From Turkey Trot to Twitter: Policing Puberty, Purity, and Sex-Positivity
This article examines laws that police puberty and suggests that adults find more productive ways to grapple with the teen identity formation process.
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This article examines laws that police puberty and suggests that adults find more productive ways to grapple with the teen identity formation process.
Children under age seventeen should not be charged in the adult criminal justice system. State legislatures need to establish a bright-line rule of minority.
This article argues that the use of remorselessness to aggravate juvenile sentences is unconstitutional.
This Article discusses the history of judicial treatment of consent searches and minors and the potential influence of recent Supreme Court decisions related to juveniles.
This article considers what a rigorous interpretation of "the new individualism" would mean for old age laws.
This article will address new efforts by federal agencies to seek compliance relating to Title IX and pregnancy discrimination in educational institutions.
This article reviews research on suggestibility and the capacity of adults to detect lies in children and proposes ways to improve child welfare determinations
This article aims to point out that the understanding of freedom in the U.S. legal system is too narrow since it disregards other significant aspects of freedom.
This article reflects on Milke as a case study, and proposes awareness of how Brady violation can interact with risk factors and damage adversarial process.
Fifty years after Brady v. Maryland, defense attorneys around the United States continue to struggle to get basic information from prosecutors. This is even more of an issue in the ninety-four to ninety-seven percent of criminal cases that are resolved
This article seeks to answer the question of whether the practice of withholding victim's funds payment runs contrary to Brady and Giglio.
This article demonstrates SCOTUS language on standard of review is dictum and argues they should reconsider the dictum.
Describes 13th amendment, analyzes major jurisprudence, and proposes ways to use it to address peristing inequality.
This essay discusses how individual cases can inform systematic change, and the practice of preventative law in the medical-legal partnership realm.
The author reviews his early years at MALDEF to review how he used impact litigation to achieve wider-reaching impact than he originally understood.
This essay argues for viewing incarcerees as part of shared humanity of both incarcerated person and the person to whom harm has been done.