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It’S My Party, And I’Ll Do What I Want To: Making The Case For Judicial Review Of National Interest Waiver Denials, M. Hunter Rush

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Politics and personal beliefs have become increasingly intertwined since the founding of the United States. Few issues have divided Americans more than immigration laws and policies. This Note advances the argument that when a noncitizen’s application for a National Interest Waiver is denied, there must be some recourse. The current problem is exacerbated when the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, on behalf of the Secretary of Homeland Security, denies a waiver for what appears to be racially or religiously motivated purposes. Judicial review in an Article III court is the most neutral forum of review that a noncitizen residing …

Opportunity Zones Providing Opportunity For Whom?: How The Current Regulations Are Failing And A Solution To Uplift Communities, Ruta R. Trivedi

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

In 2017, the newly enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created an incentive for taxpayers to invest in Qualified Opportunity Zones— census tracts that consist of low-income communities. These investments, which are incentivized via lucrative tax deferral benefits, are intended to uplift communities and leave them in a better position than they were pre-investment. However, the initiative lacks regulation requiring investments to actually benefit low-income areas, resulting in money going to places that do not need help, while communities that are in need may face displacement. This is a result of many wealthy investors finding that luxury projects are the …

Past The Tipping Point, But With Hope Of Return: How Creating A Geoengineering Compulsory Licensing Scheme Can Incentivize Innovation, Brooke Wilson

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

This Note explores the patenting of geoengineering technologies and issues arising from the early stages of this high-risk, high-reward technology. This Note focuses on one possible solution to solving the issues surrounding the patenting of geoengineering technology: Creating a specialized compulsory licensing scheme.

Book Review Of Law In The Time Of Covid-19, Jessie Wallace Burchfield

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Strategic Litigation And The Evolution Of Regional Human Rights Norms: Cases From Germany And The Netherlands, Cole Kovarik

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This study seeks to fill gaps in our understanding of how private actors participate in international human rights politics by examining civil society involvement in European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) cases against long-standing democracies. Descriptive analysis of an exhaustive data set of instances of civil society organization (CSO) participation in ECtHR cases against Germany and The Netherlands is complemented by a comparative case study analysis of networks of organizations that mobilized around German and Dutch cases concerning Articles 8 (right to privacy) and 10 (freedom of expression). The data suggest that civil society organizations not only appear before the …

2021 Spring - Clihhr Newsletter, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

CLIHHR Newsletters

This Spring 2021 issue of the CLIHHR Newsletter highlights major institutional milestones and advocacy efforts during a period of global and political transition. It features Professor Richard H. Weisberg’s transition to emeritus status, successful litigation challenging sanctions against the International Criminal Court, student fellowship and clinic project achievements, virtual alumni engagement, and public programming on sanctions, religious freedom, mass incarceration, and farmers’ rights. The newsletter reflects CLIHHR’s continued commitment to human rights education, international justice, and accountability in a remote learning environment.

Sexual Slavery As A War Crime: A Reform Proposal, Alessandro Storchi

Michigan Journal of International Law

For the first time in the history of international criminal law, the ICC Elements of Crimes included a statutory definition of sexual slavery as a war crime and as a crime against humanity. Such definition is derived from, and in fact almost identical to, the definition of enslavement in the same text. In July 2019, that language for the first time was adopted and applied in the conviction of general Bosco Ntaganda, the first ever conviction for sexual slavery as a war crime and as a crime against humanity at the ICC, as part of the situation in the Democratic …

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 …

Going Global: An International Human Rights Approach To Russian Lgbtq+ Law And Practices, Michael Goodyear

Articles & Chapters

The current treatment of LGBTQ+ people in Russia is characterized by a discriminatory withholding of rights and political and societal isolation and endangerment. While this situation is well-documented, the legal analyses of it have been more limited. Those that have been undertaken in the past decade have focused almost exclusively on the regional European Court of Human Rights as the vehicle to address Russian discrimination against its sexual and gender minorities. The scholarship has long ignored an international human rights approach, however, which, through the treaty bodies of the nine core international human rights treaties, has developed a robust set …

A Different Type Of Property: White Women And The Human Property They Kept, Michele Goodwin

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. by Harriet A. Jacobs, and They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers.

Tanggung Jawab Debitur Yang Wanprestasi Terhadap Kreditur Akibat Sertifikat Jaminan Fidusia Yang Tidak Sah (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 3584 K/Pdt/2018), Inggri Vinaya

Indonesian Notary

The fiduciary guarantee certificate is a legal protection for the fiduciary recipient of the financing agreement agreed with the fiduciary. In the event that the fiduciary commits default, the fiduciary recipient can execute the fiduciary security object. The existence of an executorial title on the fiduciary guarantee protects the fiduciary recipient wherever the object of the fiduciary guarantee is, both the fiduciary and other parties. In the registration of the object of fiduciary security, the parties must pay attention to the correctness of the object of guarantee that is registered because it may harm the parties if it does not …

Perlindungan Hukum Notaris Atas Pembuatan Jaminan Perusahaan Yang Diduga Mengandung Unsur Cacat Kehendak, Elia Cahya Putra

Indonesian Notary

Akta Jaminan Perorangan dan Akta Jaminan Perusahaan merupakan bentuk dari Perjanjian Penanggungan (1820-1850 KUH Perdata). Sesuai dengan sifat accessoir dari perjanjian jaminan Penanggungan, maka perjanjian tersebut lahir dengan maksud untuk menegaskan dan memperkuat segala yang dimaksud dalam Perjanjian Pokoknya. Bentuknya yang bersifat bebas, tidak terikat dalam bentuk tertentu, dan dapat dibuat lisan maupun tulisan dalam akta, memungkinkan adanya perkembangan-perkembangan pemahaman di dunia praktak dalam pembuatan, dan peruntukan sebuah akta Jaminan Penanggungan. Dalam hal perjanjian fasilitas kredit dan perjanjian utang-piutang menggunakan lembaga jaminan, baik jaminan kebendaan ataupun jaminan perorangan maka Notaris juga berperan dalam pembuatan akta pemberian jaminan tersebut. Namun apa …

Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Notaris Dalam Proses Penyidikan (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 16/Puu-Xviii/2020), Anandiaz Raditya Priandhana

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia Nomor 16/PUU-XVIII/2020 terkait dengan perlindungan hukum terhadap Notaris dalam Proses Penyidikan. Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 16/PUU-XVIII/2020 ini dimohonkan karena Pasal 66 ayat (1) Undang-Undang Nomor 2 Tahun 2014 dianggap menimbulkan dan/atau berpotensi menimbulkan adanya kerugian dalam melaksanakan tugas dan wewenangnya sebagai Jaksa, serta seakan-akan memberikan kedudukan yang lebih istimewa kepada seorang Notaris. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini, yaitu yang pertama adalah kewenangan Majelis Kehormatan Notaris dan pembatasannya dalam Pasal 66 UUJN berdasarkan putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia Nomor 16/PUU-XVIII/2020. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode yuridis normatif, dengan menggunakan data sekunder, melalui …

What Is Cultural Misappropriation And Why Does It Matter? 03-31-2021, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

Foreign Cyber Interference In Elections, Michael N. Schmitt

International Law Studies

In the 2020 U.S. elections, Russia authorized and conducted influence operations designed to support former President Trump, although it did not attempt to alter any technical aspect of the voting process. Russia was not alone. Iran mounted a multi-pronged covert influence campaign intended to undercut Trump’s reelection prospects, while other foreign actors–like Lebanese Hizballah, Cuba, and Venezuela–also tried to influence the election. Interestingly, China did not conduct operations designed to alter the outcome, although it did consider doing so. The phenomenon of election meddling, however, extends well beyond the United States to such countries as Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, …

Ozone Depletion, Developing Countries, And Human Rights: Seeking Better Ground On Which To Fight For Protection Of The Ozone Layer, Victor Williams

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.

Call For Proposals 2021: The Social Practice Of Human Rights Conference, University Of Dayton

Content presented at the Social Practice of Human Rights Conference

The global pandemic has rapidly broken down boundaries and structures—from personal to social to institutional. Long-standing practices and norms have changed radically to respond to the current crisis, while some institutional and political dynamics contrary to human rights and democracy have become further entrenched. New pressures on human rights are also heightened by the pandemic, including rights to privacy, access to health, and digital capitalism. This crisis has shown that for human rights, the perils and potentials have increased hand in hand.

The stark upending by the pandemic provides proof-of-concept for the disintegration of silos and the erosion of exclusionary …

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 …

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 …

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 …