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UC Law SF International Law Review

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Duty-Free “Apocalypse Insurance”: Revisiting Peter Thiel’S New Zealand Citizenship, Jonathan Barrett

UC Law SF International Law Review

New Zealand has often been imagined as a place of refuge in the event of social, ecological, economic or another catastrophe. The Covid-19 pandemic drew heightened attention to the desirability of access to a remote and temperate country. For ‘preppers’ of Silicon Valley, such access represents a form of apocalypse insurance. Google co-founder Larry Page was able to enter the country, when it was effectively sealed off to outsiders, to secure medical treatment for his child. To the surprise of many, who have been waiting months if not years for their residency applications to be processed, his investor category class …

Corruption And Merit In The African Higher Education System: Legal, Policy And Sociological Reflections, Cristiano D'Orsi

UC Law SF International Law Review

This article analyses, under legal, political, and sociological aspects, the plight of corruption in Higher Education in Africa. On one side, the fight against corruption on the continent seems to use a growing number of legal instruments, at all levels (international, regional, sub-regional and domestic) on the other hand, however, it clashes against rooted traditions and a common mentality that often seem to justify acts of corruption in African academia. Through my work, I shed light on this, at least apparent, dichotomy and to make a synthesis of the various positions that can be found in Africa regarding this sensitive …

The Three Laws: The Chinese Communist Party Throws Down The Data Regulation Gauntlet, William Chaskes

Washington and Lee Law Review

Criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) runs a wide gamut. Accusations of human rights abuses, intellectual property theft, authoritarian domestic policies, disrespecting sovereign borders, and propaganda campaigns all have one common factor: the CCP’s desire to control information. Controlling information means controlling data. Lurking beneath the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) tumultuous relationship with the rest of the world is the fight between nations to control their citizens’ data while also keeping it out of the hands of adversaries. The CCP’s Three Laws are its newest weapon in this data war.

One byproduct of the CCP’s emphasis on controlling …

(G)Local Intersectionality, Martha F. Davis

Washington and Lee Law Review

Intersectionality theory has been slow to take root as a legal norm at the national level, even as scholars embrace it as a potent analytical tool. Yet, in recent years, intersectionality has entered law and policy practices through an unexpected portal: namely, local governments’ adoption of international norms. A growing number of local governments around the world explicitly incorporate intersectionality into their law and practice as part of implementing international antidiscrimination norms from human rights instruments like the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of …

The Sultans Of Stream: How Big Streaming Services Have Used Their Oligopsony Power In The Music Industry To Leave Millions Of Musicians In Dire Straits, Benjamin Stevens

South Carolina Law Review

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The Relevance Of Purpose In Constitutional Equal Protection Challenges To Executive Action, Wei Yao, Kenny Chng

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Written constitutions often include generalized guarantees of equal protection which imply a proscription on unconstitutional differential treatment. This paper will examine what the analytical focus ought to be when evaluating challenges to executive action based on such rights, a particularly relevant issue given recent developments in Hong Kong’s and Singapore’s equal protection jurisprudence. These developments suggest that there are three possible analytical focal points, each of which takes a different perspective on the relevance of the executive’s purpose in utilizing differential treatment: (1) the connection between the chosen differentiation and the specific purpose of the challenged executive action; (2) the …

The Guaranteed Resolution On Effective And Adapted Terms (The Great Process): A New Hybrid Dispute Resolution Process For Guaranteeing A Solution And Resolving Disputes Efficiently, Claude Amar, Véronique Fraser

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

Over the past twenty years, innovative dispute resolution processes have emerged from practitioners who aimed to tailor them to the parties' process needs. Some of the most widely known processes include med-arb, arb-med, co-mediation with an evaluative and a non-evaluative mediator, baseball arbitration, last offer arbitration, and sealed-arbitration. The list and possible combinations are infinite, when one starts combining processes. However, such spontaneity and adaptivity sometimes result in harmful consequences. In the past, arbitral awards in numerous jurisdictions were refused to be honored on the basis that the process had infringed on fundamental procedural guarantees. For that reason, it is …

Designing Responsive Legal Systems: A Comparative Study, Nofit Amir, Michal Alberstein

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

The drive for efficiency has caused many legal systems to redesign themselves, creating multiple paths for dispute resolution and incorporating settlement-promoting tools into the judicial role. However, as this study shows, legal systems have taken divergent approaches as they redesign themselves to accommodate settlement practices, leading to widely disparate results. This study probes the paths taken by three countries’ legal systems—England and Wales (common law), Israel (mixed), and Italy (continental law)—drawing on court docket analyses, courtroom observations, and interviews with judges in the three legal systems. It uncovers central points of divergence—emphasized stage of dispute resolution, separation vs. combination of …

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 …

Implementasi Pasar Modal Syariah: Fenomena Saham Syariah Sebagai Isu Kapitalisasi Halal Di Indonesia, Afifatul Munawiroh, Rumawi Rumawi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This article is a research-based in a study library reseacrh. The theme raised in this study is Sharia Stocks as an Issue of Halal Capitalization in Indonesia. Sharia stocks are investments in the capital market which are based on Islamic-based rules. Investors in Islamic stocks are not only from Muslims but, non-Muslims can also invest in sharia shares. There are three important questions in this research. First, what is meant by Islamic stocks? Second, how the interaction of investors on Islamic stocks so that it becomes a national capitalization issue? Third, what is the implications of Islamic stocks as a …

Kebijakan Pelaksanaan Paten Pemerintah Untuk Produk Obat Dan Vaksin: Diskursus Sistem Pelindungan Kekayaan Intelektual Dalam Perdagangan Internasional, Suyud Margono

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Intellectual Property Protection system has contradiction with the Government's use of Patent Implementation Policy for Pharmaceutical Products, Medicines and Vaccines occurs in addition to the increasing need for Medicines and vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic situation, due to the provisions of the Trade Related Aspect of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement in International trade has become a legal instrument that makes intellectual property exclusively. Identification of this research problem among others: What should be the Exploitation and Protection Policies for Inventions of Vaccine Patent Products so that there are no contradictions in the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) System for International …

Pusaran Konflik Agraria Dan Model Resolusi Konflik Berbasis Keadilan Restoratif, Nurnaningsih Nurnaningsih

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Land acquisition for public purposes does not really provide a solution for the National Strategic Project (PSN). Many land conflicts continue to occur as a result of this. The construction of the Bener Dam in Wadas Village, Bener District, Purworejo Regency, Central Java Province is one of the conflicts over the PSN. For that we need a solution that guarantees justice and legal protection for the people in Indonesia.

Evaluasi Pelaksanaan Peradilan Daring Di Pengadilan Agama Jakarta Selatan Untuk Mengoptimalisasi Penyelesaian Perkara Perceraian Selama Pandemi Covid-19, Heru Susetyo, Satrio Alif Febriyanto, Rosalinda Estevani Kardinal

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

To facilitate judicial process implementation during the COVID-19 Pandemic, courts can be conducted online. Besides preventing mass gatherings that avoid during the COVID-19 Pandemic, online courts also have other benefits to shortening time and saving court costs. The study of online justice application at the South Jakarta Religious Courts aims to find out online justice application in the divorce cases settlement with the final result of an online justice application evaluation in the divorce cases settlement during the COVID-19 Pandemic that can be used as evaluation material for stakeholders so that online courts can conduct better in the future. The …

Tinjauan Atas Sanksi Dan Imbalan Bunga Perpajakan Dalam Undang-Undang Harmonisasi Peraturan Perpajakan, Ismail Khozen, Milla Sepliana Setyowati

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The implementation of interest sanctions and compensation in taxation has undergone changes following the enactment of the Omnibus Law Job Creation in early October 2020. Although the regulation was later deemed unconstitutional, a similar framework has been incorporated into Law No. 7 of 2021 on Tax Harmonization Law (UU HPP). The lack of scholarly research exploring their conceptualization and implementation has motivated us to conduct this study. Our research emphasizes the importance of adhering to principles when designing a regime for imposing sanctions. Comparing two options, utilizing a fixed rate or a floating rate for calculating taxpayer sanctions and interest …

Optimalisasi Kewenangan Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat (Mpr) Dalam Sistem Ketatanegaraan Indonesia, Raden Roro Evitasari Yurika Anggraini, Ryan Muthiara Wasti

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

In the Indonesian constitutional system, it is very influential on changes to the amendments UUD 1945 which in these changes to state institutions of course experience differences in authority from before the amendment and after the amendment. Regarding these changes, MPR may experience many changes in it regarding the position and authority in the Indonesian state administration. The MPR is no longer the highest state institution as before the amendment, which is now in parallel with other institutions. So in the Indonesian state administration, there are no higher state institutions between one another. With this change, the MPR's authority has …

Menggagas Arah Kebijakan Ketenagakerjaan Yang Berkeadilan Demi Mewujudkan Kesejahteraan Pekerja/Buruh, Fitriana Fitriana

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

One of the unsolved economic problems to date is related to the employment aspects. However, Government’s policies to address the problems have not provide a sense of justice for the community. It can be seen from the various actions against Law Number 11 of 2020 on Job Creation. From the drafting until the issuance, the public still rejected the substance of employment provisions because it was considered unfair to workers/laborers. Government policies are needed to protect workers/laborers whose socioeconomic status is weaker than that of employers. This study aims to elaborate issues of injustice that arise as a result of …

Kekuatan Pembuktian Alat Bukti Elektronik Dalam Hukum Acara Perdata, Disriani Latifah Soroinda, Anandri Annisa Rininta Soroinda Nasution

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The development of digital technology and information technology is happening very rapidly, computer systems are getting more sophisticated and internet access is getting easier making technology a part of people's daily lives, the existence of documents and or electronic information has now become a common thing. How does the Indonesian Civil Procedure Law regulates documents and or electronic information as an evidence and how does the law regulates the recognition, the validity and the strength of that evidence in the trials in order to create legal certainty for the people seeking justice.

Perdebatan Teoritis Terhadap Perluasan Ruang Lingkup Keuangan Negara Di Indonesia, Sutan Sorik, Anang Dwiatmoko

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The focus of this research is the expansion of the scope of state finance which currently still presents cross-thinking. The existence of a coherent understanding regarding the application of the financial legal status of a legal entity, whether it is related to state finances, regional finances, state-owned enterprises (BUMN) finances, regional-owned enterprises (BUMD) finances, or private finances is the background why this happens. In the development of the expansion of the scope of state finances, it became even stronger when the Constitutional Court also issued several decisions in response to requests for judicial review, starting from the Decision of the …

Tinjauan Terhadap Tindak Pidana Pelaku Kekerasan Seksual Yang Dilakukan Oleh Anak: Studi Di Pengadilan Tindak Pidana Kekerasan Seksual Pada Pengadilan Negeri Tanjung Karang, S. Endang Prasetyawati, Tami Rusli, Yolanda Anindya D.S.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Children are frequently the victims of sexual violence crime, but they can also commit sexual violence. The absence of parental monitoring led to this occurrence. The purpose of this study was to determine the research process on criminal acts of sexual violence committed by children and the judge’s considerations in cases of criminal acts of sexual violence committed by children. This study adopted a normative juridical approach as its methodology. Legal normative data sources, gathering information through outdoor investigation and library study. Data analysis employed legal qualitative. Accroding to the findings of the study and discussion, judges should take into …

Teori Kesetaraan Sumber Daya Dworkin Dalam Kerangka Keadilan Distributif Dan Implikasinya Terhadap Konstitusi Negara Kesejahteraan, Petrus Ckl Bello

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

According to Dworkin, the equality that must be pursued by a government is equality of resources, not equality of welfare, as emphasized by utilitarianism in its various versions. According to him, the concept of resource equality is superior in interpreting abstract ideas about human equality. First, the concept of resource equity avoids ambiguity in understanding distributive justice and, second, avoids divisions that contradict our intuition about justice, two problems that plague the formulation of welfare equality. Equality of resources is proposed by Dworkin in the framework of distributive justice. According to Dworkin, it is in this equality of resources between …

Implikasi Penambangan Emas Ilegal Pada Masyarakat Adat Yonamami Amazon Brasil, Trini Diyani, Tiurma Mangihut Pitta Allagan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The study seeks to understand the implications of mining on the rights of the Yanomami Indigenous Peoples of theBrazilian Amazon. Brazil has great potential for mining activities in the future. However, in recent years there has been a large number of illegal gold mining activities contributing greatly to the environment both physically and socially. Illegal mining leads to clashes between miners and the Yanomami tribe as well as severe environmental degradation. These miners are estimated to account for about a third of Brazil's gold production. Illegal gold mining in the Amazon increases deforestation and water pollution resulting in deforestation of …

Ekosida: Studi Atas Pendekatan Loss Of Ecological Service Dan Environmental Crime Serta Prospek Pengaturan Di Indonesia, Triantono Triantono, Ani Purwanti, Nur Rochaety

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Ecosides have become an international discourse since the 1970s, as a result of concerns about human behavior towards the environment. In the last 10 years ecocide has appeared so clearly as part of a structured, systematic and massive exploitative action. The development of environmental crimes in the form of ecocides has not been followed by concrete efforts in the form of an international consensus to define ecocides as the most serious crime that can threaten environmental destruction. In the midst of this situation, there are 2 (two) interesting approaches to be developed further within the framework of explaining, analyzing and …

Pembagian Hasil Migas Melalui Cost Recovery Dan Gross Split Bagi Sebesar-Besarnya Kemakmuran Rakyat Menurut Uud Nri Tahun 1945, Athari Farhani, Faiqah Nur Azizah, Panggalih Usadhani, Faridh Kurniawan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Indonesia is a country with abundant natural resources. In oil and gas, two models of product sharing contract are known, namely through cost recovery and gross split. Through Permen of ESDM Number 12 of 2020 concerning the Third Amendment to Regulation of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Number 8 of 2017 concerning Gross Split Production Sharing Contracts, which through this regulation the government makes it easy for contractor entrepreneurs to choose the Gross Split and Cost Recovery model schemes. Meanwhile, the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia has outlined that natural resources are controlled by the state …

Citizenship And The First-Generation Limitation In Canada, Michael Pal, Luka Ryder-Bunting

Dalhousie Law Journal

This article considers the current Canadian regime for citizenship by descent and what is known as the “first-generation limitation.” In 2009, Parliament legislated to limit the transmission of citizenship by descent. Known as the “first-generation limitation,” the new rules mean that a Canadian parent is only entitled to pass on their citizenship to their children born abroad if the parent themselves became a citizen by birth inside Canada or by naturalization. In other words, if an individual acquired Canadian citizenship by descent, they are not entitled to pass on their citizenship to their children unless those children are born in …

Technology In The Security Sector: Mexico, Vanessa J. Gutierrez, Melina Ponte, Angiee Rosario, Arleen Castillo, Henry Saldarriaga, Hector Tejeda, Stephanie Reich, Rosemary Barberet

Publications and Research

The use of technology in policing seeks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the daily duties police officers may encounter. However, there is mixed empirical data on the use of technology and if it is really contributing to the institutional goals of the security sector, or, if it is contributing to other factors. This report provides an exploratory approach to understanding what information technology is being used in Mexico at the state level, in order to compare where broader application of information technology could make impactful contributions to the security situation in the country.

With a focus on six …

All Bets Are On! . . . Line: The Varied Regulatory Framework Of An Interconnected Online Sports Betting System, Meg Graham

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Surrogacy And Parenthood: A European Saga Of Genetic Essentialism And Gender Discrimination, Mélanie Levy

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This paper tells a story of shifting normativities, from tradition to modernity and back, regarding the recognition of legal parenthood in non-traditional families created through crossborder surrogacy. The cross-border nature of the surrogacy is often forced as most domestic legal frameworks in Europe still restrict the creation of non-traditional families through assisted reproductive technologies. Once back home, these families struggle to have birth certificates recognized and establish legal parenthood. The disjuncture between social reality and domestic law creates a situation of legal limbo. In its recent case law, the European Court of Human Rights has pushed for domestic authorities to …

Pregnant Transgender People: What To Expect From The Court Of Justice Of The European Union's Jurisprudence On Pregnancy Discrimination, Hannah Van Dijcke

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Pregnant transgender people’s experiences vary: they may identify as male or non-binary and may seek gender-affirming medical care to different degrees. This variety in gender identities and bodies puts additional pressure on CJEU’s pregnancy discrimination case law—a case law that is, as this Article argues, already flawed. Building on a critique of the CJEU’s decision in Dekker, this Article discusses three alternative approaches to addressing pregnancy discrimination in EU law. The first two approaches are different ways of construing pregnancy discrimination as sex discrimination. First, the Article discusses a gender-stereotyping approach to direct sex discrimination, and, second, an indirect sex …

Suspect Development Systems: Databasing Marginality And Enforcing Discipline, Rashida Richardson, Amba Kak

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Algorithmic accountability law—focused on the regulation of data-driven systems like artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision-making (ADM) tools—is the subject of lively policy debates, heated advocacy, and mainstream media attention. Concerns have moved beyond data protection and individual due process to encompass a broader range of group-level harms such as discrimination and modes of democratic participation. While a welcome and long overdue shift, the current discourse ignores systems like databases, which are viewed as technically “rudimentary” and often siloed from regulatory scrutiny and public attention. Additionally, burgeoning regulatory proposals like algorithmic impact assessments are not structured to surface important –yet …