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Analisis Yuridis Kedudukan Narapidana Sebagai Justice Collaborator, Bambang Sugiri, Nurini Aprilianda, Hanif Hartadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This article aims to examine the inmates position as a justice collaborator in the disclosure of organized crime that can assist law enforcement officers. This is againstthe backdrop of crown witnesses who are often used in proving criminal cases but are judged to be in violation of human rights. The difficulty of disclosure of organized crime is that the perpetrators involved in organized crime are bound by the oath of silence (omerta). Information from inmates related to crime networks he has committed, facilitates the disclosure of organized crime by law enforcement officers. This paper is based on the results of …

Politik Hukum Program Keluarga Berencana Di Indonesia, Aditya Rahmadhony, Mardiana Dwi Puspitasari, Maria Gayatri, Iwan Setiawan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Regime or government change has specificlegal political characteristics, including the Political Law of Family Planning. Each period of government has different views and policies on the implementation of the national family planning program as one of the programs in population control in Indonesia. This study aims to determine the effect of legal politics on the success of the family planningprogram in Indonesia by analyzing statutory regulations in the form of policy rules relating to the family planning program at each government period. The research method used is juridical-normative research through a literature review approach by analyzing policies in the form …

Urgensi Prinsip Non-Diskriminasi Dalam Regulasi Untuk Pengarus-Utamaan Kesetaraan Gender, Anisatul Hamidah

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Discrimination against women seems to have become part of the human history and development because it has happened since years ago until now.Therefore,the issue of discrimination against women is still interesting and becomes an important topic to discuss both at the global level and in Indonesia. Efforts to minimize the existence of discrimination against women have actually been carried outby establishing global consensus listed in various legal instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). These instruments explicitly state the obligation of countries to …

Perilaku Ramah Air Dalam Perspektif Hukum(Studi Peraturan Daerah Dki Jakarta Dan Kota Depok Terkait Sumber Daya Air), R. Ismala Dewi, Aad Rusyad Nurdin

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Various water resource problems that occur in Indonesia, including in DKI Jakarta and surrounding cities, such as flooding, drought, raw water crisis, river water pollution, have an impact on decreasing water availability. This is partly due to the unfriendly behavior of the community in using water, especially those in water catchment areas. Therefore, it is necessary to manage waterto maintain the sustainability of water availability so as to provide fair benefits to the community. Given these objectives and the existence of complex water problems, it requires adequate regulation. A rule that is not only to overcome the act of destroying …

Fungsi Akta Notaris Dalam Lisensi Hki: Perspektif Fidusia, Dian Cahayani, Merlin Swantamalo Magna

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This study aims to analyse the function of a notarial deed in an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) license based on a fiduciary perspective. This type of research is normative legal research by examining secondary data sourced from the principles and theories and laws and regulations. The method of data collection is done by studying literaturesuch as regulations, books, documents or other writings to support this research. The collected data is thenanalyzed qualitatively using data analysis methods. Based on the results of the study it can be concluded that the notary has the authority in making the deed of fiduciary guarantee …

Pandemi Covid-19: Force Majeure Dan Hardship Pada Perjanjian Kerja, Nindry Sulistya Widiastiani

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

In the civil law system, there are force majeure and hardship concepts which is related with situation when debtors unable to fulfill their contract obligations. Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia causes employers’ difficulties in order to fulfill their work agreement obligations, such as payingtheir workers wages and Religious Holiday Allowances. In the context of fulfilling work agreement obligations, force majeure dan hardship concepts could not be found in the Indonesia’s Manpower Law. This conceptual article aims to analyse the chance of using force majeure and hardship concepts in the implementation of work agreement during covid-19 pandemic. The analysis uses conceptual approach …

Pendekatan Keadilan Integratif Dalam Membangun Institusi Publik Yang Legitim, Tri Harnowo, Alavi Ali

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Public institutions have a very important role in providing public services in order to fulfill basic needs and the rights of every citizen, therefore the formation and operation must have public legitimacy. This paper discusses conceptual ideas in establishing legitimate public institutions based on the integrative justice principle, by taking Rawlss proscedural justice, Habermass communication theory and Lind’s perceptive justice as theoritical framework. The results of this study provide a concept of legitimate public institutions where in its formation and operatioan must fulfill the principles of participatory, constitutionality, universality, accessibility, efficiency, partiality, dialectic, deliberative, care, respect and explanatory.

Mengkaji Penerapan Sanksi Pidana Dalam Pencegahan Penyebaran Covid-19 Di Indonesia, Aliyth Prakarsa, Dadang Herli, Rena Yulia

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The police in handling policies that are applied in an emergency period use criminal sanctions, meanwhile, the police also need to provide education and legal protection for the community when there are repressive efforts from the police in enforcing government policies through the Chief of Polices Declaration. The specific target to be achieved is to examine the application of the Chief of Polices Declaration in the application of the contents of the edict that contains criminal sanctions and examine its effectiveness in its application. The method used in this study is a normative and empirical legal research method. Normative research …

Surat Edaran Sebagai Instrumen Administrasi Negara Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19, Fitriani Ahlan Sjarif, Efraim Jordi Kastanya

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Since Indonesia entered a period of health emergencies caused by the outbreak ofthe Covid-19, the Indonesian government has attempted to develop various legal instruments to regulatethe behavior of the Indonesian people. One of the instruments used is a circular letter. This paper tries to examine the normative juridical use of circular letters as an instrument of state administration during this pandemic. In legislation science and administrative law theory,a circular letter is a piece of legislationthat should be used as an official note to warn and remind, notto regulate.In practice, there are several problematic Circular Letters which are used to regulate …

Penerapan Pertanggungjawaban Pidana Korporasi Dalam Berbagai Putusan Pengadilan, Muhammad Fatahillah Akbar

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

By the development of criminal law in Indonesia, the corporate criminal responsibility has been introduced in many Acts. In the practices, there are criminal court decisions which sentenced corporations. This article aims to comprehensively examine how corporate criminal responsibility is implemented in various court decisions. It is found that aggregation theory, which corporate criminal responsibility is based on the actions of some people in the corporation scope, has been applied in most cases. Howeverm the weakness of the aggregation theory, in environment crimes, only corporation which was responsible and most organizers were not. On the other hand, in the corruption …

Status Hukum Penjelasan Undang-Undang Berdasarkan Sistem Peraturan Perundang-Undangan Indonesia, Ilham Fajar Septian, Ali Abdurahman

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The law explanationis interpretation of norms contained in the body of the law. However, its existence as part of the law promulgatesthe unclear status of the lawexplanation as a mere interpretation or also as a binding legal norm. This has been further emphasized by the Constitutional Court Decision whichchanges its stance in judicial review to the law explanation. Therefore, issues regarding the legal status of the law explanationand the extent to which the Constitutional Court can judicial review tothe law explanationneed to be resolved. This research is a normative juridical research through literature study with historical, statutory, case, conceptual, and …

Tinjauan Yuridis Terhadap Perlindungan Anak Dalam Ruang Siber Di Indonesia, Muhammad Rafifnafia Hertianto

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Indonesia high internet development and penetration rate make the child as user in a vulnerable position tocyberspace threat. Ironically Indonesia until this moment has no specific law or technical mechanism that can guarantee child security and fulfill child rights. In the current situation the number of criminal reports which utilize internet as its medium arehigh and keep on increasing over the year. This research aim to analyze the concept of child protection in cyberspace based on existing regulations on child protection. This research uses normative juridical methods and secondarydata which is then analyzedto state conclusion and recommendation. Based on the …

The Rise Of Ada Title Iii: How Congress And The Department Of Justice Can Solve Predatory Litigation, Sarah E. Zehentner

Brooklyn Law Review

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted in 1990 to afford equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Title III of the ADA, specifically, was enacted to afford disabled individuals equal access to places of public accommodation. When the ADA was enacted, the internet was still in its infancy and Congress did not contemplate the need for governing accessibility to websites of public accommodations. Today, the internet has become embedded in virtually every aspect of our lives, yet there are still millions of disabled individuals who are unable to equally access the websites of American businesses. With the ADA being …

A Half-Built House: The Substantial Similarity Analysis Split In Architectural Copyright Infringement Cases, Madison V. Smiley

Brooklyn Law Review

The path to extending copyright protection to architectural works in the United States has not come without its challenges, especially as the federal courts continue to muddle through complicated and varying case law to determine whether architectural works infringement has occurred in a given dispute. Applying a uniform approach to analyze substantial similarity in a way that effectively protects architectural works across the federal circuits is necessary to fulfill the legislative intent and the constitutional intent of copyright protection. Likewise, a uniform approach will clarify the level of copyright protection that architectural works are permitted to receive in the United …

September 20, 2021: Two Recent Columns--The Texas Anti-Abortion Statute And Justice Wecht And The Death Of God, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Two Recent Columns--the Texas Anti-Abortion statute and Justice Wecht and the Death of God“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 2, 2021: The Steal In The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The steal in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health Organization: Brief For Constitutional Law Scholars Lee C. Bollinger, Erwin Chemerinsky, Sherry F. Colb, Michael C. Dorf, Daniel Farber, Joanna L. Grossman, Leah Litman, Martha Minow, Jane S. Schacter, Suzanna Sherry, Geoffrey R. Stone, David A. Strauss, And Laurence H. Tribe As Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents, Leah Litman

Appellate Briefs

Amici, listed in Appendix A, are constitutional law scholars who teach and write in the field of constitutional law, including on limits on the regulation of abortion. They share an interest in promoting the stability of this Court’s abortion jurisprudence as well as its continuity with the constitutional law governing related rights.<\p>

For nearly 50 years, the Supreme Court has recognized that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a woman’s fundamental right to decide whether to have an abortion. See Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 153-54 (1973). Accordingly, in Roe, the Court held that prior …

Does The Ministerial Exception Protect A Minister's Humiliating Comments?, Yiting Feng

SLU Law Journal Online

The Seventh Circuit case of Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish applied the ministerial exception to bar a fired minister’s claim of a hostile work environment. In this article, Yiting Feng lists the reason why she disagrees with the majority opinion and leans towards the dissenting opinion.

September 16, 2021: Forgiveness, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Forgiveness“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Did Pa. Supreme Court Justice David Wecht Herald The Death Of God?, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.

I Am Resigning From The Pro-Life Movement, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals

September 11, 2021: Twenty Years Later, 9/11 Is Finally Over, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Twenty Years Later, 9/11 is finally over“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 10, 2021: Secular Repentence, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Secular Repentence“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

The Steal In The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Explained, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.

Why The Civil Rights Cases Belong In The Anti-Canon: Black Citizenship, The Fourteenth Amendment, And Judicial Interposition, Matthew Norman, Christopher Bryant

ConLawNOW

This essay analyzes the Supreme Court’s ruling in The Civil Rights Cases (1883) and surveys both contemporary and scholarly responses to it. Citizenship should mean something, and the Court’s ruling in The Civil Rights Cases invalidated much of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, the most ambitious and progressive civil rights legislation that Congress enacted prior to 1964. When the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott, Abraham Lincoln warned of a sequel that would nationalize slavery. While the Thirteenth Amendment eliminated the possibility of such a decision, Dred Scott is widely recognized as one of the Court’s …

Solidarity As A Constitutional Value, Tamar Hostovsky Brandes

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

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Restoring Causality In Attenuation: Establishing The Breadth Of A Fourth Amendment Violation, Bryan H. Ward

West Virginia Law Review

When the police violate a suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights, what often follows is the discovery of incriminating evidence. Sometimes the evidence is discovered directly after the Fourth Amendment violation. In other situations, the evidence comes by a more indirect route and may occur long after the original Fourth Amendment violation. Courts struggle when trying to decide if the discovery of this indirectly obtained evidence was caused by the police misconduct. This causal question is important because causality acts as a limiting principle when deciding when to apply the exclusionary rule. A basic view of the exclusionary rule suggests that evidence …

Rethinking Immigration Enforcement, Peter L. Markowitz

Articles

As the nation turns the page away from the dark chapter of President Trump's relentless assault on immigrants, it is time to take stock of the nation's unprecedented immigration enforcement regime. During its relatively short existence, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has deported more than twice as many people as were deported in the entire previous history of the United States. The human and fiscal costs of ICE's mass deportation agenda are astronomical, and there is almost universal agreement across the political spectrum that the United States' immigration enforcement apparatus is badly broken. That, however, is where the …

Scrutiny-Determination Avoidance In First Amendment Cases: Laudable Minimalism Or Condemnable Evasion?, Clay Calvert

Nevada Law Journal

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Due Process On Campus: Where Do Procedural Rights Come From, And What Do They Require?, R. George Wright

Nevada Law Journal

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