Abstract Just as they will change healthcare, manufacturing, and the military, robots have the potential to produce big changes in policing. We can expect that at least some robots used by the police in the future will be artificially intelligent machines capable of using legitimate coercive force against human beings. Police robots may decrease dangers to police officers by removing them from...
Environmental Law, Big Data, and the Torrent of Singularities
Abstract How will big data impact environmental law in the near future? This Essay imagines one possible future for environmental law in 2030 that focuses on the implications of big data for the protection of public health from risks associated with pollution and industrial chemicals. It assumes the perspective of an historian looking back from the end of the twenty-first century at the...
Fall Scholar Forum, Volume 64
Taking Back Juvenile Confessions UCLA Law Review Fall Scholar Forum Tuesday, November 8 12:10 – 1:30 pm Room 1457 The UCLA Law Review proudly presents its Fall Scholar Forum, featuring Loyola Law School Professor Kevin Lapp. Professor Lapp's article, Taking Back Juvenile Confessions, will be published in Volume 64, Issue 4, of the UCLA Law Review. At the Scholar Forum, Professor Lapp will...
Episode 2.0: Introduction to Season Two
Dialectic is back! In this episode we discuss what we have in store for Dialectic's second season.
A Worthy Object of Passion
Each year, the UCLA School of Law presents the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching to an outstanding law professor. On April 20, 2016, this honor was given to Professor Seana Shiffrin. UCLA Law Review Discourse is proud to continue its tradition of publishing a modified version of the ceremony speech delivered by the award recipient. I’m grateful to the Dean, to the Rutter committee...
President Nixon’s Indian Law Legacy: A Counterstory
Scholars of Federal Indian law have often celebrated President Richard Nixon for advancing tribal interests through legislation and policy initiatives. Far less attention has been paid to his impact on Federal Indian law through the appointments he made to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the time his four appointees served together, the Supreme Court rendered three decisions that are among the...
Principles of International Law That Support Claims of Indian Tribes to Water Resources
A growing body of international legal principles recognizes the right of indigenous people to water resources as a key component of their rights to self-determination, land, and economic self-sufficiency. These legal norms impose obligations on states both to recognize this right and to take affirmative steps to allow indigenous people to realize it. While the United States has not formally...
Crime and Governance in Indian Country
Criminal jurisdiction in Indian country is defined by a central, ironic paradox. Recent federal laws expanding tribal criminal jurisdiction are, in many respects, enormous victories for Indian country, as they acknowledge and reify a more robust notion of tribal sovereignty, one capable of accommodating increased tribal control over safety and security on Indian reservations. At the same time...