Features

Featuring longer form articles, CLO award winners, and guest contributions from Campbell Law School professors and local attorneys.

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Sexual Orientation is a Protected Class in the Workplace

February 16, 2020

The United States Supreme Court heard some of the most anticipated legal issues of the October court term.  Among these cases, the Court will decide whether Title VII in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), one of the fundamental federal employment discrimination statutes, covers sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace.  Currently, Title VII explicitly prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.  The statute has never been [...]

North Carolina: The Last Frontier for Equality in Domestic Violence Protections for Same-Sex Couples

February 8, 2020

North Carolina is the only state that does not recognize equivalent domestic violence protection for same-sex couples as it does for opposite-sex couples.  See Am. Bar Ass’n, Domestic Violence Civil Protection Orders (CPOs), (2014).  Chapter 50B domestic violence protection orders are restricted to only opposite-sex dating relationships in North Carolina.  N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50B-1(b).  The resulting discrimination against the unprotected and vulnerable parties in same-sex dating [...]

What Monopoly Can Teach Us About Cash Bail Reform: Recent Efforts, Pros and Cons, and the Community Response

January 31, 2020

“Go to Jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.” Jail is one of the most-landed on spaces in a typical game of Monopoly.  However, for many Americans, Monopoly jail is the closest they will ever come to being behind bars.  The latest Department of Justice statistics available on the jail population in America places the jail incarceration rate as of 2017 at 0.229 percent of the U.S. population (based on the number of confined inmates in local jails per [...]

Student Servitude: The Pedagogy and Peonage

January 24, 2020

“A man in debt is so far a slave.”[1] These are the words Ralph Waldo Emerson uses in his 1860 essay, Wealth, to succinctly lay bare the concept of debt. Though Mr. Emerson likely did not foresee the looming—and now present—crisis of student loan debt in the United States, his words encapsulate the existence of more than 44 million Americans today. These citizens, saddled by student loan debt, are trapped in an indentured state of existence. Consider that figure in this context: it is [...]

Opinion: Garner and Wake Forest’s Parade Cancellations May Be Unconstitutional

January 13, 2020

The towns of Garner and Wake Forest cancelled their 2019 Christmas parades after the Sons of Confederate Veterans announced that the group planned to include floats in the parades.  Wake Forest Police Chief Jeff Leonard explained that the town cancelled the parade because the town feared that the Sons of Confederate Veterans would draw protests from outsiders.  Chief Leonard explained: Groups that contact us about their plans to protest tend to follow our rules and regulations.  We’re [...]

International legal rights of children living with disabilities: The realizations behind country-level implementation

April 1, 2019

International guidelines paint a relatively clear picture of the legal rights that all children living with disabilities share across the globe. These rights apply regardless of the region in which the child lives. The rights are inherently fundamental. These international human rights standards serve as excellent guidelines for countries looking to adopt and modernize their disability laws.  However, country-level implementation of these international laws on an individual country basis can [...]

Taking a stand by not standing at all

October 17, 2017

The National Football League has recently become a heated battleground as more players continue to engage in peaceful protests, despite comments made by President Donald Trump about standing during the national anthem. [...]
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