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Does the Federal Honest-Services-Fraud Statute Apply to a Person Who Left Public Office but Continued to Exercise Public Authority and Later Returned to Their Public Office?
No full textCan Individuals Sue State-Owned Nursing Homes for Violating Their Rights under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act?
No full textDid the North Carolina Courts Violate the Elections Clause by Ruling That the Legislature\u27s Map for Congressional Districts Violated the State Constitution and Issuing Their Own Temporary Replacement?
No full textThe Heart of Animal Research and Testing Law: A Study of the Animal Welfare Act, the Health Research Extension Act, and Proposed Solutions Supporting the Three Rs, 55 UIC L. Rev. 1 (2022)
Get PDFMay States Intervene in an Appeal to Defend the Trump Administration\u27s Public Charge Rule When the Biden Administration Has Declined to Defend It?
No full textWorking for Justice in an Unjust System: Moving Beyond the Legal System, 55 UIC L. Rev. 251 (2022)
Get PDFVan Buren v. United States: An Employer Defeat or Hacker’s Victory – Or Something in Between, 21 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 166 (2022)
Get PDFA Good Day to Be a Bad Spaniel: Broadening the Application of the Rogers Test, 21 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 193 (2022)
Get PDFThe Escazú Agreement: The Last Piece of a Tripart Normative Framework in the Right to a Healthy Environment
No full textThe right to a healthy environment in the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights is not a new right. Human rights and the environment have long been fought for in the Americas and the Caribbean. What is new and exciting in the protection of the environment and human rights is the recent ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (“Escazú Agreement”), a binding treaty in the region that represents a real commitment from States to protect environmental human rights. The Escazú Agreement brings with it special protections for vulnerable persons (persons in vulnerable situations) and communities in the context of environmental harm and climate change. This article argues that the Escazú Agreement provides for a robust set of protections that complement the already existing and foundational decisions by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Advisory Opinion on the Environment and Human Rights (OC-23/17) and the Comunidades indígenas miembros de la Asociación Lhaka Honha (Nuestra Tierra) v. Argentina. The Escazú Agreement provides another vehicle to hold States responsible to protect the environment and human rights as the last piece of this tripart framework of protection