A Civil Responsibility for Representation
The advent of American justice, in criminal proceedings, is often tied to the constitutional guarantee of the attorney. Our 6th Amendment...
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Child-Criminals: The Unclear Relationship between Children and the Justice System
It is estimated that in 2017, nearly 809,700 children under the age of 18 were arrested in the United States for crimes including...
Keystone XL in Court: The Tumultuous Journey of Changing Environmental Law
The Keystone Pipeline has been a politicized issue since the beginning of the Obama presidency and the many lawsuits that have come out...
Locked Away for Life: Juvenile Life Without Parole in the American Criminal Justice System
“They’re just looking at the crime. They don’t take into account how you grew up. They don’t take into account whether you had your...
The Role of the Judiciary in American Elections
Although the 2018 Midterm Elections were held on November 6, not every race was called by the end of the night. Some elections had...
The Constitutionality of Hate Speech: Why it is a Necessary Evil on College Campuses
On February 1, 2017, over 1,500 UC Berkeley students gathered at Sproul Plaza to protest the speech of the notorious conservative Milo...
Implications of Lochner v. New York
The Lochner Era, spanning almost three decades from 1905 to 1937, was one of the most distinctive periods of Supreme Court history. An...
Prison Labor: Modern-Day Slavery under the Thirteenth Amendment
As numerous wildfires tore across California, approximately 1,500 inmates worked alongside professional firefighting crews to quell the...
Discrimination Against Ideas and Discrimination Against Individuals in Lee v. Ashers
On October 10th, the United Kingdom Supreme Court released a decision that allowed a baker in Northern Ireland to refuse to make a cake...
Decoding Our DNA Regulations: An Analysis of Protective Genetic Privacy Legislation
23andMe. AncestryDNA. MyHeritage. With the fast-paced development of genetic technology on the rise, these services have taken the...