RJLPP SPOTLIGHT
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The Continued Pursuit of Brown v. Board of Education: We Need to Further Desegregate New Jersey’s Public Schools, but How?
Author: Miranda Stafford The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Educationdramatically altered the American public education system and, subsequently,the overall status of race relations in the United States. Brown, analyzinginstances of educational segregation across the country, found that…
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A Restraint of Speech as a Restraint of Trade: How Rediscovering Antitrust’s Equitable Origins and Evolution Can Help Protect America’s Democracy and Economy
Author: Collin Schaffhauser Contemporary American antitrust law finds itself constrained to anarrow conception of economics. Where the digital, data-driven, and serviceorientedeconomy grows increasingly ever-present in the American economyand our everyday lives, courts continue to utilize a purely economic theory ofantitrust…
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The Myth, Specter, and Bias That Still Drive the Compensability of Work-Related Psychological Injury Claims
Author: The Honorable Dr. Melissa Lin Jones Law students studying torts for the bar exam see negligence insupermarket puddles. Probate attorneys see potential business in theobituaries. Workers’ compensation professionals see claims for benefits in thenews – a customer disgruntled by…
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Attentive Reading: A South African Example of Law in Context
Authors: Kris Franklin and Sarah E. Chinn Perhaps the time has finally come to acknowledge the usuallysubterranean battles in legal work over the deployment of historical and socialcontext in law. Lawyers, judges, and legal scholars are always implicitly asking:what are…
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Lawyers, Guns & Weed
Author: Robert L. Greenberg Two particularly controversial topics in law are those around firearmrights and cannabis. Since its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008,the United States Supreme Court has taken a wider view of the SecondAmendment as…
BLOGS
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Rutgers JLPP publishes volume eight
The editorial board is pleased to announce the publication of volume eight of the Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy. This issue includes articles on topics such as the racial tensions underlying the Supreme Court decision of Ricci v. Destefano, punitive damages…
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Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia symposium on equality 10-6-11
Rutgers JLPP will be publishing a transcript of the event and associated papers. Register now at http://www.pilcop.org/ More details at https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217525531634202
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Book review for Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation by Sarah E. Ricks and Evelyn M. Tenenbaum
Professors Ricks co-wrote Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation with the overriding goal of providing attorneys-in-training with practical knowledge and skills to prepare them for practice. She wanted to create the sort of practical guide she wished she had to prepare herself for…