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Equitable Incorporation: How History And Tradition Can Progressively Redefine The Fourteenth Amendment, Robert D'Alessandro

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The Fourteenth Amendment, designed to ensure equality before the law, has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court through its incorporation doctrine, leading to rulings that harm marginalized communities. The article advocates for "Equitable Incorporation," a doctrine requiring courts to consider the impact of their decisions on historically discriminated groups, ensuring the Amendment's purpose of equity and justice is upheld. This approach would necessitate the incorporation of unincorporated rights and reinterpret existing ones to reflect the Amendment's equitable intent.

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Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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Table Of Contents - Cardozo Journal Of Equal Rights & Social Justice, Vol. 31, Iss. 2

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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Shining Light On Policy: The Case For Solar Panel Mandates On New Construction Projects, Emily Glazier

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that solar panel mandates on new construction projects are a necessary and sensible approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving climate goals, but their implementation must include provisions to protect vulnerable communities and address environmental justice concerns. While such mandates face legal and political challenges, the benefits of decreased emissions and energy independence outweigh the costs, particularly when paired with measures like community solar systems, incentives, and exemptions.

Protection Of Male And Female Sexed Children From Genital Cutting: Making Sense Of Recent Legal Developments, J. Steven Svoboda

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article critically examines the disparate legal treatment of female genital cutting (FGC) and male genital cutting (MGC), arguing for a more consistent approach that recognizes both practices as violations of bodily integrity. It highlights the ethical and legal inconsistencies in how these practices are viewed and regulated, advocating for a unified legal framework that prioritizes consent and the rights of the individual.

ปัญหาการบังคับใช้พระราชบัญญัติความร่วมมือระหว่างประเทศในทางแพ่งเกี่ยวกับการละเมิดสิทธิควบคุมดูแลเด็ก พ.ศ. 2555 : ศึกษากรณีการลักเด็กข้ามชาติ, นรมน อรุณฤทธิเดชา

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ที่จะศึกษาปัญหาการบังคับใช้พระราชบัญญัติความร่วมมือระหว่างประเทศในทางแพ่งเกี่ยวกับการละเมิดสิทธิควบคุมดูแลเด็ก พ.ศ. 2555 ศึกษากรณีการลักเด็กข้ามชาติ โดยศึกษามาตรการทางกฎหมายกรณีของการลักพาเด็กข้ามชาติในทางแพ่งของต่างประเทศที่เป็นรัฐภาคีของอนุสัญญากรุงเฮกว่าด้วยลักษณะทางแพ่งในการลักพาตัวเด็กข้ามชาติ ค.ศ. 1980 เพื่อเสนอแนะแนวทางแก้ไขปัญหาการบังคับใช้พระราชบัญญัติความร่วมมือระหว่างประเทศในทางแพ่งเกี่ยวกับการละเมิดสิทธิควบคุมดูแลเด็ก พ.ศ. 2555 ต่อไปผลการศึกษาพบว่า การดำเนินการของผู้ประสานงานกลางของประเทศไทย รวมถึงสำนักงานตำรวจแห่งชาติ และศาลเยาวชนและครอบครัวกลาง ซึ่งเป็นหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการบังคับใช้พระราชบัญญัติความร่วมมือระหว่างประเทศในทางแพ่งเกี่ยวกับการละเมิดสิทธิควบคุมดูแลเด็ก พ.ศ. 2555 ยังไม่สอดคล้องกับหลักการของอนุสัญญากรุงเฮกว่าด้วยลักษณะทางแพ่งในการลักพาตัวเด็กข้ามชาติ ค.ศ. 1980 และการตีความและปรับใช้ประมวลกฎหมายแพ่งและพาณิชย์ มาตรา 1582 ยังมีความไม่ชัดเจน ผู้เขียนจึงขอเสนอให้หน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องดังกล่าวข้างต้นออกมาตรการทางกฎหมาย ตลอดจนกำหนดแนวทางการดำเนินการที่ชัดเจน และการแก้ไขเพิ่มเติมประมวลกฎหมายแพ่งและพาณิชย์ มาตรา 1582 เพื่อให้การบังคับใช้พระราชบัญญัติความร่วมมือระหว่างประเทศในทางแพ่งเกี่ยวกับการละเมิดสิทธิควบคุมดูแลเด็ก พ.ศ. 2555 สัมฤทธิ์ผลพร้อมกับเกิดประโยชน์ในการแก้ไขปัญหาการลักพาเด็กข้ามชาติต่อไป

Ip, At, And Aaas: What Intellectual Property Can Teach Antitrust About The War On Amazon Basics, Kristen Osenga

Law Faculty Publications

Amazon is magical. Search the online marketplace for pretty much anything you can imagine—not to mention all the things you never imagined; you will likely find what you were searching for and be able to have it delivered in two days or less. The magic is not just in Amazon’s vast array of innovative consumer products but also in its providing access to goods that are unavailable locally. An extreme example of Amazon’s ability to supply goods that were not locally available may be found in the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, when neighborhood stores were out of toilet paper and …

Popular Originalism, Thomas G. Donnelly

Law Faculty Publications

Scholars are obsessed with the Roberts Court’s recent turn to history and tradition. But another source of authority has also emerged as an important feature of the Roberts Court’s approach to constitutional cases. In previous work, I have referred to this source of authority as popular meaning. While original meaning identifies the best reading of the Constitution’s text at the time of its ratification, popular meaning draws on sources of authority outside the courts to capture the constitutional views of the American people today. In this Article, I demonstrate how interpreters might draw on the Constitution’s popular meaning to help …

A Crust Of Bread: Religious Resistance And The Fourteenth Amendment, Kurt T. Lash, Stephanie Hall Barclay

Law Faculty Publications

In Employment Division v. Smith, the U.S. Supreme Court denied heightened constitutional protection to religiously motivated exercise burdened by neutral and generally applicable laws. The history presented in this Article suggests that the Smith approach conflicts with the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment. Out of the crucible of religious abolitionist resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act emerged a substantive theory of constitutional religious freedom: American citizens should have the right to obey the Biblical command to care for the needy and provide the hungry a "crust of bread," even if doing so was contrary to neutral and generally …

The Beleaguered Sovereign: Judicial Restraints On Public Enforcement, Luke P. Norris, Helen Hershkoff

Law Faculty Publications

Looking back at the federal courts over the last generation, commentators will likely focus on their role in undermining the functioning of the regulatory state. Well-acknowledged in this story are Supreme Court decisions that have constrained administrative agencies under the newly minted “major questions” doctrine, as well as the Court’s blockbuster decision overruling the longstanding Chevron doctrine. The Court also has made it increasingly difficult for individuals—often workers and consumers, people of color, women, and those who live from paycheck to paycheck—to seek federal judicial redress for regulatory violations as private enforcers. And the Court has questioned whether certain private …

Secrets Of The Killing State: The Medical Professional Mandate, Corinna Barrett Lain

Law Faculty Publications

When New Jersey reinstated the death penalty in 1983, the state hadn’t conducted an execution in twenty years, so no one knew how to conduct an execution by lethal injection. Doctors at the state prison refused to participate, citing medical ethics that required them to “support life, not end it,” and that left prison officials thinking that they might have to conduct the executions themselves. “That is not an easy task for an amateur,” a reporter covering the quandary wrote. Unsure of what else do to, officials called upon Fred Leuchter, an engineer who had worked with a number of …

A Civil Rights Defense Of Gentrification, Carol Brown

Law Faculty Publications

Scholars across disciplines such as sociology, economics, and urban planning are writing about gentrification. The literature and beliefs surrounding gentrification are very diverse, but what often connects the various views is a negative perception that gentrification always disadvantages and displaces low-income minority residents, physically or culturally. But the connotations of race and class associated with gentrification in the minds of many do not align with the empirical research and scholarly findings. Thus far in law, there is no thick legal account of gentrification and its legal or policy implications. Much of the legal writing is predicated upon an inaccurate conception …

Living The Good Life In The Anthropocene, Danielle Stokes

Law Faculty Publications

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has concluded that the number of “planetary boundaries” we are crossing has increased from three in 2009, when the Centre’s researchers first introduced the concept, to six in 2023. Crossing these boundaries means humans are changing basic attributes of planetary systems to the point of risking the future of civilization. And the distinction between “safe” and “just” planetary boundaries raises questions regarding how to conceptualize the “good life.” In this latest in a biannual series of essays, members of the Environmental Law Collaborative explore conceptions of the “good” as well as the various elements necessary to …

Trust Law And The Tides Of Colonialism, Allison Anna Tait

Law Faculty Publications

Tethered to and inextricably linked with the absence or decline of democratic governance, there has always been empire. Empires rise and fall, as they say, but the imperial impulse is perennial and new iterations of old empires emerge with dismal regularity, showing us that imperial formations are hard to erase...

The Masterplot Of The Market, Allison Anna Tait, Luke Norris

Law Faculty Publications

Stories about the family, work, and the market circulate in law, legal discourse, and beyond. The family, we are told by numerous authorities, is a non-market site, centred on emotional attachment rather than economic transaction. It is a site of interpersonal care, growth, and nurturance that acts as a counter to the excesses of an unbridled marketplace. The market, in contrast, is a site where autonomous beings contract, pursuing their interests efficiently and maximising wealth. This is one masterplot of the market, which, as it operates in the United States, constructs certain household members outside of the market and constructs …

The Resurgence Of Massive Resistance, Danielle Wingfield-Smith

Law Faculty Publications

“Massive Resistance” to equal access to good quality public education is resurging across the nation. First employed by segregationists in Virginia, Massive Resistance spread across the South to oppose school desegregation. This extreme push to suppress equitable education occurred most notably post-Brown. Although 2024 marked Brown’s seventieth anniversary, Massive Resistance is again surging. In fact, the last few years have witnessed increasing resistance to publicly funded education. Some areas where anti-public education resistance strategies have manifested include political rhetoric around Critical Race Theory, library censorship, and renewed parental rights debates.

To devise the most effective response to …

New Jersey's Mitigation And Adaptation To Climate Change: An Economic Analysis Of The State's Societal Benefits Charge And Community Solar Energy Program, Nicole S. Provost

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Understanding the current trajectory of New Jersey’s emissions and the existing legislation and programs implemented to help reduce emissions, it is evident that the State requires further actions to spur heightened emission reductions to reach its goals. One known impactful policy that could significantly accelerate this process is a carbon tax, which applies to emission-intensive goods. Although this policy does not currently exist in New Jersey, the State has a Societal Benefits Charge (SBC) that applies an approximate 3% charge to electricity and gas consumption on residential and commercial utility customers’ monthly energy bills, where revenues fund programs that offer …

Tribute To Professor C. Paul Rogers Iii, Kathrine Maldonado

SMU Law Review

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Towards The Abolition Of The Immigration Detention Of Children In The United States, Lauren E. Bartlett

All Faculty Scholarship

For over a decade, international human rights mechanisms have been calling for the prohibition of the detention of children based solely on immigration status. Human rights experts agree that the detention of children for immigration purposes is never in the best interests of the child, it leads to long-term harm, and it is a clear human rights violation. Until recently, the United States has detained hundreds of thousands of migrant children in cages each year and we have still not outlawed the inhumane practice. This article argues that engaging with international human rights mechanisms on this topic, including during the …

The Value Of A Statistical Life: From Skin In The Game To Vision Zero, Michael C. Duff

All Faculty Scholarship

This essay discusses justice issues surrounding occupational safety and health and assesses the ethical legitimacy—the justice—of regulatory cost benefit analysis when the costs in question involve the risks and realization of workplace injury and fatalities. The current “value of a statistical life” for legal-regulatory purposes is 13.1 million dollars. While economists are careful to say that this figure does not “really” represent an attempt to value any particular life, the purpose of even calculating the number is to provide an “aggregated” statistical justification for saying “no” to rules requiring safer work. This seems acceptable until you, or someone you love, …

Dean Rogers: The Wyoming Whiz Kid, Jake Torres

SMU Law Review

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Professional Liability, Shelby Taylor, R. Max Ward, Levi Klinglesmith

SMU Annual Texas Survey

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Front Matter

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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The Sky’S Not The Limit: Navigating Starlink’S Impact On Global Connectivity And Regulation, Michael N. Hillebrand

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

This case note examines the governance implications arising from the onset of accelerated satellite internet expansion and explores potential regulatory solutions for effective governmental oversight. Due to the interconnected nature of the internet and its global network, international organizations and treaties play a crucial role in content and data regulation, and rapid technological evolution presents increasing difficulties for these regulatory frameworks to keep pace. These challenges are particularly evident in satellite-based broadband internet services, with SpaceX’s Starlink emerging as the most prominent and currently relevant service in this domain. Proponents of this technology emphasize its ability to provide internet access …

Crypto Chaos In The Courtroom: Navigating Bankruptcy’S Digital Gold Rush, Grayson Timmins

SMU Law Review

The explosion of cryptocurrency, along with other digital assets, has led to many new transactions and investment opportunities for those interested in broadening their portfolios. While cryptocurrency is new, the failure of a cryptocurrency exchange requires the application of the same bankruptcy procedures in the same way as parties using traditional U.S. currency. In bankruptcy, these intangible assets are designated property of the estate and are deemed subject to the court’s jurisdiction. At this point, an issue arises: Once classified as property of the estate, how should crypto be classified?

The lack of regulatory infrastructure regarding this classification further complicates …

Front Matter

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Fake Parts, Real Threats: Combating The Infiltration Of Counterfeit Parts In The Aviation Industry, Jennifer Su

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

This Comment addresses the historic and current-day issue of counterfeit aircraft parts in the aviation industry. Counterfeit parts—also known as fake parts, bogus parts, unapproved parts, and suspected unapproved parts (SUPs)—are any parts that do not conform to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) standards and regulations. Given the lackluster availability of public information and coverage over the issue, this Comment aims to bring more attention to the very real threat of fake aircraft parts.

From the beginning of U.S. commercial aviation and the creation of regulations governing aircraft designs and parts, counterfeit parts have plagued the aviation industry. Although …

Cross-Border Limitations And Exceptions To Copyright: “Powered By Ai.”, Trimble, Marketa

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Businesses and institutions that wish to utilize copyright protected works in multiple countries face a multiplicity of national copyright laws; although national copyright laws have been harmonized in accordance with several international treaties and harmonized even more in the European Union member states by European Union legislation, countries’ copyright laws continue to vary. The multiplicity of national copyright laws raises costs of transnational operations, including for businesses and institutions that rely on limitations and exceptions to copyright (“L&Es”) in multiple countries. For example, AI companies might want to rely on L&Es to train and deploy their AI in multiple countries, …

Level Up Your Legal Knowledge: A Gamer’S Guide To Navigating Copyright Challenges For Video Game Music Covers And Sheet Music Arrangements., Lee, Aliza Jimin

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Video games are a significant part of many people’s lives, offering immersive worlds, memorable experiences, and music that stays with us long after the controller has been put down. Fans and players who love video game music often express their appreciation by creating music covers, arranging sheet music, and performing video game compositions. However, the legal complexities surrounding copyright are not always top of mind for these creators. This paper explores the intersection of copyright law and fan-created video game music, focusing on covers and sheet music arrangements. It outlines how ownership of music in the video game industry is …

Ecosocialism, Degrowth, And Global South Thought: Critical Legal Transformations, Nicholas F. Stump

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

This Article explores how Critical Legal Research (CLR) can help drive transformations of our ecological political economy towards true system change. CLR entails a critical legal theory–informed approach to legal and broader socio-legal research. After articulating the CLR framework, this Article explores its potential in the context of leading and intertwined bodies of theory for transformative change: ecosocialism, degrowth, and Global South and Indigenous thought. Next, this Article offers concrete avenues to help pursue such emancipatory change—i.e., specifically focusing on the popular conception of an “ecosocialist transition.” Ecosocialist transition strategies include non-reformist reforms, dual power, a radical just transition, and …