Volume 47, Issue 2

Minnesota’s S.F. 2200 (2025) presents a stark contradiction: a statute purporting to establish privilege protections for restorative justice participants while systematically carving out those protections intended for vulnerable participants who access government-funded services provided by paid facilitators. The narrowing of this privilege creates arbitrary classifications that violate Equal Protection principles. The stakes are immediate and…

Labor arbitration serves as a cornerstone of industrial democracy in the United States, particularly in heavily unionized Federal institutions like the United States Postal Service (USPS). Under Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA), disciplinary disputes are routinely resolved not through the courts but via a quasi-judicial arbitration process, where neutral arbitrators determine whether the employer had “just…

Young Adult Court (YAC), also referred to as Emerging Adult Court, is a problem-solving court for criminal defendants in emerging adulthood (approximately age 18-25) that has been implemented in a growing number of jurisdictions across the U.S. YAC is designed based on research showing that young adults are fundamentally different from both juveniles and older…

Americans have started asking questions about the data centers suddenly popping up across the country. Communities have rightfully begun to question whether these data centers belong near their neighborhoods, and how the intrusion caused by these structures will impact their lives. While neighbors host these conversations, their elected representatives offer incentives to lure in these…

In the fall of 2024, fourteen-year-old Colt Gray walked into Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia with an AR-15-style rifle and killed four people and injured nine others. In an interview following the shooting, his mother, Marcee Gray, said, “It’s not his fault.” If it is not his fault, then whose fault is it? Should…