Corruption in the Catholic Church
Throughout the past few years, the Catholic Church has been exposed for covering up hundreds and hundreds of sexual assaults. Horror...
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Lydia Boyer
- Sep 27, 2018
- 5 min
Rethinking Rape in the Courtroom
The victim’s statement in the Stanford Rape Case made headlines in 2016 because the victim described what it was like to go through the...
Brigitte Sotto
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Evidence That Shouldn’t Be Forgotten About: The Rape Kit Backlog in Our Country Has Become a Serious
Imagine being told that your case is irrelevant. Imagine the evidence that could put your offender away is completely disregarded....
Stefanie Steinberg
- Apr 23, 2018
- 4 min
Much Ado About Nothing: #MeToo Movement Falls Short on Prosecutions
From October 2017 to now we have seen a litany of high profile men brought before the court of public opinion: Harvey Weinstein, Roger...
Samantha Fournier
- Apr 22, 2018
- 3 min
Critiques of FOSTA: Combating Sex Trafficking or Redirecting the Problem?
On April 11, 2018, President Donald Trump signed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017. The Bill...
Drew Climo
- Feb 16, 2018
- 4 min
Progress Slow for Prosecution of U.S. Politicians for Sexual Misconduct or Abuse
Recently, we have seen a meteoric rise in sexual allegations against top tier members of American society from movie stars and producers...
Lisa Sendrow
- Feb 4, 2018
- 6 min
Female Inmates, Too: Will They Benefit from the #MeToo Movement from Behind Bars?
In January 2018, a guilty verdict was reached against a former prison guard from the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York. He was...
Apoorva Deshmukh
- Apr 21, 2017
- 6 min
The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) and Relevant State Statutes in Maryland, Virginia, an
In 2001, there were approximately 2,100,146 persons incarcerated throughout the United States, with 1,324,464 individuals in federal or...
Erin Haney
- Mar 1, 2017
- 2 min
Human Trafficking: Identifying and Prosecuting Traffickers.
There might be a misconception that human trafficking is solely an international issue. But clearly human trafficking is an issue that...
Dolores Sinistaj
- Feb 14, 2017
- 5 min
California Passes Mandatory Sentencing for Rape
While 2016 was a year filled with many newsworthy stories in the criminal law world, the story of Stanford student, Brock Turner,...
Nathaniel Whitesel
- Mar 17, 2016
- 3 min
Bill Cosby and the Secret (But Not-Binding) Agreement
Bill Cosby and his legal team probably are not very happy right now. It is certainly no secret that the once-cherished comedian has...
Travis Nemmer
- Nov 24, 2015
- 5 min
Dear Colleague - Balancing Victim Privacy and Due Process in Campus Sexual Assault Cases
In 2011, Xialou Yu known as “Peter” to his friends, a Chinese national, and a sophomore at Vassar University, went to a party, and lost...
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