Vol. 52 (2020-21)

No. 2 Winter 2020

The Road to Racial Justice: Resolving the Disproportionate Health Burden Placed on Communities of Color by Highway Pollution

Wendy Xiao

Willful Blindness: Challenging Inadequate Ability to Pay Hearings Through Strategic Litigation and Legislative Reforms

Jack Furness

Cruel and Unusual Trauma: How Eighth Amendment Principles Governing Conditions of Confinement Should Apply to Juvenile Strip Searches

Meg Gould

Of American Fragility: Public Rituals, Human Rights, and the End of Invisible Man

Etienne C. Toussaint

Obscured by “Willful Blindness”: States’ Preventive Obligations and the Meaning of Acquiescence Under the Convention Against Torture

Jon Bauer

The Injustices of Time: Rights, Race, Redistribution, and Responsibility

Zinaida Miller

Criminal Responsibility for the COVID-19 Pandemic in Syria

Roger Lu Phillips and Layla Abi-Falah

Righting the Scales of Justice: The Critical Need for Contempt Proceedings Against Lawless Landlords

Armen H. Merjian

Unwilling or Unable? The Failure to Conform the Nonstate Actor Standard in Asylum Claims to the Refugee Act

Charles Shane Ellison and Anjum Gupta
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You Can See My Face, Why Can’t I? Facial Recognition and Brady

Rebecca Darin Goldberg
12 April 2021

Rebecca Darin Goldberg[1]* Table of Contents Introduction I. The Benefits and Risks of Facial Recognition Software A. What is Facial Recognition and How Does it Work? B. The FBI’s Facial Recognition System 268 C. Challenges with Facial Recognition Accuracy and Misuse D. Facial Recognition as an Investigative Tool E. Issues with Eyewitness Identification in Criminal…

“Don’t Be Evil”: Collective Action and Employee Prosocial Activism

Kelley Changfong-Hagen

Kelley Changfong-Hagen[1]*   Table of Contents Introduction I. New Employee Activism in the Technology Sector A. Google B. Microsoft C. Amazon D. Facebook II. The Changing Conception of Work III. Employee Activism and the Protections Under Federal Labor Law A. Protected Concerted Activity Under the National Labor Relations Act B. Contrasting the First Amendment Approach…

Educational Requirements as Barriers to Release for Incarcerated People with Cognitive Disabilities

Victoria Hay

Victoria Hay[1]* Table of Contents Introduction I. Educational Requirements Imposed On People in the Criminal Legal System Who Have Cognitive Disabilities  A. Prevalence of Cognitive Disabilities Among Incarcerated People  B. The Current State of Discretionary Parole C. Educational Requirements in the Criminal Legal System 1. Requirements for Parole 2. Requirements During Incarceration 3. Conditions of…

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