The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
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Over the years, Puerto Ricans have in fact been granted three different types of U.S. citizenship, but questions about their rights and equal treatment as citizens still remain.
A short history of legal challenges to immigrant detention practices in the U.S. may shed light on what’s to come for the new administration.
The Electoral College has survived 227 years and, arguably, has never truly been needed. Now would be a good time to use it.
A public health researcher and advocate explains how immigration raids can impact mental and physical health, and trigger a breakdown of trust and safety in communities across the US.
Criminal justice experts suggest one way to change the system to eliminate racial bias.
President Obama’s opponents are saying he should leave the choice of a Supreme Court justice to his successor. But that could leave the nation’s highest court in limbo.
Companies have increasingly been using hidden gag clauses, in which customers unwittingly sign away their rights to post online reviews after purchasing a product.
Researchers explain why gun violence is a public health emergency, why parent often underestimate how easily their kids could access a gun – and why we know so little about how to solve this problem.
When political activists are treated like terrorists who plot and kill, state power is misdirected.
The bans on gay marriage in 13 states across America have been ruled unconstitutional.
Based on the Abbott government’s stance to date, there seems little chance of David Hicks receiving an effective remedy – at least not voluntarily
The US Supreme Court agreed last Friday to hear four cases about same-sex marriage. Essentially, this means that, having previously avoided doing so, the court will finally consider whether or not same-sex…
The idea of the grand jury is already familiar to many Australians through American television legal drama. But its profile just skyrocketed with a grand jury deciding not to indict policeman Darren Wilson…
Earlier this week, a Florida court began hearing arguments in the murder trial of an older, white man accused of murdering an African-American teenager. If you think this sounds familiar, you’re right…
For a country that has long been a staunch defender of intellectual property rights, the US has struggled in recent years to get to grips with the menace of a new breed of patent holders, pejoratively…
The US Supreme Court has handed down a landmark decision that will have drawn sighs of relief from corporate boardrooms in Australia and around the world. Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum was brought by…
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor of American History and Politics, University of East Anglia
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor, School of Arts and Media, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Director, Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy, University of Oxford
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Dean and Robert A Knox Professor, Boston University
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Head of Law, Professor of Practice Informed Legal Education, Coventry University
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Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender, Macquarie University
