Criminal Justice Desmonda Lawrence | 29 Jun 2020 Undoing White Privilege Identifying and disassembling the institutions of white supremacy will require a concerted effort. What does allyship require?
Criminal Justice Evan Butts | 26 Jun 2020 Qualified Immunity: An Unqualified Disaster? Can the lengths the law goes to hide institutional actors from public accountability be morally justified?
"Defund the Police": A Powerful if Ambiguous Slogan Abolishing law enforcement as we know it could mean many different things. Can the history of the police force give us direction in where to go from here? 25 Jun 2020 | Alexander Spencer
Gorsuch, Textualism, and The Magic Lamp How did a staunchly conservative Supreme Court judge side with a sweeping win for the LGBT community? The answer lies in textualism. 17 Jun 2020 | Andrew Cullison
The Immorality of Nonhuman Police Officers As many police practices come under increasing scrutiny, we must consider the role of nonhuman animals in police forces. 12 Jun 2020 | A.G. Holdier
The Vigilante "True Man" Is Not a Good Man We need to examine laws like Stand Your Ground that protect and make space for citizen vigilantes. How can we justify their roles in society now? 11 Jun 2020 | Evan Butts
Black Lives Matter: Australia As Black Lives Matter protests spread across the world, Australia must also confront the very present racism of how Indigenous people are treated by police. 9 Jun 2020 | Desmonda Lawrence
Malum in Se: The Use of Tear Gas by Police If tear gas is a substance that is "evil in itself" (malum in se), why can police use tear gas on protesters? Just war theory provides criticism. 5 Jun 2020 | Evan Butts
Complications in Our Picture of Looting While the vast majority of protests have been peaceful, those that aren't challenge us in ways that require further investigation. 4 Jun 2020 | Alexander Spencer
Call It What It Is: On Our Legal Language for Racialized Violence We need greater legal resources for identifying and acknowledging the various forms racial violence takes. 1 Jun 2020 | Meredith McFadden
Solitary Confinement and COVID-19 Are the conditions inmate find themselves in during the pandemic consistent with the purpose incarceration is meant to serve? 22 Apr 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Freedom of Religion Is Not Absolute By what right can government officials prohibit worshipers from the physical and public practice of their faith? 13 Apr 2020 | Evan Butts
Re-Thinking Mass Incarceration: COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons Prisons are a hotbed for spreading infectious disease, and we've changed policies to accommodate this fact. But these changes should also make us reconsider how they function in normal circumstances. 1 Apr 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene
The Case of Gabriel Fernandez: Social Work and Public Responsibility The decision by prosecutors to lay blame at the social workers door paints an unrealistic and overly simplistic picture. 6 Mar 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Justice and Rodney Reed: Evidence, Sentencing, and Appeal The case of Rodney Reed raises a number of troubling issues from the public's impact on procedural fairness to retrial's claim to justice. 20 Nov 2019 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Cruel and Unusual Reasoning? Some Recent SCOTUS Decisions on the Eighth Amendment Lee Boyd Malvo's appeal asks the Supreme Court to explain the bounds of what cruel and unusual punishment - what it does, and does not, mean. 19 Nov 2019 | Evan Butts
Is Death Forever?: The Case of Benjamin Schreiber Schreiber's case highlights the ambiguity surrounding terms like "death" and "life without parole." 18 Nov 2019 | Meredith McFadden
The Castle Doctrine and the Murder of Botham Jean The Amber Guyger case treads familiar ground regarding the legitimacy of "Stand Your Ground" laws invoking proportionality, necessity, and self-defense. How do events like this challenge traditional justifications? 9 Oct 2019 | A.G. Holdier
Does the Fair Chance Act Live Up to Its Name? A criminal record is an enormous obstacle to obtaining employment or housing. The strategy we choose for addressing this problem says a lot about our attitude toward the prospects of rehabilitation. 27 Sep 2019 | Smriti Karki
Felicity Huffman Sentencing: Justice and Fairness in Punishment Are fines an appropriate punishment when the wealthy attempt to purchase social, political, and economic advantage at others' expense? 16 Sep 2019 | Alexander Spencer
Faulty Forensics: Justice, Knowledge, and Bias Our forensic methods aren't as objective as we assume, and the role prejudice is allowed to play undermines the legitimacy of our criminal justice system. 10 Sep 2019 | Meredith McFadden
Sworn to Secrecy: The Ethics of Confidentiality Agreements What is the moral and legal value of contractual promises of non-disclosure? Is it ever ethical to break our word? 5 Sep 2019 | Rachel Robison-Greene