By: Samantha Dorn, Staff Writer Recently, Christoph Flügge, a senior judge at one of the United Nations’ International Criminal Court (ICC), made international headlines when he resigned from his position citing political interference from Turkey and the United States.[1] Flügge, a German judge who had been a judge on […]
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District Court Rules No Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
By: David Zvirman, Staff Writer Over the past few months, the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) decision to add a citizenship question to the upcoming 2020 census sparked a lot of debate.[1] This debate culminated on January 15, 2019, when New York District Judge Jesse Furman struck down the DOC’s […]
Upon Judicial Review, the Call on the Field Will Stand
By: Kurt Valentine, Web Editor Super Bowl LIII, featuring the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams, is set to take place on Sunday, February 3, in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] Unfortunately for the Rams, the road to the final game of the 2018 National Football League (NFL) season is not […]
Food Safety Regulation: Should All Types of Food Preparation Be Regulated Equally?
By: Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer As spring and summer will soon be approaching, we begin to think about farmers markets, county fairs, local fairs and festivities, and most of all, the food offered at these events. But did you ever wonder how safe the prepared foods are at these […]
Juris Magazine Winter 2019
This winter, Juris Feature Writers brought a diverse batch of fascinating articles discussing fracking and trespass, contentious international affairs, fashion law’s new defense mechanism, and hyper-politicized social behavior. We took to the skies exploring whether the provision allowing private suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act applies to airport Transportation […]
How in the World Anti-Vaccination Became a Movement
By: Jennifer Carter, Web Editor Within the past ten years, an old movement gained new momentum on social media sites and blogs urging parents to refrain from vaccinating their young children. Parents appeared to lead the movement, with many spreading the debunked rumor that vaccines cause autism, spearheaded […]
Immigration Court Backlog Surpasses One Million Cases
By: Margaret Potter, Staff Writer Two years after taking office, the Trump administration enforced quotas on immigration judges in 2018 requiring each judge “…to clear seven hundred cases a year or get docked points on their performance evaluations.”[1] In addition to this burden on immigration judges, then Attorney General […]
Scotland Considers Exiting from Brexit
By: Andrew Beluk, Staff Writer Since June 2016, Americans received an incredible amount of news coverage concerning Brexit, the infamous and controversial plan for Great Britain to leave the European Union (“EU”). While it is understandable that the news focused on England, it made it easy to forget that […]
America in the Grip of Groupthink
By Natalia Holliday, Editor-in-Chief At an October 4, 2018 protest against the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, comedienne Amy Schumer declared to a crowd gathering at the steps of the Supreme Court that “a vote for Kavanaugh is a vote saying women don’t matter.”[1] During a 2017 Trump rally, […]
Palestine Brings Complaint Against US in the International Court of Justice over Embassy Move
By Samantha Cook, Feature Editor “Jerusalem’s political standing has long been, and remains, one of the most sensitive issues in American foreign policy, and indeed it is one of the most delicate issues in current international affairs.”[1] In his opinion in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, Justice Kennedy delicately handled the complexities […]