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PFAS Pollution, the Precautionary Principle, and a Path Forward: Potential Regulatory Regimes for PFAS Under the Safe Drinking Water Act
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club, Inc.: The Supreme Court Favors Protecting Government Documents from the Public Eye, Overlooking the Practicalities of Formulating a Biological Opinion Under the Endangered Species Act
Get PDFThe Tattoo That Sings: Soundwave Technology and Copyright Law
Get PDFThe tattoo industry yielded 83 million dollars in the United States in 2019, and this revenueis projected to increase to 110 million dollars by 2024. With a booming industry comes a new trend,one that implicates intellectual property law: Soundwave Tattoos, the tattoos that sing. Skin Motion,the company that converts a user-uploaded audio file into a design, charges users for access to aphone application that scans the tattoo to play it aloud. But clients are using commercial songs,downloading a famous song to play it from their bodies, forever. This trend matters because emergingtechnologies and applications continue to implicate copyright law through unauthorized uses ofanother’s work. This Article discusses the intersection of law, technology, and the tattoo industry,and how this intersection impacts the legal liability of the tattoo client, artist, and company
The Regulation of Force Majeure in the Contract Laws of Gulf States: Private Law as Investment Law
Get PDFGulf nations have entered into relatively few bilateral investment treaties. Foreign investorsand transnational commercial actors therefore rely on a combination of Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC) private laws as well as foreign private laws (including common law) in their contractualrelationships with government entities and other private actors; contracts and contract law arehence central to investment protection. Force majeure is regulated by both statute (civil codes),except for Saudi Arabia, as well as an emerging body of case law in the Gulf states. Although theprivate laws of GCC states were modeled under the Egyptian Civil Code of 1948 and the case lawof the Egyptian Court of Cassation is still somewhat evident, although far less than past times, GCCmember states have developed a common understanding of force majeure that is consistent withinternational practice. They all distinguish between unforeseen acts that render performance of atleast one party’s obligation impossible from those where performance is difficult but certainlypossible. A clear consensus has emerged whereby the parties cannot determine by contract situationsgiving rise to force majeure
The Indigenous Capilla de Cantuña: The Christian Temple of The Sun
No full textThe Cantuña chapel within the St. Francis complex in Quito, Ecuador, was one of the first churches built after the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. Named after its native builder Cantuña, the chapel strongly relates to the Incan sun deity, Inti. According to common belief, Spanish accounts place the Franciscan complex atop the palace-temple of the Incan ruler, Inti\u27s incarnation.
In this research, I examined vital elements, such as the gilded altarpiece, in Quito\u27s Cantuña Chapel. I argued that the chapel acts as a monument that records Indigenous identities through the Cara, Inca, and Spanish conquests by preserving an aspect of native culture in a material format that transcends time. Most importantly, because the Cantuña chapel remains the least altered viceregal church in the region, it is a valuable testament to the various conquests and religious conversions of the Kingdom of Quito
