The problem of campus sexual assault has been under scrutiny for a long time, with very little consensus on the best way for schools to discipline and protect all parties.
HB 688 ultimately passed with large bipartisan majorities, making Louisiana the first state to “ban the box” for college admissions.
Louisiana is part of a nationwide movement toward justice reinvestment—policies aimed at simultaneously reducing crime and reining in corrections spending, while still holding offenders accountable. Gelb calls those goals “our holy trinity.”
Each law firm has to decide the right course of action regarding website design based on its services and the type of client it wants to attract.
Our inaugural year of the Web 100 list honors 50 blogs (and adds five more to our Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.)
Our inaugural year of this feature honors 50 blogs (and adds five more to our Blawg Hall of Fame), as well as 25 law podcasts and 25 tweeters for lawyers to follow.
Under federal law, the decriminalized marijuana industry is in a slightly precarious position. Congress has prevented the Department of Justice from interfering with state-legal medical marijuana, but it left the DOJ free to enforce federal law against state-legal recreational marijuana businesses.
The legal and political furor set off by the travel ban and related orders has had a profound impact on U.S. law schools. Interest in immigration law is surging, and schools are ramping up programs and staffing to meet soaring demand from students and immigrants.
Native Hawaiians have been considered Americans for more than 100 years. But they haven’t forgotten the original sin that created their state. That sin—the forcible ouster of the Hawaiian monarchy—has some Native Hawaiians waging a legal battle to this day to regain some measure of independence.
