BRITTANY FINNEGAN—In March, the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) authorized Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Bensouda, in her request for an investigation, attributed acts of war crimes and crimes against humanity to United States forces and intelligence personnel, in addition to Taliban and Afghan forces. The ICC, established 15 […]
KATIE BLACK—Prescription drug prices in the United States are untenably high. So much so, in fact, that constituent concerns over skyrocketing drug costs have led to bipartisan support for the current solution: importing prescription drugs from Canada. Attempted legislation regarding drug importation is not new. In 2019, Senators Grassley and Klobuchar co-sponsored a bipartisan bill […]
MATTHEW ZAWISLINSKI—Life is getting harder and harder for the NCAA these days. With attacks coming from sports media personalities and state legislatures, the NCAA is facing more threats than ever before. While its name, image, and likeness rules have received substantial scrutiny in the last year, the NCAA’s gravest concern should be attacks on its […]
ANNA ELISABETH DELLAPA—Courts around the country, including those in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Indiana, are struggling with the question of whether or not to allow each state’s Election Commission to purge hundreds of thousands of names from their voter registration rolls. The upcoming 2020 Presidential Election has amped up voter suppression efforts, sounding the alarm of […]
DAVID STUZIN—Of the many constitutional cases argued of late, lawyers and law students on the East Coast may have missed Martin v. City of Boise, a case argued before the Ninth Circuit. At stake in Martin was an issue that hit on a fault line of important American values. On the one hand, this case […]
