Boston University School of Law
St. John's University School of Law
Center on Wrongful Convictions, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Notre Dame Law School
Chanakya National Law University, Patna, India
Texas Fifth Court of Appeals
Seattle University School of Law
Columbia Law School
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Texas A&M University School of Law
How U.S. Legal Stagnation Can Be Aided By Decolonization,
2026
University of San Diego
How U.S. Legal Stagnation Can Be Aided By Decolonization, Marquel Gardner
McNair Summer Research Program
Decolonization is a term often used to present a simple shift from colonial thinking, heavily maintaining the establishment of colonial systems today. However, this usage oversimplifies and overshadows the word’s key purpose. Common proclamations of the term forgo the fundamental indigenous essence behind the word. Doing so, we not only strip the word of its inherent power, but obstruct further possibilities for actual decolonization to appear in our world. Many argue that the U.S. legal system, a product of colonial factors, has reached an alarming state. Our current legal, political atmosphere gears not towards justice or morality, but fascism and …
Masthead,
2026
Seattle University School of Law
Table Of Contents,
2026
Seattle University School of Law
Converting Buildings Is Hard: Why Seattle’S Municipal Government Should Streamline Commercial-To-Residential Conversions,
2026
Seattle University School of Law
Converting Buildings Is Hard: Why Seattle’S Municipal Government Should Streamline Commercial-To-Residential Conversions, Tyler M. King
Seattle University Law Review
The conversion of commercial buildings into housing is a promising solution to the growing housing crisis in many urban areas. However, despite its potential benefits, the process of repurposing commercial spaces is often stymied by complex zoning codes, high conversion costs, and bureaucratic hurdles. This Article argues that the local and state governments in Seattle should adopt more streamlined policies and offer greater incentives to developers to facilitate these conversions. By reforming zoning regulations and providing targeted financial support, municipalities can reduce the barriers to conversion and unlock the potential of underutilized commercial properties. This article examines the legal and …
Getting Money Out Of Politics By Putting Money Into Politics: A Few Modest Proposals To Reform Seattle’S Democracy Voucher Program,
2026
Seattle University School of Law
Getting Money Out Of Politics By Putting Money Into Politics: A Few Modest Proposals To Reform Seattle’S Democracy Voucher Program, Decker O’Donnell
Seattle University Law Review
Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program offers an unconventional response to the growing influence of money in American elections: rather than restricting political spending, it seeks to amplify the participation of ordinary voters by providing publicly funded vouchers that residents may assign to participating candidates. This Article examines the program’s development, operation, and constitutional foundation within the modern campaign-finance framework established by Buckley v. Valeo and subsequent Supreme Court decisions. It argues that democracy vouchers provide a constitutionally viable means of broadening participation in campaign financing while mitigating the influence of wealthy donors. The Article identifies two weaknesses in the current system: …
Legal Malpractice In Washington: Use Of The Rules Of Professional Conduct,
2026
Seattle University School of Law
Legal Malpractice In Washington: Use Of The Rules Of Professional Conduct, Angelo Tadrous
Seattle University Law Review
Legal malpractice claims are difficult to prove. They are difficult to prove because many jurisdictions require that a plaintiff prove that, but for the lawyer’s misconduct, the client would have fared better. Thus, in a malpractice suit, a plaintiff must try a case within a case. Despite this difficulty, many jurisdictions prohibit the use of the Rules of Professional Conduct when litigating a malpractice case. Washington State is one of these jurisdictions. The Washington Supreme Court held in Hizey v. Carpenter that the Rules of Professional Conduct may not be referred to during trial. This Note argues that this prohibition …
Who Decides The Dead? Interpreting Washington’S Disposition Of Remains Statute,
2026
Seattle University School of Law
Who Decides The Dead? Interpreting Washington’S Disposition Of Remains Statute, Wyatt Young
Seattle University Law Review
Washington’s disposition-of-remains statute, RCW 68.50.160, is designed to honor a decedent’s expressed wishes regarding the control and disposition of their body after death. Yet recent litigation reveals a critical gap between the statute’s intent-centered design and its practical enforceability. In Larotonda v. Blackburn, a trial court acknowledged that irreparable harm would occur if a decedent’s burial wishes were ignored but nonetheless denied relief on the grounds that the individual designated to carry out those wishes lacked standing. The result was a legal paradox: a statute that recognizes decedent autonomy in theory but withholds any meaningful mechanism for its enforcement …
Confronting Founding Injustices: Reconstructive Constitutional Adjudication And Constitutional Legitimacy In Postcolonial States,
2026
Chapman University
Confronting Founding Injustices: Reconstructive Constitutional Adjudication And Constitutional Legitimacy In Postcolonial States, Mutasim Abuzeid
International Studies (MA) Theses
Why do some postcolonial constitutions achieve higher constitutional legitimacy than others? Across the Global South, constitutions have proliferated while legitimacy remains uneven and contested. Existing scholarship explains variation in constitutional legitimacy in postcolonial states through three dominant paradigms. Institutionalist theories equate legitimacy with procedural design and endurance, presuming that stable institutions generate compliance and, over time, diffuse support. Transformative constitutionalism locates legitimacy in social justice, emphasizing judicial doctrines such as proportionality and reasonableness to advance equality and material inclusion. Transitional justice approaches, by contrast, locate moral repair largely outside constitutional law—through truth commissions, reparations, and memory projects—often leaving the constitutional …
Pour Un Nouvel Humanisme,
2026
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Pour Un Nouvel Humanisme, J.-M. Domenach
Proche-Orient, Études juridiques
No abstract provided.
The Possibilities Of Constitutional Education,
2026
Georgetown University Law Center
The Possibilities Of Constitutional Education, Mark Jia
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Constitutional scholarship has traditionally focused on formal constitutional actors: courts, legislatures, and executives. These actors are often regarded as primary sources of constitutional law, or in some cases, as final arbiters of constitutional meaning. More peripheral in this literature are actors thought to transmit what courts and high officials have established. These constitutional educators, including law professors, legal journalists, and civics planners, are often overlooked for defensible reasons: They lack the normative authorities of formal institutional actors, and they do not exercise power as it is often understood in public law.
This Article advances a general theory of constitutional education …
Dari Teks Ke Makna: Model Interpretasi Bertingkat Sebagai Jawaban Atas Ketegangan Hukum Dan Keadilan,
2026
Pengadilan Negeri Sigli
Dari Teks Ke Makna: Model Interpretasi Bertingkat Sebagai Jawaban Atas Ketegangan Hukum Dan Keadilan, Erwin Susilo, Iustika Puspa Sari, Dharma Setiawan Negara
Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan
The Indonesian rule of law emphasizes that law should not be understood merely in a legal-formal sense, but also in its moral and social dimensions. This study stems from the persistent tension between legal certainty and justice and the need for an interpretative method capable of bridging the two. The main objective of this research is to examine and formulate a model of tiered legal interpretation that integrates four approaches derived from the common law tradition—Literal Interpretation (LI), Golden Rule (GR), Mischief Rule (MR), and Purposive Approach (PA)—into the Indonesian legal system. This model has been contextually applied in jurisdictions …
Recherches Sur La Notion De Droit Potestatif,
2026
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Recherches Sur La Notion De Droit Potestatif, Arnaud Ducrocq
Proche-Orient, Études juridiques
No abstract provided.
L'Incapacité Au Sens De L'Article 216 C.O.C. : Étude Comparative,
2026
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
L'Incapacité Au Sens De L'Article 216 C.O.C. : Étude Comparative, Carla M. Habre
Proche-Orient, Études juridiques
No abstract provided.
Artisans De La Pensée Moderne Des Droits De L'Homme, Hommes Qui Ont Fait La Déclaration Universelle Des Droits De L'Homme, Charles Malik,
2026
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Artisans De La Pensée Moderne Des Droits De L'Homme, Hommes Qui Ont Fait La Déclaration Universelle Des Droits De L'Homme, Charles Malik, Georges J. Assaf
Proche-Orient, Études juridiques
No abstract provided.
Rurality And Redistricting: California's Proposition 50, Rural Identity, And Democratic Legitimacy,
2026
University of Maine School of Law
Rurality And Redistricting: California's Proposition 50, Rural Identity, And Democratic Legitimacy, Lisa R. Pruitt
Maine Law Review
When California voters embraced mid-decade congressional redistricting in 2025, the greatest media attention landed on the state’s First Congressional District, CA-01. It is residents of that district who are likely to feel the consequences of the new maps most profoundly. In the form established by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission in 2021, CA-01 occupied more than 26,000 square miles in the state’s northeastern corner. The district included a number of inland counties stretching from Modoc, tucked into the corner formed by the Oregon and Nevada state lines, to Colusa, in the Great Central Valley. The cluster of ten counties—hereinafter “old …
L'Influence Des Idées De Josserand Sur Le Code Des Obligations Et Des Contrats,
2026
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
L'Influence Des Idées De Josserand Sur Le Code Des Obligations Et Des Contrats, Fayez Hage Chahine
Proche-Orient, Études juridiques
No abstract provided.
La Spéculation Boursière Dans Le Droit Et La Littérature Française Du 19Ème Siècle,
2026
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
La Spéculation Boursière Dans Le Droit Et La Littérature Française Du 19Ème Siècle, Hubert De Vauplane
Proche-Orient, Études juridiques
No abstract provided.
Les Mots Et Le Droit,
2026
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Les Mots Et Le Droit, Jean-Louis Sourioux
Proche-Orient, Études juridiques
No abstract provided.
Offshore Philanthropy: A Critical Look At Family Offices Using Hybrid Trusts,
2026
Singapore Management University
Offshore Philanthropy: A Critical Look At Family Offices Using Hybrid Trusts, Hang Wu Tang
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Family offices manage substantial wealth and often undertake philanthropic initiatives as part of their broader objectives. These offices may assume a variety of legal forms, ranging from corporations, partnerships, trusts administered by private trust companies or a combination of these forms. This article is concerned with family offices which use trusts administered by private trust companies in offshore jurisdictions. In response to competition for global wealth, several offshore jurisdictions have enacted trust laws that relax traditional doctrinal constraints to accommodate the needs of family offices. These include the creation of discretionary trusts for hybrid purposes in perpetuity ie trusts that …
Writing – Écriture,
2026
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Writing – Écriture, Peter Goodrich
Articles
This is the twentieth article in this series (and the fifth in volume 77).
