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Columbia University And Incarcerated Worker Labor Unions Under The National Labor Relations Act, Kara Goad
Columbia University And Incarcerated Worker Labor Unions Under The National Labor Relations Act, Kara Goad
Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research Papers
Kara Goad’s research examines the forms and terms of labor that incarcerated workers perform in American prisons, seeking to demonstrate that labor law could provide potential remedies for work-related grievances.
Goad’s research includes traditional statutory and case law analysis along with examinations of prison statistics, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions and other administrative law materials relating to prisons and labor law. She uses her findings lay out a path for incarcerated workers to potentially unionize under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
Truth Or Dare: A Framework For Analyzing Credibility In Children Seeking Asylum, Karen Smeda
Truth Or Dare: A Framework For Analyzing Credibility In Children Seeking Asylum, Karen Smeda
Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research Papers
U.S. border agents detained at least 52,000 unaccompanied minors from only four Central American countries—Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—in 2014, while 95,000 unaccompanied children sought asylum in Europe in 2015. Given the ongoing turmoil in various parts of the world, these numbers will likely rise. Children are narrowly escaping their native countries. With little help available from legal counsel and little time to gather supporting evidence, more children are relying on the gamble of a positive credibility assessment in an asylum application.
The stakes are high—either a new life in the United States, or probable fatality at home if …