Duke’s Undergraduate Law Magazine
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 ...