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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 …

Treating Runaway Youth As Criminals: Wrongfully Silencing Their Voices And Issuing Arrest Warrants, Tziona Breitbart

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that criminalizing runaway youth through the use of arrest warrants and court involvement is harmful and counterproductive. It advocates for a shift in approach, emphasizing the need to prioritize the voices and well-being of runaway youth, eliminate punitive measures, and provide supportive services to address the root causes of their behavior.

Brief Of Amicus Curiae Professor Susan Carle In Support Of The Plaintiffs Arguing For Affirmance In Johnson And Tinker V. City Of Boston, Ma, Susan Carle

Amicus Briefs & Court Filings

This brief is being submitted by a law professor, Susan D. Carle, with more than 30 years of expertise in federal employment and antidiscrimination law, and especially the history and purposes of disparate impact law. She submits this brief to share her expertise with this Court. She is currently Professor of Law and Vice Dean of American University Washington College of Law (organizational affiliation is offered for identification purposes only).

Upaya Hukum Pemegang Fidusia Terhadap Penyitaan Objek Jaminan Berdasarkan Putusan Pengadilan Negeri Nomor 305/ Pdt.G/2019/Pn.Jkt.Utr., Fricilia .

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai kasus perdata yang diperiksa dan diadili di Pengadilan Negeri Jakarta Utara dengan perkara Nomor 305/Pdt.G/2019/PN.Jkt.Utr. Pihak Penggugat adalah perusahaan yang bergerak dalam pembiayaan leasing, sedangkan Tergugat adalah perorangan yang telah mendapatkan fasilitas kredit dari Penggugat. Kemudian dalam perjalanannya Tergugat wanprestasi dalam hal menunggak pembayaran yang diketahui bahwa Tergugat sedang dalam kasus tindak pidana narkotika serta objek jaminan fidusia menjadi barang sitaan Kejaksaan Negeri Jakarta Utara untuk dimusnahkan. Penggugat melakukan gugatan dan sita jaminan dimana berdasarkan putusan Pengadilan Negeri Nomor 305/Pdt.G/2019/PN.Jkt.Utr., Penggugat dimenangkan dan kemudian dikeluarkan sita jaminan kendaraan atas milik Tergugat untuk diserahkan ke Penggugat. Adapun …

Courts Beyond Judging, Michael C. Pollack

BYU Law Review

Across all fifty states, a woefully understudied institution of government is responsible for a broad range of administrative, legislative, law enforcement, and judicial functions. That important institution is the state courts. While the literature has examined the federal courts and federal judges from innumerable angles, study of the state courts as institutions of state government — and not merely as sources of doctrine and resolvers of disputes — has languished. This Article remedies that oversight by drawing attention for the first time to the wide array of roles state courts serve, and by evaluating the suitability of both the allocation …

Using Random Assignment To Measure Court Accessibility For Low-Income Divorce Seekers, James D. Greiner, Ellen L. Degnan, Thomas Ferriss, Roseanna Sommers

Articles

We conducted a field experiment in which 311 low-income individuals seeking a divorce were randomly assigned to receive access to a pro bono lawyer (versus minimal help) to assist with filing for divorce. Examining court records, we found that assignment to an attorney made a large difference in whether participants filed for and obtained a divorce. Three years after randomization, 46% of the treated group had terminated their marriages in the proper legal venue, compared to 9% of the control group. Among “compliers”—participants who obtained representation only if assigned to receive it—those with lawyers were far more likely to file …

Amicus Brief Of The National Congress Of American Indians, A Tribal Elder, And Other Federal Indian Law Scholars And Organizations, Michalyn Steele, Stephanie Hall Barclay

Court Briefs

No. 21-15295
Apache Stronghold v. United States of America

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Honorable Steven P. Logan (2:21-cv-00050-PHX-SPL)

From the Summary of the Argument

Meaningful access to sacred sites is a necessary part of the religious exercise of many Indigenous peoples. But tribes have been repeatedly denied such access by the federal government, and thus repeatedly thwarted in their efforts to engage in these important religious practices. In many instances, that access has been irrevocably denied and those efforts permanently thwarted by the total destruction of Indigenous sacred sites. Indeed, the colonial, …

Reformulasi Delik Makar Dalam Rancangan Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana Nasional Tahun 2019 (Sebuah Telaah Leksikal Terhadap Terminologi Aanslag), Yaris Adhial Fajrin

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The use of the term Makar as a translation of the word Aanslag in Indonesias CRIMINAL code currently triggers a variety of polemic because it has a lot of meaning, resulting in an ambiguity that causes no legal certainty to be guaranteed. Indonesias CRIMINAL code is currently in its case that it does not provide define and the limitations of Macar deeds so that the multitasking is still prone to occur. Addressing such a thing, it is necessary to reformulation the draft proceeding in the Penal Code in order to ensure the future legal certainty. The limitation of the performance …

Membangun Pengelolaan Perikanan Laut Bebas Di Asia Tenggara Yang Berorientasi Pada Keberlanjutan, Muhammad Insan Tarigan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

High seas is an ocean legal regime that is free access to every states, including the use of its fisheries. Yet, in fact, fishing on the high seas is dominated by in part of all countries, which are developed countries or at least states with advance technology and finance. The vast potential of high seas fisheries is in line with the high of threat that must be faced, for examples overfishing and destructive fishing. The majority regionals of the world are going through fisheries crisis as well as decreasing of fish stocks in Southeast Asia. Fisheries sector is so important …

Rekonseptualisasi Penyelesaian Sengketa Proses Pencalonan Pilkada, Supriyadi Supriyadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This research aims to find the ideal concept of dispute resolution process in the regional head election, so far the practice of election dispute resolution is carried out by two institutions namely Bawaslu and PTTUN. As for the results of this study in the form of the first, philosophically the Bawaslu institution was born from the provisions of Article 22E paragraph (5) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia which was interpreted to conduct supervision both in the narrow and broad sense (handling violations and dispute resolution) of the holding of elections or the elections. Second, the dualism …

Kedudukan Dan Kewenangan: Badan Nasional Pengelola Perbatasan Di Indonesia, Putu Wahyu Widiartana

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The vast condition of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia made Indonesia have several border areas stretching from Sabang to Merauke. Management of the countrys territories and border areas has been regulated in Law 43/2008 on State Territories. The National Border Management Agency (Badan Nasional Pengelola Perbatasan/BNPP) is the only institution tasked with managing border areas in Indonesia. The Minister of Home Affairs as the Head of BNPP leads and controls the implementation of the duties and functions of BNPP. In this study using Border Management Theory and Authority Theory. This research uses the normative legal research method which is the …

Pemusatan Kepemilikan Media Massa Di Indonesia: Tinjauan Aspek Hukum, Muhammad Zulfa Aulia, Raffles Raffles

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Today, mass media tend to be exclusively possessed by certain business groups who generally have affiliation to authorities or political parties. This article disscusses the concentration of mass media ownership in the light of constitutional and competition law. The article argues that the privatisation of business and politics towards public information through mass media, which is inevitable, has to be minimized. This due to the fact that mass media is one of pillars to which the democracy of a nation relies on. Despite the ownership of mass media which is a part of expressions (by some elites) of the people …

Aspek Hukum Peran Wakaf Tunai Pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19, Siska Lis Sulistiani, Intan Nurrachmi, Eva Misfah Bayuni

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The development of cash waqf in Indonesia in the past 10 years is of particular concern. With the law No. 41 of 2004 concerning endowments became the initial foothold in the development of forms of cash endowments, including endowments of money, endowments sukuk, endowments of Islamic insurance policies and others. Of all the innovations of this waqf because waqf has more flexible properties to be able to make new breakthroughs that fit the needs of the times without reducing the essence of the waqf. The legal aspect of developing cash waqf is important because it will affect its position and …

Social Justice In Law, Society And Development: A Marxism Perspective Of Indonesian Case, Ridwan Arifin, Vania Shafira Yuniar

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This article explores about social justice in peoples lives according to Karl Marxs prespective of the concept of social class. It also discusses Marxs concept of the struggle of the social class to provide a solution for the proletariat, to free themselves from the chain of cruelty, violence and alienation in the capitalist system to achieve social justice. The essence of social justice in Karl Marxs prespective is that if a society has created a manifestation of self through compassion, and the collaboration of a classless society, without violence, and without oppression, and humans are free from all forms of …

Penghasilan Tidak Kena Pajak (Ptkp) Sebagai Bentuk Perlindungan Hak Ekonomi Dalam Perspektif Hak Asasi Manusia, Auditya Firza Saputra

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

As a ratifying State to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Ecosoc), the Government of Republic of Indonesia has legal obligation to implement steps of realization in effective and measurable manner in fulfilling, promoting, and protecting the economic, social and cultural rights of all its citizens. The issue is, to fulfil such obligation the State will require high amount of cost. The State is being sourced by the taxation policy. From many taxation policies, Income Tax become one of the most preffered segment. Unfortunately, the Income Tax policy, in practice, hardly optimizing due to many social economic …

Kebijakan Penghapusan Izin Lingkungan Dalam Ruu Cipta Kerja Dan Dampaknya Terhadap Pembangunan Berkelanjutan Di Indonesia, Kornelius Benuf, Abram Robert Aritonang, Supriardoyo Simanjuntak

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The government is currently discussing about Jobs Creation Bill on the implementation of national development. The drafting of Jobs Creation Bill is carriedout by applying the omnibus law system. However, on the Bill there are numbers of irregularities such as the removal of environmental permits and replaced with environmental agreements. This raises legal issues because the changes of terminology onthe Bill have juridical implications for the implementations of sustainable developments in Indonesia. This legal issue will be researched further in this study. The method used is normative juridical with secondary data in the form of primary legal materials ofthe Jobs …

Perbandingan Kedudukan Dan Kewenangan Kepolisian Dalam Konstitusi Yang Pernah Berlaku Di Indonesia, Farrel Eden Surbakti, Ali Abdilah

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The police are defined as a tool of the state in charge of maintaining the security and order of the community, providing protection, and providing protection to the public. The relationship between the community and the police themselves is mutually influencing, where the existence of the police is functional in the structure of life. When people experience changes due to various factors, then there is also a change in moral standards that result in order and order of life according to previous cultures are no longer used. This is what causes the role and function of the police must always …

Managing The Risk For Fintech Lending Amid The Global Pandemic Corona Virus, Trisadini Prasastinah Usanti, Fiska Silvia Raden Roro, Nur Utari Setiawati

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The coronavirus (covis-19) is impacting all sectors across the world. Moreover, the covid-19 pandemic will accelerate change in the world economy. That brings both opportunity and danger, says Henry Curr in The Economist. In dealing with global disaster which impacts to the finance and economy world, such as the pandemic of covid-19, fintech lending offers the fastestand the most easy lending service for people in the whole business world nowdays. However, the easy process can cause various problems such as late payment and default in payment. Fintech will suffer from those risks and it can jeopardise the business. Moreover, most …

Kelemahan Pengaturan Pengupahan Bagi Dokter Di Indonesia, Muhammad Nur

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The results of the Junior Indonesian Doctors Network (JDN) survey on August 1-30 2018 stated that 26.24 percent of doctors in Indonesias main workplaces were still paid under three million rupiah per month. Then, there are 8.89 percent of doctors who are even paid under one and a half million rupiah per month. Due to the low salaries earned, many doctors end up having to take additional work hours in several practice locations to increase their income. In fact, other studies say that working continuously for doctors increases the risk of malpractice and endangers patients. Low wages also make doctors …

Mencari Jejak Konsep Judicial Restraint Dalam Praktik Kekuasaan Kehakiman Di Indonesia, Dian Agung Wicaksono, Andi Sandi Antonius Tabusassa Tonralipu

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The decision on judicial review of Laws by the Constitutional Court was allegedly not fully obeyed by the parties affected by the decision. One form of disobedience tothe judicial review decision by the Constitutional Courtwas shown by the Supreme Court concerning the decision related to the opening of the opportunity to submit a Peninjauan Kembali more than once, which was responded by the Supreme Court with internalregulations which emphasized that Peninjauan Kembali could only be done once.From the phenomenon, this research tries to trace the concept of judicial restraint in the practice of judicial power in Indonesia, as well as …