{"title":"Hidden Renvoi: The Search for Corporate Liability in Alien Tort Statute Litigation","authors":"Isaac Ramsey","doi":"10.15779/Z38WM13T9T","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38WM13T9T","url":null,"abstract":"In its two most recent decisions regarding the Alien Tort Statute (ATS)—Jesner v. Arab Bank and Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum— the US Supreme Court failed to answer the specific question upon which it granted certiorari: whether the ATS permits suit against corporate defendants. These two cases reveal only that the ATS does not permit suits against foreign corporate defendants or suits for claims arising from conduct that takes place outside of the US. To frustrate the ATS saga further, the fractured Court in Jesner expressly declined to resolve the question whether international or domestic law should govern corporate liability. And only the plurality even entertained the issue that was central to the lower court’s reasoning: whether the ATS required a customary international law norm of corporate liability or, instead, allowed plaintiffs to bring tort claims ipso facto under federal common law. The inarticulation leaves a gap in international law that the Supreme Court would do well to fill. The question has begun to percolate among the lower federal courts, and it has emerged in a case before the Canadian Supreme Court as well. (Nevsun Res. v. Araya, 2018 CarswellBC 1552 (Can.) (WL) (granting petition for review)).","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67575584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citizenship, National Security Detention, and the Habeas Remedy","authors":"Lee B. Kovarsky","doi":"10.15779/Z387D2Q76Q","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z387D2Q76Q","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction ............................................................................................ 868 I. Situating the Debate ............................................................................ 871 II. Pre-Constitutional History ................................................................. 877 A. The English Experience ....................................................... 879 1. The English Privilege .................................................... 880 2. English Suspension ........................................................ 882 B. The American Experience ................................................... 884 C. The Coverage Rule .............................................................. 888 1. The major premise ......................................................... 890 2. The minor premise ......................................................... 892 3. The conclusion, and the history of which privilege? ..... 893 III. Verdicts on History ........................................................................... 895 A. President Lincoln and the Civil War .................................... 896 B. President Roosevelt and World War II ................................ 898 C. President George W. Bush and the War on Terror .............. 901 IV. The Thickness Plank ......................................................................... 903 A. The Extent of Citizen Detention .......................................... 904 1. Hamdi and Padilla .......................................................... 904 2. John Doe ........................................................................ 906 B. Wartime Flexibility and Incapacitation Strategies ............... 908 C. Suspension-as-Authorization ............................................... 914 V. The Coverage Plank ........................................................................... 918","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67419118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Data and the Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines","authors":"Charles A. Miller","doi":"10.15779/Z38TT4FT2H","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38TT4FT2H","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67561439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Populism, Pluralism, and Criminal Justice","authors":"D. Sklansky","doi":"10.15779/Z38ZK55M88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38ZK55M88","url":null,"abstract":"The story that James Forman Jr. tells in his superb book, Locking Up Our Own,1 is local and nuanced. Forman explains that mass incarceration resulted from many small decisions made in many different places.2 Although all of those decisions were shaped by the legacies of racism and racial oppression, Forman shows that mass incarceration was not only a product of racism and racial oppression, or at least that the lines of causation are long and complicated. The story that Forman tells may therefore seem disconnected from the election of Donald Trump and from the nationwide resurgence of racism, nativism, and anti-Semitism since 2016. The fear and hate that Trump has whipped up have been anything but nuanced, and this is a national story, not a local one. It may therefore seem misguided to ask what Forman’s book can tell us about the distinctive challenges of the Trump era, other than to remind us of the continued, critical importance of local politics in criminal justice. Ultimately, though, Locking Up Our Own is about policing, prosecution, and punishment in a democracy. The direction that our national politics has taken in the past few years gives us reason to rethink democracy; not whether it is a good thing, but what it should mean, and what it requires to flourish. And Forman’s book does have some lessons about that, beyond “think local.” It can help us think more sensibly about the connections between criminal justice and democracy at the national as well as the local level. The most important lesson the book offers in this regard is that we should worry more about making criminal justice safe for democracy than about making democracy safe for criminal justice.","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67593111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming Property: Reclaiming Indigenous Land Tenures","authors":"Jessica A. Shoemaker","doi":"10.15779/Z383R0PT7K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z383R0PT7K","url":null,"abstract":"This Article challenges existing narratives about the future of American Indian land tenure. The current highly-federalized system for reservation property is deeply problematic. In particular, the trust status of many reservation lands is expensive, bureaucratic, oppressive, and linked to persistent poverty in many reservation communities. Yet, for complex reasons, trust property has proven largely immune from fundamental reform. Today, there seem to be two primary approaches floated for the future of reservation property. The first is a “do the best with what we have” strategy that largely accepts core problems with trust, perhaps with some minor efficiency-oriented tinkering, for the sake of the benefits and security it does provide. The second is a return to old, already-failed reform strategies focused on “liberating” American Indian people with a forced transition to statebased fee simple property. Both strategies respond, sometimes implicitly, to deep impulses about how property should work, especially in a market economy. But both of these approaches also neglect sufficient respect for the true potential of more autonomous Indigenous property regimes.","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67394023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Lessons for Criminal Law Reformers from Locking Up Our Own","authors":"R. Barkow","doi":"10.15779/Z383775W0D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z383775W0D","url":null,"abstract":"I. The Architecture and Accountability of Crime Policy ..................... 1968 A. The “Cultural Change” Frame ......................................... 1969 B. The “Institutional Change” Frame ................................... 1973 II. Moving Beyond the Most Sympathetic Cases................................ 1975 III. Getting to All of the Above ......................................................... 1979 Conclusion ........................................................................................ 1982","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67390082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SFFA v. Harvard: How Affirmative Action Myths Mask White Bonus","authors":"J. Feingold","doi":"10.15779/Z38Z02Z882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38Z02Z882","url":null,"abstract":"In the ongoing litigation of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College, Harvard faces allegations that its once-heralded admissions process discriminates against Asian Americans. Public discourse has revealed a dominant narrative: affirmative action is viewed as the presumptive cause of Harvard’s alleged “Asian penalty.” Yet this narrative misrepresents the plaintiff’s own theory of discrimination. Rather than implicating affirmative action, the underlying allegations portray the phenomenon of “negative action” — that is, an admissions regime in which White applicants take the seats of their more qualified Asian-American counterparts. Nonetheless, we are witnessing a broad failure to see this case for what it is. This misperception invites an unnecessary and misplaced referendum on race-conscious admissions at Harvard and beyond.","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67589645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Locking Up My Own: Reflections of a Black (Recovering) Prosecutor","authors":"P. Butler","doi":"10.15779/Z38ST7DX6G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38ST7DX6G","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67552452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Universalizing the U Visa: Challenges of Immigration Case Selection in Legal Nonprofits","authors":"S. Lakhani","doi":"10.15779/Z38G15TB7H","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38G15TB7H","url":null,"abstract":"The resource limitations of legal nonprofit organizations force staff attorneys to make difficult choices about whom to serve. Nowhere are the consequences of lawyers’ case selection decisions starker than in the immigration context, where individuals face deportation if unable to successfully advocate for themselves before legal authorities. Based on three years of qualitative research within legal services organizations in Los Angeles, this Note describes and contextualizes immigration lawyers’ case-selection approach, with a focus on attorneys’ role as policy actors within the immigrant justice movement.","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67471609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speaking with a Different Voice: Why the Military Trial of Civilians and the Enemy is Constitutional","authors":"S. Prakash","doi":"10.15779/Z38PK0724J","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38PK0724J","url":null,"abstract":"I. The Revolutionary War and the Far-reaching Power to Use Military Courts ........................................................................................ 1024 II. A Tale of Continuity: The Sweeping War Power under the Constitution ............................................................................... 1030 A. Congress’s Power to Prevail in Wars ................................. 1030 B. Congress’s Power to Authorize Military Trials ................. 1033 III. Early Exercises of the Sweeping War Power .................................. 1038 Conclusion ............................................................................................ 1040","PeriodicalId":51452,"journal":{"name":"California Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67524688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}