by Meg Penrose Click here for a PDF of the entire Essay. Introduction Four women have served as associate justices on the United States Supreme Court. Since the Court’s inception in 1789, more than 160 individuals have been nominated to serve as Supreme Court justices.[1] Five nominees, or roughly 3 percent, have been women.[2] To […]
by Charlotte Butash* Click here for a PDF On October 6th, the Trump Administration issued new regulations attacking the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers include free contraceptive coverage in their workplace health plans.[1] In response to this development, advocacy groups across the country have taken to the courts to fight back to protect women’s
“Caught Between Two Traditions”[360]: Italy’s Hybrid Legal System by Martha Grace Duncan* Click here fore a PDF of the entire article All I am going to say is that she wasn’t discriminated against because of being an American. Dr. Stefano Maffei[361] Maybe the [limited] reforms in our criminal procedure are a kind of inoculation
By: Martha Grace Duncan* Click here for a PDF of the entire article It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things. Michel de Montaigne[261] Meagre, indeed, and cold was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders. . . . The unhappy culprit sustained herself
by Martha Grace Duncan* Click here for a PDF of the entire article In our society any man who does not weep at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death. Albert Camus[167] Knox, it seems, spent four years in prison largely for a failure to grieve in quite the way
By: Martha Grace Duncan* Click here for a PDF of the entire article Abstract One of the most widely publicized cases of our time is that of Amanda Knox, the college student from West Seattle who was convicted of murdering her British roommate in Italy and served four years in prison before being acquitted and
