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Is investigative genetic genealogy a menace to our privacy rights?

Ever since investigators revealed that a genealogy website helped police catch one of America’s most notorious serial killers, the Golden...

Madison Gestiehr

Mar 28, 20233 min read

Legal Tracking: ATF improves firearms tracking but misses an important target

Firearm casualties make up a considerable percentage of deaths in the United States, accounting for 45,222 deaths in 2020. While a...

Bennett Nuss, Devin Iorio, Siena Roberts

Mar 9, 20236 min read

How cognitive behavioral therapy reduces crime

Almost 50% of inmates suffer from some form of mental health issue that becomes exacerbated when prison walls restrict their freedom....

Grace Schneider

Mar 9, 20233 min read

Book censorship in prisons

“The Coloring Book Looney Tunes,” “Learn to Draw Disney Winnie the Pooh,” and “Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Catalog” may sound like...

Gaia Lodovici

Feb 26, 20233 min read

Closing the data broker loophole: 4th Amendment is Not for Sale Act

In 1986, Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Title II of ECPA, commonly known as the Stored Communications...

Bailey Beckman

Feb 26, 20234 min read

A murderer’s motive: Analyzing the Idaho murders

TW: Violence What pushes someone to take the life of another individual? Scholars have been studying why people commit murder for...

Victoria Maamari

Feb 25, 20233 min read

Split-sentencing for seditious supporters

On Jan. 6, 2021, Verden Nalley and James Little arrived at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., along with thousands of others to...

Devin Iorio

Feb 25, 20233 min read

Legal Tracking: Political violence in the United States: A growing threat requiring response

On Dec. 4, 2022, a defeated Republican candidate for State House in New Mexico was arrested for planning and orchestrating four...

Bennett Nuss

Feb 24, 20233 min read

The foster care-to-prison pipeline: A road to incarceration

In 2020, the Children’s Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the United States Department of Health and...

Jaxzia Perez

Feb 24, 20233 min read

A CASE FOR CONCEPTUALIZING SCIENCE LITERACY FOR LAWYERS

To read the entire article, click here for the PDF. Abstract Forensic science is routinely used in the service of the United States’...

Sarah Cooper & Amelia Shooter

Feb 9, 202310 min read

Domestic Violence and Firearm Relinquishment: Closing the Fatal Chasm Between Federal Law and State

To read the article in full, click here for the PDF. Introduction Verbal and emotional abuse became a daily occurrence. When Katie would...

Danielle M. Woo

Feb 9, 20238 min read

Missing and murdered Indigenous women: A silent epidemic

TW: Violence and Trauma Connected to Racism and Racial Conflict In light of the recent coverage of the missing person’s case of Gabby...

Emily Moran

Feb 7, 20233 min read

'Some things cannot be fixed': Rikers Island and pretrial detention

Kalief Browder was only 16 years old when he was arrested and incarcerated. He was held in solitary confinement for almost two years out...

Sarah Pape

Dec 23, 20224 min read

Practitioner Profile: Will Mount

Will Mount is the founding partner at the Mount Law Firm, PLLC, where he primarily represents clients in appointed juvenile delinquency...

Chelsey Rogers

Nov 18, 20222 min read

Legal tracking: Blanket pardons - A revolutionary policy idea or merely missing the point?

On Oct. 6, 2022, President Biden issued the following proclamation on the White House website: “Acting Pursuant to the grant of authority...