For thirteen years, pop icon Britney Spears has been under a conservatorship of both her person and her estate. Under California law, her father Jamie Spears completely controlled her assets, estate, business affairs, and personal life until he was removed from her conservatorship on September 29, 2021. After years of abuse and an incredibly popular…

[W]idespread and increasingly systematic human rights violations committed against migrants by State officials, criminals and private citizens have not only grown into a major global governance challenge, but have become one of the greatest human tragedies of our time. Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Children in cages.…

As 2020 demonstrated for all of us, life can be challenging. It can be even more challenging when your rights are infringed upon. In general, we still live in a society that challenges, insults, and oppresses the seemingly “different” of the herd. This is especially the case for the LGBTQ community. While this societal ill-treatment…

“Resisting violence and abuse by the state is especially difficult when those in power exercise their ability to legally define an institution such as immigration detention in ways that shield it from legal challenge.” – Carl Lindskoog Nativism, xenophobia, and “law and order” politics have worked in tandem to systematically deny undocumented immigrants—particularly immigrants of…

We necessarily give police officers considerable discretion in carrying out their job. With this discretion, there is a heightened risk that officers will engage in misconduct. And unlike other fields, misconduct by police officers “can leave [a] victim dead or permanently damaged, and under the right circumstances one cop’s bad call—or a group of cops’…