International Arbitration and Attorney-Client Privilege—A Conflict of Laws Approach

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 3 (Fall)
Susan D. Franck. International arbitration is a lynchpin of international economic activity. Yet concerns linger about the integrity of international arbitration and recent critiques cast doubt on whether it properly provides rule of law adjudication or whether arbitrators engage in improper decision-making. Despite the enhanced public scrutiny, international arbitration is nevertheless on the rise for the resolution of commercial and investment disputes. Full Article
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The Katie John Litigation: A Continuing Search for Alaska Native Fishing Rights After ANCSA

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 3 (Fall)
Robert T. Anderson. This essay tells the story of the struggle by upper Ahtna people to protect their way of life and their access to a traditional fishery in modern Alaska. Because of the perseverance of Katie John, Doris Charles, other Ahtna people, and the larger Alaska Native community, their right to fish at a traditional fishing site survives. It is a battle that continues to this day––after nearly thirty-five years of litigation in various forums and in successive related cases that illustrate the complex legal and political issues. The rich history, culture, and modern activism of the Ahtna people motivate the litigation to protect an important local fishery, and along with it, the subsistence fishing rights of all rural Alaska Natives. The latest legal chapter is centered on a…
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Counterfactual Causation

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 3 (Fall)
Hillel J. Bavli. Factual causation is the element of a legal claim that requires a plaintiff to link the defendant’s conduct to the plaintiff’s injury—to show that the former did not merely coincide with the latter but rather produced it. It is intended to reflect “natural” or “actual” cause and effect, a “scientific” causal connection between conduct and injury. It aims to capture “our common understanding of causation” and “deep-seated intuitions about causation and fairness in attributing responsibility.” Developing an appropriate standard, or even definition, of causation is a perennial problem across many areas of the law. Strangely, however, although courts frequently look to statistics and the sciences for evidence of causation—sometimes even requiring such evidence to prove causation—the law has rarely looked to these fields for guidance in developing…
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Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission and the Future of Redistricting Reform

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 2 (Summer)
David Gartner In 2018, voters in five different states passed successful initiatives that made it harder for politicians to choose their own districts and easier for independent voices to shape the redistricting process. This unprecedented transformation in the redistricting process would not have happened without the Supreme Court’s decision in Arizona Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. That decision confirmed the constitutionality of Arizona’s own Independent Redistricting Commission and created an outlet for citizens frustrated with dysfunctional governance and unresponsive legislators to initiate reforms through the initiative process. All of these 2018 initiatives created or expanded state redistricting commissions which are to some degree insulated from the direct sway of the majority party in their respective legislatures. Full Article
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There Is No Such Thing as a Free Appropriate Public Education

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 2 (Summer)
Angelika Orletsky Doebler In January 2015, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey implemented the Classrooms First Initiative with the aims “to modernize school finance code, ensuring adequate funding is made available for teachers and classroom instruction.” Recognizing that comprehensive finance reform had not occurred for “generations,” a council convened to “build a longterm strategy” and “multi-year policy initiatives and implementation plans” to reform Arizona’s school finance code. After two years of meetings and research, the council issued a list of recommendations for reform, among which Recommendation Twelve specified “[c]onduct an actuarial cost study on special education and identify ways to address adequacy of funding based on study results.” However, the group did not develop an actual funding formula in order to enact the explicit recommendations. Recommendation Twelve has not been enacted, nor…
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What if the Grand Canyon Had Become the Second National Park?

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 2 (Summer)
John Copeland Nagle February 26, 2019, was the one hundredth anniversary of Grand Canyon National Park. The Congress that established the park reported that “[t]he Grand Canyon has long been recognized as one of the greatest scenic regions of the world.” It is no wonder that the Grand Canyon became our fifteenth national park. Full Article
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Agency Engagement with Stakeholder Collaborations, in Wildfire Policy and Beyond

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 2 (Summer)
Karen Bradshaw In the windowless conference room of a drab building, roughly thirty people were waiting for a meeting to start. Several men sat in a tight bunch at a far end of the table, all wearing short-sleeve button down shirts, dark jeans, and work boots. These were the foresters. In the middle of the rectangular arrangement of tables sat a clump of wildlife biologists from the Forest Service. Two Forest Supervisors sat on opposite sides of the room, both in uniform. A collaboration expert in khakis and a polo shirt was nonchalantly checking his phone under the table. A researcher made her way around the room, touching the shoulder of various people as she spoke to them, her dolman sleeves fluttering behind her. After several minutes of casting furtive…
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Guns, Knives, and Swords: Policing a Heavily Armed Arizona

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 2 (Summer)
Shawn E. Fields On August 8, 2015, the Arizona newspaper Arizona Republic ran a story with the following headline: Celebration or Concern? We’re No. 1 for Guns. The story reported that, “[f]or the third straight year, Arizona was ranked [the] best state in the nation for gun owners by Guns & Ammo magazine, which praised the state’s self-defense and carry laws, its shooting sports and strong gun culture.” The balance of the article considered the well-worn debate between gun rights advocates and gun control advocates reflected in the story’s title: was this ranking to be hailed as a victory for the Second Amendment and responsible gun ownership, or denounced as the reason why “Arizona is the best state for criminals to get access to guns”? Full Article
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The Proper Future of the Plain Smell Doctrine in Arizona: Concerns after State v. Sisco

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 2 (Summer)
Madeline Mayer High court decisions often result in unintended consequences, many of which courts either never contemplated or failed to fully appreciate. This Comment highlights some of the unintended consequences of the Arizona Supreme Court decision State v. Sisco and suggests several legislative solutions. Full Article
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Restrictive Covenants Under Arizona Law: Step Away from the Step-Down Provisions

2019, Past Issues, Print, Volume 51 (2019) Issue 2 (Summer)
Scott F. Gibson Arizona courts take a skeptical approach to restrictive covenants— covenants not to compete, antipiracy agreements, and confidential information agreements—and have good reason for doing so. Restrictive covenants are contrary to fundamental principles of free enterprise,1as they place restrictions on free and unrestricted competition. Moreover, “the right of an individual to follow and pursue the particular occupation for which he is best trained is a most fundamental right.” And consumers pay a higher price for goods and services when competition is eliminated from the marketplace, even if only temporarily. Full Article
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