Student Blogs

October 27, 2011 0

A Look Back in Time with JLPP’s First Editor-in-Chief

After getting in touch with JLPP’s very first editor-in-chief, Karen Kemble, Mystyc Metrik brings you a sneak peek back in time to see how JLPP was created. [read more]

October 25, 2011 4

Tea & Occupy: Forget 99% and 53%, Let’s Agree on 2/3.

How do you wake a 200-year-old sleeping giant, the Article V Constitutional Convention? The media is abuzz with bickering between two political gangs: the members of the 53% versus members of the 99%. [read more]

October 25, 2011 0

Cops and Occupiers

The NYPD’s strategy for responding to Occupy Wall Street could be more effective at protecting the protestors’ First Amendment rights. [read more]

October 20, 2011 1

How Our Law Executed Troy Davis

You’re on death row. Seven of nine original eyewitnesses have recanted. How do you avoid execution? Suzy Marinkovich digs deep into the legal doctrines that led to Troy Davis’s execution. [read more]

October 13, 2011 1

Paternalism on Steroids

Kirk Sigmon asks a simple question: why does the federal government spend money prosecuting weight lifters who want to get more muscular, and, much to the bodybuilders’ chagrin, go bald and potentially develop breasts? [read more]

October 6, 2011 1

Their First College Exam Was a Drug Test

When one Missouri college decided to institute a mandatory drug testing policy, students responded with a class-action lawsuit. Puja Patel discusses. [read more]

September 29, 2011 1

Charles Manson’s Cell Phones

Behind California prison walls, greed trumps security because of an unlikely villain: the prison guards’ union. [read more]

September 27, 2011 0

The Wild Wild Web and Alter Egos

What do the TV series Deadwood, a voice changer, and tort doctrine have to do with each other? Bonhomme v. St. James, a case that Kirk Sigmon argues overextends the doctrine of fraudulent misrepresentation in the Internet context. [read more]