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Duty To Rescue In The Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis, Cameron Kellett

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

The article advocates for the enactment of state legislation establishing a duty-to-rescue doctrine, arguing that the absence of such a legal duty leads to preventable harm and undermines societal solidarity. It critiques the arbitrary nature of the special relationship exception under current law and proposes Minnesota's duty-to-rescue statute as a model for reform. The analysis emphasizes that requiring bystanders to provide reasonable assistance, without endangering themselves, is both feasible and morally justifiable, as it aligns with human tendencies to help others in distress.

The Ballad Of The "White" Collar Criminal: An Examination Of The Intersection Of Race And Gender In Federal White-Collar Sentencing And Possible Implications Of The Findings, Taylor Tesher

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that racial and gender disparities exist in federal white-collar crime sentencing, particularly affecting Black women, who often receive harsher sentences compared to their white counterparts. It highlights cases like Felicity Huffman and Kelley Williams-Bolar to illustrate these disparities and calls for reforms to address the lack of transparency and consistency in sentencing.

Non-State Actors "Under Color Of Law": Closing A Gap In Protection Under The Convention Against Torture, Anna R. Welch, Sangyeob Kim

Faculty Publications

The world is experiencing a global restructuring that poses a serious threat to international efforts to prevent and protect against torture. The rise of powerful transnational non-state actors such as gangs, drug cartels, militias, and terrorist organizations is challenging states’ authority to control and govern torture committed within their territory.

In the United States, those seeking protection against deportation under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) must establish a likelihood of torture at the instigation of or by consent or acquiescence of a public official acting in an official capacity or other person acting in an official capacity. However, what is …

Bargaining For Abolition, Zohra Ahmed

Faculty Scholarship

What if instead of seeing criminal court as an institution driven by the operation of rules, we saw it as a workplace where people labor to criminalize those with the misfortune to be prosecuted? Early observers of twentieth century urban criminal courts likened them to factories.¹ Since then, commentators often deploy the pejorative epithet “assembly line justice” to describe criminal court’s processes.² The term conveys the criticism of a mechanical system delivering a form of justice that is impersonal and fallible. Perhaps unintentionally, the epithet reveals another truth: criminal court is also a workplace, and it takes labor …

Llegaron Los Federales: The Federal Government’S Prosecution Of Local Criminal Activity In Puerto Rico, Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud

Faculty Scholarship

In the midst of a debilitating humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico and high-profile litigation concerning other U.S. territories, scholars, political leaders, and activists have elevated conversations of constitutionally sanctioned inequality into the public spotlight. With respect to Puerto Rico, these conversations focus on its current economic morass and relation to the debate over decolonization. Absent from these important discussions is the role that federal criminal law plays in manifesting Congress’ continued plenary power over U.S. territories. This Article breaks from that pattern and highlights an ignored part of federal criminal jurisprudence: the federal prosecution of local criminal activity in Puerto …

Against Criminal Law Localism, Brenner M. Fissell

Faculty Publications

Scholars have long called for greater localism in criminal justice as a response to the crises of racialized mass incarceration and over-policing. A downward shift of power to smaller local governments is thought to maximize an array of values, including liberty, equality, and efficient experimentation, and also to allow for criminal justice to better reflect societal viewpoints. In making these claims, localists have at times either explicitly included control over substantive criminal law in their devolutionary project, or have overlooked that more general calls for localism would presumably include this power.

This Article critiques substantive criminal law localism, arguing that …

"Insanity Is Smashing Up Against My Soul": The Fifth Circuit And Competency To Be Executed Cases After Panetti V. Quarterman, Michael L. Perlin, Talia Roitberg Harmon

Articles & Chapters

One of the open secrets of death penalty law and policy is the astonishingly high percentage of individuals on death row with serious mental disabilities. This is well known to lawyers who represent this cohort (and presumably, equally well known to the district attorneys who nevertheless prosecute them and the judges who try and sentence them), but is not generally discussed in the press nor, certainly, in political discourse. In the aggregate, this is far beneath society’s radar.

It is now over 14 years since the US Supreme Court decided a case that clarified the underlying issues. In Panetti v. …

Shadow Nursing Home Ownership: How A Failure In Government Oversight Of For-Profit Nursing Homes In New York Has Allowed Profits To Balloon And Standards Of Care To Plummet, Marissa Espinoza

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

Complex corporate nursing home structures have become commonplace in for-profit nursing home ownership. These structures, designed to shield owners from regulation and liability, allow owners to evade public scrutiny by obscuring the identify of true owners and allow the true owners to direct revenue to other companies they own or benefit from, such as staffing agencies, payroll businesses, and management companies. This has led to a deterioration in the standard of care for nursing home residents, society's most vulnerable population, while providing a boon in profits for the true owners. Money that should be spent on care is instead diverted …

International White-Collar Crime And The Globalization Of Internal Investigations Ten Years Later, Lucian E. Dervan

Law Faculty Scholarship

In International White-Collar Crime and the Globalization of Internal Investigations Ten Years Later, Lucian E. Dervan revisits and reassesses the framework first articulated in his 2011 article examining the risks and structural challenges of cross-border internal corporate investigations

2StetsonBusLRev120 . The article evaluates how four core areas—selection of investigative counsel, cross-border data collection and transfer, employee interactions in varied labor law environments, and disclosure and settlement strategies—have evolved over the past decade in response to intensified global enforcement cooperation, expanding data privacy regimes, and shifting geopolitical dynamics. Dervan demonstrates that while practitioners have grown more sophisticated in navigating privilege …

In Defense Of Felon-In-Possession Laws, Dru Stevenson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bans With No Bite: Why Racial Profiling Bans Are Unable To Create Racial Justice In Policing, Rebecca Yin

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Jurisdictional Elements And The Jury, G. Alexander Nunn

Faculty Scholarship

Do jurisdictional elements in criminal statutes actually matter? Of course, formally, the answer is obvious; jurisdictional elements are of paramount importance. In fact, they often serve as the entire justifying basis for a federal (rather than state) criminal prosecution. But beyond mere technicalities, do jurisdictional elements actually make a difference in a jury deliberation room?

In pursuit of an answer, this Article undertakes a novel empirical study designed to assess the antecedent issue of how laypeople weigh jurisdictional elements when determining guilt. The project’s experiment ultimately finds that when one increases the amount of evidence demonstrating a defendant’s substantive guilt, …

Disaggregating Slavery And The Slave Trade, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Articles

International law prohibits slavery and the slave trade as peremptory norms, customary international law prohibitions and crimes, humanitarian law prohibitions, and non-derogable human rights. Human rights bodies, however, focus on human trafficking, even when slavery and the slave trade—and not human trafficking—are enumerated within their mandates. International human rights law has conflated human trafficking with slavery and the slave trade. Consequently, human trafficking has subsumed the slave trade and, at times, slavery prohibitions, increasing perpetrator impunity for slavery and the slave trade abuses and denying full expressive justice to survivors.

This Article disaggregates slavery from the slave trade and slavery …

The Progressive Love Affair With The Carceral State, Kate Levine

Articles

A Review of The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration. By Aya Gruber.

Introductory Note To Prosecutor V. Ratko Mladić (U.N. Int’L Residual Mechanism Crim. Tribunals App. Chamber), Steven Arrigg Koh

Faculty Scholarship

On June 8, 2021, the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) Appeals Chamber delivered its appeals judgment in Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladić. The judgment affirmed the 2017 trial judgment of Trial Chamber I of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which convicted Mladić, the Bosnian Serb commander, of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes during the war in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995, as well as affirming his sentence of life imprisonment. This constituted Mladić’s final appeal, opening the door for his assignment to a prison somewhere in Europe.

Location, Location, Location: The Federal Sentencing Guidelines' Abduction Enhancement And The Meaning Of "Different Location", Sabrina Jemail

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

Trauma: Community Of Color Exposure To The Criminal Justice System As An Adverse Childhood Experience, André Douglas Pond Cummings, Todd J. Clark, Caleb Gregory Conrad, Amy Dunn Johnson

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Prudential Standing Quandary When Discriminatory, Facially Neutral Laws Allegedly Cause Collateral Damage, Richard Luedeman

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Kebijakan Countercyclical Sebagai Upaya Kesejahteraan Masyarakat, Made Cinthya Puspita Shara

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The high level of economic growth in Indonesia is in line with the development of businesses that increase capital by making credit agreements with financial institutions. The state of the spread of the co-19 pandemic case has been declared a national disaster, impacting on the implementation of credit agreements between the debtor and financial institutions. Economic problems make it difficult for people to carry out their obligations. Countercyclical buffer policy is a buffer that is carried out by providing additional capital to replace losses if excessive credit growth occurs which has the potential to disrupt financial stability. Bank Indonesia Policy …

Unshackled: Stories Of Redemption Among Serious Youth Offenders, Julie E. Mcconnell

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

In a series of decisions concerning child defendants, the United States Supreme

Court has embraced the understanding, based on adolescent brain

development, that the legal system must recognize children are different than

adults concerning criminal culpability and sentencing. That recognition, culminating

in Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana, led to the opportunity

for thousands of individuals across the country, initially sentenced

to death-in-prison sentences when they were minors, to gain a meaningful

opportunity for release. These cases permanently banned mandatory life sentences

for children. In Virginia, the legislature now allows reconsideration

of these cases through hearings before the parole …

Hip Hop And The Law : Presented By Intellectual Property Law Association 03/31/2022, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

Konsep Pelaksanaan Keputusan Tata Usaha Negara: Menguji Asas Presumtio Iustae Causa Dalam Sengketa Tata Usaha Negara, Indah Fitriani Sukri, Anna Erliyana

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

In the implementation of the State Administration Decree (KTUN), the principle of presumtiousta causa is known as part of the implementation of the KTUN in order to resolve state administrative disputes. This principle means a state administration decision which is always considered valid. This decision will be invalid if there are new decisions that cancel or revoke the previous decisions. In its formation, the administrative court or state administration court has the objective to provide protection for the rights of the people derived from individual rights as well as to protect the rights of the community based on the common …

Kajian Hukum Terhadap Pengembangan Fintech Syariah Di Indonesia, Irham Virdi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

In meeting the needs of today's financial services that are entering the era of digitalization, a service is needed following the developing financial technology. The existence of Islamic financial technology (fintech) is an alternative to fulfill the needs of financial services at this time. As one of the countries with the largest Muslim population in the world, Islamic fintech can be an option and has great potential because it follows current technological developments and sharia. However, the implementation of Islamic fintech faces various obstacles, including its regulation, the obligation of DPS, technical implementation, and human resources. For this reason, a …

Penyelesaian Sengketa Bedrog (Penipuan) Dalam Perjanjian Jual Beli Kayu: Onrechtmatige Daad Atau Wederrechtelijk? (Studi Kasus: Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor: 449k/Pid/2001), Sri Laksmi Anindita, Eriska Fajrinita Sitanggang

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Criminalization Of Civil Disputes Is A Common Case In Indonesia. This Case Can Occur Because An Act Or Action May Violate Two Laws At The Same Time, Those Are Civil Law And Criminal Law. The Intersection Between A Civil Dispute And A Criminal Act Does Not Only Make The Borderline Between Civil And Criminal Cases Thin. Settlement Of Disputes Over Acts That Contain Elements Of Fraud Arising From A Contractual Relationship Through Civil Law Mechanisms By Filing A Lawsuit (Onrechtmatige Daad Or Default) Or Criminal Law Mechanisms (Wederrechtelijk), Is Often Confusing. How To Determine An Act With An Element Of …

Analisis Yuridis Sanksi Pidana Pelanggaran Pasal 281 Jo 77 Ayat (1) Undang Undang Nomor 22 Tahun 2009 Tentang Lalu Lintas Dan Angkutan Jalan Di Wilayah Hukum Polres Serang Kota, Januar Alihamzah, Benny Irawan, Dadang Herli

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Law Number 22 Year 2009 concerning Road Traffic and Transportation (LLAJ Law) explains that traffic order and road transportation is a traffic condition that takes place regularly with the rights and obligations of every road user. Every motorized vehicle driver is required to have a driving license (SIM) in accordance with the provisions of Article 77 paragraph (1) of the LLAJ Law. The fact that happened in the jurisdiction of the Serang Kota Police, there were 156 cases of violations of Article 77 paragraph (1) of the LLAJ Law which were decided by the Serang District Court with fines whose …

Kedudukan Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Dalam Hukum Ketenagakerjaan (Kajian Terhadap Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi No. 37/Puu-Ix/2011), Suparto Suparto, Zulkifli Zulkifli

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower is one of the laws that is subjected to a judicial review to the Constitutional Court (MK). One of the reasons for filing a judicial review is that the application of Article 155 paragraph (2) has the potential to create legal uncertainty, given the absence of a clear interpretation of the clause " not yet defined ”. The Constitutional Court Decision No. 37 / PUU-IX / 2011 granted the petitioners' petition, and stated that the phrase "not yet established" was interpreted as "not yet legally binding". As a result, the process fee during …

Moralitas Publik Sebagai Dasar Pembenar Terhadap Kewajiban Sertifikasi Halal Produk Makanan Di Indonesia Berdasarkan Gatt-Wto 1994, Neni Ruhaeni, Eka An Aqimuddin, Hadian Afriyadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

In principle, World Trade Organization (WTO) prohibit each member states to make policy, both tarrif and non tarrif, which potentially disturb international trade. Nevertheless, there are exceptions that can be used by the state as a basis for justification to hold trade policy which consider contratry to WTO law. One of them is to protect public morality. The Halal Product Assurance Act (UUJPH) stipulate obligation of halal certification for food products that enter, circulate and trade in Indonesia. This act is considered as a protective and discriminatory policy. This research founds that although some provisions in UUJPH are discriminatory and …

Dilema Praktik Dumping Dan Hukum Antidumping : Antara Kepentingan Pengusaha (Produsen) Dan Masyarakat (Konsumen), Yulianto Syahyu

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Antidumping provisions have been listed since the agreement of GATT in 1947, and provisions regarding anti-dumping agencies are regulated in Article VI GATT. The provision also recommends that each member state implements the provisions of GATT in their respective national legal systems. As a form of implementation of these provisions in the national legal system, Indonesia has issued regulations governing Antidumping. However, there is a dilemma in terms of dumping practices and the implementation of anti-dumping laws in Indonesia, because in this case it must be seen from two sides of interest, not only in terms of the interests of …

Peranan Hukum Rahasia Dagang Dalam Pembangunan Ekonomi: Undang-Undang Dan Putusan, Tantowi Akbar

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

There are five qualities required for a law to be said to have a role in the economic development of a country: stability, certainty, justice, education, and the special abilities of lawyers. One of the laws in Indonesia which closely related to the national economy is Trade Secret Law Number 30 Year 2000. This trade secret law should be able to comply these qualities. Therefore, this trade secret law has a role in national economic development in Indonesia. On the other hand, the Verdic of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia Number 332K/Pid.Sus/2013 concerning trade secret matter could …

Nilai-Nilai Pancasila Di Tengah Perubahan Peta Geopolitik Global: Analisis Kepentingan Nasional Dalam Pembentukan Kebijakan Hukum, Kris Wijoyo Soepandji, M. Sofyan Pulungan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Pancasila as the basis of the state is the main guideline for Indonesian political and social life. In the field of law, Pancasila has been determined as the main source national legislation process. However, the competing interests in formulation of legal policies sometimes put Pancasila values at difficult position to be implemented. Indonesian lawmakers should end the unfavorable situation by utilizing geopolitical knowledge. Moreover, currently there is important change in the global geopolitical map which provides opportunity for Indonesia to make legal policies which are in accordance with its national interests. This research was conducted based on the inter-disciplinary legal …