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
Tracy A. Thomas* Please click here for a PDF version of the article When newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked by surprised reporters why he appointed women as 50% of his cabinet, he responded simply, “Because it’s 2015.”[1] Just because. Because it’s time. In fact, he implied, it is long past
Ari Freilich[1] Please click here for a PDF version of the article. I. Introduction In its May 2008 ruling in Witt v. Dep’t of the Air Force,[2] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals became the first court in the nation to subject Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (“DADT”) to a standard of “heightened scrutiny” and, more
Rebecca Bucchieri* Please click here for a PDF version of the article. Introduction The doctor tells Ms. Jones, “Here I see a well-developed diaphragm and here I see four healthy chambers of the heart.”[1] Words that should sound uplifting instead feel like punishment. The doctor continues to describe the size and shape of the fetus
Editor’s Note: The following panel was held during Harvard Law School’s “Celebration 60,” which honored the 60th anniversary of the first women graduates at HLS. Please click here for a PDF version of the article.
Case Comment Yana Mereminsky[1] Cece v. Holder, 733 F.3d 662 (7th Cir. 2013). Click here to access a PDF version of this case comment.
