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Equitable Remedies: Protecting "What We Have Coming To Us", Larissa Katz

Notre Dame Law Review

This Article develops a new, doctrinally informed, theoretical account of equitable remedies in terms of our interest in “what we have coming to us”—an interest beyond private law’s commitment to protecting what is already ours, viz., our property rights and our rights to another’s performance of a contract. Through distinctive equitable remedies like specific performance, injunctions, and the remedial constructive trust, equity intervenes to prevent others from obstructing or diverting what a person has coming to her. The need for equity to recognize and to protect an interest in “what we have coming to us” arises, I argue, out of …

The Law Wants To Be Formal, Chaim Saiman

Notre Dame Law Review

This Article examines the relationship between the formalism of an area of law, and whether it plays a central role in the legal system. English and American law were traditionally comprised of formalist private law doctrines. The influence of legal realism and the New Deal, however, caused these systems to diverge. While American private law was recast in realist terms, it also became less significant to the overall legal system. In its place, procedure and statutory interpretation emerged, and in turn became more formalized. Realism was never as influential in England where private law remains more formal and at the …

Civil Liability Resulting From The Use Of Drones: A Comparative Study, Dr. Suzan Ali Mahmoud

UAEU Law Journal

The study is concerned with two issues: civil liability for damage resulting from the use of unmanned aircraft (drones), and compensation for damage caused by it.

It is concerned with the drones used by individuals and companies in the private sector and not those used by the state. It also deals only with the civil use of the drones, not the military use.

In this regard, the study analyze the current legislative situation in the United Arab of Emirates in order to determine the success of the UAE legislator in reducing the risks and potential problems related to the damage …

The Applicability Of The Proximity Harm Theory To The Liability For Environmental Damage, Dr. Anis Al-Addar

UAEU Law Journal

The theory of abnormal neighborhood disorders is a theory enshrined in several legal systems. Although it was originally applicable to disturbances created by neighbors (noise, bad odors, smoke) it was extended to environmental damage. This extension was possible thanks to a flexible conception of the notion of the neighbor, the damage and the causality. However, the theory of abnormal neighborhood disturbances has shown its limits, because it is not applicable at some environmental damages. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce a specific regime for environmental damage.

The Effect Of Deception (Fraud) On Donation Contracts In The Iraqi And Uae Laws: A Comparative Study, Dr. Hiwa Ibrahim Qader

UAEU Law Journal

There are two directions in the comparative civil legislations regarding the extent of considering deceit as one of the defective assent. One direction states that mere deceit affects contract validity, while the other direction provides that deceit is to be accompanied by exorbitant hardship in order to affect contract validity. The Iraqi and UAE legislators go in the second direction and provide that deceit should be accompanied by exorbitant hardship in order to affect contract validity. However, they do not take into account that even little hardship would not occur in donation contracts because there is no compensation in donation …

Civil Liability Arising From Hacking E-Mail Information, Dr. Issa Ghassan Al-Rabdi

UAEU Law Journal

It is completely easy to pass and send any electronic data everywhere to the persons you want in the world in a very quick and short time, regardless the size and the data type. This is due to the invention of electronic programs that help to save time and efforts. (the E – mail). As a result of this electronic development in the all related fields that serve humankind, a new encounter technology and illegal use of technology has occurred and used illegally by hackers to destroy and penetrate exclusive information for specific people. For this illegal hacking attempt requires …

Civil Liability For Damage Resulting From Genetically Modified Organisms (Gmos): A Comparative Study

UAEU Law Journal

The most serious damage to human and other living organisms at present is the damage of genetically modified organisms, where they can eventually be used as weapons of mass destruction in the form of a bacteriological war that destroys human civilization, we will present the problem in terms of: Identification of genetically modified organisms by determining their scope, and to identify the aspects of the damage resulting from them, and how to compensate each type of species, whether it is related to plant, animal, human or the environment. We then present the legal basis for civil liability resulting from damage …

Abuse In Directing The Decisive Oath In The Palestinian Evidence Law: A Comparative Study In The Light Of Judicial Rulings

UAEU Law Journal

This study deals with the main axes of arbitrariness in the decisive oath. The first section sought to define the scope that governs the arbitrariness of directing the oath by discussing the views that called for the failure of the oath conditions as arbitrariness, and to conclude that the general theory of arbitrariness is the most appropriate scope that expands To include many cases of arbitrariness by explaining the theory of arbitrariness according to the Majalla, because it expresses the concept of arbitrariness in the oath more accurately. Additionally, it was concluded that the judiciary supervision of arbitrariness in directing …

The Principle Of Resulting Trust Under The English And Sudanese Legislations: A Comparative Study

UAEU Law Journal

restoring the title of real property by reviewing the legal principles and jurisprudence of Anglo-Saxon system, for which English law is basis. The problem of this study focused on the nominal registration of a property in the name of a person, the legal system recognizes the ownership of the person whose name appears as registered owner of the real estate. Not surprisingly, the real estate registry record is considered an inclusive evidence for what it includes, and it is not permissible for all challenge it except through forgery, while the same idea does not resolve the identity of the owner. …

The Claim Against Principal Debtor Before Payment Of The Debt Guaranteed Under The Jordanian Civil Law: Justice To Be Reviewed

UAEU Law Journal

This study dealt with the claim against principal debtor before payment of the debt guaranteed, due to the importance of this claim and its impact on developing and improving the credit process. The personal Surety Contract is the way by which the creditor resorts to minimize its risk, i.e. to secure the repayment of a loan if the debtor defaults. For the Guarantor to sign surety contract, it was necessary to provide him a mean to guarantee his right. For this reason, the claim against principal debtor before payment of the debt guaranteed was the effective method to do so. …

آثار حق استرداد العقار المباع في المزاد العلني في ظل القانون الأردني د. أسيد حسن الذنيبات

UAEU Law Journal

انطلاقاً من التكييف القانوني لحق الاسترداد والصادر عن الديوان الخاص بتفسير القوانين من أنه شرط فاسخ في البيع القضائي للعقار، فإن بحث آثار هذا الحق اقتضى منا أن نقف في كلتا المحطتين اللتين قد يُعمِل فيهما الشرط الفاسخ مفاعيله، ألا وهما مرحلة التعليق، ومرحلة التحقق، لذا فإننا وجدنا أن حق الاسترداد في مرحلة التعليق يرتبط بقيدٍ قانونيٍّ ملقىً على عاتق المحال عليه بألا يتصرف في العقار المنتزعة ملكيته بالبيع أو بالمبادلة أو بالهبة أو بالرهن أو بالإفراز، الأمر الذي دفعنا لبحث حكم التصرفات خارج هذا النطاق المحظور، ومدى نفاذها في حق المدين، وبالتالي مدى تأثيرها في المقاصد التي يبتغيها المشرّع …

Law School News: Professor Gonzalez Is 2020 Rhode Island Lawyer Of The Year 01/11/21, Barry Bridges, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Can The Timeframe Of Reported Uas Sightings Help Regulators?, Spencer Erik Pitcher, Kelly A. Whealan-George

Beyond: Undergraduate Research Journal

Remotely controlled small aircraft, otherwise known as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or drones have started to impact the United States National Airspace System by interfering with the safe flight of aircraft. As the UAS industry continues its expected growth into the future, lawmakers, as well as regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the aviation community must be able to predict when there will be more UAS craft in the air that could cause an interruption to air traffic so that more resources can be allocated optimally to counter the threat of UAS craft. The purpose of this study …

Oral Interview: Contextualizing The Women's Rights Movement In Tunisia Through Family History, Walid Zarrad

Papers, Posters, and Presentations

In their path towards emancipation and equal rights, Tunisian women have gone through a number of phases that seem to be directly linked to legal changes and cultural factors. In fact, the Code of Personal Status (CPS) of 1956 seems to be a milestone in the women’s movement, and its following amendments continued on this path. However, it is a lot more complex than that. A piece of legislation officially passing is not a simple determinant of the state of Women’s Rights in a country.

Through Dorra Mahfoudh Draoui’s “Report on Gender and Marriage in Tunisian Society” and my interview …

Systemic Racism And Immigration Detention, Carrie L. Rosenbaum

Seattle University Law Review

The denouement of the Trump presidency was a white supremacist coup attempt against a backdrop of public reawakening to the persistence of institutionalized racism. Though the United States has entered a new administration with a leader that expresses his commitment to ending institutionalized racism, the United States continues to imprison Central American and Mexican immigrants at the southern border. If the majority of the people in immigration jails at the border are Latinx, does immigration law disparately impact them, and do they have a right to equal protection? If they do, would equal protection protect them? This Article explores whether …

Inheritance Of The Deceased, Dr. Nada Salim Hamdoon

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

The life of the inheritor and the death of the inherited are both a condition that must be fulfilled before the inheritance can legally be carried out. This is a crucial condition that allows us to know those who deserve to be legally inheritors from those who do not. However, there are cases where it is difficult to fulfil such a condition—the case of mass death for example. In fact, there is no any stipulation in the Iraqi legal system pertaining to Personal Status Law on how to inherit in case of mass death, therefore, the only legal recourse left …

Duress In Immigration Law, Elizabeth A. Keyes

Seattle University Law Review

The doctrine of duress is common to other bodies of law, but the application of the duress doctrine is both unclear and highly unstable in immigration law. Outside of immigration law, a person who commits a criminal act out of well-placed fear of terrible consequences is different than a person who willingly commits a crime, but American immigration law does not recognize this difference. The lack of clarity leads to certain absurd results and demands reimagining, redefinition, and an unequivocal statement of the significance of duress in ascertaining culpability. While there are inevitably some difficult lines to be drawn in …

The Alarming Legality Of Security Manipulation Through Shareholder Proposals, Artem M. Joukov, Samantha M. Caspar

Seattle University Law Review

Shareholder proposals attract attention from scholars in finance and economics because they present an opportunity to study both quasidemocratic decision-making at the corporate level and the impact of this decision-making on firm outcomes. These studies capture the effect of various proposals but rarely address whether regulations should allow many of them in the first place due to the possibility of stock price manipulation. Recent changes to shareholder proposal rules, adopted in September 2020, sought to address the potential for exploitation that some proposals create (but ultimately failed to do so). This Article shows the potential for apparently legal stock price …

Neither Safe, Nor Legal, Nor Rare: The D.C. Circuit’S Use Of The Doctrine Of Ratification To Shield Agency Action From Appointments Clause Challenges, Damien M. Schiff

Seattle University Law Review

Key to the constitutional design of the federal government is the separation of powers. An important support for that separation is the Appointments Clause, which governs how officers of the United States are installed in their positions. Although the separation of powers generally, and the Appointments Clause specifically, support democratically accountable government, they also protect individual citizens against abusive government power. But without a judicial remedy, such protection is ineffectual—a mere parchment barrier.

Such has become the fate of the Appointments Clause in the D.C. Circuit, thanks to that court’s adoption—and zealous employment—of the rule that agency action, otherwise unconstitutional …

The Future Of The Agricultural Industry – Is Blockchain A New Beginning?, Ryan Bisel

Seattle University Law Review

As we advance into a digital era, we begin to depend on technological innovations to rapidly help develop and update processes and methods within different industries. Blockchain technology—popularized by cryptocurrency—is slowly making its debut in the agricultural supply chain. Implementing a blockchain requirement for suppliers would be beneficial because it would allow agricultural suppliers and distributors to track their products in a more efficient manner. However, there are four potential legal issues that are foreseeable: (1) preemption, (2) overlapping regulatory authority, (3) applying current legal rules to new technology, and (4) contracting. This Note will specifically focus on issues of …