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Forests Up in Smoke: An Analysis of the Washington State Legislatures 2016-2021 Actions to Combat and Reduce Wildfires
Get PDF“Forests Up in Smoke: An Analysis of the Washington State Legislatures 2016-2021 Actions to Combat and Reduce Wildfires” examines and scrutinizes recent legislation passed by the Washington State Legislature that is specifically focused on preventing and combatting wildfires across the State of Washington. Over the last decade, Washington State has experienced several of the worst wildfire seasons in the state’s history, and with this increase in wildfires, Washingtonians need more action from the State Legislature to manage, protect, and restore our forests.
One way Washington can take a more proactive approach to combatting wildfires is by utilizing alternative methods for wildfire prevention, like woody biomass and biochar technologies. These technologies utilize specific heating methods to convert the dry, flammable plant materials that lay on the forest floor into biochar, a carbon-rich substance that can be added to soil for added nutrients. Employing these types of technologies could both help prevent wildfires from happening and create a substance that can be used in forest restoration.
Another option the Washington State Legislature could pursue is bolstering the already existing Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Correctional Camp Programs. These voluntary programs allow inmates to receive job training and skills in firefighting to assist in forest firefighting, fire suppression and prevention. Washington State could follow California’s lead and expunge the records of non-violent offenders who fought fires for the State of California while incarcerated, allowing them to pursue careers in firefighting upon release. With the growing increase of fires across the state, Washington will need more people available and ready to engage in firefighting and fire prevention
Unacceptable Justifications for Crimes, including Crimes Committed in the Name of So-Called ‘Honour’
No full textSULR, Volume 47, Issue 1
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Gender and the Constitutional Theory of the Firm
Get PDFThis Article adds to the literature that has linked feminist economics to foreign trade and development. It argues that two key factors need to be in place jointly if efforts to promote gender equity are to succeed. On the one hand it argues that foreign debt is an important constraint to domestic progressive social policies of all kinds as it increases the power of international creditors who generally tend to support austerity policies. On the other hand, while alleviating the burden of foreign debt via exportpromotion policies is necessary, it is by no means a sufficient condition to promote domestic gender and social justice goals. Domestic political pressures for such policies also matter although they operate in increasingly constrained spaces with growing levels of foreign debt. Since international trade is fundamentally international competition between firms located in different countries, the Article proposes a constitutional theory of the firm which situates profit-seeking business enterprises in their sociopolitical and legal contexts. This approach places the business enterprise, and its constitutional embeddedness, at the core of both trade performance and distributional questions. At the end of the day, the question of greater diversity within corporations cannot be divorced from the political and power struggles in the larger economic, social, and legal contexts within which the firm is embedded. The pressures of globalization are, needless to say, of enormous importance with regard to domestic social justice concerns
Judicial Ethics and the Eradication of Racism
Get PDFIn 2020, the Washington Supreme Court entrusted the legal community with working to eradicate racism from its legal system. Soon after, Washington’s Commission on Judicial Conduct (hereinafter the Commission) received a complaint about a bus ad for North Seattle College featuring King County Superior Court Judge David Keenan. Along with a photo of Judge Keenan’s face, the ad included the following language: “A Superior Court Judge, David Keenan got into law in part to advocate for marginalized communities. David’s changing the world. He started at North.” The Commission admonished Judge Keenan for violating the Code of Judicial Conduct, in part because the language in the ad may have reflected bias on the part of Judge Keenan. The Commission determined that a reasonable person reading the ad would be concerned about a person from a non-marginalized community receiving a fair trial in Judge Keenan’s court. A concern about the unreasonable perception of the possibility of reverse discrimination. The Commission, by erroneously interpreting and applying the Code to Judge Keenan’s case, impeded the development of a more equitable legal system; therefore, the standard employed by the Commission in evaluating potential ethical violations should be changed to promote, rather than inhibit, judicial efforts to achieve racial equity.
This Note will explore the implication of the Commission’s interpretation of the Code of Judicial Conduct; its decision in In re The Honorable David S. Keenan; and the potential impact on judicial advocacy, particularly in the context of Washington’s efforts to eradicate racism from its legal system. This Note will also examine a history of judicial advocacy in Washington State, and how the Commission’s decision is reflective of a system struggling to maintain the status quo. Finally, this Note will consider how the Washington Supreme Court should have used the objective observer standard in deciding Judge Keenan’s case
Good Newsletter June 20, 2023
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Student Life E-Newsletter November 20, 2023
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A Critical Race Feminism Critique of Immigration Laws That Exclude Sex Workers: Moving from Theory to Praxis
No full textThis Article is the first to apply a critical race feminism (CRF) critique to the current immigration law in the United States, Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 212(a)(2)(D)(i), which excludes immigrants for engaging in sex work.1 This Article will use critical historical methodology to center the role of women of color as the primary targets of not only the first federal law to criminalize sex workers, but also the first explicitly racist immigration law in United States history. The Article will also employ theories of anti-essentialism and intersectionality to show how INA § 212(a)(2)(D)(i) both silences the voices and experiences of women of color sex workers and refuses to recognize the impacts of multiple intersecting systems of oppression. Finally, the Article will connect the critique of INA § 212(a)(2)(D)(i) to the anti-carceral feminist movement to decriminalize sex work in order to move from theory to praxis, and to inspire advocacy strategies and law reform efforts that point to a broader project of transformation. The ultimate goal of this Article is to strengthen links between critical race and immigration law scholarship so that scholars can continue to use CRF as an exploratory analytical tool to examine the intersections of race, class, and gender within immigration la
