Duke’s Undergraduate Law Magazine
Facts: In 2007, Thedrick Edwards, a black man, was found guilty of armed robbery, kidnapping, and rape by a Louisiana jury. At the time, in Louisiana, a non-unanimous jury was able to convict a defendant if at least ten of twelve jurors concurred that ...
Following months of contention between Senate Democrats and Joe Manchin, the Inflation Reduction Act was finally signed into law on August 16, 2022. The act is set to raise over $700 billion – mostly through tax reform – to reduce costs of prescription ...
According to the Pew Research Center, only about half of Americans feel comfortable referring to someone with gender-neutral pronouns. Younger generations were found to be more likely to use such they/them designations to refer to others and express accep ...
On Aug. 31, 2022, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released the long awaited report cracking down on China’s human rights abuses of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Nine months overdue and published mere minutes before High ...
On July 27, the Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 was introduced to the Australian House of Representatives. The bill, Australia’s first piece of climate change legislation in a decade, calls for a number of demands to reduce greenhouse ...
Introduction: The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. What constitutes an “unreasonable” search or seizure under the law, however, is not clearly outlined and can morph dependi ...
Facts: The Clean Water Act (CWA) is widely recognized as a landmark piece of environmental law. One of the two main ways this legislation is used is to control pollution discharged into bodies of water. However, this comes with a set of problems regardin ...
Introduction The Nazi Era was marked by genocide and the ravaging of the Jewish identity. Jews were robbed of most, if not all, of their belongings before being deported to their death in concentration camps. Any property left behind after deportation w ...
Facts: Gerrymandering was a tool used heavily during the late 90s and early 2000s, in cases such as Shaw v. Reno and Vieth v. Jubelirer. It is an intentional attempt to increase the power of one political party in approaching elections through the ma ...
The invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces on February 24th shook the world, as well as international affairs organizations such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the United Nations (UN). Just three days after these events transpired, Ukraine ...