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What White Collar Crime Threats Remain as the Country Emerges from COVID-19?

February 5, 2023

Are the 474 defendants charged with crimes for COVID-19 fraud schemes and the 1,686,121 reports of identity theft in 2021 just the tip of the iceberg? COVID-19 steered the world into financial disruption. As a result, the prevalence of white collar crime has skyrocketed over the last few years, ...[Continue Reading]

Public Policy vs. The Constitution: Confronting Minor Victims of Sexual Assault

January 14, 2023

Ratified in 1791, the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions. The amendment requires a speedy and public trial as well as an impartial jury; it also encompasses the confrontation clause. The Confrontation Clause provides that “in ...[Continue Reading]

Cops, Not Robbers: The Clash Between No-Knock Warrants and the Castle Doctrine

January 2, 2021

The use of no-knock warrants has increased exponentially over the last few decades, highlighting a fatal clash between no-knock warrants and the castle doctrine. The killing of Breonna Taylor has sparked public outcry and has thrust two competing legal principles – the no-knock warrant and the ...[Continue Reading]

A Break in Tradition

April 14, 2019

In a historic moment in North Carolina’s judicial history, Justice Cheri Beasley was sworn in as the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina on March 7th, 2019. Her appointment is historic in two ways: (1) upon her appointment, Chief Justice Beasley has become the first ...[Continue Reading]

A guide to Canada’s recent legalization of recreational marijuana

April 1, 2019

With the passage of the Cannabis Act, Canada just became the first G7 nation to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults on a federal level. Under the new policy, Canadian adults may legally possess up to 30 grams of marijuana in public. On October 17, 2018, Canada passed the ...[Continue Reading]

NYPD demands Waze navigation application disallow users to mark the location of police officers

March 23, 2019

Criticism over the popular GPS navigation application, Waze, has been renewed once again. The unique mapping application provides users with features unavailable on Google or Apple maps. Waze allows users to mark the presence of red-light cameras, vehicles stopped in or on the shoulder of the ...[Continue Reading]

A divided court and a controversial travel ban: Trump v. Hawaii

March 23, 2019

Those following American politics will have heard of President Donald Trump’sProclamation No. 9645, a travel ban on nationals from eight foreign countries, including Chad, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. On June 26, 2018, the controversial travel ban was fortified ...[Continue Reading]

Real Estate Transactions: where efficiency and consumer protection collide

March 22, 2019

Buying and owning land has been an important aspect of society throughout history. The transaction will likely be the biggest investment a person will ever make throughout their life; however, states have been changing their laws to favor efficiency over consumer protections of homebuyers. ...[Continue Reading]

Better than Resilience: Getting Ahead of the Struggle

March 22, 2019

A critical analysis of the tension between psychological resilience and the typical characteristics of law students and lawyers suggests that a more proactive approach is needed to resolve the pervasive mental health problems we are reluctant to admit. ...[Continue Reading]

Statelessness: An unforgiving situation for millions of people

March 19, 2019

Statelessness is a legal issue affecting millions of people around the world, but what does it truly mean to be stateless and what can we do to help those who are? ...[Continue Reading]

Pot & Patents: How the Federal Government has Monopolized Marijuana

March 15, 2019

The growing conflict between America’s drug enforcement policies and the federal government’s control of the marijuana-based pharmaceutical market is laden with contradictions and a healthy dose of bureaucratic hypocrisy. On one side of the conflict is the Department of Health and Human ...[Continue Reading]

Saying It Is Doesn’t Make It So: Recurring Misconceptions About Assault Weapons

March 10, 2019

Nobody desires to see guns in the hands of others who would break the law and kill innocent people. However, Americans enjoy a rich endowment of rights that are codified within the highest document of the land, The U. S. Constitution. ...[Continue Reading]

Redrawing of four NC Congressional Districts ruled unconstitutional: Gerrymandered districts not fixed in time for the fall 2018 midterms

March 10, 2019

Defendant lawmakers argue the shifting of voters was a ripple effect required to remedy the constitutional defects. ...[Continue Reading]

Excessive use of force: where decisions made in seconds are scrutinized for years

February 25, 2019

The truth is that only those officers, under those circumstances, at that scene, on that day, can truly account for both what was and was not reasonable. ...[Continue Reading]

Bird scooters: Legitimate methods of urban transportation or instruments of mayhem?

November 16, 2018

Due to the drastic increase of the number of scooters, as well as legitimate concerns for public safety, Raleigh City Council scrambled to propose new regulations to restrict the use of electric scooters while providing protections for pedestrians and motorists. ...[Continue Reading]

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