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Professors Britney Wilson and Claire Thomas Lead NYLS Clinics to Triumph
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Max Politics Podcast Arrives at New York Law School
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Our Journey to the Birthplace of the Environmental Justice Movement
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Student Reflections on Summer in Rome With the Law and Global Society Program
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Racial Justice Project Honors 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
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Truth or Accountability: The Human Rights Violations of the Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy and Reconciliation Act of 2023
No full textOn January 17, 2024, the Republic of Ireland lodged an inter-state complaint in the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) against the United Kingdom. The complaint came after the United Kingdom passed the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act of 2023. Among other things, the Legacy Act grants immunity to persons who provide information related to any crimes committed during the Troubles, an intense period of political unrest and violence in Northern Ireland between Catholic Republicans and Protestant Loyalists.
To hold the United Kingdom accountable for human rights violations stemming from the Legacy Act, an ECtHR ruling paired with advocacy from civil society and other States will be crucial. Ultimately, by granting immunity to perpetrators of unsolved crimes, the United Kingdom is averting its obligations under domestic, regional, and international human rights law and will continue to do so until the Legacy Act’s amnesty provision is amended or repealed
The Marijuana Insurgency: Federalism and Social Reframing in Policy Reform
No full textAfter fifty years of federal prohibition, marijuana reform efforts have won political and legal success. These victories hold lessons for anyone seeking to resist federal law without being able to directly affect it.
Victory can come from reframing an issue. For marijuana reform, social reframing—not formal legal analysis or material factors—provides the best explanation for how advocates achieved change. Their unconventional political tactics, akin to those used by insurgents in wartime, undercut federal prohibition by winning hearts and minds.
This is an analysis of the sociology of legal change. It is also the story of how ordinary Americans retook personal liberty from the centralized state. Despite what anti-liberal critics have argued, local self-governance and individual freedom can sometimes go hand-in-hand