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Noncitizen Voting: A Case Study Of Oregon, Monet Gonnerman, Ryan Willett

Lewis & Clark Law Review

Using the State of Oregon as a case study, this Article proposes that states and municipalities may and should extend the right to vote to noncitizens. The Article’s analysis, rooted in national history and the U.S. Constitution, is applicable to other states across the country. The Article situates the practice of noncitizen voting within the larger historical context of both the United States and Oregon. It also provides the legal framework that demonstrates state and municipal power to set voter qualifications for their respective elections. Finally, the Article suggests reasons why states should allow for noncitizen voting.

Legislative Redistricting In The Time Of Covid, Norman R. Williams

Lewis & Clark Law Review

Due to the COVID pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau was unable to provide 2020 census data to Oregon in time for the Legislature to engage in redistricting during the 2021 session, as required by the Oregon Constitution. As a result of this delay, the Oregon Legislature asked the Oregon Supreme Court to push back the constitutionally imposed deadlines for redistricting—a request which the Court agreed to in part. This Essay examines the Court’s power to revise constitutionally prescribed deadlines and the extent to which any districting plan must be based on federal census data.

Communities Of Interest In Colorado Redistricting, David Willner

University of Colorado Law Review

Part I of this Article will provide background on redistricting in Colorado, including an overview of recent developments regarding the establishment of an independent commission. Part II will describe the two federal constitutional requirements for redistricting and then explore the state-specific redistricting criteria used in Colorado. Part III includes a geographic profile of the distinct regions of Colorado and then delves into an examination of how communities of interest have been increasingly used in Colorado redistricting during three of the past four redistricting cycles. Part IV of this Article will critique the use of communities of interest and focus on …

Expanding The Administrative Record: Using Pretext To Show "Bad Faith Or Improper Behavior", Laura Boyer

University of Colorado Law Review

This Comment argues that courts should more readily permit extra-record discovery when preliminary signs of pretext strongly suggest "bad faith and improper behavior" by agency decision-makers. 3 1 Section L.A sets the scene by describing the basic mechanics of litigation challenging agency decisions. Section I.B shifts focus by examining two recent Supreme Court decisions that illustrate the Court's struggle to review executive action where an agency seems to have offered a pretextual justification. Part II then shows how agencies' reliance on pretextual justifications is becoming a growing and serious problem-especially within the Trump Administration-and describes a 2017 decision by the …

Contesting The Legacy Of The Nineteenth Amendment: Abortion And Equality From Roe To The Present, Mary Ziegler

University of Colorado Law Review

Beyond the question of suffrage, the Nineteenth Amendment raised the issue of what it would take for women in America to achieve equal citizenship. The meaning of both the Nineteenth Amendment and equality for women remain especially contested in broader conflicts about abortion-and of how those conflicts have changed in fundamental ways in the decades since Roe v. Wade. For some time, fetal rights were pitted against the kinds of concerns about equality for women that drove reformers to seek the vote in 1920. But by the early 1990s, the terms of the conflicts had changed, with both sides claiming …

Working Mothers And The Postponement Of Women's Rights From The Nineteenth Amendment To The Equal Rights Amendment, Julie C. Suk

University of Colorado Law Review

The Nineteenth Amendment's ratification in 1920 spawned new initiatives to advance the status of women, including the proposal of another constitutional amendment that would guarantee women equality in all legal rights, beyond the right to vote. Both the Nineteenth Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) grew out of the long quest to enshrine women's equal status under the law as citizens, which began in the nineteenth century. Nearly a century later, the ERA remains unfinished business with an uncertain future. Suffragists advanced different visions and strategies for women's empowerment after they got the constitutional right to vote. They divided …

"Make The Map All White": The Meaning Of Maps In The Prohibition And Suffrage Campaigns, Susan Schulten

University of Colorado Law Review

Maps.have long been deployed as instruments of power, protest, and reform in American history. In the antebellum era, Northerners used maps to galvanize opposition to the expansion of slavery beyond the South. These dramatic and urgent anti-slavery maps served as powerful models for two of the most ambitious challenges to American law in the twentieth century: prohibition and woman's suffrage. Both movements began with regional strengths-suffrage in the West, prohibition in the South. Suffragists and prohibitionists widely circulated maps to highlight those legislative achievements and thereby generate further momentum for their respective causes. After 1913, both the suffrage and prohibition …

Privacy-As-Property: A New Fundamental Approach To The Right To Privacy And The Impact This Will Have On The Law And Corporations, Sevion Dacosta

CMC Senior Theses

The most popular conception of the right to privacy stems from Warren and Brandeis’s description of privacy as “the right to be left alone.” This theory ultimately points to a more fundamental approach to the right to privacy rooted in property rights. This fundamental approach - which I call privacy-as-property - is what I establish in this paper. I argue that the Lockean concept of property that “every man has a property in his own person” provides the foundation for the right to privacy. Privacy-as-property begins with the fundamental right to control oneself. Because of this intrinsic right, your property …

Regaining Control Over The Climate Change Narrative: How To Stop Right-Wing Populism From Eroding Rule Of Law In The Climate Struggle In India, Binit Agrawal

Fordham Environmental Law Review

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Innovative Regulatory And Financial Parameters For Advancing Carbon Capture And Storage Technologies, Zen Makuch, Slavina Georgieva & Behdeen Oraee-Mirzamani

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Textiles As A Source Of Microfiber Pollution And Potential Solutions, Lea M. Elston

Fordham Environmental Law Review

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Going Gunless, Dru Stevenson

Brooklyn Law Review

Firearm policy in the United States is subject to longstanding political gridlock. Up to now, most of the legal academic literature has focused on the constitutionality of various—or any—regulations regarding firearm possession, sales, or usage. This article inverts the problem and proposes a system for voluntary registration and certification of nonowners, those who want to waive or renounce their Second Amendment rights as a matter of personal conviction. The proposed system is analogous to both the registration of conscientious objectors during wartime conscriptions, and the newer suicide prevention laws whereby individuals can add their names to a do-not-sell list for …

It’S 1919 Somewhere: What Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association V. Thomas Means For The National Hangover Of The Twenty-First Amendment, The Dormant Commerce Clause, And Federal Legalization Of Intoxicating Substances., Evan W. Saunders

Brooklyn Law Review

The United States has a drinking problem; or rather, an alcohol problem. In the aftermath of Prohibition and the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment, the Supreme Court has struggled to settle upon an overarching regulatory system for alcohol that is amenable to both the federal government and the states. Most recently, in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas, the Court further asserted that alcohol should be treated just like any other good under the Dormant Commerce Clause. This note examines the Court’s Twenty-First Amendment jurisprudence leading up to Tennessee Wine, and suggests an alternate interpretation of the amendment …

Lessons From Renewable Energy Diffusion For Carbon Dioxide Removal Development, Anthony E. Chavez

Fordham Environmental Law Review

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The Fossil Fuel Industry’S Push To Target Climate Protesters In The U.S., Grace Nosek

Pace Environmental Law Review

At the very moment when the United Nations has called for profound shifts in social and economic systems to avert climate catastrophe, state and non-state actors in the United States (U.S.) are using a series of tactics to target and stifle climate protesters. Although the move to stifle climate protesters is often framed as a government effort, this Article argues it is critical to draw out the role of the fossil fuel industry in initiating, amplifying, and supporting such tactics.

This Article highlights the role the fossil fuel industry has played in supporting the targeting and restricting of climate protesters …

December 29, 2020: What Democrats Can Learn From Trump's Narrow Loss, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What Democrats Can Learn From Trump's Narrow Loss“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

What Can Democrats Learn From Trump’S 2020 Performance?, Bruce Ledewitz

Newspaper Columns

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

Popular Sovereignty And The Doctrine Of Plenary State Legislative Power, Nina Neff

William & Mary Law Review Online

Unlike the federal legislature, state legislatures possess plenary power, except insofar as they are limited by state constitutions. Though state plenary power is rooted in the legal authority of popular sovereignty, the doctrine of plenary state legislative power dulls democratic power by eliminating a potential right to local self-governance and by inducing courts to underenforce constitutional limits on state legislatures. These trends do not square with our democratic intuitions or with our desire to have a sense of efficacy, energy, and power in our own ability to influence the laws of our communities. This Article suggests that the doctrine of …

December 25, 2020: Merry Christmas To All, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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

Pemberlakuan Sistem Satu Orang Satu Suara (One Man One Vote) Dalam Pemilihan Pengurus Dan Pengawas Perhimpunan Pemilik Dan Penghuni Satuan Rumah Susun, Jerry Stevenson, Mella Ismelina F. R.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Article 19 Regulation of the Minister of Public Works and Public Housing Number 23 / PRT / M / 2018 concerning the Association of Owners and Occupants of Apartment Units enforces the election of Management and Supervisors of the Association of Apartment Owners and Residents of Apartment Units only by the most votes (without prioritizing deliberation) and with one person one vote system, and with conditions that only the Owner can fulfill. Thus it can be agreed that the election of Management and Supervisors of the Association of Owners and Occupants of Apartment Units is a voting right. The purpose …

Sistem Manajemen Mutu Pltn Dari Perspektif Regulasi Di Indonesia Dan Standar Yang Berlaku, Fery Putrawan Cusmanri

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Investment in the construction of nuclear power plants is an interesting investment. This is indicated by the emergence of investment plans for the construction of nuclear power plants in Indonesia. Communities and industries that make electricity a primary need will certainly welcome the potential energy offered by nuclear power plants. However, on the other hand the quality of NPP energy services must of course be maximized. This paper was made to provide a brief description of the management system requirements that need to be met by the NPP permit applicant along with additional best practices from the ISO 9001: 2015 …

Perlindungan Data Pribadi Penerima Pinjaman Dalam Transaksi Pinjam Meminjam Uang Berbasis Teknologi Informasi (Peer To Peer Lending), Hendrawan Agusta

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The development of information technology is very rapid, the collaboration between information technology and various fields of life bring in to various kinds of innovations that make peoples lives easier. Innovations in information technology bring in to new business models which in turn can produce efficiency for the community. The information technology revolution continues to grow and now entering the financial sector which is highly regulated. Collaboration between information technology and finance bring in to Financial Technology (Fintech), which is information technology-based money-lending (Peer to Peer Lending/P2P Lending). It is easier for people to access their financial needs through P2P …

Pemanfaatan Teknologi Cloud Computing Dalam Reformasi Birokrasi Guna Mewujudkan Kejaksaan Yang Profesional, Komunikatif Dan Akuntabel, Rudi Pradisetia Sudirdja

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Cloud computing is so populer and it has become a hot word in the tech world, especially in the era of industrial revolution 4.0 which requires speed, accuracy and precision in the business process. Cloud computing is a combination of the use of computer technology (computing) and Internet-based development (cloud), resulting in a model of processing activities, storage, software and other services provided as an integrated virtual source on an internet network. This paper examines the use of cloud computing in the implementation of bureaucratic reforms, improving the quality of prosecutors professionalism, and providing communicative and accountable public prosecutors. The …

Delik Politik Dalam Hukum Pidana Indonesia, David Hardiago

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

According to Indonesian penal law, an act is considered to be a criminal act based on the principle of legality. Problem arise when political crime is associated with the principle of legality, that said problem is related to the definition of political crime that is not stipulated in any of statutory provisions and/or regulations in Indonesia. This legal research aims to answer two legal problems raised by the Author, those are: Firstly, to determine the parameter of political crime in Indonesia. Secondly, to elaborate on the projection on how political crime should be stipulated in the future. The research in …

Parental Responsibility Of Children Crime In Indonesian Criminal Adat Law, Ahmad Irzal Fardiansyah, Sigid Suseno, Mien Rukmini, Lies Sulistiani

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Children who are in conflict with the law cannot be separated from the responsibilities of parents as the first party in the childs environment. The relationship between parents and children is a harmonized relationship from a strong emotional connection on the basis of blood relations. This situation makes parents unable to release and be released responsibility for their childrens behavior. When children are faced with the law, policies to take over the responsibility of supervising children from parents, by denying that parents actually have the opportunity to deal with the problems of children who are dealing with the law are …

The Transparency Principle In Regional Development Banks To Implement Good Corporate Governance: A Case Study On Pt Bank Pembangunan Daerah Jawa Timur Tbk, Citranella Ramadhani Yuwana, Yetty Komalasari Dewi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This paper discusses the obligation of Regional Development Bank (RDB) as a Regionally-Owned Enterprises (ROE) to implement Good Corporate Governance (GCG). In particular, this paper analyzes the forms of transparency principle in RDB, specifically in PT Bank Pembangunan Daerah Jawa Timur Tbk (Bank Jatim) according to existing regulations. By using legal normative method, this paper concludes that the forms of transparency principle on RDB is divided into three parts, namely preparing reports, publishing them, and ensuring that they are publicly accessible. There are at least 8 (eight) forms of transparency principle implementation, namely monthly publication report, quarterly publication report, annual …

Status Kepemilikan Dan Pemanfaatan Tanah Grondkaart Di Stasiun Depok Baru, Lenteng Agung, Dan Tanjung Barat, Sulistiowati Sulistiowati, Nurhasan Ismail, Taufiq El Rahman

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The disputes over land ownership and utilization of Grondkaart for Railway activities between the government and PT KAI should not have occurred due to both having the same vested interest for the state. However, the reality shown that land ownership dan agreement status on land use with the third party. Through the qualitative analysis, the research findings: First, land originating from Grondkaart at the location still belongs to the goverment due to the land still holding the status of the right to use or Hak Pakai during the course of the time the land used by the Government and the …

Upah Proses Dalam Pemutusan Hubungan Kerja, Fitriana Gunadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Wages is one of the elements in the employment relationship between an employer and a worker/employee based on the employment agreement. In accordance with the fundamental principle that is basically applicable to every workers/employees, wages will not be paid by employers if the workers/employees do not perform work (no work no pay). However in its development, there is an issue in the application of such principle since the ruling of the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Republic of Indonesia, which obliges employers to pay the wages to workers/employees who do not work because they are in the process of …

Problematika Pengaturan Mengenai Bentuk Badan Usaha Jasa Penunjang Tenaga Listrik Di Indonesia, Vioxcy Ananta Putra, Eny Sulistyowati, Muh Ali Masnun

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Legal development electricity growing rapidly as evidenced by the amount of law and regulations produced by both legislative and executive that govern all aspects about electricity that resulting in regulatory inflation in electricity law. The consequences of regulatory inflation in electricity law is the potential for legal unsynchronization between law and regulations in electricity sector. One of the potential for legal unsynchronization in the electricity sector is the regulation regarding the scope and form of business entities supporting electricity power in Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 30 of 2009 on Electricity, Regulation of the Goverment of the Republic …

Interpretasi Konstitusi Dalam Pengujian Konstitusionalitas Untuk Mewujudkan The Living Constitution, Fakhris Lutfianto Hapsoro, Ismail Ismail

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The constitutional authority granted to the Constitutional Court by Article 24C paragraph (1) in the third amendment to the 1945 Constitution in the test of constitutional law against the constitution provides automatically over authority in giving the interpretation of the 1945 Constitution to the Constitutional Court. Associated with the interpretation of the constitution, then a constitution is not only considered to be a documented constitution but can be transformed into the living constitution. In practice in Indonesia, it can be found the decisions of the Constitutional Court who use constitutional interpretation to assess the constitutionality of a norm as in …