At a Bio-Terrorism Conference at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on March 31, 2006, the government participants were asked what they would do if a superior instructed them not to disclose information to the public about the likely grave health affects of an ongoing bio-terrorist...

An entry in the Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties explaining the United States Supreme Court's decision in Schmerber v. California upholding the constitutionality of the compelled extraction of blood sample evidence from an arrestee as quot;realquot; evidence as opposed to a quot;testimonialquot;...

The contribution is based on an earlier article, 'Reshaping Commonwealth Caribbean Jurisprudence: From Pratt and Morgan to Joseph and Boyce' (2007) 32 (2) West Indian Law Journal (forthcoming). That article traces the continuity between the Privy Council decision in Pratt and Another v the AG...

Allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths or suicides. If those states who did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1570 murders and over 4177 rapes would have...

In the 21st century, men and women have soared to new levels of equality in academics, careers, and even sports; but to this day, women of all ages, classes, and professions continue to be victims of domestic violence. Some conservative surveys estimate that one million women are battered by an...

When a sexual abuse scandal rocked Penn State, when Apple was found to have engaged in anticompetitive behavior, and when servicers like Bank of America improperly foreclosed upon hundreds of thousands of homeowners, each organization entered into a “Modern-Day Monitorship.” Modern-day...

Protecting associational freedom is a core, independent yet unappreciated part of the Fourth Amendment. New surveillance techniques threaten that freedom. Surveillance is no longer forward looking. Law enforcement can obtain the same, if not more, information about all of us by looking backward....

The Canadian government has a policy of searching laptop computers at airports and other border crossings. It is considered an outrageous policy by those who have been subjected to this gross invasion of privacy, and it has drawn some press attention. The Canadian courts have yet to rule on the...

This Article reaches into the personal history of Monroe Freedman, a pioneer in multi-dimensional legal ethics, to advance an explanation for his advocacy and his signal contributions to legal ethics - particularly his landmark article of 1966, Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense...

The middle finger is one of the most commonly used insulting gestures in the United States. The finger, which is used to convey a wide range of emotions, is visible on streets and highways, in schools, shopping malls, and sporting events, in courts and execution chambers, in advertisements and...