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International Law’S Forgotten Refugees—Palestinian Refugees In Egypt

Seattle University Law Review

This Article examines the legal and humanitarian crisis facing Palestinian refugees who have fled to Egypt amidst the ongoing violence in Gaza. While escaping active conflict, these refugees face systemic barriers to employment and education, rendering their living conditions precarious and unsustainable. The unique legal status of Palestinian refugees stems from the fact that they have been excluded from the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, leaving them without any meaningful international protection. This exclusion is rooted in the political complexities of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and reflects a fragmented legal framework that prioritizes limited humanitarian aid over …

How The Dod Discourages Military Families From Seeking Mental Health Counseling, Christina Welch

Seattle University Law Review

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) administration of the Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) presents significant barriers to mental health care access for military spouses and children. This paper explores how the EFMP, though designed to support military families with special needs, inadvertently creates barriers to mental health treatment. Military family members often do not seek mental health treatment to avoid the program's mandatory enrollment requirements. Military family members often view enrollment in the program undesirable because enrollment can restrict the pool of potential future duty assignment locations that are available to service members.

The lack of comprehensive data collection by …

2025, Richard Delgado

Seattle University Law Review

"In a cutting and provocative social critique in one of the more extended Rodrigo Chronicles, Richard Delgado in 2025 employs skillful narrative—one of CRT’s many contributions to legal scholarship —to tell a gripping story of just how far the nation has descended into darkness with President Trump’s re-election. In Delgado’s vision, law professors—along with other political opponents of the President: immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, women, the underserved—have targets on their backs."

-excerpt from Kevin Johnson's review of 2025

Veiled Justice: Secularism And The Hijab Across Democracies, Mohamed ‘Arafa

Seattle University Law Review

For much of 2022, Iran was gripped by widespread protests led by women who openly challenged the regime’s authority, particularly its compulsory veiling laws, following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Women around the globe came around and showed solidarity with the women in Iran. However, in non-Islamic countries and societies, one can still make out many prejudices and stereotyping connected to the question of whether and to what extent veiling is mandatory for women according to Shārīe’ā law. Is wearing the hijab a choice, or rather, an essential religious practice that religious Muslim women need to obey? …

Rewriting The Playbook: The X’S And O’S Of The House Settlement And The Future Of Student-Athletes’ Voice In Their Compensation, Matthew K.V. Glazer

Seattle University Law Review

Since the formation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the 1900s, collegiate athletes (student-athletes) have been prohibited from using their own name, image and likeness (NIL) for profit. But on July 1, 2021, the NCAA changed course and began allowing student-athletes to profit from their own NIL. In the past few years, U.S. college athletics have undergone significant changes, most notably introducing monetary compensation for student-athletes’ NIL. While these changes were long overdue and ultimately beneficial, they have significantly disrupted the landscape of college sports, giving rise to numerous challenges that some experts have compared to the “Wild …

Mr. Trump Goes To Washington Part Ii: A Review Of Richard Delgado's 2025, Kevin Johnson

Seattle University Law Review

Richard Delgado’s The Rodrigo Chronicles have captivated a generation of law students and legal scholars.  Mapping the terrain of race, racism, and Critical Race Theory (CRT), the skillful, and long-running narrative series stands as a testament to Delgado’s dedication to justice for all.

The Rodrigo Chronicles are simply one of Delgado’s many intellectual contributions and part of an unparalleled scholarly legacy.  As one of the founders of CRT, he produced a landmark body of scholarship –authoring the field's primary text,  making the argument for the regulation of hate speech,  forcefully challenging the Black/white binary of civil rights that long dominated …

From Self-Representation To Smart Representation: How Ai & Self-Help Services Can Strengthen Pro Se Litigation, John W. Park

Journal of Law and Policy

The American legal system has long struggled with the gap between those who can afford counsel and those who cannot, leaving millions of pro se litigants to navigate complex civil proceedings alone and lose at staggering rates. Yet, over decades of incremental reform, existing self-help infrastructure has failed to keep pace with the growing pro se crisis or the rapid technological advancement that now gives represented parties an unprecedented advantage. Meanwhile, law firms and attorneys increasingly harness law firm tailored AI programs that are generally unavailable to the unrepresented litigant. This technological asymmetry has transformed an already significant capability gap …

Two Strikes And A Prisoner’S Out: The Supreme Court’S Bad Call In Lomax V. Ortiz-Marquez, Molly Guptill Manning

Journal of Law and Policy

Since 1892, federal legislation has provided for the waiver of court filing fees so indigent plaintiffs can access the courts. In 1996, the Prison Litigation Reform Act amended the law. Citing an explosion in the number of prisoner filings (and ignoring the commensurate explosion in the size of the prisoner population), Congress sought to disincentivize prisoners from filing federal actions by denying them an outright waiver and instead requiring them to pay filing fees in installments. It also added a “three strikes” rule. Under the latter provision, if a prisoner files three or more actions or appeals that are dismissed …

The Martha Wright-Reed Act: How The Fcc Took One Step Forward For Communication Equality For Deaf Individuals In Correctional Facilities And How It Could Be Expanded, Ashley Seebold

Seattle University Law Review

For decades, phone companies preyed on incarcerated individuals and their loved ones due to the lack of regulation of jail phone calls.2 In 2021, the average cost of a fifteen-minute jail phone call was about $3.3 In 2022, the average cost rose to $5.74, while some individuals faced an extreme charge of $24.82 for the same amount of time.4 In the early 2000s, consumer advocate and concerned grandmother Martha Wright-Reed called upon the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fix the imbalance so she could speak to her incarcerated grandson.5 Eventually, in 2023, the FCC answered her call to action and …

The Court And The Killing State, Eric Berger

Michigan Law Review

A review of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection. By Corinna Barrett Lain.

Aggregation And The “Universal” Injunction, Portia Pedro, Adam Steinman

Faculty Scholarship

A crucial function of judicial review is not only “to say what the law is,”¹ but also to provide the remedies to vindicate that law.²  Judicial review plays an especially important role when government officials act in ways that violate federal law, including when they violate the Constitution.³  When government officials violate the law, the judicial review function supports a remedy that requires officials to comply with federal law by ceasing to pursue the illegal policy or practice.

Such “compliance” injunctions have been given the label “universal” or “nationwide” injunctions insofar as they go beyond giving “complete …

Exploring The Limits Of Qualified Immunity Under Harlow’S Discretionary Function Test, James E. Pfander, Alexander A. Reinert

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Urgensi Pertanggungjawaban Pidana Korporasi, Kristian Kristian

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Komisi Yudisial Dan Pengawasan Hakim Di Indonesia, Wahyu Wiriadinata

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Konsep Pengembangan Pendekatan Struktur Dalam Perjanjian Penetapan Harga Pada Putusan Kppu, Azizah Azizah

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Kebijakan Pemberian Remisi Bagi Koruptor, Suatu Telaah Kritis Dari Perspektif Sosiologi Hukum, Edi Toet Hendratno

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Pelaksanaan Perlindungan Hukum Merek Untuk Pengusaha Ukm Batik Di Pekalongan, Solo, Dan Yogyakarta, Agus Sardjono, Brian Amy Prastyo, Desrezka Gunti Larasati

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Kebebasan Hakim Memutus Perkara Dalam Konteks Pancasila (Ditinjau Dari Keadilan “Substantif”), Ery Setyanegara

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Perolehan Dan Hak Waris Dari Istri Kedua, Ketiga Dan Keempat Dalam Hukum Kewarisan Islam Di Indonesia (Sebuah Pemahaman Dengan Ilmu Hukum, Filsafat Hukum Dan Paradigmatik), Didi Sukardi

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Privatisasi Bumn Dan Otonomi Daerah Dalam Pembangunan Ekonomi Indonesia, M. Rizal Alif

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Pelaksanaan Atau Eksekusi Putusan Badan Arbitrase Syariah Nasional (Basyarnas) Sebagai Kewenangan Pengadilan Agama, Ummi Uzma

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Hubungan Hukum Dan Moralitas Menurut H.L.A Hart, Petrus Ckl Bello

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Analisis Semiotika Hukum Terhadap Lambang Negara Republik Indonesia, Turiman Turiman

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Kerangka Kebijakan Dan Reformasi Hukum Untuk Kelancaran Perdagangan Secara Elektronik (E-Commerce) Di Indonesia, Edmon Makarim

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Pemanfaatan Pengetahuan Tradisional Indonesia Berdasarkan Potensi Daerah Sebagai Modal Pembangunan, Heri Aryanto

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Perbandingan Penyelesaian Sengketa Konsumen Di Indonesia Dengan Negara-Negara Common Law System, Kurniawan Kurniawan

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Ilmu Hukum: Hakekat Keilmuannya Ditinjau Dari Sudut Filsafat Ilmu Dan Teori Ilmu Hukum, Titik Triwulan Tutik

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Urgensi Pengadilan Agama Sebagai Penyelesai Sengketa Ekonomi Syariah, Sufiarina Sufiarina

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Analisis Kebijakan Pengelolaan Hasil Hutan Bukan Kayu (Hhbk) Di Ntb Dan Ntt, Gatot Dwi Hendro Wibowo

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Masalah Penyidik Dalam Tindak Pidana Jasa Keuangan Di Indonesia, Wahyu Wiriadinata

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