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Toxic Love: Mandating Standards In Arkansas’S Domestic Violence Laws, Alia B. Reddell May 2024

Toxic Love: Mandating Standards In Arkansas’S Domestic Violence Laws, Alia B. Reddell

Arkansas Law Review

This Comment addresses the current scheme of domestic violence statutes, highlighting the inadequate state of domestic violence remedies and the ineffective law enforcement guidelines currently in place; it argues that the Arkansas State Legislature is in need of reforming its domestic violence policies. This recommendation is three-fold and proposes that Arkansas should abandon its current discretionary regime and adopt: (1) mandatory arrest policies; (2) statutory post-arrest procedures; and (3) mandatory


Hitting The Wall: The Next Step In Addressing The Pink Tax, Danielle A. Essary Feb 2023

Hitting The Wall: The Next Step In Addressing The Pink Tax, Danielle A. Essary

Arkansas Law Review

For thirty-some-odd years, scholars and consumer advocates have called for the elimination of gender-based price discrimination, also known as the “Pink Tax.” Efforts to address this issue have included studies demonstrating the phenomenon’s existence, social movements incited to garner public support for the cause, consumer attempts to bring the issue before courts in hopes of judicial intervention, and legislative undertakings at both the state and federal level to craft legislation prohibiting the practice. Yet, gender-based price discrimination has proven evasive of regulation, outside the scope of judicial reach, and difficult to isolate in terms of hard proof. Even agreeing on …