Front Matter And Table Of Contents,
2023
University of Miami Law School
Front Matter And Table Of Contents
University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
No abstract provided.
Masthead,
2023
University of Miami Law School
New York Law School
Luz Paulino-Santos, Michael Ring, Betty Vega, And New York Integrated Network, Plaintiffs, V. Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York City Transit, John Lieber, And Richard Davey. Defendants. [Memorandum Of Law In Opposition To Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss The Complaint], New York Law School
Briefs/Court Filings
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents,
2023
Seattle University School of Law
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
Table of Contents
Taking The Long Road: The Excessive Fines Clause As A Tool For Protecting Washington's Unsheltered Population,
2023
University of Washington School of Law
Taking The Long Road: The Excessive Fines Clause As A Tool For Protecting Washington's Unsheltered Population, Anna Ferron
Washington Law Review
Over the last decade, Washington State has seen a substantial increase in its unhoused population and an increase in laws that harm this group. Many of these laws subject unhoused and unsheltered people to fines, fees, and forfeitures that are exceedingly difficult for them to afford. The ExcessiveFinesClauses in the United States and Washington Constitutions protect citizens from fines deemed constitutionally excessive and could be used to shield unsheltered people from the burden of paying unjust fines they cannot afford. In City of Seattle v. Long, the Washington State Supreme Court analyzed the ability to pay of a person who …
Environmental (In)Justice: Evaluating The Factors That Led To The Jackson Water Crisis & Proposing A Solution For Environmental Justice In Mississippi,
2023
Mississippi College School of Law
Environmental (In)Justice: Evaluating The Factors That Led To The Jackson Water Crisis & Proposing A Solution For Environmental Justice In Mississippi, Emily Brennan
MC Law Review
40,000. That is the number of residents that were left without potable water for nearly five weeks during Jackson, Mississippi’s February 2021 water crisis. An unusual cold front rolled through, freezing plant equipment, bursting water pipes, and causing many in Jackson to lose access to running water. This was not, however, the first time that Jackson residents had endured hardships with regard to their drinking water—it was just the first time that national attention turned to, and has seemed to remain on, Mississippi’s capital city. Those in Jackson are all too familiar with water pipes bursting, low water pressure, boil …
Exploring The African Regional Human Rights Standards As The Basis For An Enabling Environment For Self-Managed Abortion,
2023
Georgetown University Law Center
Exploring The African Regional Human Rights Standards As The Basis For An Enabling Environment For Self-Managed Abortion, Lucia Berro Pizzarossa, Michelle Maziwisa, Ebenezer Durojaye
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Self-managed abortion holds great promise to save lives and promote reproductive autonomy, particularly in Africa. Indeed, the African region records very high numbers of unsafe abortions, and the burden of abortion-related mortality is the highest globally. Abortion remains generally criminalized in violation of numerous internationally and regionally recognized human rights standards. The advent of abortion medicines and the increased grassroots energy geared towards curbing the harms of unsafe abortion evince medical abortion holds great promise for revolutionizing people’s access to high-quality reproductive care. This study discusses regional human rights frameworks, policy, case law, and a few representative domestic legislative frameworks …
Masthead,
2023
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Masthead
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents,
2023
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Table Of Contents
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Editor's Note,
2023
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Editor's Note
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
The Low-Hanging Fruit: Health, Rights, And The Commission,
2023
Florida Gulf Coast University
The Low-Hanging Fruit: Health, Rights, And The Commission, Bright Nkrumah
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
The year 2022 marked the 35th anniversary of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. As it is a custom in many communities, when one reaches this milestone, it is an opportune time to introspect and reflect on the successes and challenges encountered in one’s journey. It is this template that the paper adopts to measure the prospects and setbacks of the African Commission in the advancement of the right to health. The Article argues that while the body remains the poster child of the continent’s human rights architecture, its inability to clearly articulate how states ought to advance …
The Right To Hope: A New Perspective Of The Right To Have Expectations, Opportunities And Plans,
2023
Universidad Hemisferios
The Right To Hope: A New Perspective Of The Right To Have Expectations, Opportunities And Plans, Juan Carlos Riofrio
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Hope has been considered to be an important and constitutive aspect of the human person, not only by philosophers of all backgrounds, but also by international and national courts of several countries especially in the last decade. As an existential aspect of each person, hope has multiple manifestations in private and public life. Up until now, authors and some cases have been discussing particular manifestations of the right to hope. While in the past these courts were more aware of the hopes raised in judicial litigation and ordinary life, now the inmates’ hope of being released is the major point …
A Miscarriage Of Justice: How Femtech Apps And Fog Data Evade Fourth Amendment Privacy Protections,
2023
Washington and Lee University School of Law
A Miscarriage Of Justice: How Femtech Apps And Fog Data Evade Fourth Amendment Privacy Protections, Rachel Silver
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
After the fall of Roe v. Wade, states across the country have enacted extreme abortion bans. Anti-abortion states, emboldened by their new, unrestricted power to regulate women’s bodies, are only broadening the scope of abortion prosecutions. And modern technology provides law enforcement with unprecedented access to women’s most intimate information, including, for example, their menstrual cycle, weight, body temperature, sexual activity, mood, medications, and pregnancy details. Fourth Amendment law fails to protect this sensitive information stored on femtech apps from government searches. In a largely unregulated private market, femtech apps sell health and location data to third parties like Fog …
Show Me The Money: How Bankruptcy Courts Could Become The Most Equitable Mass Tort Forum,
2023
Washington and Lee University, School of Law
Show Me The Money: How Bankruptcy Courts Could Become The Most Equitable Mass Tort Forum, Olivia Maier
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
The Texas Two-Step has emerged as a dangerous bankruptcy maneuver for companies to defend against mass tort liability. The process allows a company to allocate all of its tort liability to a newly created company which then files for bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy Code provides instantaneous benefits for that new company, which tort victims are left unable to proceed with their claims. This has resulted in an inequitable process, and outcomes, for those victims as seen by the recent Johnson & Johnson Texas Two-Step. While this process is unjust, it has raised an interesting question: could a bankruptcy court become the …
Takings In Disguise: The Inequity Of Public Nuisance Receiverships In America’S Rust Belt,
2023
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Takings In Disguise: The Inequity Of Public Nuisance Receiverships In America’S Rust Belt, Anna Kennedy
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Since they were created in the 1980s in Cleveland, Ohio, public nuisance receiverships have spread across the American Rust Belt. This Note critically analyzes the legal implications of public nuisance receiverships, which involve the intrusion onto private property for public purposes. Despite claims that these actions align with exceptions to due process or public nuisance principles, a deeper examination reveals their fundamental nature as government takings of private property. This Note dissects the legal framework within the context of the Fifth Amendment, debunking the applicability of the public nuisance exception, establishing that receiverships constitute takings, and highlighting conflicts with Anti-Kelo …
Trauma-Informed Policing: The Impact Of Adult And Childhood Trauma On Law Enforcement Officers,
2023
University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
Trauma-Informed Policing: The Impact Of Adult And Childhood Trauma On Law Enforcement Officers, André Douglas Pond Cummings, Todd J. Clark, Caleb Gregory Conrad, Honorable Amy Dunn Johnson
Law Faculty Scholarship
For every six months that a police officer serves in the line of duty, he or she is likely to experience an average of three traumatic events. Such events may include fatal accidents, murders, suicides, and active threats to the life of the officer or someone else. Given the wealth of available data on how trauma reorganizes the nervous system to respond to everyday stimuli as threatening, this is an area that cries for critical exploration, especially in light of the frequency with which unarmed Black civilians are killed at the hands of officers who often make split-second decisions to …
The Legal Case For Equity In Local Climate Action Planning,
2023
Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
The Legal Case For Equity In Local Climate Action Planning, Amy E. Turner
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Over the last half decade, local climate action plans have regularly come to incorporate considerations of racial and socioeconomic equity, recognizing the ways in which low-income communities and communities of color experience earlier and worse consequences from global warming, and these communities are also at risk of being harmed by policies meant to address climate change. Until now, however, the discourse on equity in climate action planning has largely pertained to policy; it acknowledges the disproportionate harm that certain communities experience as a result of climate change and policies to address climate change, and suggests policy tools that can address …
How To Punish Your Least Favorite Online Influencer: Wellness Checks As Swatting And Their Disproportionate Impact On Marginalized Creators,
2023
Washington and Lee University School of Law
How To Punish Your Least Favorite Online Influencer: Wellness Checks As Swatting And Their Disproportionate Impact On Marginalized Creators, Tara Blackwell
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Marginalized online creators are vulnerable to attacks using digital means of harassment including traditional swatting as well as the abuse of wellness checks that can act as swatting. Enabled by permissive Supreme Court 4th Amendment jurisprudence, malignant online actors have taken advantage of the ramshackle system of wellness checks that sends armed police officers with little training and even less compassion to the doors of individuals with reported mental health crises. This Note focuses on two polarizing influencers who have been subject to wellness check swatting after being very open about their mental health statuses online. This Note argues that …
Aba-Mandated Instruction On Racism And Recent State Legislation Banning Such Instruction In University Classrooms: “Jim Crow” Redux,
2023
Professor of Law and Director, Race and the Foundations of American Law Program, Roger Williams University School of Law
Aba-Mandated Instruction On Racism And Recent State Legislation Banning Such Instruction In University Classrooms: “Jim Crow” Redux, Bernard K. Freamon
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, And Social Justice In The Curriculum, In The Classroom, And In The Courtroom,
2023
Roger Williams University School of Law
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, And Social Justice In The Curriculum, In The Classroom, And In The Courtroom, Nicole Dyszlewski, Diana Hassel
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
