The purpose of this Article is to examine the legislative response of the United States to human trafficking. Section I discusses the factors most frequently cited as contributing to the problem. Section II examines the international authority for interdicting trafficking. Section III examines...

This Article examines the impediments to access to justice individuals face in the current economic climate due to issues of access to legal assistance. Part II will discuss the framework within which civil legal assistance is provided and the impact that the economic downturn has had on it....

In R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (a) held that the UK Government had no prerogative power to initiate the formal process whereby the UK will withdraw from the EU and (b) declined to recognise any requirement that the...

This Article explores the background of the Louisiana Health Emergency Powers Act (“LHEPA”), including proclamations that have summoned its current applicability, historical development, and, most importantly, Lejeune v. Steck, the only reported case to date involving the LHEPA. The Author...

Bad lawyer ethics may provide entertainment for Americans who are unlikely to rank lawyers as a highly virtuous or ethical group. Yet lawyer ethics are highest on the priority lists of legal organizations and law schools. State bars require continue legal education (CLE) in ethics, and every...

Always-listening devices have sparked new concerns about privacy, but an unexpected solution may have existed for hundreds of years. Public nuisance has been stretched to serve as a basis of liability for some of the most prominent mass tort litigation of our time, such as in suits against...

Election subversion threatens democratic self-governance. Recently, we have seen election officials try to manipulate the rules after an election, defy accepted legal procedures for dispute resolution, and try to delay results or hand an election to a losing candidate. Such actions, if...

Twice in thirty years, the “mad scramble to the U.S. Courts for immediate attachments …” seemingly characteristic of cross-border cases prompted a legislative fix to this nation’s federal restructuring system, with territorialism giving way to progressively more pronounced...

This article limits its examination to three legal approaches to addressing modern-day slavery: the thirteenth Amendment, the civil component of RICO, and the VTVPA as amended in 2003, focusing on both their strengths and weaknesses. Section I examines the applicability and effectiveness of the...