Puerto Rican Presidential Voting Rights: Why Precedent Should Be Overturned, And Other Options For Suffrage, 2024 Brooklyn Law School
Puerto Rican Presidential Voting Rights: Why Precedent Should Be Overturned, And Other Options For Suffrage, Sigrid Vendrell-Polanco
Brooklyn Law Review
The United States has continued to hold Puerto Rico as a colony, much like the British empire did the US colonies, and has given it no clear path to incorporation, statehood, or independent sovereignty. It has also denied its citizens the right to vote for their president and have voting representation in Congress. Current case law regarding Puerto Rican presidential voting rights and voting representation in Congress rests on precedent that dates almost as far back as its acquisition—the infamous Insular Cases. This case law is inconsistent with prior precedent, constitutional principles, and does not account for Puerto Rico’s contributions …
My Body, Whose Choice? A Case For A Fundamental Right To Bodily Autonomy, 2024 Brooklyn Law School
My Body, Whose Choice? A Case For A Fundamental Right To Bodily Autonomy, Miri Trauner
Brooklyn Law Review
In 2022, the US Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the fundamental right to abortion it had established nearly fifty years prior. The Court’s decision threw into uncertainty the future of not only reproductive rights in this country, but also many other individual rights. At the same time as the decision, the world was still reeling from a global pandemic, and the development of COVID-19 vaccines had spurred widespread controversy over the constitutionality of vaccine mandates. Both advocates for abortion access and opponents to vaccine mandates shared a common cry: “my …
Charging Abortion, 2024 Texas A&M University School of Law
Charging Abortion, Milan Markovic
Faculty Scholarship
As long as Roe v. Wade remained good law, prosecutors could largely avoid the question of abortion. The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has now placed prosecutors at the forefront of the abortion wars. Some chief prosecutors in antiabortion states have pledged to not enforce antiabortion laws, whereas others are targeting even out-of-state providers. This post-Dobbs reality, wherein the ability to obtain an abortion depends not only on the politics of one’s state but also the policies of one’s local district attorney, has received minimal scrutiny from legal scholars.
Prosecutors have broad charging discretion, …
Ending Exemption 5 Expansion: Toward A Narrower Interpretation Of Foia’S Exemption For Inter- And Intra-Agency Memorandums, 2024 Fordham University School of Law
Ending Exemption 5 Expansion: Toward A Narrower Interpretation Of Foia’S Exemption For Inter- And Intra-Agency Memorandums, Ryan W. Miller
Fordham Law Review
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) creates a judicially enforceable right to access almost any record that a federal agency creates or obtains. Its crafters aimed to strike a careful balance in promoting disclosure of government records to increase transparency while still protecting the confidentiality of certain information. Although any person can request an agency record, FOIA’s nine exemptions allow agencies to withhold records if certain conditions are met. 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(5) permits agencies to withhold “inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters” that would normally be privileged in civil discovery. Through this exemption, Congress sought to prevent FOIA from …
Supreme Court Legitimacy And Reform: Problems With Personnel And Composition Reform Proposals, 2024 University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Supreme Court Legitimacy And Reform: Problems With Personnel And Composition Reform Proposals, Joe A. Morgan
Nevada Law Journal
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Preempting Private Prisons, 2024 University of Washington School of Law
Preempting Private Prisons, Christopher Matthew Burgess
Washington Law Review
In 2019 and 2021, respectively, California and Washington enacted laws banning the operation of private prisons within each state, including those operated by private companies in contracts with the federal government. Nevertheless, the federal government continues to contract with private prisons through Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for the detention of non-United States citizens. In 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in GEO Group, Inc. v. Newsom that federal immigration law preempted California’s private prison ban.
Preemption—when federal law supersedes state law—is a doctrinal thicket. Federal courts analyze preemption issues in multiple different ways in a particular case, often …
Virtual Technology And The Changing Rituals Of Courtroom Justice, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
Virtual Technology And The Changing Rituals Of Courtroom Justice, Meredith Rossner, David Tait
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
How Can You Tell If There Is A Crisis? Data And Measurement Challenges In Assessing Jury Representation, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
How Can You Tell If There Is A Crisis? Data And Measurement Challenges In Assessing Jury Representation, Mary R. Rose, Marc A. Musick
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Beacons Of Democracy? A Worldwide Exploration Of The Relationship Between Democracy And Lay Participation In Criminal Cases, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
Beacons Of Democracy? A Worldwide Exploration Of The Relationship Between Democracy And Lay Participation In Criminal Cases, Sanja K. Ivkovic, Valarie P. Hans
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
How Can You Tell If There Is A Crisis? Data And Measurement Challenges In Assessing Jury Representation, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
How Can You Tell If There Is A Crisis? Data And Measurement Challenges In Assessing Jury Representation, Mary R. Rose, Marc A. Musick
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race, Peremptory Challenges, And State Courts: A Blueprint For Change, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
Race, Peremptory Challenges, And State Courts: A Blueprint For Change, Nancy S. Marder
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Judges, Lawyers, And Willing Jurors: A Tale Of Two Jury Selections, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
Judges, Lawyers, And Willing Jurors: A Tale Of Two Jury Selections, Barbara O'Brien, Catherine M. Grosso
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Beacons Of Democracy? A Worldwide Exploration Of The Relationship Between Democracy And Lay Participation In Criminal Cases, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
Beacons Of Democracy? A Worldwide Exploration Of The Relationship Between Democracy And Lay Participation In Criminal Cases, Sanja K. Ivkovic, Valarie P. Hans
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Arrival Of The Civil Jury In Argentina: The Case Of Chaco, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
The Arrival Of The Civil Jury In Argentina: The Case Of Chaco, Shari S. Diamond, Valarie P. Hans, Natali Chizik, Andres Harfuch
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Hybridization Of Lay Courts: From Colombia To England And Wales, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
The Hybridization Of Lay Courts: From Colombia To England And Wales, Jeremy Boulanger-Bonnelly
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Lay Participation Reform In China: Opportunities And Challenges, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
Lay Participation Reform In China: Opportunities And Challenges, Zhiyuan Guo
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Virtual Technology And The Changing Rituals Of Courtroom Justice, 2024 Chicago-Kent College of Law
Virtual Technology And The Changing Rituals Of Courtroom Justice, Meredith Rossner, David Tait
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
An Exegesis Of The Meaning Of Dobbs: Despotism, Servitude, & Forced Birth, 2024 University at Buffalo School of Law
An Exegesis Of The Meaning Of Dobbs: Despotism, Servitude, & Forced Birth, Athena D. Mutua
Journal Articles
The Dobbs decision has been leaked. Gathered outside of New York City's St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, pro-choice protesters chant: "Not the church, not the state, the people must decide their fate."
A white man wearing a New York Fire Department sweatshirt and standing on the front steps responds: "l am the people, l am the people, l am the people, the people have decided, the court has decided, you lose . . . . You have no choice. Not your body, not your choice, your body is mine and you're having my baby."
Despicable but not unexpected,³ this man's comments …
Changemakers: Juris Doctorate: Saad Ahmad: Immigration Lawyer Saad Ahmad L'00 Shows That Appellate Practice Isn't Just For Large Firms, 2024 Roger Williams University
Changemakers: Juris Doctorate: Saad Ahmad: Immigration Lawyer Saad Ahmad L'00 Shows That Appellate Practice Isn't Just For Large Firms, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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The 2024 Cardozo Colloquium On Global And Constitutional Theory Presents: Linda Greenhouse On The Roberts Court, 2024 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
The 2024 Cardozo Colloquium On Global And Constitutional Theory Presents: Linda Greenhouse On The Roberts Court, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law, Michel Rosenfeld
Event Invitations 2024
Join Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, to discuss the exceptional trajectory of the Roberts Court. Greenhouse is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for The New York Times.