In the case of Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association v. Perez, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed that employers could not force employees into…
Recent incidents of police brutality and misconduct, such as those in Baton Rouge and Baltimore, have garnered national attention regarding the role of police in…
Under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, the federal government has the authority to detain individuals exposed to communicable diseases from entering the…
Over the past few years, America has been gripped by a national public health epidemic: addiction to opiates. Few are more familiar with the destruction…
In 2000, 738 million people used the Internet. In 2015, 738 million increased seven-fold to 3.2 billion Internet users.[i] In 1998, only 36 percent of Americans…
In 2000, ABB Inc. received patent US 6633900 for a “mobile crew management system for distributing work order assignments to mobile field crew units” that…
February 13, 2016 might have capped the final year of the most divisive cohabitation periods between the Legislative and Executive branches in our country’s 240-year…
To celebrate the launch of its latest issue, the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review hosted a panel on the role of law in effectively combatting climate…
The Columbia Undergraduate Law Review is proud to announce the release of its Spring 2016 issue. Included in this issue are the following articles: Strict…
Anne Freeland is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Previously she…
The road to the decriminalization of same sex behavior and marriage rights for same sex couples has been a long one. And yet, despite big…
A federal lawsuit filed in December 2015 on behalf of a California teen now being cared for by her mother in the state of New…