Archive for April 2025
The Deportation Marketplace: The Unethical and Potentially Illegal Deal with El Salvador’s Mega-Prison
April 1, 2025
By: Jane Genske, Volume 43 Staff Member View/Download PDF Version: The Deportation Marketplace (Genske) The outsourcing of asylum responsibilities by wealthier nations through financial incentives—often termed “the commodification of refugees”—is not a new phenomenon. Countries have long paid others to accept and detain migrants, effectively shifting their obligations elsewhere. A recent agreement between the United…
Continue ReadingPunishment or “Protection”? The Case Challenging Racialized Homelessness Nationwide
April 7, 2025
By: Noelle Sperrazza, Volume 43 Note & Comment Editor View/Download PDF Version: Punishment or “Protection”? The Case Challenging Racialized Homelessness Nationwide (Sperrazza) Homelessness is one of the most prominent, urgent, and ever-growing crises in America today. As of 2023, roughly 653,100 people in the United States were experiencing homelessness on any given night.[1] Rising housing costs,…
Continue ReadingHow Recent Executive Actions Deliver Reproductive Healthcare Discrimination
By: Kavya Mahesh, Volume 43 Staff Member View/Download PDF Version: How Recent Executive Actions Deliver Reproductive Healthcare Discrimination (Mahesh) Systemic healthcare discrimination targeting vulnerable populations has been a persistent obstacle in ensuring quality medical services can be enjoyed equally by everyone. The impacts of the current healthcare inequities on maternal and reproductive care result in…
Continue ReadingFragmenting Justice: How a Circuit Split is Breaking FLSA Collectives and Undermining Employee Protections Post-Bristol-Myers Squibb
By: Anthony Alas, Volume 43 Managing & Research Editor View/Download PDF Version: Fragmenting Justice – How a Circuit Split is Breaking FLSA Collectives and Undermining Employee Protections Post-Bristol-Myers Squibb (Alas) I. INTRODUCTION Decision after decision, federal circuits are eroding employees’ right to unite against their employer in the courtroom. For decades, courts interpreted the Fair…
Continue ReadingMinneapolis Organization Spotlight: New Justice Project MN
April 11, 2025
By: Fariza Hassan, Volume 43 Editor-in-Chief View/Download PDF Version: Minneapolis Organization Spotlight – New Justice Project MN (Hassan) During a long-time friend’s going away picnic at Boom Island Park earlier this summer, we noticed that under the nearby chateau was a lively group hosting some sort of celebratory, yet informative, event. While we reminisced our stories…
Continue ReadingThat Pays How Much? A Brief Look at Minnesota’s New Wage Transparency Law
By: Reeves Singleton, Volume 43 Staff Member View/Download PDF Version: That Pays How Much? A Brief Look at Minnesota’s New Wage Transparency Law (Singleton) Almost anyone who has applied to a job in the last ten years can regale you with stories of frustration, exhaustion, and an ever-deepening distaste for the very concept of job…
Continue ReadingThe Surprising Cause of Increasingly Horrific Executions: Death Penalty Abolitionists
April 23, 2025
By: Kristin M. Boynton, Volume 43 Senior Managing Editor View/Download PDF Version: The Surprising Cause of Increasingly Horrific Executions – Death Penalty Abolitionists (Boynton) The January 2024 execution of Kenneth Smith garnered worldwide attention,[1] including an official statement by the United Nations High Commissioner that criticized the new method used by the State.[2] The UN…
Continue ReadingUnder Siege: The Legal Profession at a Crossroads
April 24, 2025
Incoming Volume 44 Editor-in-Chief Jaxon Alston and Professor June Carbone, Robina Chair for Law, Science, and Technology trace how the current attacks on lawyers, law firms, and the justice system began, examine why major law firms are capitulating to external pressures, and explore the ripple effects on pro bono representation and education. The very foundations…
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