UMLR is proud to announce that Volume 70, Issue 2 is available on our website here. Feel free to browse Justice Stevens remarks along with a variety of essays, articles, and notes. Countless hours went into bringing Issue 2 to fruition, and it is truly a poignant and insightful collection of texts. Thank you to […]
ANDREW PIPER—On February 13th, 2016, Justice Scalia passed away at a resort in Shafter, Texas. Justice Scalia was known for his sarcastic dissents and his contempt for the use of legislative history in statutory interpretation. Moreover, Justice Scalia was a profound supporter of bright-line legal rules as opposed to legal balancing tests and was extremely […]
BRITTANY STOCKMAN—In early January, the American Bar Association Journal published an article reporting that Most Lawyers Are Introverted, And That’s Not Necessarily a Bad Thing. In fact, “contrary to popular belief, most lawyers are not extroverts.” The nearly twenty-six-year-long study revealed that sixty-percent of the 6,000 lawyers tested were actually introverts. Eva Wisnik, the study’s […]
STEPHANIE ERICKSON—The right to food, and to feed oneself in dignity, is a universal human right that has been acknowledged at every level of both national and international governance. Though this does not mandate that the government to universally provide free food, the universal right to feed oneself in dignity does mandate that the government […]
SARA KLOCK—To participate in a marathon, it takes endurance, stamina, and lots of food. Frankly, all day Netflix marathons can be exhausting. But for about 80,000 people, their type of marathon does not include sitting on the couch and watching the entire season of House of Cards (Season 4 comes out March 4th). Rather, these […]
