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The Erosion of Free Will and Its Legal Implications
November 29, 2016Archives . Authors . Blog News . Feature . Feature Img . Policy/Contributor Blogs . Recent Stories . Student Blogs ArticleBy Noah Danielson The state of our knowledge about “free will” is still very unsettled. Much of the research in this field is the subject of hotly contested debate and answers to many important questions remain up in the air. However, a number of studies have corroded the edges of a previously widely accepted principal:
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Autonomous Cars: Who’s to Blame?
November 29, 2016Archives . Authors . Blog News . Feature . Feature Img . News Stories 2014-2015 . Policy/Contributor Blogs . Recent Stories ArticleBy Danny Ho The world may soon enter into a new era of transportation – autonomous cars. What was once a futuristic concept that people only toyed with in their imaginations is increasingly becoming a reality. These are cars that drive themselves through the use of sensory technologies such as radar, global positioning systems (GPS)
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Global Warming and the Law: Why Legal Technicalities are Harming Our Environment
November 29, 2016Archives . Authors . Blog News . Feature . Feature Img . News Stories 2014-2015 . Recent Stories ArticleBy Danny Ho The global warming controversy encompasses the on-going dispute about whether or not human activities, such as carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles, affect the global climate. Studies from scientific journals, such as the Environmental Research Letters, show that the general scientific community attributes global warming to human action. The Obama administration operates under
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Gobble, Gobble: A Pardon for Turkeys, But Not for Snowden
November 21, 2016Archives . Authors . Blog News . Feature . Feature Img . News Stories 2014-2015 . Notes . Recent Stories . Student Blogs ArticleBy: Francis Cullo On November 23, the day before Thanksgiving, President Obama will pardon a turkey (or two) for the eighth and final time in his presidency. This lighthearted tradition dates back to the Truman White House, although some trace the practice back to Lincoln’s clemency of a turkey all the way back in
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What to Do with the Minimum Wage: Counter Arguments (Part Two)
November 17, 2016Archives . Authors . Blog News . Feature . Feature Img . Recent Stories ArticleBy Daniel Sperling The previous blog post What to Do with the Minimum Wage: Pro Arguments (Part One), discussed the history behind minimum wage law as well as the proponents of a minimum wage increase and their respective arguments for increasing the minimum wage. This blog post will address the arguments against increasing the minimum
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3D Printing: Is the Law Prepared for the Future of Fashion?
November 17, 2016Archives . Authors . Feature . Feature Img . Recent Stories ArticleBy Arielle Padover Commonplace three-dimensional (3D) printing may seem far off; however, it seems to be arriving quicker than some might have anticipated, particularly in the fashion industry. According to David Sheffler, a researcher and lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, “3D printing is where PCs were in the
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How the Law Sees Kaepernick’s Protest
November 14, 2016Archives . Authors . Blog News . Feature . Feature Img . Recent Stories ArticleBy Lee Henderson Colin Kaepernick’s decision to take a knee during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner has sparked much conversation about the customs and legal rules expected during the National Anthem. While some take offense to the issues the back-up quarterback is kneeling for, most critics are offended by what they perceive as a
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Mass Government Surveillance: The Price of a Secure Nation?
November 7, 2016Archives . Authors . Blog News . Feature . Feature Img . Recent Stories ArticleBy: Danny Ho Mass government surveillance is a unique issue of concern in our increasingly technological era. Mass surveillance refers to the government’s indiscriminate monitoring of a large group of people through collection of large sets of data such as telephone records, emails, and internet activity. This issue gained public attention in 2013 when Edward