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HB 189 - Amendments Regarding the Permissible Weight of Commercial Trucks
Get PDFThe Act amends Georgia law controlling the permissible weight of commercial trucks, providing for new penalties for violations, a two‑year sunset provision, and other enforcement amendments
HB 219 - Venue for Money Laundering and Theft Involving Digital Currency
Get PDFThe Act creates venue in cases of money laundering and theft that involve the transfer of digital currency by establishing that the crime may be considered to have happened wherever power was exercised over the property, wherever an act in furtherance of the crime occurred, or wherever the victim resides
Youth Voice Matters: The Critical Nature of Youth Participation in Achieving the Right to a Healthy Environment
No full textIn 2022, the United Nations recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right. The UN Resolution urged “[s]tates, international organizations, business enterprises and other relevant stakeholders to adopt policies, to enhance international cooperation, strengthen capacity-building and continue to share good practices in order to scale up efforts to ensure a clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all.” Although governments and global corporations are clearly the primary targets of this call to action given their power to affect—and address—climate change, there is arguably no more central a stakeholder in humanity’s response to climate change than children. Children and youth will be, and in many respects already are, the population most affected by climate change. Yet they are largely overlooked and relegated to the margins in many public and private sector efforts to address climate change. This essay calls for a mainstreaming of children and children’s rights in both public and private sector dialogues and action on climate change. Further, governments and civil society must not only make their spaces inclusive of young people, but they must also make space for and support children’s own vision and initiatives. In short, the true potential of the right to a healthy environment cannot be realized without meaningful input from young people or without mainstreaming young people’s rights and leadership
Alexander S. Glover, et. al. v. Georgia Mining Ventures, LLC, et. al., Order on Defendants\u27 Motion to Exclude Testimony
Get PDFTidewater Fleet Supply, LLC v. Jason L. McCard, et. al., Order on Defendant\u27s Motion to Dismiss
Get PDFCompany.Com, LLC v. Priority Payment Systems, LLC, Order on Motion for Interlocutory Injunction and Motion to Dismiss
Get PDFHow Recognition and Implementation of the Right to a Healthy Environment Can Advance the Human Rights of Migrants
No full textThe relationship between climate change and other forms of environmental degradation, on the one hand, and migration and displacement, on the other, is a human rights topic of critical and growing importance. However, the conversation around environment and migration has tended to focus on security thus far. The humanity and agency of those who may leave their homes due to climate and environmental impacts, and their status as rights-holders, are too often an afterthought, if not completely forgotten. Global recognition and implementation of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment can contribute to adopting a more human rights-based approach to the intersection of environment and migration around the world. This article identifies and explores four ways in which the human right to a healthy environment may have relevance and value in the migration context: 1) addressing the circumstances that compel people to leave their homes; 2) countering the devastating human rights and environmental consequences of overly securitized migration governance; 3) contributing to the growing jurisprudence around climate change and environmental degradation as a basis for non-refoulement claims; and 4) fostering sustainable and human rights-based solidarity between migrants and environmentally-affected communities in destination countries
Clause Essentialism and the Third Reconstruction (reviewing Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process by James E. Fleming (2022))
No full textThe Fourth Industrial Revolution and Legal Education
Get PDFA “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR) will dramatically change current law students’ careers. Innovations in technology, business, and social structures will require different and more sophisticated legal services. Law school graduates will be responsible for harnessing, encouraging, and establishing legal controls that offer society the benefits of these new technologies while limiting the undesirable side effects. At the same time, the recurring, repetitive practice of law will begin to disappear as more work is done much cheaper and better by machines.
The 4IR presents extraordinary opportunities for law schools, the legal profession, and graduates, but it also presents significant challenges. To prepare students for professional practice and continuous improvement of the justice system, law schools will have to adjust students’ education and focus the curriculum on ensuring new competencies. Changing law school curriculum is generally more evolutionary than dramatic, but there is not enough time to slowly begin to prepare students for their professional lives in the 4IR. The Article concludes with several ideas about accelerating the process