Duke’s Undergraduate Law Magazine
“Women. Life. Freedom.” This repeated mantra represents the height of the Iranian protests that erupted mid-September. At the front of the movement is martyr Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old woman who died following an arrest by the “morality police,” a special ...
In response to the global community’s silence to the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, surgeon at Tigray’s Ayder Hospital Dr. Kilbrom Gelbreselassie asked, “Where is humanity?” The war between the Ethiopian government and Tigray People’s Libera ...
Introduction: Innovation is happening at lightning speed, and technology is arguably the most crucial driver of today’s society. Copyright laws were established for the purpose of preventing intellectual property from being copied as well as encouragin ...
Lawsuits pertaining to music are often complex and unorthodox in the traditional world of law. Gray vs Perry is one such example. Gray vs Perry is a case that began in 2014 when Christian hip-hop artist Flame (Marcus Gray) sued Pop musician Katy Perry (Ka ...
On Sept. 14, 2022, the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, filed an antitrust lawsuit in the San Francisco Superior Court against online-retail behemoth Amazon. The lawsuit alleges that Amazon uses its stranglehold over the online retail market in ...
Facts: Affirmative action has long been associated with the civil rights movement and has been an established part of the American system for decades. Yet the merits of affirmative action are fiercely debated both within and across political lines, and ...
Facts: Brandon Koch and Robert Nash, who were both residents of New York that had a general interest in self-defense, applied for unrestricted gun licenses. This license would allow them to carry a handgun on public premises where it is legal, unless p ...
Last month, two jets chartered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration landed in Martha’s Vineyard from San Antonio carrying 48 Venezuelan asylum seekers. The New York Times reports that the “political maneuver” was funded by a $12 million approp ...
Introduction Aug. 24, 2022, following years of debate within the Democrat Party, the Biden Administration announced a one-time plan for federal student debt relief. First-time borrowers, under this new plan, will be eligible for up to $20,000 in relief ...
As the 2022 midterm primary season wraps up, and campaigns across the country gear up for the general election, one thing has become very clear: Alaska - a state that Donald Trump carried by 10% in the 2020 - just got competitive. In the special electi ...