Justice Commentaries
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This Article critiques the “College Free Speech Rankings,” published by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, in the context of widespread pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
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This Note discusses the rise of drag bans and ways that the legal system is misused to marginalize members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
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This student Comment reviews the historical treatment of people with disabilities, the current IEP process that disadvantages parents/guardians, and proposes an amendment to the IDEA ensuring legal representation for parents/guardians.
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This Essay explores how the law identifies climate-displaced people and states’ obligations to protect them, aruging that guaranteeing substantial support for the Loss and Damage Fund is the first step.
This Article offers a working definition of the "humanitarian stowaway," and provides recommendations for the American government to modernize enforcement and practice of immigration laws to protect the humanitarian stowaway.
By linking court and sentencing data from the Federal Justice Statistics Program, this Article examines the influence of the type of counsel in federal criminal cases.
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The primary question this Albany Law School student note addresses is whether LGBTQ individuals targeted in social media by bad-faith accusations of grooming may seek recourse under defamation law.
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This Note delves into the legality, discriminatory use, and fabricated public health rationale of the Title 42 expulsion policy.
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This article is the first to examine rearrest before an adult non-citizen has been ordered removed or potentially even found to be removable.
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This article suggests a new way to view the injury to the crime victim in a discriminatory decision not to prosecute, and a new way to redress that injury.
This Article argues that the two limiting principles that justify use of force—necessity and reasonableness—should equally apply to justify criminalization
There is a form of double punishment unique to the immigration court system. Punishment occurs during the court process during removal proceedings and from removal from the U.S.