KEELIN BIELSKI—On February 14, 2018, a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. During the subsequent investigation, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, in a news conference, stated that he suspended Deputy Scot Peterson, the school’s resource officer, because security cameras at the school showed that Peterson stayed outside of the building for four […]
ELIZABETH MONTANO—Approximately 70% of immigrants (around 280,000 people) in pending immigration proceedings are detained pursuant to statutes that decree mandatory detention—that is, detention that is required without any opportunity for individualized assessment of whether the detention is appropriate or even necessary. 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b) provides for the mandatory detention of individuals, such as asylum […]
UMLR is proud to announce that Volume 72, Issue 2 is now available on our website. This Issue contains a number of articles related to the topic of our 2017 Symposium, “Climate Wrongs and Human Rights.”
BRIANNA SAINTE—In its history, the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been only been dealt with in terms of whether the punishment fits the crime and in a more tangible setting, the classic example being the death penalty for a convicted rapist. Considering how far technology has come, specifically in our penal system, it […]
JEFF SAUER—With a plethora of young American talent disseminated across the National Hockey League (“NHL”) today, American hockey fans were disappointed to watch a United States Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey team–typically a perennial powerhouse in the event–depleted of any top-end talent in Pyeongchang in 2018. Even the captain of Team USA, Brian Gionta, a 39-year-old […]
