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Rearguing Grants Pass: Equal Protection for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

Rearguing Grants Pass: Equal Protection for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

by Emily Ross | Mar 12, 2025 | Housing, Human Rights, Racial Justice

PDF 2024-2025_Published 2025_03_12_Emily Ross_Rearguing Grants Pass_ Equal Protection for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness   Homelessness is complex. Its causes are many. So may be the public policy responses required to address it. City of Grants Pass v....
Save the ALJs! A Proposal to Convert ALJs to Article III Adjudicators

Save the ALJs! A Proposal to Convert ALJs to Article III Adjudicators

by Matthew Morrow | Feb 10, 2025 | Administrative Law, Right to a Jury Trial

PDF 2024-2025_Published 2025_02_10_Matthew Morrow_Save the ALJs! A Proposal to Convert ALJs to Article III Adjudicators I. Introduction Administrative Law Judges (“ALJs”) are essential to the federal government. They operate as members of the executive...
We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny—Nor Execute: Applying the Heightened Reliability Standard in Death Penalty Cases with Classified Evidence

We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny—Nor Execute: Applying the Heightened Reliability Standard in Death Penalty Cases with Classified Evidence

by Simone Oberschmied | Jan 31, 2025 | Capital Punishment, Criminal Justice

PDF 2024-2025_Published 2025_01_31_Simone Oberschmied_We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny—Nor Execute Applying the Heightened Reliability Standard in Death Penalty Cases with Classified Evidence I. Introduction   In 1976 the Supreme Court reestablished the death...

THE IMPORTANCE OF ATTORNEY’S FEES IN CIVIL RIGHTS CASES: A LOOK AT LACKEY V. STINNIE

by Carson Robb | Nov 11, 2024 | Attorney's Fees, Racial Justice, Uncategorized

PDF 2024-2025_Published 2024_11_11_Carson Robb_The Importance of Attorney’s Fees in Civil Rights Cases- A Look at Lackey v. Stinnie The case of Lackey v. Stinnie, argued on October 8, may not have attracted national headlines, but its implications for civil...
Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation II

Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation II

by Dylan Basescu | Oct 3, 2024 | Reproductive Rights, Right to Privacy

PDF 2024-2025_Published 2024_10_03_Dylan Basecu_Heroes Born of Women Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation II This work is a continuation of: Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation I. Installation I...
Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation II

Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation I

by Dylan Basescu | Oct 3, 2024 | Reproductive Rights, Right to Privacy

PDF 2024-2025_Published 2024_10_03_Dylan Basecu_Heroes Born of Women Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation I In the last fifty years, originalism has gone from being an obscure academic theory to making national headlines. Notably, the United...

Dobbs v. History, Part Two: American Common Law

by Jonathan Schneider | Jul 19, 2024 | Reproductive Rights, Right to Privacy

PDF 2024-2025_Published 2024_07_19_Jonathan Schneider_Dobbs v. History, Part Two- American Common Law Lost arguments are not grounds to overrule a case. When proponents of those arguments, greater now in number on the Court, return to fight old battles anew, it...

Dobbs v. History, Part One: English Common Law

by Jonathan Schneider | Jun 24, 2024 | Reproductive Rights, Right to Privacy

PDF 2024-2025_Published 2024_06_24_Jonathan Schneider_Dobbs v. History, Part One_ English Common Law SERIES INTRODUCTION[1]   In light of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s life-altering consequences, discussing abortion’s legal history as far back as...
“My Ancestors Came Here Legally.” Yes, it was much easier back then.

“My Ancestors Came Here Legally.” Yes, it was much easier back then.

by Erica Hackett | Mar 5, 2024 | Immigration

PDF 2023-2024_Published 2024_03_05_Erica Hackett_“My Ancestors Came Here Legally.” Yes, it was much easier back then. A modern analysis of my Italian great-grandparents’ journey to the U.S. in the early 20th Century.   Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled...

The Arguments to be Made for Rahimi

by Sahara Damon | Feb 13, 2024 | Second Amendment, Women's Rights

PDF 2023-2024_Published 2024_02_13_Sahara Damon_The Arguments to be Made for Rahimi I. Background United States v. Rahimi has the potential to greatly affect Second Amendment jurisprudence regarding how courts consider domestic violence restraining orders. See United...
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