. These initiatives contribute to standardising audit practices, enhancing transparency and bridging trust gaps between financial institutions, regulators and stakeholders. The …

Treaties Establishing Dispute Settlement Frameworks, N. Jansen Calamita, Stefanie Schacherer, Facundo Perez-Aznar, Aikaterini Florou

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The purpose of the present report is to provide an overview and analysis of the measures that States adopt domestically to implement treaties that establish mechanisms for the resolution of international disputes. The report’s scope subsumes both treaties that include dispute settlement mechanisms to resolve disputes concerning the substantive obligations contained therein as well as treaties that establish frameworks for dispute resolution simpliciter which may be used to resolve disputes arising under a variety of substantive treaties (collectively “international dispute settlement mechanism” or “IDSM” treaties). The approach of the research contained within this report has been to gather information about …

Aging And The Law In Singapore And Japan: Adult Guardianship And Other Alternatives, Hang Wu Tang, Yukio Sakurai, Yue-En Chong

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Comparative adult guardianship law and other alternatives, especially in an Asian context, is an under-investigated area. This paper attempts to fill the gap in the literature by comparing the adult guardianship law and other alternatives from the perspectives of Singapore and Japan. The central argument of this paper is that in order for the law of adult guardianship to be widely adopted in Asian societies like Singapore and Japan - where much of adult guardianship related issues are governed by informal familial arrangements; this would require governments to do more than the mere enacting of adult guardianship legislation. To encourage …

Revisiting “Mandatory Mediation: An Oxymoron?” Advancing Access To Civil Justice Through Mandatory Adr, Dorcas Quek Anderson

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Access to civil justice, a concept integral to the rule of law, has been an enduring concern in many countries. One prominent strategy to enhance access to civil justice entails the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods prior to court adjudication. In this regard, efforts to embed ADR within the court system have intensified in both England and Wales and Singapore. In Singapore, the parties have a duty to consider ADR prior to and during civil proceedings. More significantly, the courts have been empowered to order parties to attempt ADR. In a similar vein, the English Court of Appeal …

Does Third Party Litigation Funding Need Regulations On Consumer Protection, Ronen Avraham, Eric Schuller, Anthony J. Sebok

Articles

Transcript of a roundtable discussion during the Third-Party Litigation Symposium at the S.J. Quinney College of Law.

The Right To Exit Religion, Zalman Rothschild

Articles

This Article argues that just over fifty years ago, in Wisconsin v. Yoder, the Supreme Court recognized what might be called a right to exit religion. In this decision, the Court expressed appreciation for preserving insular religious communities, while simultaneously articulating the principle that accommodations for such communities must not unduly restrict community members’ ability to exit should they wish to do so. Yet courts and scholars have largely overlooked Yoder’s recognition of a right to exit religion. To make this “right” more concrete, the Article examines impediments to it through a case study of one large insular religious community—the …

Sails Symposium Launch On International Law Scholarship: What We Write, Where We Publish, And Why It Matters, Kathleen Claussen, Melissa J. Durkee, Rebecca Ingber, Steven Arrigg Koh

Faculty Scholarship

Despite the centrality of international law scholarship in international law, little work has been done to understand the contours and forces at work in what international law scholars write, where they publish that work, who reads international law scholarship, and scholarship's relationship to the policy world. For international lawyers, identifying answers to these questions and appreciating the impact of our collective work is essential, particularly at a moment of profound political struggle in communities around the world. We have remarkably few data as to what topics, methodologies, and perspectives of international law scholarship journals and publishers print, by whom, in …

Understanding Disputes Over Digitalization: A Perspective Of Cross-Border Central Bank Digital Currencies, Heng Wang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

In a rapidly digitalizing world, complex disputes would arise due to the technological, regulatory and other complexities. Public and private actors—including central banks, financial institutions, tech firms, and law firms—need to understand the complexity of these disputes before determining whether and how to engage with ongoing digitalization. Given the fundamental role of currency in the world economy, this article examines central bank digital currency (CBDC) as a pivotal case study. CBDCs, representing the digitalization of central bank money, are a novel digital form of national currency issued by central banks. Various central banks, including those of the Eurozone, Switzerland, the …

Masthead

UC Law Journal

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UC Law Journal

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UC Law Journal

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“As Judged By Themselves”: Freedom, Transformative Experiences, Law, And Testimony, L. A. Paul, Cass R. Sunstein

UC Law Journal

One way to evaluate various legal interventions in people’s lives is to ask whether they make choosers better off by their own lights, or “as judged by themselves.” This criterion can be understood to borrow from the liberal political tradition insofar as it makes the judgments of choosers authoritative. If lawyers, judges, and policymakers give ultimate authority to choosers, this might be taken as respecting choosers’ own judgments and promoting their welfare (insofar as people are uniquely situated to know whether choices make them better off). But for certain decisions, the “as judged by themselves” criterion is indeterminate. In these …

In Place Of Prison, Grace Y. Li

UC Law Journal

A new, previously unstudied institution is addressing felonies, including violent felonies of the highest levels, without imposing incarceration as the sanction. Attempts to abolish prisons, or at least reduce racialized mass incarceration, must consider how to respond to serious and violent crimes. This Article offers an analysis of a real-world, ongoing experiment in doing so.

The Manhattan Felony Alternative-to-Incarceration Court (“ATI Court”) is the first and, thus far, the only court in the country that systematically offers defendants of any demographic and any charge the opportunity to be diverted from the traditional criminal legal system and to avoid prison. Defendants …

Recent And Forthcoming

UC Law Journal

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The Law Of Killing For Biodiversity, David Takacs

UC Law Journal

In the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere, people kill sentient creatures—by the millions every year—in the crusade to conserve biodiversity.

I explain how laws permit, and in some instances require, killing to save nonhuman species and to keep ecosystems functioning. In Australia, the nation with the worst record of mammalian extinctions, the government has tagged various invaders as “Key Threatening Processes.” In 2023, it laid out elaborate plans to rid the nation of as many feral cats as poison and hunters could kill. Similarly, “Predator Free New Zealand 2050” is the New Zealand government’s elaborate plan to trap …

Artificial Intelligence & Defamation Law: An Excuse To Do Away With The Infamously Controversial Section 230?, Kathryn Binder

UC Law Journal

With the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) in various aspects of our lives, it is not surprising that it has become a subject of legal disputes and controversy. In 2023, an individual filed the first defamation lawsuit against AI company, OpenAI, for its ChatGPT service, leaving many to speculate how the court will proceed. This Note assesses the viability of defamation actions against generative AI platforms and their broader effect on defamation law. Particularly, this Note considers how courts may characterize these platforms and how specific characterizations could further the controversy over an already polarizing and hotly debated piece …

Contract Quality Feature Extraction Using Llm, Aaron C. Washington

Theses and Dissertations

This study explored the potential insights generated from linguistic complexity measurements and large language model (LLM) based assessments on the quality of contract documents. By combining structured True/False prompts with log-probability analysis and ambiguity scoring, the study introduced novel contract-quality assessment methods. Results support a feature-driven approach to contract evaluation, one that offers automated, scalable insights for triaging risk and improving drafting practices. These assessment methods contribute to the growing field of legal natural language processing by offering modular tools for effective contract analysis.

From Contamination To Consequence: Tracing Donna Lake’S Human Environmental History, Dean Kyne

Sociology Faculty Publications

The Donna Reservoir and Canal System (Donna Lake) in Texas has been a persistent source of environmental contamination for over a century, exposing surrounding communities to dangerous levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Originally built for agricultural irrigation, the system became a recreational fishing site before PCB contamination was discovered during public health investigations in the 1990s. This study examines patterns of demographic vulnerability, evaluates remediation efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and explores residents’ ongoing challenges related to toxic exposure. Using publicly available demographic data, EPA reports, and previous health assessments, the study analyzes variations in community characteristics …

The Activists’ Choice: Ballot Initiatives As A Step Towards Pro-Choice Efforts, Levi C. Mahler

Culture, Society, and Praxis

Following the overturn of Roe V. Wade, many U.S. state legislatures failed to implement abortion rights that satisfy the general population. When the public disapproves of legislative law, some U.S. states allow citizens and activists the right to pursue a ballot initiative. With enough voter signatures, these ballots can turn into new laws. However, with ballot initiatives being a multi-step, lengthy process, what ultimately pushes activists to pursue this path? My research analyzes this novel intersection of political science and sociology fields to contribute to the current lack of literature on activists' decisions to pursue ballot measures for abortion rights. …

Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies Standard Of Review For Advance Notice Bylaw, Robert S. Reder, Noah Nance

Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc

Delaware’s high court resolves “confusion” by distinguishing “validity” and “enforceability” challenges

An Old Law With New Tricks? The Prospects And Pitfalls Of Using The Antiquities Act Of 1906 To Shape Climate Policy On Federal Lands, Chick Hallinan

Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc

The Antiquities Act of 1906 empowers the president to declare a national monument on federally owned land, subject to constraints. As physical hazards enhanced by climate change endanger historically or biologically valuable objects and places, the Act can shape climate policy on federal land—extending the designation to new tracts and enhancing protections on existing monuments. This Note contends that climate change qualifies as a threat to federal public lands sufficient to trigger presidential authority to proclaim a national monument. Still, any such proclamation must account for the constitutional and statutory restraints that have some gravity on the president’s power to …

[2025 Honorable Mention] Racial Marginalization And Pesticide Exposure In Monterey County, Haleigh Fagundes

Ethnic Studies Research Paper Award

This paper examines the concept of environmental racism in the context of harmful pesticides and their disproportionate use in prominently Hispanic communities. These communities continue to face the consequences of exposure despite their activism. The concept of environmental patriotism, as proposed by Anne Todd in Communicating Environmental Patriotism: A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement (2013), is incompatible with the data that supports the existence of environmental racism. In this piece Todd argues that channeling the pride one feels for their country is an effective way of promoting environmental efforts amongst individual citizens. The data to be presented denies …

Folder 80, Order Of The Coif, James Nelson Frierson

Frierson, James Nelson (1920-1946)

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Folder 81, Peabody Survey, Usc Purpose, James Nelson Frierson

Frierson, James Nelson (1920-1946)

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Folder 82, Peeples Medal, James Nelson Frierson

Frierson, James Nelson (1920-1946)

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Folder 83, Post Graduate Employment, James Nelson Frierson

Frierson, James Nelson (1920-1946)

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Folder 84, Practice Court, Brown Vs. Hazelton, James Nelson Frierson

Frierson, James Nelson (1920-1946)

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Folder 85, Hutson Vs. E. I. Dupont De Nemours, James Nelson Frierson

Frierson, James Nelson (1920-1946)

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Folder 86, Professors, Faculty, James Nelson Frierson

Frierson, James Nelson (1920-1946)

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