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...
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...
Recentering Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction
The boundaries of modern tribal criminal jurisdiction are defined by a handful of clear rules—such as a limit on sentence length and a categorical prohibition against prosecuting most non-Indians—and many grey areas in which neither Congress nor the Supreme Court has specifically addressed a particular question. This Article discusses five of the grey areas: whether tribes retain concurrent...
The Politics of Inclusion: Indigenous Peoples and U.S. Citizenship
This Article explores the dynamics of U.S. citizenship and indigenous self-determination to see whether, and how, the two concepts are in tension and how they can be reconciled. The Article explores the four historical frames of citizenship for indigenous peoples within the United States—treating indigenous peoples as citizens of separate nations, as wards of the federal government, as American...