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After the Golden State Killer was arrested and sentenced in 2018, interest in investigative genetic genealogy spiked.
In his quixotic bid to buy and reform Twitter, Elon Musk swiftly arrived at the same place nearly every tech mogul does: he doesn’t want censorship, but he does want to be able to suppress some legal speech.
There’s something weird going on in First Amendment politics.
On November 19, 2021, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of homicide charges stemming from his killing of two people—Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum—at a protest of police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse had armed himself and traveled to the protest, purportedly to defend Kenoshans’ property against looting.
Content warning: discussion of suicide.
This case raises some difficult theoretical questions about what harms insider trading laws are supposed to prevent and what benefits they are supposed to provide to the marketplace.
The area of law colloquially known as compassionate release—which allows prisoners to seek sentence reductions or early release from incarceration under limited circumstances—garnered heightened attention at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Professor Eric A.
Ieshia Townsend was scared to return home after her job at a South Side McDonald’s, she said at a rally for frontline workers in downtown Chicago: she could infect her children with coronavirus.
When British authorities dragged Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London in April 2019, the Australian-born founder of the whistleblowing platform, WikiLeaks, was no stranger to displacement.
Personalized law is a new model of rulemaking where each person is subject to different legal rules and bound by their own personally tailored law.
Personalized law is on-trend.