The last five years witnessed explosive growth in the use of online social-networking services. These services, commonly known as social networks, provide people with a flexible medium through which to communicate and interact with others. People and businesses alike have discovered a plethora of ways in which to capitalize on… Read More »
Traditionally, the United States patent system has been considered successful in promoting innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. In the past few years, however, loss of patent protection has caused sales revenue for innovative firms to plummet. Many firms have heavily cut their investments in research and development (R&D) for new… Read More »
I. Introduction
In United States v. Comstock, the Supreme Court upheld under the Necessary and Proper Clause Congress’s creation of a post-sentence federal civil-commitment scheme for sexually dangerous individuals in federal custody. Comstock sparked a number of questions, including what effect the fungible five-consideration test the Court used to uphold the… Read More »
The right to carry a loaded firearm—either openly or concealed—has never been more controversial. The country is still reeling from shootings in Florida and Arizona by gunmen who obtained and carried their weapons in accordance with permissive state laws, and a national debate is raging over self-defense and access to handguns. …READ MORE » Read More »
Pursuant to federal statutes and to laws in all fifty states, the United States government has assembled the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a database containing DNA profiles of over eleven million citizens. Without judicial authorization, the government searches these profiles one hundred thousand times every day, seeking to link… Read More »
Americans seeking to record public life often find themselves victims of government suppression. Police have used physical methods to prevent journalists from recording public protest events. Police have trained their guns on unarmed citizens for recording their activities in public. Citizens have been arrested for recording police officers’ public conduct.… Read More »
Jane met her boyfriend Jim at a high school football game. Jane was just a few days shy of sixteen at the time, and she and Jim, seventeen, instantly connected. They began dating, and, a few months later but before Jim’s eighteenth birthday, the two had sex together for the… Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has recently made permanent injunctive relief harder to obtain. In Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, the Court reversed a nationwide injunction that prohibited the planting of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready Alfalfa. The Court reaffirmed its holding from Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.… Read More »
Introduction
For more than two generations, the United States has generated more electricity from nuclear energy than any other country. So how is there still no long-term solution to the well-understood problem of nuclear waste management? This Note examines the nation’s failure to adequately implement a plan for the safe… Read More »
The annihilation of more than 1.5 million Cambodians at the hands of the Khmer Rouge is widely considered a quintessential case of genocide. Whether these atrocities meet the definition of genocide as a legal matter, however, remains unsettled. As of October 2012, the question of whether genocide occurred in Cambodia… Read More »