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Analysis And Investigation Of Solitary Confinement Reforms, Alison E. Gordon Apr 2021

Analysis And Investigation Of Solitary Confinement Reforms, Alison E. Gordon

SJD Dissertations

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Can “Asians” Truly Be Americans?, Vinay Harpalani Apr 2021

Can “Asians” Truly Be Americans?, Vinay Harpalani

Faculty Scholarship

Recent, tragic events have brought more attention to hate and bias crimes against Asian Americans. It is important to address these crimes and prevent them in the future, but the discourse on Asian Americans should not end there. Many non-Asian Americans are unaware or only superficially aware of the vast diversity that exists among us, along with the challenges posed by that diversity. Some have basic knowledge of the immigration and exclusion of Asian Americans, the internment of Japanese Americans which was upheld in Korematsu v. United States, and the “model minority stereotype”, but these are Asian Americans 101. This …

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Domestic Violence Victims, A Nuisance To Society?: Moving Toward A More Equitable System In Protecting Vulnerable Women, Elizabeth Haderlie, Layla Shaaban Apr 2021

Domestic Violence Victims, A Nuisance To Society?: Moving Toward A More Equitable System In Protecting Vulnerable Women, Elizabeth Haderlie, Layla Shaaban

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

Recent conversations about racial biases that exist towards the black community have required many of us to rethink systems and laws that unconsciously perpetuate racial discrimination. This article uses state, federal, and local lawsuits to argue the case against nuisance ordinances and the negative effects they can have on victims of domestic abuse, namely black women. We dive into the histories and statistics of domestic violence and nuisance ordinances. We provide evidence that indicates a correlation between domestic violence victim’s fear of reaching out for help, and nuisance ordinances being in place. Finally, we urge the federal government to amend …

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Environmental Law As Segregation, Nadia B. Ahmad, Melissa Bryan Apr 2021

Environmental Law As Segregation, Nadia B. Ahmad, Melissa Bryan

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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The Hague Rules On Third-Party Joinder: A Revised Framework, Emma Macfarlane Apr 2021

The Hague Rules On Third-Party Joinder: A Revised Framework, Emma Macfarlane

Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review

This paper critically assesses the Hague Rules’ stance on third-party joinder. Third-party joinder is an important feature in business human rights disputes. It is a mechanism that victims of human rights abuses can use to bring claims against corporate defendants where the victims do not otherwise have an underlying agreement on which to base their claim. Keeping in line with traditional conceptions of commercial arbitration, the Hague Rules are grounded in party consent to arbitrate. Conceptions of consent therefore have an outsized impact on the universe of parties who can bring actions against corporations before arbitral tribunals for human rights …

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Multinational Corporations' Responsibility For Tortious And Human Rights Violations: A Comparative Study, Fatemeh Bagherzadeh Apr 2021

Multinational Corporations' Responsibility For Tortious And Human Rights Violations: A Comparative Study, Fatemeh Bagherzadeh

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

Many legal systems make it hard for the victims of human rights violations of multinational corporations to have access to their judicial systems. Multinational corporations are so powerful that they can form our lives and also escape liabilities for the damages caused by their activities. The limited liability theory of corporate law enables the parent company of a corporate group to enjoy privileges and avoid its responsibilities for human rights violations. Recently, litigators and human rights activists are trying to hold multinational corporations liable by expanding some well-established, but infrequent applicable theories such as "piercing the corporate veil" theory. Courts …

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The Fallacy Of Contract In Sexual Slavery: A Response To Ramseyer's "Contracting For Sex In The Pacific War", Yong-Shik Lee, Natsu Taylor Saito, Jonathan Todres Apr 2021

The Fallacy Of Contract In Sexual Slavery: A Response To Ramseyer's "Contracting For Sex In The Pacific War", Yong-Shik Lee, Natsu Taylor Saito, Jonathan Todres

Michigan Journal of International Law

Over seven decades have passed since the end of the Second World War, but the trauma from the cruelest war in human history continues today, perpetuated by denial of responsibility for the war crimes committed and unjust attempts to rewrite history at the expense of dignity, life, and justice for the victims of the most serious human rights violations. The latest such attempt is a troubling recharacterization of the sexual slavery enforced by Japan during the Second World War as a legitimate contractual arrangement. A recent paper authored by J. Mark Ramseyer, entitled “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War,” …

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Masthead Apr 2021

Masthead

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Table Of Contents Apr 2021

Table Of Contents

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Editor’S Note, Kimberly Shi Apr 2021

Editor’S Note, Kimberly Shi

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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Symposium Schedule Apr 2021

Symposium Schedule

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Weathering The Pandemic: Dying Old At A Young Age From Pre-Existing Racist Conditions, Arline T. Geronimus Apr 2021

Weathering The Pandemic: Dying Old At A Young Age From Pre-Existing Racist Conditions, Arline T. Geronimus

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Mainstream social epidemiology now acknowledges the contributions of interpersonal racism, racialized stress, and implicit bias to population health inequity. It also increasingly recognizes that current and historical racist policies place barriers in the way of healthy lifestyles by institutionalizing food deserts, housing decay, and austerity urbanism. Essential as these developments are, they only skim the surface of how insidiously structural racism establishes and reproduces population health inequity. I coined the term “weathering” to describe the effects of sustained cultural oppression upon the body. Weathering expands on the more conventional “social determinants of health” approach to understand the contextually fluctuating and …

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Empathy’S Promise And Limits For Those Disproportionately Harmed By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Theresa Glennon Apr 2021

Empathy’S Promise And Limits For Those Disproportionately Harmed By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Theresa Glennon

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Structural race, ethnicity, and class disparities in the United States concentrated and intensified the health, economic, and psychological impact of COVID-19 for certain populations. Those same structural disparities and the belief system that maintains them may also account for the weak policy response that left the United States with high rates of infection and death, economic devastation of individuals, families, and small businesses, and psychological distress. A more equal society with a stronger pre-pandemic safety net may have prevented or eased the disproportionate hardship and avoided the drama and cliffhanging. Or the shock of a pandemic and likelihood of extreme …

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School Finance, Race, And Reparations, Preston C. Green Iii, Bruce D. Baker, Joseph O. Oluwole Apr 2021

School Finance, Race, And Reparations, Preston C. Green Iii, Bruce D. Baker, Joseph O. Oluwole

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

In this article, we explain why and how school finance reform should be a part of a reparations program for Black Americans. This article proceeds in six parts. Part I explains how Black-white school funding disparities occurred during the separate-but-equal era. Part II discusses how these funding disparities have occurred in the aftermath of the Brown decision. Parts III and IV explore why school desegregation and school finance litigation, respectively, have failed to remedy these gaps. Part V lays out a reparations framework that state legislatures could adopt to provide restitution to schools and taxpayers harmed by state policies creating …

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Can “Asians” Truly Be Americans?, Vinay Harpalani Apr 2021

Can “Asians” Truly Be Americans?, Vinay Harpalani

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Recent, tragic events have brought more attention to hate and bias crimes against Asian Americans. It is important to address these crimes and prevent them in the future, but the discourse on Asian Americans should not end there. Many non-Asian Americans are unaware or only superficially aware of the vast diversity that exists among us, along with the challenges posed by that diversity. Some have basic knowledge of the immigration and exclusion of Asian Americans, the internment of Japanese Americans which was upheld in Korematsu v. United States, and the “model minority stereotype”, but these are Asian Americans 101. This …

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Persistent Inequalities, The Pandemic, And The Opportunity To Compete, Rachel F. Moran Apr 2021

Persistent Inequalities, The Pandemic, And The Opportunity To Compete, Rachel F. Moran

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Even before the recent coronavirus pandemic, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status played a powerful role in allocating opportunity—in the public schools and elsewhere. The pandemic has laid bare the dimensions of this inequality with a new and alarming clarity. In this essay, I first will focus on the landscape of educational inequity that existed before the coronavirus forced public schools to shut down. In particular, I will explore patterns of racial and ethnic segregation in America’s schools and how those patterns are linked to additional challenges based on socioeconomic isolation. In addition, I will consider the role of language and …

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Giving Due Process Its Due: Why Deliberate Indifference Should Be Confined To Claims Arising Under The Cruel And Unusual Punishment Clause, Shad M. Brown Apr 2021

Giving Due Process Its Due: Why Deliberate Indifference Should Be Confined To Claims Arising Under The Cruel And Unusual Punishment Clause, Shad M. Brown

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

This Note discusses culpability requirements for claims brought by pretrial detainees and convicted prisoners. The initial focus is on deliberate indifference, a culpability requirement formulated under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause but symmetrically applied to claims arising under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Note then shifts to Kingsley v. Hendrickson, a landmark Supreme Court decision that casts doubt on the application of Eighth-Amendment standards to Fourteenth-Amendment claims. Finally, this Note advocates for the application of objective unreasonableness, a different culpability requirement, to claims arising under the Due Process Clause. It does so on the …

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It’S My Party, And I’Ll Do What I Want To: Making The Case For Judicial Review Of National Interest Waiver Denials, M. Hunter Rush Apr 2021

It’S My Party, And I’Ll Do What I Want To: Making The Case For Judicial Review Of National Interest Waiver Denials, M. Hunter Rush

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Politics and personal beliefs have become increasingly intertwined since the founding of the United States. Few issues have divided Americans more than immigration laws and policies. This Note advances the argument that when a noncitizen’s application for a National Interest Waiver is denied, there must be some recourse. The current problem is exacerbated when the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, on behalf of the Secretary of Homeland Security, denies a waiver for what appears to be racially or religiously motivated purposes. Judicial review in an Article III court is the most neutral forum of review that a noncitizen residing …

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Opportunity Zones Providing Opportunity For Whom?: How The Current Regulations Are Failing And A Solution To Uplift Communities, Ruta R. Trivedi Apr 2021

Opportunity Zones Providing Opportunity For Whom?: How The Current Regulations Are Failing And A Solution To Uplift Communities, Ruta R. Trivedi

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

In 2017, the newly enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created an incentive for taxpayers to invest in Qualified Opportunity Zones— census tracts that consist of low-income communities. These investments, which are incentivized via lucrative tax deferral benefits, are intended to uplift communities and leave them in a better position than they were pre-investment. However, the initiative lacks regulation requiring investments to actually benefit low-income areas, resulting in money going to places that do not need help, while communities that are in need may face displacement. This is a result of many wealthy investors finding that luxury projects are the …

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Past The Tipping Point, But With Hope Of Return: How Creating A Geoengineering Compulsory Licensing Scheme Can Incentivize Innovation, Brooke Wilson Apr 2021

Past The Tipping Point, But With Hope Of Return: How Creating A Geoengineering Compulsory Licensing Scheme Can Incentivize Innovation, Brooke Wilson

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

This Note explores the patenting of geoengineering technologies and issues arising from the early stages of this high-risk, high-reward technology. This Note focuses on one possible solution to solving the issues surrounding the patenting of geoengineering technology: Creating a specialized compulsory licensing scheme.

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Book Review Of Law In The Time Of Covid-19, Jessie Wallace Burchfield Apr 2021

Book Review Of Law In The Time Of Covid-19, Jessie Wallace Burchfield

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Strategic Litigation And The Evolution Of Regional Human Rights Norms: Cases From Germany And The Netherlands, Cole Kovarik Apr 2021

Strategic Litigation And The Evolution Of Regional Human Rights Norms: Cases From Germany And The Netherlands, Cole Kovarik

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This study seeks to fill gaps in our understanding of how private actors participate in international human rights politics by examining civil society involvement in European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) cases against long-standing democracies. Descriptive analysis of an exhaustive data set of instances of civil society organization (CSO) participation in ECtHR cases against Germany and The Netherlands is complemented by a comparative case study analysis of networks of organizations that mobilized around German and Dutch cases concerning Articles 8 (right to privacy) and 10 (freedom of expression). The data suggest that civil society organizations not only appear before the …

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2021 Spring - Clihhr Newsletter, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr) Apr 2021

2021 Spring - Clihhr Newsletter, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

CLIHHR Newsletters

This Spring 2021 issue of the CLIHHR Newsletter highlights major institutional milestones and advocacy efforts during a period of global and political transition. It features Professor Richard H. Weisberg’s transition to emeritus status, successful litigation challenging sanctions against the International Criminal Court, student fellowship and clinic project achievements, virtual alumni engagement, and public programming on sanctions, religious freedom, mass incarceration, and farmers’ rights. The newsletter reflects CLIHHR’s continued commitment to human rights education, international justice, and accountability in a remote learning environment.

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Sexual Slavery As A War Crime: A Reform Proposal, Alessandro Storchi Apr 2021

Sexual Slavery As A War Crime: A Reform Proposal, Alessandro Storchi

Michigan Journal of International Law

For the first time in the history of international criminal law, the ICC Elements of Crimes included a statutory definition of sexual slavery as a war crime and as a crime against humanity. Such definition is derived from, and in fact almost identical to, the definition of enslavement in the same text. In July 2019, that language for the first time was adopted and applied in the conviction of general Bosco Ntaganda, the first ever conviction for sexual slavery as a war crime and as a crime against humanity at the ICC, as part of the situation in the Democratic …

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A Different Type Of Property: White Women And The Human Property They Kept, Michele Goodwin Apr 2021

A Different Type Of Property: White Women And The Human Property They Kept, Michele Goodwin

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. by Harriet A. Jacobs, and They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers.

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A Concept Of Shared Principles And The Constitutional Homogeneity In Europe: The Case Of Subsidiarity, Volker Roeben Apr 2021

A Concept Of Shared Principles And The Constitutional Homogeneity In Europe: The Case Of Subsidiarity, Volker Roeben

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

The article explores the concept of subsidiarity as a shared legal principle in both the European Union (EU) and German law, focusing on its role in ensuring the accountability of central authority while safeguarding the autonomy of peripheral legislatures. It highlights the convergence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on a rationale of legality, aimed at preventing central overreach into peripheral competences. Despite this alignment, the article notes divergent outcomes in the application of subsidiarity, with the FCC more frequently invalidating federal legislation compared to the CJEU's more restrained …

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Going Global: An International Human Rights Approach To Russian Lgbtq+ Law And Practices, Michael Goodyear Apr 2021

Going Global: An International Human Rights Approach To Russian Lgbtq+ Law And Practices, Michael Goodyear

Articles & Chapters

The current treatment of LGBTQ+ people in Russia is characterized by a discriminatory withholding of rights and political and societal isolation and endangerment. While this situation is well-documented, the legal analyses of it have been more limited. Those that have been undertaken in the past decade have focused almost exclusively on the regional European Court of Human Rights as the vehicle to address Russian discrimination against its sexual and gender minorities. The scholarship has long ignored an international human rights approach, however, which, through the treaty bodies of the nine core international human rights treaties, has developed a robust set …

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Tanggung Jawab Debitur Yang Wanprestasi Terhadap Kreditur Akibat Sertifikat Jaminan Fidusia Yang Tidak Sah (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 3584 K/Pdt/2018), Inggri Vinaya Mar 2021

Tanggung Jawab Debitur Yang Wanprestasi Terhadap Kreditur Akibat Sertifikat Jaminan Fidusia Yang Tidak Sah (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 3584 K/Pdt/2018), Inggri Vinaya

Indonesian Notary

The fiduciary guarantee certificate is a legal protection for the fiduciary recipient of the financing agreement agreed with the fiduciary. In the event that the fiduciary commits default, the fiduciary recipient can execute the fiduciary security object. The existence of an executorial title on the fiduciary guarantee protects the fiduciary recipient wherever the object of the fiduciary guarantee is, both the fiduciary and other parties. In the registration of the object of fiduciary security, the parties must pay attention to the correctness of the object of guarantee that is registered because it may harm the parties if it does not …

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Perlindungan Hukum Notaris Atas Pembuatan Jaminan Perusahaan Yang Diduga Mengandung Unsur Cacat Kehendak, Elia Cahya Putra Mar 2021

Perlindungan Hukum Notaris Atas Pembuatan Jaminan Perusahaan Yang Diduga Mengandung Unsur Cacat Kehendak, Elia Cahya Putra

Indonesian Notary

Akta Jaminan Perorangan dan Akta Jaminan Perusahaan merupakan bentuk dari Perjanjian Penanggungan (1820-1850 KUH Perdata). Sesuai dengan sifat accessoir dari perjanjian jaminan Penanggungan, maka perjanjian tersebut lahir dengan maksud untuk menegaskan dan memperkuat segala yang dimaksud dalam Perjanjian Pokoknya. Bentuknya yang bersifat bebas, tidak terikat dalam bentuk tertentu, dan dapat dibuat lisan maupun tulisan dalam akta, memungkinkan adanya perkembangan-perkembangan pemahaman di dunia praktak dalam pembuatan, dan peruntukan sebuah akta Jaminan Penanggungan. Dalam hal perjanjian fasilitas kredit dan perjanjian utang-piutang menggunakan lembaga jaminan, baik jaminan kebendaan ataupun jaminan perorangan maka Notaris juga berperan dalam pembuatan akta pemberian jaminan tersebut. Namun apa …

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Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Notaris Dalam Proses Penyidikan (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 16/Puu-Xviii/2020), Anandiaz Raditya Priandhana Mar 2021

Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Notaris Dalam Proses Penyidikan (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 16/Puu-Xviii/2020), Anandiaz Raditya Priandhana

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia Nomor 16/PUU-XVIII/2020 terkait dengan perlindungan hukum terhadap Notaris dalam Proses Penyidikan. Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 16/PUU-XVIII/2020 ini dimohonkan karena Pasal 66 ayat (1) Undang-Undang Nomor 2 Tahun 2014 dianggap menimbulkan dan/atau berpotensi menimbulkan adanya kerugian dalam melaksanakan tugas dan wewenangnya sebagai Jaksa, serta seakan-akan memberikan kedudukan yang lebih istimewa kepada seorang Notaris. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini, yaitu yang pertama adalah kewenangan Majelis Kehormatan Notaris dan pembatasannya dalam Pasal 66 UUJN berdasarkan putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia Nomor 16/PUU-XVIII/2020. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode yuridis normatif, dengan menggunakan data sekunder, melalui …

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