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Volume 29 | Number 1 | Hilary Term 2012

COMMUNITY-BASED REDISTRICTING: A NEW STANDARD

Robert D. DeVries
The Voting Rights Act has regulated congressional and legislative redistricting for nearly fifty years. It was created, in part, to increase the influence of minority voters by making it easier to elect minority candidates. More recently, the United States Supreme Court has limited the scope and effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act by applying strict scrutiny to the practice of redistricting along racial lines. This has led state redistricting officials to attempt an uneasy balancing act between following the mandate of the Voting Rights Act, and attempting to draw districts that do not violate Supreme Court case law.
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IMPROVING MICHIGAN ESTATE SETTLEMENT

John H. Martin
The Michigan Estates and Protected Individuals Code (EPIC) is the Michigan version of the Uniform Probate Code (UPC). Despite major reforms its enactment brought to estate settlement through Michigan probate courts, the probate system still is shunned. The public and the Bar favor alternative settlement mechanisms. This Article first identifies the primary causes for probate avoidance. It then suggests that adoptions of small-estate proceedings in numerous jurisdictions provide guidance for constructive modifications to EPIC. Finally, the Article advocates for multiple but modest changes to EPIC. Each recommendation is evaluated and found to offer promise for addressing the primary objections to probate-settlement proceedings.
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CROSS-BORDER INSOLVENCY & THE ELIGIBILITY OF INDIAN TRIBES TO USE CHAPTER 15 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE

Blake F. Quakenbush
Defaulting corporate debtors, sullied by unmanageable debt, often seek relief in federal bankruptcy court under 11 U.S.C. § 101, et seq. of the United States Code (Bankruptcy Code). Yet bankruptcy courts and scholars seem to agree that Indian tribes, like the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, cannot seek the same protection commonly afforded to individuals, entities, and municipalities under chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.
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