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Legal Issues for Blockchain in an Environment Most Unkind
Get PDFSpaceChain is looking to use an operating system based in blockchain for two purposes: first, it can be used to allow a constellation of satellites to communicate; and second, it can be used to ensure compliance to the rules set for the constellation.27 If a group of satellites launch with a smart contract that states both the purposes of the constellation parts and whole, outcomes can be coded into the satellites for compliance purposes.
SpaceChain is hoping, through the use of this OS, to make an “agnostic” jurisdiction. By this, SpaceChain is looking to not build a traditional jurisdiction, but a series of smart contract requirements that work within and sets the bar for requirements so that all actors work within the framework of any jurisdiction. SpaceChain is hoping to disrupt the current dipole that exists between launching entities, which to some extent mirrors the Cold War Era when the treaties were written, where Europe and the United States lie on one side of the equation, while China and Russia lay on the other side
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 CALIFORNIA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM PANEL ORGANIZED BY GGU SCHOOL OF LAW: SGMA AND INTERCONNECTED GROUNDWATERSURFACE WATER
Get PDFCalifornia’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (“SGMA”) has been the topic of many discussions since its enactment in 2014. The overarching goal of SGMA is to achieve sustainable groundwater basins through management plans “without causing undesirable results.” Considering the importance and magnitude of this task, it comes as no surprise that SGMA was the theme for the February 2019 California Water Law Symposium, held at the University of California (“UC”), Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. For the Symposium, Golden Gate University School of Law (“GGU”) students gathered a panel of experts to explore the relationship between groundwater plans and surface water within the context of SGMA. The GGU panel focused on issues stemming from the hydrological connections — particularly the undesirable results — between surface water and groundwater, impacts on fisheries, and the public trust doctrine
The Submerged Metaphoricality of Legal Language
Get PDFAccording to psychoanalysis in Freud and beyond, human beings have an ego ideal, or self-identity projected outward onto society, so why can’t a discipline like the Law? Like Mathematics or Psychoanalysis, Law surely has a self-identity it continually articulates and applies. If the Law would speak for itself, how would it explain this identity? One answer would be that the Law’s version of itself as logical to the point of absurdity is projected onto society as a whole, which it subjugates through the illusion of quasi-mathematical certainty. Caught up in this intoxicating mirage, its various purveyors and practitioners, like lawyers, work tirelessly to embody Law’s idea of itself through the endless verbal (oral and written) performance of briefs, arguments, opening and closing statements, depositions, client meetings, emails, and even more ephemeral forms of expression, like Tweets or Snaps
Blockchains and the Ethical Considerations of Centralization
Get PDFBlockchain technology’s promise is extraordinary—a truly decentralized and immutable ledger that could impact everything from cryptocurrencies and health care to supply chain management and civic voting. But a close examination of both permissioned and permissionless blockchains reveals that blockchain technology is actually moving in the direction of centralization, with small groups of people influencing decisions that affect entire blockchains. This emerging reality has profound ethical ramifications for the governance of blockchains
In Vino Veritas 2020
No full textIn Vino Veritas National Criminal Mock Trial CompetitionOctober 23-25, 2020This year\u27s competition will be held virtually. See: http://www.ggulitigation.com/in-vino/
Golden Gate University School of Law and the GGU Litigation Center host the Annual Professor Bernie Segal National Criminal Mock Trial Competition In Vino Veritas annually every Fall. Under normal circumstances, sixteen teams are invited to the Bay Area in October to compete (the 2020 competition will be held virtually). The competition features a preliminary round in which each school tries the case twice (once from each side of the case), one quarterfinal round, one semifinal round, and a final round to crown the champion. In Vino Veritas boasts evaluation from some of the top trial lawyers in the Bay Area, as well as the experience of actual presiding judges sitting as judges for the competition
True Crime Nexflix Series: The Impacts of Litigation as Home Entertainment
No full textA two-part seminar series featuring the litigating attorneys from Netflix\u27s Making A Murderer - Dean Strang, Jerry Buting - and The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez - Jon Hatami
Of Hatcheries and Habitat: Old and New Conservation Assumptions in the Pacific Salmon Treaty
Get PDFThe 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty between Canada and the United States was negotiated to deal with evidence that Pacific salmon stocks originating in Canada and the United States were in decline. The Pacific Salmon Treaty sought to establish total annual fishing limits for Canada and the United States that were consistent with the sustainable conservation of Pacific salmon stocks, and to base the total allowable catch for Canadian fishermen on forecasts of the total abundance of salmon. As the Pacific Salmon Treaty has been implemented, however, there has been a re-occuring pattern of annual abundance forecasts overestimating the actual abundance of salmon stocks. This article posits that these discrepancies between Pacific Salmon Treaty abundance forecasts and actual reported abundance levels are due in large part to a conservation model that fails to take proper account of the differences and relationship between wild (naturally-spawning) salmon and salmon artificially-propagated in hatcheries. Once these differences and relationships are better understood, it becomes clear that expanding hatcheries may lead to the continuing decline of Pacific salmon stocks rather than their restoration, and that the Pacific Salmon Treaty conservation model may need to focus less on hatcheries and more on improving freshwater conditions and habitat for wild salmon. Recent amendments to the Pacific Salmon Treaty, which went into effect in 2019, may provide a potential mechanism to bring the conservation of wild salmon stocks and their habitat into the Pacific Salmon Treaty\u27s abundance forecasting model
Utilizing Estate Plans to Achieve Economic Justice
Get PDFBayview has been the home to many black families for decades. However, the inability of title-holders to create distribution plans for their estate before their death has contributed to their ultimate displacement. When a title-holder of property dies, their property is required to go through a court system known as probate. The probate court system has various functions ranging from identifying assets, calculating any owed taxes and fees, and distributing property. The only way to avoid probate is through the execution of a probate-avoidance distribution document, which is mentioned in further detail below. The probate court system, to say the least, is complex and expensive. Apart from the difficulty of having to navigate the probate court system, there are various additional consequences that come with a title-holder not having a distribution plan for their assets at all. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that the issue of dying without having a distribution plan is more common for low-income black homeowners than their white counterparts.
This paper discusses how the lack of distribution plans has resulted in the displacement of many low-income black residents and what can be done to address this ongoing issue. Part II of this essay describes the relevant demographic history of Bayview, San Francisco, California. Part III provides details about the probate court system. Part IV expands on specific challenges that entail conducting transfers of wealth. Part V touches on the role that race and class have on one’s ability to conduct transfers of wealth. Lastly, Part VI presents various ideas for achieving economic justice in both legal education and practice
A Narrowly-Tailored, Technical Disenfranchisement: Risking Death to Vote Amidst a Viral Pandemic
Get PDFIn what has been referred to as a tragedy for American democracy and one of the most egregious examples of voter suppression in history, a United States Supreme Court ruling on April 6th made it harder for citizens of Wisconsin to cast their votes amidst the coronavirus pandemic