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Law School News: Rake To Plate: Rwu Law Students Dive Into The Clamming Industry 10-4-2023, Grace Boland

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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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 …

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, …

Negara Dan Monopoli Alamiah Serta Perkembangan Di Indonesia, Teddy Anggoro

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Natural monopoly is a controversial theory to be developed or implemented in today's world. It is important to note that every time an economic crisis hits the world, at that time natural monopoly loses its popularity, because it is the party to blame for the economic crisis that occurs, especially if the natural monopoly is held by State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN). Indonesia is one of the countries that through the BUMN Law prohibits natural monopoly on certain industries to be applied. This becomes important to study considering that natural monopoly itself is a way to achieve efficiency, such as the goal …

Free, Prior Informed Consent And Extractive Industry: Indigenous Action Is The Past, Present, And Future Of Global Environmental Justice, Paige Bellamy

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

Free, Prior Informed Consent ("FPIC") from the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been central to global Indigenous action against extractive industries’ harmful practices. Yet, it is often not fully recognized as a sovereign right, which hinders Indigenous peoples’ ability to use it to its full potential. Historically, FPIC has been deemed a consultation right, not a right to “veto” industry action on Indigenous land. Countries that have interpreted FPIC as a mere consultation right have allowed further exploitation of Indigenous peoples, usually leading to environmental and humanitarian disasters. However, when courts have respected the right to …

Soaps And Shampoos: Proposals To Reform Regulation In The United States Personal Care Market To Decrease Deforestation From Palm Oil Imports, Kelsey Weston

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

Palm oil is the world's most highly sought-after vegetable oil due to its multifaceted uses and cheap cost of production. However, producing this versatile oil comes at a high cost to one of the largest biodiversity on the planet. Over the last two centuries, Indonesia and Malaysia have become the main producers and exporters of palm oil but they are also home to the largest number of mammal species in the world that have seen a staggering decline in populations. Furthermore, palm oil production has caused excessive release of greenhouse gases, increased disruption of forestland, and economic poverty for smallholders …

Nuclear Powered International Commercial Shipping: A Note On The Greenest Solution And The Challenges Of International Regulation, Rebecca Mcreynolds

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

To meet the environmental demands imposed by the International Maritime Organization, the commercial shipping industry’s use of predominantly marine diesel fuel will need to change drastically. Current answers to these environmental concerns include the use of biofuels, battery packs, and liquified natural gas, but these are short-term solutions that will not fully meet environmental demands in the long run. Nuclear propulsion, however, is a tried-and-true resolution. The use of nuclear energy results in virtually no environmental impact and has successfully been used by the US Navy for the past 75 years. Unfortunately, the commercial use of nuclear propulsion is stalled …

Reversing Quiet Destruction: Florida's Attempt To Regulate Pfas Known As Forever Chemicals, A. Colleen Donald

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

Introduced by manufacturing companies in the 1940s, Per-and polyfluorinated substances (“PFAS”) which consist of a group of over 6,000 chemicals, have insidiously made their way into the bloodstream of humans and into the environment. These nearly indestructible, “forever chemicals” that were once thought to be safe for use in firefighting foams, cosmetics, food packaging, non-stick cookware, and water-resistant clothing, are now found to be toxic. PFAS have been found in animals, aquatic life, and natural resources, and are associated with illnesses in humans: PFAS have been linked to various cancers, reproductive issues in women, and birth defects in children. As …

Impact Of The 45q Tax Credit On The Ownership Of Pore Spaces, Quinn Taylor

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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The Arc Of The Implied Covenant: An Analysis Of The Modern Implied Covenant To Reasonably Develop The Lease Premises, Samuel Skupin

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Corporate Criminal Consequences Of The Deepwater Horizon Disaster, Charles Phillips

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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The Montana “2.0” Test For Tribal Civil Adjudicatory Jurisdiction: A Grain Of Rights, Rosemary Mahaffey

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Why “Go Green” When You Can Stay Sooner Red?: An Analysis Of Oklahoma’S Energy Discrimination Act Of 2022, Shivani Lalloo

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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To Clear The Air: Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company And Evolving National Acceptance Of Rsg Certification Standards, Grasyn Fuller

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Editor's Introduction & Front Pages, Kelsey Lauerman

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Lost In Transmission: How To Bring More Clean Energy Onto The Grid, Ryan Block

Student Scholarship

The Inflation Reduction Act and other policies are pushing solar, wind, and other clean energy technologies into the marketplace. But these generators struggle to make the physical connection to the electricity market because interconnection is proving to be a bottleneck; over 2,000 gigawatts of capacity are waiting to connect to the grid. This Article examines the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) regulations that govern the entry of new generation resources onto the grid. It reviews the statutory underpinnings of FERC’s interconnection authority and analyzes key federal regulations, including pending FERC proposals, and finds that current backlogs are the product of …

Determining An Effective Regulatory Framework For Businesses To Report On The Environment, Climate, And Human Rights, Paco Mengual

Pace International Law Review

The objective of this article is to identify the existing dynamics and clarify the reasoning behind reporting on environmental, climate, and human rights information in search of effective and binding frameworks to enhance transparency. To that effect, this article relates the evolution from a corporate sustainable business focus to reporting on environmental social and governance and increasing corporate accountability. It then expands on defining non- financial information and ESG reporting with regards to recent European Union Regulations (SFDR, Taxonomy) as well as the challenges associated with defining sustainable investments. This article aims to compare and understand the various regulatory strategies …

Safeguarding Sovereignty: Indonesia's Solution To The Raw Materials Case In Wto, Muhammad Reza Syariffudin Zaki, Muhammad Haykal Armanto, Rafsi Azzam Hibatullah Albar, Stefan Koos

Indonesian Journal of International Law

Indonesia’s export restriction on raw materials was based upon Law No. 4 of 2009 on Mineral and Coal Mining as amended with Law No. 3 of 2020. January 1^st of 2020 marks nickel to be the first mineral to be affected by the raw mineral export ban policy. This measure has sparked a controversy in the international community, as the European Union deemed that this measure is against the principles of the World Trade Organization of nonrestrictive trade policies. This phenomenon was brought to the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO as DS592 – Indonesia Measures Relating to Raw …

Response To Conophillips' Opposition To Un Rapporteurs Amicus Brief, William Snape, David Hunter

Amicus Briefs & Court Filings

Defendant-Intervenor ConocoPhillips made a number of incorrect and misleading statements in their opposition to the UN Special Rapporteurs proposed amicus brief. This response explains the relationship of the UN Special Rapporteurs to American University’s Washington College of Law, as well as the employment status of the two attorneys who authored the UN Rapporteurs’ amicus brief.

The Green Future And The Golden Past: Issues And Approaches Regarding The Sustainability Of Historical Structures And Sites, Steven Moctezuma

Pace Environmental Law Review

This Article illustrates the harmonies and conflict between historic preservation and environmental law in the context of urgently meeting climate change challenges. The Article presents an overarching analysis of the relationship between historic preservation and environmentalism, discerning unifying aspects and modern conflicts through statutory laws and case studies. It begins with detailing the parallel goals between the two causes, drawing on key similarities between the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, the main tools for ensuring federal review for each field, and highlighting sustainable refurbishment as a prime example on achieving both ends with the same …

The Need To Reconceptualize Wild Animals Post-Covid 19: Miscoordination Of Wildlife Regulations In China’S Food Legal Order, Yi Seul Kim

Pace Environmental Law Review

Today, China is one of the largest markets for wild animal trading. Yet, wild animals are in a regulatory grey area. There is an increasing need to revisit how wild animals are simultaneously but differently regulated in the food and wildlife protection regimes. Rarely do attempts to understand these two regimes occur, making this article's analysis of miscoordination in these bodies of law crucial in addressing the hindrance of nationwide food safety improvement efforts.

Virtuous Cycles: The Interaction Of Public And Private Environmental Governance, Elodie O. Currier

Pace Environmental Law Review

The climate crisis has provoked a call for action from all sides. Private governance, public regulation, and individual behavior are all vital pieces of our path toward decarbonization and climate adaptation. Despite this, some scholars and policymakers argue that private environmental governance undermines public efforts to regulate climate harms. This paper draws on existing scholarship in law, policy, and psychology to answer these critiques, proposing four taxonomies of beneficial public-private collaboration on environmental governance. It then applies these models, tracking the shift in U.S. environmental legislation from “polluter pays” to “beneficiary pays” strategies to show a shift from rivalry to …

Criminalization Of Community-Based Ecotourism (Cbet) In Indonesia: The Cases Of Pari Island, Kepulauan Seribu, Janthi Dharma Shanty, Bono Budi Priambodo

Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Policy Studies

Pari islanders have revamped their island into cultural ecotourism destination since 2010. It has been successful because the activities have diverted the islanders’ dependence on the hard-pressed local coastal and fisheries resources and supplemented their income. This is a win-win situation the Indonesian government seeks to create with the 2007 Coastal Zone and Small Islands Management Law where natural conservation benefits local populace economically. The Law stipulates, among others, that community participation is one of the integrated coastal zone management principles. The Law also prioritizes coastal zones for conservation and tourism activities. Pari islanders thus have already implemented the imperatives …

Prioritizing Regional Wildlife Conservation By Rejuvenating The Western Hemisphere Convention On Nature Protection, Shade Streeter, David Hunter, William Snape Iii

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Last year, parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (“CBD”), representing nearly every nation, signed a milestone agreement committing, among other things, to conserve thirty percent of Earth’s lands and oceans to stave off the rapid diminution of the planet’s biodiversity. Implementing these global commitments will require not only strong domestic measures, but also enhanced regional cooperation targeting the conservation of the region’s migratory wildlife and shared resources. Although the United States is the sole major holdout from the CBD, it can still reassert its leadership in regional wildlife conservation by rejuvenating the Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation …

Unclos, Undrip & Tartupaluk: The Grim Tale Of Hans Isle And Graense, Christopher Mark Macneill

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

“Inuit have lived in the Arctic from time immemorial.” The Arctic, in the face of climate change, has become a hot spot for exploration, resource extraction, and increased shipping and scientific activity. “[The] Inuit . . . have had a common and shared use of the sea area and the adjacent coasts” among their own communities, and contemporaneously with the world. This vast circumpolar Inuit Arctic region includes land, sea, and ice stretching from eastern Russia (Chukotka region) across the Berring Strait, to Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, and Greenland, representing an Inuit homeland known as Nunaat. Hans Isle, a small …

The Great Climate Migration: A Critique Of Global Legal Standards Of Climate-Change Caused Harm, Mariah Stephens

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Approximately 2.4 billion people, or about forty percent of the global population, live within sixty miles (one hundred kilometers) of a coastline. The United Nations (“U.N.”) determined that “a sea level rise of half a meter could displace 1.2 million people from low-lying islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with that number almost doubling if the sea level rises by two metres.” The U.N. also reports that “sudden weather-related hazards” have internally displaced an annual average of 21.5 million people since 2008. Within the next few decades, this number is likely to continue to increase. …

The Future Of Crypto-Asset Mining: The Inflation Reduction Act And The Need For Uniform Federal Regulation, Liz Guinan

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Crypto-asset mining is energy-intensive and environmentally harmful, presenting challenges and opportunities for federal, state and local governments, regulators, and society as a whole. As of December 2021, the United States has thirty-eight percent of the global crypto network hash rate, which is the total amount of computational power used to mine and process crypto transactions, making the United States the world’s largest crypto-asset mining industry. The total electricity consumption of crypto-asset mining in the United States is estimated to be around 121.36 terawatt-hours (“TWh”) per year, which is equivalent to the electricity consumption of approximately 10.9 million households in the …

Editors' Note, Rachel Keylon, Meghen Sullivan

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

For more than two decades, the Sustainable Development Law and Policy Brief (“SDLP”) has published works analyzing emerging legal and policy issues within the fields of environmental, energy, sustainable development, and natural resources law. SDLP has also prioritized making space for law students in the conversation. We are honored to continue this tradition in Volume XXIII.

Klinik Hukum: Sebuah Pendekatan Praktis, Satjipto Rahardjo

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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