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Robyn Powell et al., Preconception Health Risks by Presence and Type of Disability Among U.S. Women, 17 Disability and Health Journal 101588 (2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Klara Van der Ploeg, Fairness as Balance: Investor Obligations and Investment Treaty Reform, 4 International Investment Law Journal 184 (2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The normative asymmetry between the rights and obligations of investors and host states under investment treaties has been a key reason for the treaties' common characterization as "unbalanced". While initially a description of a justified treaty design, imbalance has since become a central component of the legitimacy challenges to the investment treaty regime: a normative demand of the treaties' realignment. Identifying the imbalance critiques of investment treaties as fairness-based critiques concerning the distributive implications of investment treaties, the article considers to what extent including provisions on investor conduct in investment treaties may address the concerns about potential unfairness in the allocation of rights
and obligations under these treaties. In particular, the article argues that understanding the imbalance critiques as concerns of distributive justice enables the assessment of investment treaty design innovations and the alternative ways in which these instruments could be structured to produce different distributive outcomes.
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Judith A.M. Scully, St. Petersburg Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation™ Center, in Strengthening Campus Communities Through the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Framework (Tia Brown McNair ed., 1st ed., Routledge, 2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
"This essay focuses on the challenges and opportunities that the St. Petersburg Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Center experienced in its journey from 2020 until 2023. The essay chronicles the creation of the St. Pete Racial Justice Fellowship program for students enrolled in one of four higher education institutions in St. Petersburg, Florida. The essay provides background on the structure of the curriculum for this program while detailing how the recent Florida legislation referred to as the 'Stop W.O.K.E. Act' has impacted the way in which the St. Pete TRHT Center operates. By examining the impact of this legislation, this essay chronicles the collective journey toward racial healing and transformation in a political environment that has been exceedingly threatening to campus goals. With a focus on truth-telling about how the legal system often perpetuates the false belief in a hierarchy of human value, the St. Pete TRHT Center remains dedicated to supporting a new cadre of young leaders who will work in our community to help address policies and practices that will reify racial justice. For more information about the St. Pete TRHT Center, visit https://www.stpetetrht.org"
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, The Political Branding of COVID-19, in Feeling Democracy: Emotional Politics in the New Millennium (Rutgers University Press, 2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Elizabeth Berenguer, How Traditional Legal Rhetoric’s Myth of Neutrality Sustains Capitalism, 101 Denv. L. Rev. 721 (2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Through the lens of critical and comparative rhetoric, this Article examines how traditional legal rhetoric-the dominant analytical framework employed in the United States legal system-sustains capitalism and preserves inequities, such as financial precarity. This Article identifies the features that traditional legal rhetoric shares with the free capitalist market and then uses those features as an analytical framework to examine two cases that align with the theme of this Symposium on financial precarity and late capitalism: Bank of America v. Caulkett and Citizens United v. FEC. Comparing these two cases, the Court uses the same analytical tools of traditional legal rhetoric, albeit in contradictory ways, to reach outcomes that align with market values at the expense of the individual. More importantly, in both cases, the Court presents traditional legal reasoning as an objective, rational, unbiased, and neutral analytical framework, even though it is not actually objective, rational, unbiased, or neutral.
This myth that traditional legal reasoning is objective, rational, unbiased, and neutral aligns with the near-identical myth that the market is an objective, rational, unbiased, and neutral place where ransactions occur between individuals and entities who share similar bargaining power and play on a level field. Through these aligned myths, traditional legal rhetoric is essential to sustaining the free-market capitalism experiment. More importantly, traditional legal rhetoric cannot ever satisfactorily address the
inequities of the marketplace like financial precarity because traditional legal rhetoric was never intended to be egalitarian. Thus, in order to truly begin solving the problems of capitalism, advocates must understand how traditional legal rhetoric creates inequities and challenge the form and substance
of traditional legal rhetoric using other rhetorics, such as African Diasporic, Asian Diasporic, Indigenous, and Latine rhetorics. These insurrectionary
rhetorics establish frameworks for challenging dominant imperialist/colonialist power, centering community, and solving the real problems of inequity created by traditional legal rhetoric.
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Marco Jimenez, Bias in the Cathedral, 2024 Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) 1 (2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Louis J. Virelli and Richard W. Murphy, Supreme Court News, 49 Administrative & Regulatory Law News 18 (2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Robyn Powell et al., Experiences with and Perceptions of the Child Welfare System During the Perinatal Period of Mothers with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 19 Journal of Public Child Welfare 751 (2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of 16 mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) regarding their interactions with the child welfare system during the perinatal period. Adverse themes included fear of child removal, wariness of the healthcare system, insufficient assistance, and trauma and stress. Positive themes included support from others and believing in one’s self. Findings underscore the need for disability cultural competence, non-discrimination, family preservation, enhanced support, self-advocacy, and family-centered care across perinatal and child welfare systems to improve equity for mothers with IDD and their children. Further research is warranted.
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Klara Van der Ploeg, Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework, 9 Business and Human Rights Journal 221 (2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The business and human rights (BHR) framework has regularly been considered the superior legal regime of corporate accountability for business-related human rights abuses, which must be both protected from and incorporated into investment treaties. However, investment treaties have surpassed the BHR framework in an important respect: certain investment treaties impose strict international legal obligations, including human rights-related obligations, directly on investors, thereby going beyond the normatively ambiguous corporate responsibility to respect. Investment treaty reform initiatives, including those seeking to align investment treaties with the BHR agenda, should therefore take care to avoid inadvertently undoing this advance towards investors’ legal accountability.
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Darryl Wilson, Keeping Current – Property, 38 Probate and Property 18 (2024)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.