Packingham v. North Carolina: Sex Offenders, Facebook, and the First Amendment
“While we may now be coming to the realization that the Cyber Age is a revolution of historic proportions, we cannot appreciate yet its full dimensions and vast potential to alter how we think, express ourselves, and define who we want to be. The forces and directions...
Face ID and the Fifth Amendment: Gaps in the Legal Protection of Cell Phone Passcodes
This week, Apple launched its latest product, the iPhone X. Among its newest features, the iPhone X includes Face ID facial recognition software. According to Apple, “[w]hen Face ID detects and matches your face, iPhone X unlocks without asking for the device...
REAL Consequences: How Massachusetts’s Stricter Than Necessary Drivers’ License Policy Hurts Undocumented Residents
Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted Massachusetts a one-year extension for coming into compliance with the REAL ID Act, a law that requires state-issued identification cards to meet certain standards in order to be recognized by the...
Zach Greenberg: Striking the Balance Between Academic Freedom and Transparency in Higher Education
After more than 1,100 law professors sent an open letter opposing the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, many received something wholly unexpected in return: open records requests for their university-account emails containing the words...
When science meets civil rights
Should a person with an IQ score of as low as 57 be sentenced to die because “[m]ost Texas citizens might agree” that his “reasoning ability and adaptive skills” are greater than those of John Steinbeck’s character Lennie from Of Mice and Men? That, in a sense, is the...
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