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Policing

The Most Dangerous Moment of My Life: Reducing Police Killings During Mental Health Crises

July 6, 2022 “You need to get on the gurney now,” the police officer said, leaning toward me. This was a pivotal moment in my life —...
  • Fredrick Vars
Abortion Law

A Response to Justice Amy Coney Barrett

June 14, 2022 During oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court case challenging Mississippi’s attempt to prohibit pre-viability abortions, Justice Coney Barrett called the attention...
  • Peggy Cooper Davis
Disability Law

War & Disability: Combatants, Civilians, and Targeted Persons with Disabilities in the War in Ukraine

April 18, 2022 The war in Ukraine presents three issues salient to the disability community: Reports of the Russian military targeting facilities where disabled people may reside...
  • Zoltan Boka
Election Law

How Bad Could Things Get for the Voting Rights Act? The Supreme Court Just Gave Us a Preview.

April 13, 2022 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) is an essential safeguard of the political equality of racial and ethnic minorities. Yet the Supreme Court...
  • G. Michael Parsons
  • Joshua Sellers
Constitutional Law

Prison Gates at the State Line

March 28, 2022 A spate of illiberal legislation has recently emerged in state legislatures. A dangerous form of law with a dark past lurks among the troubling...
  • Anthony Michael Kreis
Constitutional Law

Texas Anti-Transgender Policy: Medically and Constitutionally Unsound A.G. Opinion Wields Trans Youth as Political Pawns

March 24, 2022 Ignore the medical needs of your children or the government will take them from you. This was the message Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent...
Major Questions Doctrine

Why the Supreme Court’s Eviction Moratorium Reasoning Doesn’t Extend to the CDC Transit Mask Order

February 28, 2022 Earlier this month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit seeking to enjoin the federal public transportation mask mandate, which remains in place...
  • Lindsay F. Wiley
Immigration

Re-setting Gender-Based Asylum Law

December 30, 2021 The United States has long recognized the duty to protect refugees and prevent their return to persecution or torture. Indeed, the United States is...
  • Sabrineh Ardalan
  • Deborah Anker
National Security

Israel Levies National Security Law to Shutter Six Palestinian Civil Society Organizations

November 16, 2021 Citing its National Security Law, Israel recently designated six Palestinian civil society organizations as terrorist groups. This designation, based on classified evidence, amounts to...

“Victim” or “Complaining Witness”: Why Kyle Rittenhouse’s Verdict May Depend on the Distinction

November 9, 2021 The decision of Judge Bruce Schroeder, the judge presiding over the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, to bar the prosecution from referring to the people he...
  • Michael Conklin
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