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The Parkland school shooting could be the turning point in the Florida debate over gun regulations, school security provisions and mental health services people say will help stop another mass school shooting from happening again, reports the Tallahassee Democrat. Lawmakers, after meeting with student survivors,...
Not all legal disputes require the input of a lawyer. Some don’t even need the input of a human. Online dispute resolution (ODR), or the use of technology to solve basic disputes, is considered by some to be an access to justice solution. In this...
The “Dreamers” will continue to stay in the U.S.—for now.
Supreme Court has turned down the Trump administration’s plea to review an order by a federal judge that continues a program protecting undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
The decision announced Monday leaves in place...
Administrative law judges threaten the separation of powers, yet the alternatives available for changing the law are fraught with dangers....
A rise in jail incarceration rates for white Americans, particularly in rural counties and smaller metropolitan jurisdictions, has significantly narrowed the racial gap in the nation’s 3,000 jails, according to the latest in a series of studies by the Vera Institute of Justice.
While the study...
We’re switching it up and spending the whole episode on one case: United States v. Microsoft Corp. You know about storing stuff on the cloud– but what does it mean for your privacy when the cloud is technically located in another country? We’ll get help...
Some colleges have allowed oases to exist, but these are programs. The desirable reform of the liberal arts is curricular not just programmatic.
In response to: What Worlds Have They to Conquer?: A Higher Ed Dystopia
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Never, Never Surrender
by Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill
It's true that liberal arts...
I am so glad that I’m not a woman—in prison.
Women were worse off than men before coming to prison—and are worse off while they are imprisoned. This was made clear to me after recently reading Joanne Belknap’s The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime and Justice.
To illustrate...
The push for Congress to enact new federal gun restrictions after the Florida high school shooting faces formidable obstacles in Congress, where key Republicans have met calls for action with skepticism or silence, reports the Washington Post. Pressed by survivors of the Feb. 14 massacre,...
She walked up to the mic to the side of the small stage and modestly remarked that she had no idea why she had been invited to the event.
Someone knew what they were doing because by the time the session ended, Cheri Walter, without a...