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After Affirmative Action, Meera E. Deo

Seattle University Law Review

This is a time of crisis in legal education. In truth, we are in the midst of several crises. We are emerging from the COVID pandemic, a period of unprecedented upheaval where law students and law faculty alike struggled through physical challenges, mental health burdens, and decreased academic and professional success. The past few years also have seen a precipitous drop in applications to and enrollment in legal education. Simultaneously, students have been burdened with the skyrocketing costs of attending law school, taking on unmanageable levels of debt. And with the Supreme Court decision in SFFA v. Harvard, we are …

Going Forward: The Role Of Affirmative Action, Race, And Diversity In University Admissions And The Broader Construction Of Society, Steven W. Bender

Seattle University Law Review

The third annual EPOCH symposium, a partnership between the Seattle University Law Review and the Black Law Student Association took place in late summer 2023 at the Seattle University School of Law. It was intended to uplift and amplify Black voices and ideas, and those of allies in the legal community. Prompted by the swell of public outcry surrounding ongoing police violence against the Black community, the EPOCH partnership marked a commitment to antiracism imperatives and effectuating change for the Black community. The published symposium in this volume encompasses some, but not all, the ideas and vision detailed in the …

The Sffa V. Harvard Trojan Horse Admissions Lawsuit, Kimberly West-Faulcon

Seattle University Law Review

Affirmative-action-hostile admissions lawsuits are modern Trojan horses. The SFFA v. Harvard/UNC case—Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, et. al., decided jointly—is the most effective Trojan horse admissions lawsuit to date. Constructed to have the distractingly appealing exterior façade of a lawsuit seeking greater fairness in college admissions, the SFFA v. Harvard/UNC case is best understood as a deception-driven battle tactic used by forces waging a multi-decade war against the major legislative victories of America’s Civil Rights Movement, specifically Title VI and Title VII …

Feeding The Good Fire: Paths To Facilitate Native-Led Fire Management On Federal Lands, Kevin Burdet

Seattle University Law Review

In 2003, nearly twenty Native American reservations were devastated by wildfires that originated on adjacent federal lands. The San Pasqual Reservation’s entire 1,400 acres were burned along with over a third of its homes, and seventy-five percent of the Rincon Reservation was burned, taking twenty homes with it. These devastating fires, along with others in 2002, brought about the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 (TFPA), which offered hope for Tribes to propose projects on bordering or adjacent federal lands and protect reservation lands in the process. Unfortunately, twenty years later, the TFPA has had a marginal effect in enabling …

The First Amendment To The Constitution, Associational Freedom, And The Future Of The Country: Alabama’S Direct Attack On The Existence Of The Naacp, Helen J. Knowles-Gardner

Seattle University Law Review

Sixty years ago, on Wednesday, April 8, 1964, Professor Harry Kalven, Jr., gave the second of three lectures at The Ohio State University College of Law Forum. These lectures were published two years later in a book entitled The Negro & the 1st Amendment. In the second lecture, Kalven distinguished between direct and indirect threats to the associational freedom of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Kalven categorized the 1958 decision in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson as an indirect effort to control the NAACP.

With the benefit of material obtained from numerous archival sources, …

What Is In Your Tampon? Increasing Transparency In Menstrual Products, Elianna Spitzer

Seattle University Law Review

The average person who menstruates will bleed for an average of five days, every twenty-four to thirty-eight days, over several decades and could use thousands of disposable menstrual products in their lifetime. Menstrual products line retail shelves. They can be found in homes, bags, and bodies—but until 2021, manufacturers were not required to disclose the ingredients used to make these products to consumers at all. In fact, they still are not federally required to disclose menstrual product ingredients on product packaging. Instead, in recent years, changes to menstrual product labels have largely been the result of state legislation. In 2019, …

Due Process Shaped By The Present Instead Of The Past: The Needed Reinvigoration Of A Lawrence Vision Of Due Process, Azor Cole

Seattle University Law Review

The recognition of unenumerated rights, rights implied from the text of the constitution, is a political battlefield waged through law with profound implications for all Americans. Generally, there have been two prongs for an inquiry into an unenumerated constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment. One is to ask whether the right to be found is objectively deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition. The other is to ask whether the right to be found is fundamental to this Nation’s scheme of ordered liberty. The current Supreme Court has effectively done away with this present-day liberty analysis, saying it is …

Sneakers, The Shoes That Talk The Talk And Walk The Walk: How Jack Daniel’S Properties, Inc. V. Vip Products Left Its Footprint On Trademark Law And The Sneaker Industry, Nitya Tolani

Seattle University Law Review

As the fashion industry—including the sneaker industry housed within it—continues to go through the motions of collectively flocking out, and then collectively flocking again to the newest innovations in the world of wearables, the landscape of laws to protect and promote those innovations expands as well, mainly in the area of intellectual property law. Although copyright, trademark, and patent law can cover innovations in the fashion industry, this Note centers its analysis on trademark law. Trademark law has been through notable change in recent years because of the United States Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. …

Prejudice Standards In Washington’S Appellate Courts, Andrew B. Van Winkle

Seattle University Law Review

When an appellate court finds an error to have occurred during a proceeding, the error is not yet subject to correction. In order to merit a remedy, the error must have been sufficiently prejudicial to the aggrieved party’s case. Drawing the line between correctable and non-correctable errors is not an easy task, for it often requires guessing at what was in the minds of jurors and trial judges. To cope with this task, courts have devised various rules and tests for deciding whether an error was likely prejudicial or not. These standards often go by names such as “harmless error,” …

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Hak Warga Masyarakat Terhadap Kebijakan Pemutusan Akses Penyelenggara Sistem Elektronik Lingkup Privat Yang Tidak Terdaftar, Rinalvin Achmad Wiryawan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The policy of terminating access to Private Scope Electronic System Providers (Private Scope PSE), to several internet platforms including: Paypal, Yahoo, Epic Games, Steam, Dota, Counter Strike, Xandr.com, and Origin, which occurred on July 30, 2022. The termination of Private Scope PSE Access is due to the unregistered Private Scope PSE, whose provisions are regulated in the Permenkominfo PSE Private Scope. The policy of terminating access to the Private Scope PSE by the government is detrimental to citizens as users of the Private Scope PSE platform services whose access is terminated by the Government. Citizens have the right to communicate …

Putusan Pengadilan Mengenai Biaya Ganti Rugi Lingkungan: Aplikasinya Dalam Pemulihan Lingkungan, Rizqya Nafila Putri, Dadang Epi Sukarsa, Imamulhadi Imamulhadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Indonesia through Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management regulates the government has the right to file claims for compensation and certain actions. Minister of the Environment Regulation Number 7 of 2014 concerning Compensation for Environmental Pollution and/or Damage, as a derivative regulation, regulates that environmental compensation costs that have been paid are entered into the Treasury Fund as Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP). This research identifies the mechanism for using environmental compensation costs, the implementation of court decisions containing environmental compensation before Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 of 2023 concerning Guidelines for Adjudicating Environmental Cases, and …

Kedudukan Otorita Ibu Kota Nusantara Dalam Ketatanegaraan Indonesia, Syarif Anwar Said Al-Hamid, Ade Arif Firmansyah, Siti Khoiriah

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Otorita of the capital city of the nusantara is a state institution formed by Law Number 3 of 2022 concerning the State Capital which is then regulated in more detail through Presidential Regulation Number 62 of 2022 concerning Otorita of the capital city of the nusantara which becomes a special regional government for the national capital in implementing the development of the capital city archipelago. Head of otorita the capital city of the nusantara is the head of the regional government specifically for the national capital who is elected, appointed and dismissed by the president with the approval of the …

Kesultanan Buton Dalam Bingkai Ketatanegaraan Dan Budaya Indonesia, Rahmadhona Rahmadhona

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Buton is a region located in Bau-Bau City, Southeast Sulawesi. The Sultanate of Buton began to show its existence since the beginning of the 15th century after previously running a government system with royal government. The Buton Sultanate, based on Islam, ran a democratic system of government. The state administration of the Buton Sultanate is interesting to discuss because its power structure is controlled by two groups, but all of its people have the same position in voice and politics. This paper is compiled using the literature study method and presents the results descriptively.

Case Law On American Indians: October 2022 - August 2023, Thomas P. Schlosser

American Indian Law Journal

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Twenty Years After Krieger V Law Society Of Alberta: Law Society Discipline Of Crown Prosecutors And Government Lawyers, Andrew Flavelle Martin

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Krieger v. Law Society of Alberta held that provincial and territorial law societies have disciplinary jurisdiction over Crown prosecutors for conduct outside of prosecutorial discretion. The reasoning in Krieger would also apply to government lawyers. The apparent consensus is that law societies rarely exercise that jurisdiction. But in those rare instances, what conduct do Canadian law societies discipline Crown prosecutors and government lawyers for? In this article, I canvass reported disciplinary decisions to demonstrate that, while law societies sometimes discipline Crown prosecutors for violations unique to those lawyers, they often do so for violations applicable to all lawyers — particularly …

Justice Collaborator Dalam Pertimbangan Hakim Memutus Perkara, Amalina Fikriyah, Ali Masyhar, Cahya Wulandari

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Justice Collaborator, which refers to the cooperation between a non-primary perpetrator and law enforcement in uncovering organized crimes, is often used to expose cases of extraordinary crimes. The concept of a Justice Collaborator has become a topic of public discussion following the case involving the murder ordered by Ferdy Sambo, where Ferdy Sambo instructed Richard Eliezer to kill Jhosua Hutabarat. Richard Eliezer was found guilty by the court and was designated as a Justice Collaborator.

Upaya Mediasi Melalui Lembaga Alternatif Penyelesaian Sengketa Sektor Jasa Keuangan (Laps Sjk): (Studi Kasus Sengketa Rehabilitasi Daftar Hitam Nasional (Dhn) Pt X Dan Bri), Benedetto Setyo Utomo

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Salah satu upaya penyelesaian sengketa di luar pengadilan yang dapat dilakukan oleh LAPS SJK adalah mediasi. Mediasi selain untuk menyelesaikan sengketa, dapat pula bertujuan untuk melindungi hubungan baik yang telah ada di antara para pihak, sehingga walaupun terjadi sengketa, hubungan antara para pihak, di mana dalam hal ini adalah bank dan nasabah, dapat dijaga secara berkesinambungan. Mediasi pada LAPS SJK bersifat rahasia dan mengutamakan win-win solution, sehingga memberikan kenyamanan bagi para pihak yang bersengketa dan mampu menjaga kepercayaan nasabah terhadap sektor jasa keuangan seperti bank. Selain itu, upaya mediasi melalui LAPS SJK menawarkan proses penyelesaian yang lebih cepat, lebih murah, …

Peninjauan Kembali Demi Keadilan, Alfret Alfret

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Abstract

As the world of law develops, there are more and more new provisions related to the implementation of Judicial Review (PK). Some concrete examples related to the development of PK provisions themselves are that a PK can only be carried out once. Apart from that, there is also a provision that the public prosecutor cannot carry out request for reconsideration. This raises the question of whether these restrictions do not conflict with the principles of justice. This research was studied using normative juridical methods based on existing legal provisions and decisions. So the results of this research show that …

Klinik Hukum: Sebuah Pendekatan Praktis, Satjipto Rahardjo

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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The Constitution Of Japan, Harun Alrasjid

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Tracing The Roots Of A Poisonous Tree: On The Origins And Impact Of Criminal Terminology In A Civil Apprehension Scheme, Shani Mahiri King, Nicole Silvestri Hall

Articles (Current Faculty)

Language is powerful. It can affect how we think about and treat groups of people. Poor language choices have a massive impact on immigration law, an area of the law that determines how groups of perceived “outsiders” are classified and regulated. Language and bias in judicial opinions have been studied, but less research has been done on poor language choices in immigration statutes.

This Comment focuses on the harmful effects of poor language choices in immigration statutes, including the criminal terminology “arrest” and “warrant” in civil immigration apprehension statutes 8 U.S.C. Sections 1226 and 1357. Two fundamental problems arise when …

Perbandingan Sistem Pemilihan Untuk Indonesia Yang Majemuk (Komparasi Dengan Sistem Chile Dan Amerika Serikat), Yulvia Chandra Cipta, Rosita Indrayati, Intan Permata Putri

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

General elections, including the election of president and vice president, legislative members and other regional election, are a manifestation of democracy and the basic principles of the nation in Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. Indonesia currently adheres to an open proportionality election system. As time goes by and many changes occur, the electoral system adopted by Indonesia has many shortcomings, and various problems are also faced, such as identity politics and kinship politics. Based on the many differences in electoral systems in the world, the author examines two other countries, namely Chile and the United …

Putusan Ultra Petita Penanganan Kasus Korupsi Menurut Perspektif Hakim, Y.Sri Pudyatmoko, G. Aryadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This research aims to obtain an overview of ultra petita decisions in corruption cases from a law enforcement perspective. The method used in this research is a normative legal research method, using a case approach. The research was conducted by analyzing the views of several judges regarding ultra petita decisions in corruption cases. The research results show that judges in handling corruption cases refer to regulations from the Supreme Court. In accordance with these guidelines, judges use comprehensive considerations in making decisions. According to the judge in the ultra petita decision against a convict in a corruption case, something like …

Urgensi Pendidikan Camat Selaku Ppat Sementara Dalam Mencapai Nilai Keadilan, Sulkifli Sulkifli, Naily Fadhilah

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The position of PPAT in its implementation does not rule out the possibility of a vacancy due to the vast territorial area of Indonesia, so that a temporary PPAT is needed, in this case the sub-district head or village head. Temporary PPAT generally has the same duties and authority as PPAT. However, in practice, in carrying out their duties and authority they often make mistakes. This is because not all sub-district heads appointed as temporary PPATs have a legal education background or knowledge about PPATs. The purpose of writing this article is to understand the process of appointing a sub-district …

Ketentuan Tpks Dalam Kuhp Baru, Leony Sondang Suryani, Ahmad Ghozi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Isu kekerasan seksual terus berkembang sebagaimana perkembangan kejahatan terkait kekerasan seksual. Hal ini dilatarbelakangi oleh semakin maraknya kasus-kasus kekerasan seksual di Indonesia. Untuk menjawab permasalahan ini, maka dibentuklah UU TPKS sebagai solusi dari maraknya kekerasan seksual di Indonesia. Dalam UU TPKS tidak hanya berfokus pada korban perempuan dari tindak pidana kekerasan seksual, tetapi mencakup juga yang disebut kelompok rentan. Namun demikian, reformasi Hukum Pidana Indonesia mengenal adanya KUHP baru yang di dalamnya dimuat prinsip-prinsip penting dalam perumusan eperti rekodifikasi terbuka, prinsip Keseimbangan, dan prinsip lain yang relevan dalam penyusunan KUHP Indonesia. KUHP juga sudah mengadopsi nilai-nilai yang ada dalam konvensi-konvensi …

Kritik Terhadap Struktur Ilmu Hukum Menurut Paul Scholten, E. Fernando M. Manullang

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Paul Scholten, a prominent Dutch legal scholar, explains some thoughts in one of his chief article: De Structuur der recthwetenshcap. Essentially it describes some accounts on how legal relations may exist, which he thinks such relations can be both logic and illogical. Scholten even furthermore reiterates such paradigm, the dualism of logic and illogical, also underlies the scientific nature of legal science (jurisprudence). Finally, he also explores on the relations between language and jurisprudence. His all accounts leave some critical notes, as it has some internal contradictions in connection of, as what critical legal theory says, the presence of reifications …

Kekosongan Hukum Acara Dan Krisis Access To Justice Dalam Kasus-Kasus Pemberhentian Kepala Daerah/Wakil Kepala Daerah Di Indonesia, Arasy Pradana Azis

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Law Number 23 Year 2014 on Regional Government (Law No. 23/2014) provides that the Regional Head or Deputy Regional Head may be dismissed in the middle of his term by certain reasons. The law also regulates a strict process, including the involment of the Supreme Court (MA) in it. MA provides a judicial test of the opinion of the Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) as the initiator of the dismissal processl. The involvement of the Supreme Court is a consequence of the strengthening of the legitimacy of the Head of Region/Deputy Head of Region, which is now elected directly by …

Making Bad Decisions With Toxic Emissions: Exploring The Prosecution Of Companies For Superfund Crimes, Dr. Melissa Jarrell Ozymy, Dr. Joshua Ozymy

Washington Journal of Social & Environmental Justice

Marginalized communities in the United States bear the brunt of toxic pollution from Superfund sites. Criminal provisions in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as Superfund, allow prosecutors to seek penalties for environmental crimes involving significant harm and/or culpable conduct, but we know little about how companies have been prosecuted for Superfund crimes. We utilize content analysis of 2,728 environmental crime prosecutions stemming from U.S. EPA criminal investigations from 1983-2021, and select cases of companies prosecuted for Superfund crimes. We found that across 41 prosecutions, 126 defendants were prosecuted, resulting in 68 years of probation …