As the number of veterans who are attending college continues to grow, veteran students will likely continue on to graduate schools, including law schools. By acknowledging and welcoming veteran students with institutional programs that recognize these students as a unique population and that link these students with each other through peer-to-peer mentoring programs, law schools can… continue reading
This article examines historical developments in advance directives, including their benefits and their problems, and discusses in detail the newest form of advance directive, known as the POLST form, or Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment. Against the backdrop of the author’s personal experience with advance directives, this article examines whether or not the newest “kid… continue reading
>On February 4, 2015, theRutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy hosted the New Legal Strategies to Prevent Drug Overdoses Symposium. Speakers included Rosanne Scotti, State Director of the New Jersey chapter of the Drug Policy Alliance, Chief Harry Earle, Chief of Police of Gloucester Township, and Rebecca Ricigliano, Senior Staff Member of New Jersey… continue reading
“A special circle of bankruptcy hell reserved for dads who avoid child support and tax evaders”— morbid as they may be, these words paint an accurate image of student loan debt and its respective bankruptcy laws in the United States today. Student loan debt shares a common evil with overdue taxes and child support obligations… continue reading
Income classification with respect to private investment funds has been subject to heavy scrutiny over the past few years, as critics have attacked the management structures and compensation practices of fund managers. At the foundation of the debate lies the disparate characterization of income as either “ordinary income” or “capital gains income,” and the preferential… continue reading
The United States Supreme Court recently entertained an issue dividing the federal circuit courts of appeal over whether the federal Truth in Lending Act (TILA) requires a consumer borrower to file a lawsuit in order to exercise her statutory right to rescind, or cancel, certain types of mortgage loans where the lender fails to disclose… continue reading
An older man retires (or is pushed out of the job, depending on whom you ask) after years of forecasting the weather on a major TV network. A man over forty with broadcast experience, as well as degrees in Geosciences and Broadcast Meteorology, applies for the position. The network gives the job to the young… continue reading
“All women in hiding are petrified of the betrayal of such private and personal information . . . and all the shame and anguish such exposure carries with it.” Kathleen Foley, a birth mother who placed her child for adoption, provided this statement. She was pleading with New Jersey lawmakers to show compassion for birth… continue reading
On August 25, 2014, Amazon bought Twitch.tv for approximately $1.1 billion, including $970 million in cash, and the remainder in Amazon stock. What type of venture commands this type of price? View More
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, family-filled boats flocked to Tices Shoal in New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay each weekend of the summer to clam. Children and parents alike would put on rubber shoes, hop in the shallow water and search for clams on the bottom of the bay, hoping that what they thought was… continue reading
