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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Charles Manson’s Cell Phones
Behind California prison walls, greed trumps security because of an unlikely villain: the prison guards’ union. [read more]
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]
Through the Looking Glass: Law Journals Unmasked
Mystyc Metrik begins her column exploring the history and mechanics of law journals with a discussion of the inception of law journals. [read more]
A Watershed Moment
James Hicks discusses why flooding is getting worse, and the special purpose district that would help. [read more]
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