Dorsey, Lauren(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
This Comment harnesses an interdisciplinary legal, economic, and equity lens to attempt to holistically evaluate the opportunities and limitations facing United States water markets as a tool for efficient and equitable ...
Hayden, Juliet(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
This Comment will begin by exploring the history and current status of the housing crisis on a national scale and the direct impacts of the housing crisis on the state of Oregon. The Comment will then describe the mechanics, ...
Tewari, Geeta(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
The law and literature movement is transforming into something new. This Article will discuss what that newness is, how it came about, and the different shapes it takes to provide the legal community with a platform to ...
Bregant, Jessica; Dillof, Anthony M.(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
Is torts ready for a revolution? Momentous changes in law are exceedingly rare. In torts, one such change was the advent of comparative fault. Originally codified in the early twentieth century, comparative fault represented ...
Graffy, Colleen P.; Caldwell, Harry M.; Sood, Gautam K.(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
Peremptory challenges in jury selection are being used in a biased and discriminatory manner. The Batson v. Kentucky safeguards are not working as intended and have not resolved the problem of jury bias. States now need ...
Vukadin, Katherine T.(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
This Article posits that, to guide law students properly in their professional identity, law professors must connect with practice. Connection can consist of a sabbatical or other period of time spent fully immersed in ...
Cassidy, R. Michael(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
The topic of this Article is the little understood and seldom invoked Rule of Professional Conduct 5.1, and how that disciplinary rule can be more aggressively enforced to detect and deter prosecutorial misconduct. The ...
Lowe, Dylan(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
Oregon created some of the most ambitious carbon-neutral goals of any state in the country. However, Oregon failed to achieve meaningful results in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. This Comment’s thesis states that Oregon’s ...
Hooker, Kasey Anne(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
This Comment’s purpose is to analyze the bias exhibited against gang members and suggest solutions for what Oregon can do to prevent juror bias against gang members from corrupting the integrity of jury verdicts. Part I ...
Brogan, Doris DelTosto(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)
This Article begins with a brief discussion of journalism and its purposes. It then describes undercover reporting, positioned as a subset of investigative reporting, through a series of examples where reporters use deceit ...
Fritz-Mauer, Matthew(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
Mandatory arbitration agreements have become commonplace. These contracts bind tens of millions of workers and consumers. The mandatory arbitration agreements typically do two things: (1) force individuals to privately ...
Osborn-Wright, Claire(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
This Article explains why the Ninth Circuit’s opinion that the Juliana plaintiffs do not possess standing to obtain their requested declaratory judgment is incorrect. Part I addresses the knowledge of climate scientists, ...
DeVito, Scott(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-20)
Using data gathered from sixty public law schools relating to the years 2019, 2020, and 2021, this Article demonstrates that there is a statistically significant negative correlation between the percentage of students in ...
Wood, Mary Christina(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)
The public trust finds specific elaboration through a set of fiduciary standards that form a paradigm of sustainable management on behalf of the public. These time-tested standards define proper management of all ecological ...
Obek, Anna(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)
This Comment proceeds in five parts. Part I examines the importance and relationship between methane emissions and the agricultural livestock industry within the context of mitigating climate change. Part II provides an ...
Kelly, Margaret(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)
Domicile is an essential part of Indian Child Welfare Act because it often determines which court—tribal or state—will decide the fate of an Indian child in an adoption proceeding. In cases involving newborn babies, for ...
McMillen, Matthew(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)
Plastic pollution is causing irreparable harm to marine wildlife and the environment. The alarming buildup of plastic pollution is also continuing to negatively affect humankind, and current international law is insufficient ...
Blaskowsky, Alexa(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)
This Comment will examine how the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC) has failed to fully address seafarer abandonment. Part I discusses how the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Maritime Organization ...
Kim, Jongho; Hwang, Junghoon(University of Oregon School of Law, 2024-05-01)
After the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was attacked, an MQ-9 Reaper drone carried out the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force (Elite Army of Iranian Revolutionary Guard). Concerns have emerged about ...