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Retired With Nothing To Retire On: A Proposal For Social Security Credits For The Burge Exonerees, Katie Burnett

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The Death Row Ten: Interrupting Illinois' Death Machine, Alice Kim

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The Struggle For Reparations In The Burge Torture Cases: The Grassroots Struggle That Could, Joey L. Mogul

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Why We Need Community Control Of The Police, Larry Redmond

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Black People Against Police Torture: The Importance Of Building A People-Centered Human Rights Movement, Vickie Casanova Willis, Standish E. Willis

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In Defense Of The Closed Primary, Bethany Dixon

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Cyberbullying And The Victims Of Modern Technology, Wafeek Elafifi

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Voter Identification Laws And The 2016 Election, Conor Grealish

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The Pursuit Of Equitable Access To Reproductive Healthcare In The United States, Alexandra Lehr

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Continuing Barriers To Equal Educational Opportunities For Students With Disabilities, Joanna Pawlowska

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Are We Contradicting Ourselves?: How The Stanford Rape Case Illustrates The Conflict Between Mandatory Sentencing And Judicial Discretion, Kristine Ruhl

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Well-Intended Federal Drug Policies May Leave Minorities Behind, William Ryan

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The Threat Of Predatory Lending, Marko Stojkovic

Public Interest Law Reporter

This Article is part one of a two-part series exploring the dangers of predatory lending and how Dodd-Frank and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have solved predatory lending and ended the possibility of another subprime debacle. In this part, what will be shown is that due to the U.S. government's deregulation and the greed of banks and predatory lenders in the housing market, predatory lending wreaked havoc on minority, low-income, and immigrant communities, and was the main cause of the 2008 economic collapse.

The Anti-Discrimination Paradox: How Federal Civil Rights Laws Afford Broader Protection From Discrimination Than The Constitutional Provisions That Authorize Them, Henry Rose

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Banning Metal Mining In Guatemala, Randall S. Abate, Raquel Aldana

Journal Publications

Metal mining is unsustainable for Guatemala and its harms insurmountable for its people. Guatemalans who oppose metal mining have been fighting for decades domestically and internationally against the environmental degradation and other human rights abuses from metal mining activities in the country with little to show for their efforts. The State is too weak and corrupt to offer much hope for reform. Guatemala requires extensive governance reforms to become the type of strong democracy capable of reaping the potential benefits of metal mining in its territory. This is a long-term project. Most Guatemalans opposed to metal mining already know this, …

The Michigan Guidelines On Risk For Reasons Of Political Opinion

Michigan Journal of International Law

The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (“Convention”) recognizes as refugees those who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted on the basis of inter alia “political opinion,” are unable or unwilling to avail themselves of the protection of their home country

Politics By Other Means: The Battle Over The Classification Of Asymmetrical Conflicts, Yahli Shereshevsky

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Transnational armed conflicts between states and non-state armed groups have emerged as a defining characteristic of twenty-first century warfare. Humanitarian actors tend to classify such conflicts (e.g., between the United States and ISIL) as non-international armed conflicts rather than international armed conflict. This classification is subject to considerable debate; yet both sides present their views as the inevitable result of the interpretation of the relevant International Humanitarian Law (IHL) treaty articles.

This Article demonstrates that the classification of transnational armed conflicts as non-international armed conflicts does not merely concern the application of the relevant laws, but represents a fundamental shift …

"Measuring" The Erosion Of Academic Freedom As An International Human Right, Klaus D. Beiter, Terence Karran, Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article reports and comments on the results of an assessment of the legal protection of the right to academic freedom (an examination of its factual protection to be undertaken at a future point) in EU member states, having examined these countries' constitutions, laws on higher education, and other relevant legislation. The assessment relied on a standard scorecard, developed by utilizing indicators of protection of academic freedom, notably as reflected in UNESCO's Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel, a document of 1997 that is not legally, but "politically" binding, and which concretizes international human rights requirements in respect …