Duke’s Undergraduate Law Magazine
The world of athletics has been rocked by the recent decision of the World Athletics (WA) to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports. On March 23, 2023, World Athletics Council released its updates on eligibility regulations for transge ...
One of the sociopolitical issues where public opinion in the United States has significantly changed in the last couple of decades is marijuana legalization, as more and more Americans have realized the pointlessness of statutes that criminalize consumpti ...
Many people might have a pretty clear image of what corruption and bribery is and who can commit such acts. The reality is not so clear. Background Percoco v. United States involved the longtime friend and aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Jos ...
Heaps of trash and anger are growing rapidly on the streets of Paris which no longer look or smell like the City of Love. On March 16, 2023, the people of France reacted with uproar when President Emmanuel Macron passed unpopular pension reform using cont ...
In a nation divided, where even the most minor of issues seems to polarize, there seems to be one that invites near universal indignation and scrutiny from politicians of both parties: TikTok. The social media app, where users can make dance videos, ha ...
On August 8, 2022, the FBI raided President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, sparking a chain reaction of similar investigations into the whereabouts of classified documents in the hands of elected officials. In the following we ...
Dissimilarities Between Scalia and Thomas In the post-Ronald Reagan era of the Supreme Court of the United States, two of the most preeminent jurists of conservative persuasion have been the Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Scalia ...
Drawing congressional maps is often a contentious process, and the recent undertaking in Alabama is no exception. Despite the 2020 census showing that the number of Black voters in the state increased by 3.4%, the number of majority-minority districts did ...
Background In 1993, Michael Wade Nance attempted to rob a bank and killed an innocent bystander in the process of fleeing the scene. In 1997, Nance’s case was held in trial court in which a jury convicted him of murder and sentenced him to the death pe ...
Facts: Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta, whose crime induced jurisdictional uncertainty, was charged by the State of Oklahoma for child neglect and was sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment. Castro-Huerta appealed his state-court sentence, and as this appea ...