Written by Sarah Stuart, L’26 Few subjects haunt the American consciousness like crime. From Richard Nixon’s “Law and Order” campaign in 1968, to the 1994 Crime Bill and the uprisings of 2020, the national spotlight has remained on criminal justice for decades.[1] In the midst of this polarizing conversation sits probation:  rarely discussed when compared with pressing injustices such as police brutality and mass incarceration  … Continue reading Invisible Prisons: The Promise and Failure of Probation

Written by Aislin Murphy, L’26 The 2024 SCOTUS term, with all its precedent setting and overturning, will no doubt go down as one of the more controversial, politically-charged Supreme Court terms in modern memory. The mid-summer decisions of Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Trump v. US particularly exemplify this controversy, the former granting the Judiciary far more power in agency rulemaking than it has had … Continue reading Presidential Immunity and Chevron Deference