Author: Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy In his First Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln said: “Wherever [the people] shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember and overthrow it.” These insightful words provide an apt description of a tumultuous… continue reading
Author: Justine Longa Sexual assault, though vastly under-reported by survivors, occurs with alarming frequency in the United States. Despite the prevalence of sexual assault, most perpetrators are never caught, arrested, tried, or convicted for their crimes. In addition to enduring the initial trauma of the assault, many survivors are also left to deal with a variety… continue reading
Author: Abigail Cook Kerri Sleeman’s supervisor told her many times: “if [he] could duplicate [her], [he’d] be able to get rid of the rest of the staff.” Sleeman thrived as the supervisor who took over a failing project and turned it around. Yet, when the company proceeded through bankruptcy court, Sleeman discovered that many of… continue reading
Author: W. Chris Jordan Oregon National Guardsman Jessie Bratcher shot and killed Jose Ceja Medina with six hollow-point bullets as Medina stood on his porch on a Saturday morning. Bratcher, who served as a machine gunner in Iraq, would tell his attorney that during the shooting he felt like he was in Kirkuk, Iraq, and… continue reading
Author: Bridget Devlin Cases where children are key witnesses – especially those involving child abuse – are among the most challenging facing our justice system. The line between protecting children and preventing the wrongful conviction, or the wrongful termination of parental rights, of an alleged abuser can many times be difficult to determine. The system must also… continue reading
In February 2018, the New Jersey legislature introduced the A3178 legislative bill, which would completely ban the sale of flavored electronic smoking devices, cartridges, and liquid refills. The regulation of e-cigarettes has been addressed in other states, but New Jersey considered significantly broader restrictions. Some public health experts have criticized this proposed legislation fearing it… continue reading
In the United States of America, police brutality and overreach have been and continue to be insidious problems. Protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, after the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager at the hands of a Ferguson police officer. A subsequent United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) investigation into the conduct of… continue reading
James Madison defined factions as “a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” Madison noted the dangers… continue reading
An option contract limits the power of acceptance and is a promise not to revoke an offer, in exchange for consideration. Without the enforceability of option contracts, parties would not be able to trust that the other party would not revoke the offer whenever it sees fit. Even with the myriad of ways contract law… continue reading
The modern era has posed a plethora of philosophical challenges for Islamic scholars and Muslim communities that were unrecognizable in the pre-modern period. Although the passage of time has brought about seismic shifts in societal values, the religious discourses on certain fundamental questions, especially conventions relating to marital law, are still based on pre-modern assumptions… continue reading
