Note from the Editor
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Features
Featuring longer form articles, CLO award winners, and guest contributions from Campbell Law School professors and local attorneys.
No Easy Decision: The legal, political, and foreign policy dynamics of extraditing Amanda Knox
The question of whether to extradite Amanda Knox—should Italy make such a request—transcends purely legal questions and implicates political and foreign policy concerns as well. ...[Continue Reading]
Imagined Loves: Eros and Agape in Popular Culture and Law
Popular culture provides a few contrasting views of Eros and Agape, which hold some insight into thinking about how the law receives psychological legitimacy. ...[Continue Reading]
Copyright in the Internet Age: Choice-of-law issues in modern international media disputes
BY: KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Guest Contributor Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar the ...[Continue Reading]
Seeking justice from Chinese hackers: Attacking N.C. businesses byte by byte
Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar the opportunity to have their research papers published ...[Continue Reading]
International Human Rights: An optical view of Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law
As the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia quickly descend upon aficionados of winter sports, it too has already found its place in Olympic controversies. ...[Continue Reading]
The implications under International Law of using domestic criminal proceedings as a weapon in the “War on Terror”
Despite the complex obstacles posed by the intersection of Domestic and International Law, the U.S. moves forward in its efforts to expand jurisdiction over international terrorists. ...[Continue Reading]
Private Citizens can fight international terrorism through civil lawsuits
BY: Taylor Hutchens, Guest Contributor January 14, 2013 Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar ...[Continue Reading]
Human rights violations in the international context
BY: Sarah Murray, Guest Contributor Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar the opportunity to ...[Continue Reading]
Supreme Court of North Carolina to hear oral argument in appeal of redistricting cases
The current trend in politics is a move away from the center and towards the wings of both major parties. This growing partisanship is seen at all levels of government and has placed an even greater emphasis on the redistricting process. Redistricting is now a way for the party in power to ...[Continue Reading]
2013 Editor’s Picks
The following is a brief list of some of the most interesting and insightful articles published by the Campbell Law Observer over the past year. We hope you take a moment to read - hopefully not for the first time - these excellent articles by our staff. ...[Continue Reading]
An undocumented immigrant in California who passed the bar is barred from obtaining a law license
A case before the Supreme Court of California will decide whether an undocumented immigrant can be granted a law license. ...[Continue Reading]
Released: Wake County’s scientific approach to prison population reduction and defendant re-entry
Pretrial release services suggest a data-driven alternative to the traditional money bond schedule. ...[Continue Reading]
Welcome to the Matrix: How Technology is Reinventing Law
“The Matrix is a system, Neo.” --Morpheus ...[Continue Reading]
Ethics and Legal Theory: A Primer
Theoretical reasoning is an important aspect of legal education as well as the practice of law generally. Contemporary legal scholars largely agree that law is intimately tied to moral norms and presuppositions about human nature. ...[Continue Reading]
