By Journal Student Writer Tyler Coe The general consensus among industrial modernized nations remains that orphaned children need stable homes. Rather than growing up …
Tag Archive: Civil Rights
Disability Human Rights at Home and Abroad
By Journal Student Writer Tai Blas Access to education and employment are issues of fairness and justice in the United States. Scholars in other …
GOP: Adapt or Perish
By Journal Student Writer Ryan Cauley H.G. Wells once wrote, “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” This quote is quite …
The Case for Equal Rights for Infertile Husbands and Wives: New Jersey’s Intervention into Surrogacy Contracts
By Journal Student Writer Tai Blas Twenty-five years after the first American case to consider surrogacy, surrogacy laws remain unclear. Artificial reproductive technology continues …
The Civil Commitment of Sexually Dangerous Predators: Civil or Criminal?
By Journal Student Writer Genevieve Craggs The civil commitment of sexually dangerous predators is a practice that is widespread across the United States, both …
California Sued Over Conversion Therapy Ban
By Journal Student Writer Courtney Thomas-Dusing California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors (“The Act”). Conversion …
The Obama Administration and Indefinite Detention
By Journal Student Writer Jesse Sheedy On December 31st of 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (or NDAA), a …
Integration of Abortion Services into Hospitals: Preserving Safety and Privacy
Graph courtesy of http://feminist.org/rrights/clinicsurvey.html By Journal Student Writer Jessica Morton The National Abortion Federation reports that from 1977 to 2009 there were over 6000 …
Will “The People” Vote?: Voter ID Laws and the 2012 Election
By Journal Student Writer Lewis Field In elementary school, one of my teachers described the United States government as a “government of the people,” where …
Who Says Football and Being Gay Don’t Mix?
By Note & Comment Editor Tiffany Spoor Fall rolls around in Iowa City and all thoughts turn to football. After living here for over …
