Global climate change is a major threat facing our country and the world. The consequences of climate change are likely to be significant and far reaching, including increasing droughts, sea-level rises and flooding in coastal areas, potentially adverse effects on agriculture, and negative effects to human health. Further, there is a general consensus in the [...]
The U.S. Constitution is not designed to create legally enforceable socioeconomic rights. Despite growing consensus about the normative importance of judicial consideration of socioeconomic deprivation, in 200 years of expounding the Supreme Court has never recognized socioeconomic rights as constitutional rights. Theories abound for this continued quiescence. Accepted reasons include lack of explicit textual support, [...]
Deep sea adventurer and advocate Jacques Cousteau once stated: “The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.” An environmental enthusiast might consider this statement a testimonial for wildlife’s “right to exist.” Those less keen on a broad reading of [...]
In the past three decades, the federal sentencing system has been in a state of flux. At the core of the debate, and at issue in a great deal of modern cases, is how much discretion federal judges ought to have when sentencing defendants. The amount of discretion committed to judges depends largely on how [...]
On October 7, 2007, all seemed well on Wall Street as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) set a “record high,” closing at 14,164. But, as expressed by Sir Isaac Newton, “what goes up must come down.” And the U.S. stock markets came plummeting down at record pace, declining by over fifty percent “for the [...]
In 1995, the Minnesota Timberwolves, a franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA, or “the League”), selected Kevin Garnett with the fifth pick of the NBA Draft. Garnett was a prodigious basketball player who had just graduated from high school. Still playing in the NBA today, Garnett has won the Most Valuable Player award and [...]
