Teaching in Prisons: A Q&A with Anne Freeland

Teaching in Prisons: A Q&A with Anne Freeland

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…

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Constitutional Considerations of Happiness

Constitutional Considerations of Happiness

While the Declaration of Independence recognizes the unalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and the Constitution explicitly protects life and liberty,…

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Public Health or Personal Exemptions? Assessing the Constitutionality of California’s SB277 School-Entry Vaccination Mandate

Public Health or Personal Exemptions? Assessing the Constitutionality of California’s SB277 School-Entry Vaccination Mandate

In July 2015, the state of California experienced an unexpected measles outbreak in its Disneyland theme park, infecting 131 Californians. This case shocked many, because…

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The Monopoly of Major League Baseball

The Monopoly of Major League Baseball

The MLB has one of the few lawfully ratified monopolies left in American sports. While there are multiple professional leagues in other sports, such as…

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Die Another Day (part two)

Die Another Day (part two)

Part 1 of Die Another Day can be found here:  http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/culr/2013/11/19/die-another-day/   Last fall, the European Union banned the export of any and all pharmaceuticals…

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Die Another Day

Die Another Day

About 36 lives in the United States might be saved in the upcoming year because of a critical drug shortage. Saved. That is because the…

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Shutting Down Justice

Shutting Down Justice

It is often said that the wheels of justice turn slowly, but when the federal government shut down on October 1, 2013, were they ever…

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