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Reshaping America’s Doctor-Patient Relationship: Examining The Role of Policy at the Intersection of Healthcare and Immigration

August 20, 2020

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By Edward Jung (PO ’22) Developing a concrete definition for the relationship between a doctor and their patient is a difficult question whose answer lies within the intersection of medicine, ethics, and the law. Medical students are taught in medical school that their primary obligation is to patients; yet, from the Hippocratic Oath to Hollywood’s representations of physicians feeling this...

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Moral Politics: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory

August 16, 2020

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By Sam Fiske (CMC ’21) Rational choice theory suggests that people are motivated to maximize utility through self-serving behavior and in recent years, this idea has become increasingly popular in political science.  In An Economic Theory of Political Action in Democracy, Anthony Downs adopted the assumption that “political parties in a democracy formulate policy strictly as a means of gaining...

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Six years after Ferguson protests: no drastic change means no change

August 1, 2020

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By Shuyan Yan (PO ’23) On August 9th, 2014, an 18-year-old Black man, Micheal Brown, was fatally shot by a white police officer,  Darren Wilson. Protests and riots quickly erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, lasting for several weeks. Micheal Brown’s death drew massive public attention to police violence and the use of police force.  Now it’s 2020. Again, an unarmed Black man and a white police...

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How the Debate Over Reopening Has Agitated Age-Long Questions About the Future of Hawaii’s Economy

July 9, 2020

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By Camryn Fujita (SCR 21′)Guest Contributor As many states across the nation begin to re-open businesses to mitigate the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Hawaii is in a tough situation. Hawaii has one of the lowest infection rates in the nation. As a result, Governor David Ige has allowed retailers, medium-risk “personal service providers,” and restaurants the green...

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How Police Get Away With It: An Evaluation of Police Contracts, Internal Investigations, Qualified Immunity, and Indemnification

July 7, 2020

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By Haidee Clauer (PO ’22) Racism and anti-Blackness have played a long and persistent role in the history of the United States, from its founding to the present. The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery—among countless others—as well as the national movement in response, demand our attention. This article is part of a series that seeks to explore and...

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CJLPP Statement on Black Lives Matter

June 5, 2020

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The Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy expresses our solidarity with the Black community and unequivocally believes that Black Lives Matter. We are outraged by the stories of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery—among countless others —and join the demands for justice in response to rampant, unpunished police violence and other forms of anti-blackness.  As a...

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Responding to COVID-19 in Low-Income Nations

May 11, 2020

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By: Andy Liu (HMC ’23) Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, nations across the world have rapidly intervened to contain the virus’ spread. Much has been made of the different approaches that the world’s developed nations have taken toward containing COVID-19; whether it’s the United States’ federal approach, with individual states having their own containment strategies, South...

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Chinese Exclusion Act in the Age of COVID-19

May 7, 2020

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By: Calla Li (PO ’22) May 6, 2020; marks the 138-year-anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the only piece of immigration legislation in American history to exclude an ethnic group by name. At the time, economic anxiety ran high due to the increasingly fierce competition to find gold in Northern California, causing rising animosity against Chinese laborers for taking White American...

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Food Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Local Food Policies versus Federal Government Policies

May 6, 2020

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By: Elease Willis (PO ’22) As a developed country that places a premium on technological innovation and globalization, the United States has prided itself on having transcended the immediate pressure of satisfying the lower tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, like the physiological need for food. Yet not only is food insecurity a reality for a considerable number of Americans, attaining...

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Xenophobia: An American tradition amidst the coronavirus

May 4, 2020

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By Aditya Bhalla (PO ’23) Over the last few months, the coronavirus pandemic has caused a marked increase in racially motivated attacks and xenophobic sentiment, particularly towards the Asian-American community. As early as January, when the threat of the virus began to seep into media outlets around the world, anti-Asian rhetoric began filtering into the global psyche. French newspaper...

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