ISABELLE CARBAJALES—The constitutionality of capital punishment has long been debated. The rights of those on death row and aspects of the death-penalty system have been similarly subject to wide-spread debate. One of the more recent death penalty debates arises in Ramirez v. Collier and questions the role of spiritual advisors during the execution of death […]
CHAD KRAMER—While the Covid-19 crisis has broadly shaken global economic stability, those who borrow from for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) have often encountered disastrous financial circumstances. MFIs professedly further global financial inclusion by offering microcredit and other services to the underbanked in developing economies. And MFIs do provide microentrepreneurs otherwise inaccessible capital, frequently empowering them to […]
MICHAEL NEWELL—The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”), created by congressional statute, is empowered to prescribe rules that define with specificity acts or practices in or affecting commerce that are unfair or deceptive and establish requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices. In October 2021, the FTC issued a final rule to amend the […]
“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast VICTORIA KLINE―Chapter 25 section 25 of the City of Miami Code of Ordinances, passed in June of 2020, is called Regulations for large group feedings. It sounds like it […]
JESSICA NUNEZ MUNOZ—In 2008, the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller held that individuals otherwise qualified to carry handguns have a Second Amendment right to possess guns in their home. In Heller, a District of Columbia law denied a police officer the ability to possess a handgun in his home for self-defense purposes. […]
