President Trump’s Mexico City Policy Executive Order Compounds an Already Restrictive U.S. Policy on Abortion Access Worldwide
By: Teresa Gilbert On January 23rd, 2017, President Trump issued an executive order re-instating the Mexico City…
Fear Does Not (President) Trump the Constitution
By: Kris Vicencio President Trump enacted a number of executive orders that have spawned protests across the…
Forced Memorials: Texas and its Forced Cremation Law
By: Rebecca Levine In December of 2016, the state of Texas attempted to enact a set of…
Trading Places: Students Accused of Sexual Violence Invoke Title IX in Pursuit of Redress
By: Meaghan Mixon In 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was enacted to prevent…
A Glimmer of Hope: 1.5 Million Disenfranchised Felons in Florida Might Finally Receive Their Voting Rights Back
By: Amy Heath Currently in the United States, 6.1 million people are disenfranchised because of a…
The Proper Place? Using the Workplace to Punish for Family Violence
By: Katelyn Davis Jose Reyes, Ardolis Chapman, and Hector Olivera all have something unique in common besides being…
Reform in 500 Words: The DOJ issues recommendations to photo array identification procedures
By: Leo Fitzpatrick On January 6, 2017, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates took an important step…
PROMESA: A promise that will not resolve Puerto Rico’s status issue
By: Zuleika Rivera “Queremos estadistad!” (We want statehood in Spanish) filled the steps of El Capitolio in…
“Vegan Bernie Madoff”: Does she have a valid defense for coercive control?
By: Rebecca Jarboe Psychological abuse is a form of domestic violence that does not appear in the…
Female Dominated Jobs’ Lack of Protection Under the Law
By: Angelic Papacalos Domestic work has traditionally been associated with female gender roles in the home. These…
