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The Lost Child: A Critique on Transracial Adoption Rhetoric
Full text linkTransracial adoption in the United States reflects a deeply rooted history of colonialism, cultural assimilation, and racial hierarchy, masked by rhetoric focused on the “best interest of the child.” The author critiques that rhetoric and traces how adoption practices and policies, both domestic and international, have evolved to reinforce systemic inequities. Through historical analysis of the forced adoption of Native American, Black, and Asian children, it reveals how the best interest standard has been wielded not to protect children but to uphold political and racial ideologies. The author argues that the prevailing adoption framework relies on child-saving and color-blind narratives that silence adoptee voices and obscure the cultural harm inflicted on transracial adoptees. In response, it calls for a rhetorical and legal shift that centers adoptee experiences and recognizes the complex racial and cultural dimensions of transracial adoption. By embracing new frameworks such as the Cultural-Racial Identity Model and Adoption Kinship Network, the author urges the legal system to abandon one-size-fits-all notions of child welfare in favor of identity-affirming, community-rooted approaches that reflect the lived realities of adoptees
The Gap: Addressing the Missing Piece in Hawaiʻi’s Anti-Discrimination Laws on Credit and Lending
Full text linkThis author addresses the significant gap in Hawaiʻi’s anti-discrimination laws, specifically the lack of explicit protections for LGBTQ+ individuals against credit and lending discrimination. Although federal laws like the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and recent interpretations by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) extend some protections, they remain vulnerable to shifting federal priorities and interpretations. The author explores how other states, particularly California and Washington, have enacted robust statutory protections that clearly prohibit credit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. They argue that Hawaiʻi, despite its large LGBTQ+ population, must amend its credit protection laws to reflect modern realities and provide concrete legal remedies. The author proposes specific legislative language and underscores the urgency of codifying these protections at the state level to ensure financial fairness, especially given the state’s high cost of living and the unique vulnerabilities faced by LGBTQ+ communities
A Global Reconstruction: Black Internationalism and the Human Rights Regime
Full text linkBlack American advocates for civil, political, and economic rights have long taken an internationalist approach and fostered connections with international organizations and transnational movements. This engagement has also been a generative force and played role in shaping international law. Beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, Black intellectuals and leaders, spearheaded by the NAACP and the UNIA, focused on human rights as a means for addressing and repairing the harms wrought by slavery, Jim Crow, and racism. From the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Genocide Convention, and the drafting of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Black advocates argued to the international community that white supremacy and racial terror were not domestic anomalies but threats to global peace and justice. In the mid-twentieth century, they joined forces with decolonial and anti-apartheid movements around the world, articulating a shared vision of equality through the emergent human rights regime. Finally, the Article examines late-twentieth century calls for reparations for slavery and colonialism as the next frontier of transnational advocacy for historical and distributive justice. This intellectual and political genealogy demonstrates how the Black internationalism has consistently expanded the scope of the human rights regime and challenged it to be more robust and more ambitious
Student Life E-Newsletter April 28, 2025
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Student Life E-Newsletter March 03, 2025
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Corporate Governance Speech
Full text linkThe State has always regulated the intra-firm communications that make corporate governance possible, most commonly by mandating disclosures of information by a corporation to its shareholders. Some such laws are labeled “securities regulation,” but securities regulation is a broad category that extends to speech by actors who are outside the corporate enterprise as well. Also, the conventional securities regulation category does not capture all such laws; other examples, including informationforcing mandates, can be found in state corporate law. This Article uses the term “corporate governance speech” to describe the communications among shareholders, directors, and officers through which corporate governance is accomplished. As a functional category, corporate governance speech serves vital private and public interests. Importantly, it is not commercial speech—notwithstanding the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s recent efforts to recharacterize its disclosure rules as commercial speech.
Recognizing corporate governance speech as a cohesive category leads to another conclusion: the corporation’s expressive interests cannot be burdened by laws regulating the internal communicative processes through which the corporation itself is constituted. This insight originates with Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s bestregarded experts on corporate law, who once defended the constitutionality of the SEC’s Shareholder Proposal Rule as regulation of “speech by a corporation to itself.” It follows from Justice Powell’s insight that parties challenging corporate disclosure mandates cannot establish any burden on the expressive rights of the corporation or its managers. Building on this insight, this Article shows how a streamlined form of First Amendment scrutiny could be applied to the regulation of corporate governance speech, including the disclosure mandates that are ubiquitous in securities regulation. The Article argues for a First Amendment approach to corporate governance speech that is sensitive to the democratic processes governing corporate organization, and to the democratic nature of informationally efficient markets
THE NAVAJO NATION AND THE COLORADO RIVER: THEIR CURRENT STATUSES AND THE TRIBE\u27S PATH FORWARD
Full text linkThe AI Doppelgänger Dilemma: Cloned Voices in the Music Industry
No full textWith the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), there has been an influx of “voice clones”—deep-learning algorithms that create synthetic speech to realistically mimic human voices. Celebrities and, in particular, music artists, have been subjected to the proliferation of AI voice clones on social media platforms like TikTok and streaming platforms such as Spotify. Despite music utilizing AI voice clones having amassed much popularity, this technology can be harmful and highly invasive to musicians whose livelihoods often depend on their distinct voices. While legal scholars have attempted to articulate various rights that could protect a person’s voice, individuals are largely left with minimal protection to prevent AI voice clones and have few options for redress. Some legal scholars suggest a variety of tort actions that could be applied in this context; however, torts such as the right of publicity, defamation, and false light ultimately fall short. This Note argues that a patchwork approach is necessary to regulate and combat the harms of AI voice clones, including action at the state and federal level, as well as self-regulation in the private sector by streaming platforms and musicians themselves. This approach, which includes input from all actors impacted by AI voice clones, should balance promoting creativity and continued development of AI while also protecting individuals’ interests in how their voice and likeness are used by others
Student Life E-Newsletter March 17, 2025
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