All Articles tagged justice

• Technology
  November 05, 2023 EDT
  A Comment on the Future: Considering Blockchain Technology Within the United States Legal System
  Isabella A. Jagielski

  This comment explores the possibility of utilizing blockchain technology within the US legal infrastructure to resolve disputes occurring in a digital age.

• Constitutional Law & Criminal Procedure
  November 05, 2023 EDT
  Justice Alito and the Government Speech Doctrine
  David L. Hudson, Jr.

  This article discusses the significant contributions Justice Alito has made to the government speech doctrine by examining four of his opinions.

• Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
  November 13, 2022 EDT
  Assigning Criminal Responsibility to Defendants with Dissociative Identity Disorder
  Madeline Easdale

  This note explores the culpability of defendants with dissociative identity disorder and whether this disorder impacts defendants competency to stand trial.

• Judges & Courts
  November 13, 2022 EDT
  Drug Courts Are America’s Next Pill Mills
  Charles M. Andrews Jr.

  This note explores two approaches used by drug courts and why medication assisted therapy may be doing more harm than good.

• Tax
  November 08, 2022 EDT
  Social Justice & Multi-Jurisdictional Tax: A Critical Examination of the Digitization of Commerce, Multi-Jurisdictional Tax & An Opportunity to Correct a Systemic Preference to Protect Wealth
  Natasha N. Varyani

  This article explores the effect of taxing the digital economy - specifically advertising - and how the revenue could be used to bring about social justice changes.

• Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
  March 04, 2021 EDT
  Youthful Indiscretion or Adult Disability? State v. Carnes and the Unconstitutional Use of a Juvenile Adjudication to Charge an Adult with Having Weapons While Under Disability in Ohio
  Mackenzie Cutteridge

  This note analyzes State v. Carnes and the potential harm its interpretation of the weapons-under-disability statute can bring upon individuals within the juvenile justice system.

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• Judges & Courts
  August 31, 2020 EDT
  Judicial Selection: Diversity, Discretion, Inclusion, and “The Idea of Justice”
  Natalie Gomez-Velez

  This article examines the state of judicial diversity, its importance, and obstacles to its improvement.

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• Children & Family
  June 12, 2019 EDT
  A Child is a Child, Except Under Ohio Law: A Discretionary Review of Mandatory Bindovers
  Briana Morris

  A discretionary look at Ohio's Mandatory Binder laws in the juvenile system.

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• Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
  March 20, 2019 EDT
  Legislating Against Hate: Why Ohio’s Hate Crime Statute, and the Sentencing Enhancements that Support it, Cannot Remedy Institutional Problems and Continued Bigotry
  Sarah Ingles

  A gaping wound in our society, hate-filled violence brutally attacks our communities, sense of being, sense of security, and sense of self.

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• Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
  January 30, 2019 EDT
  Solving the Penn State Problem: Holding the Institution Accountable for its Conspiracy of Silence
  Sarah J. Kropp

  Thirty-six-year-old “Ben” confided to an archdiocese victim coordinator that a priest had sexually violated him when he was an altar boy at St. Mark Parish in Bristol, Pennsylvania.

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• Judges & Courts
  July 31, 2018 EDT
  The Roles of Sonia Sotomayor in Criminal Justice Cases
  Christopher E. SmithKsenia Petlakh

  A look at how Justice Sonia Sotomayor plays a role in the current Supreme Court of the United States.

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