Articles by Collin Hardee

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About Collin Hardee (4 Articles)
Collin Hardee is a third-year law student at Campbell University School of Law and is a Staff Writer for the Campbell Law Observer and serves as Campbell’s Deputy Attorney General. Collin grew up in Apex, NC and received his undergraduate degree from East Carolina University, majoring in Political Science, and minoring in Business. In the semester between graduating from ECU and attending Campbell Law School, Collin worked at a personal injury firm in Greenville, NC, as well as working at Sup Dogs where he worked throughout college. Collin’s areas of interest include property law, wills and estates, criminal defense, and personal injury. When he’s not studying for law school, you can find Collin watching films, reading, tinkering with his Jeep or motorcycle, attempting to golf or fish, or spending time with his pup and family.

The Commodification of the Human Body & the Legal Status of Body Parts

May 15, 2021

The common law says very little about our rights to dispose of or profit from our bodies. If body parts are given value, then that puts a price on human life. The failure to address this issue has led to the promulgation of just that issue, regardless of whether society is ready to confront it. [...]

Mugshots & the Degradation of the Presumption of Innocence

February 26, 2021

What do Johnny Cash, Bill Gates, Al Capone, and Martin Luther King Jr. all have in common?  Mugshots.  All of these history-defining individuals, for one reason or another, had interactions with the law.  However, despite these figures gaining notoriety in spite of their mugshots, for many individuals, this is not the case.  In fact, it is quite the opposite. An Overview A mugshot is a photograph taken by a law enforcement agency upon an individual’s arrest to be used in the [...]