Natural Law? The Law and Factory Farming in the United States
By Taylor “Nikki” Nicolas, YULR Online Article In the United States, the vast majority of animal meat sold for human consumption is produced by a system of factory farming–a comparative switch from the...
View ArticleU.N.’s International Telecommunications Union Opens Discussion for...
By Bobby Dresser, YULR Online Article The Internet is simple; after all, it’s just a series of tubes, right? But while it makes shopping for shoes or applying to college simpler for consumers, that...
View ArticleA Saharan Tragedy: The Convoluted Status of Western Sahara in International Law
By Dhruv Aggarwal, YULR Online Article The Saharan Desert is truly rough around the edges. At its westernmost extremity lays the region encompassing the countries of Morocco, Mauritania and the...
View ArticleInterview: Treating Apples as Oranges: Trying Juveniles as Adults
By Jessica Blanton, YULR Online Article Interview with Robert Schwartz, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Juvenile Law Center, conducted July 20, 2012 In this interview, Mr. Schwartz describes his...
View ArticleWomen’s Rights Amidst War in the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Kelsey Annu-Essuman, YULR Online Article I. Another Attack on Rape Victims The recent attempted assassination of Dr. Denise Mukwege, an infamous Congolese doctor for female victims of sexual...
View ArticleTitle IX, the London Olympics, and “The Year of Women”
By Amanda Hall, YULR Online Article Last year’s London Olympics were heralded as “the year of the woman .”[1] For the first time in Olympic history, there were women representing every nation at the...
View Article“Ecocide:” The Fifth Crime Against Peace?
By Sera Tolay, YULR Online Article On 30th September 2011, the Unite Kingdom Supreme Court heard Regina v. Bannerman & Tench, a case in which the defendants, the CEOs of Global Petroleum Company...
View ArticleTurkish Headscarf Ban: Freeing or Counterproductive?
By Clare Kane, YULR Online Article Istanbul, Turkey straddles two continents–and two worlds. Tourists in tube tops shop side-by-side with women wearing tightly pinned Muslim headscarves that avoid...
View ArticleCriminal Justice by Civil Standards? The Case of Gang Injunctions
By Taylor “Nikki” Nicolas, YULR Online Assistant Editor In parts of the United States where gang injunctions are currently in effect, otherwise innocuous and legal activities such as riding the bus at...
View ArticleVive le Québec Libre! Linguistic Nationalism in the Great White North
By Dhruv Aggarwal, YULR Online Article Charles de Gaulle was, if nothing else, a man of spectacle. Whether it was withdrawing from NATO or single-handedly saying “non” to Britain’s entry into the...
View ArticleLocal Solution Settles International Grievance
By Richard Harris, YULR Online Article The issue On September 18, 2000, the California legislature enacted California Civil Procedure Code § 354.4. The code entitled Armenian Genocide victims and their...
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