Volume 52, Issue 2

In 1839, Stephen van Rensselaer IV assumed the role of a Dutch aristocrat in the place his family had ruled since 1629: upstate New York. Stretching across more than one thousand square miles of what is today New York’s Hudson Valley, his vast estate soon brought him into armed conflict with farmers who had owed…

In 2022, 12 percent of students entering law school and approximately 19 percent of students across all years of law school self-reported having a disability. Both the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Matriculant Survey and the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) found that law students with reported disabilities included those with mental health,…

Emboldened by the political climate surrounding the election of President Trump in 2024, the 68th Idaho legislature passed a resolution calling on the United States Supreme Court to reexamine the seminal case Obergefell v. Hodges and declare that marriage equality runs afoul of the United States Constitution. What if, in this instance, Albertsons—a national grocery…

For millennia, commentators have noted the correlation between age and cognitive decline. This relationship highlights an inherent link between aging and specific cognitive functions, such as memory recall. This connection is not always a negative: Aging also correlates with recognized benefits such as learned experience over time. However, even with such benefits, increased understanding of…

In 2021, undocumented workers employed by the French postal service, La Poste, filed a lawsuit under the French Law of Vigilance to challenge the exploitation and unfair labor conditions to which they had been exposed while their employer looked the other way.  Passed in 2017, the French Law of Vigilance was groundbreaking not only in…