By Ciara Chow (PO ’22) On Friday, March 15, fifty people were killed in a mass shooting (now designated as a terrorist attack) in Christchurch, New Zealand. The gunman opened fire in two mosques. The Christchurch attack is the largest in New Zealand history with a death toll almost four times higher than the country’s previous largest shooting thirty years ago, which killed thirteen...
By Aden Siebel (PO ’21) It’s no secret that Congress is woefully out of touch with modern technology. With mounting scandals bringing an increasing number of tech executives in front of Congress, lawmakers have proven time and again to be uninformed and ill-equipped. From Facebook to Google, executives have faced interrogation that is unprepared at best, perhaps most famously represented by...
Dear Readers, Welcome to Vol. 6. No. 2 of the Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy (CJLPP)! We are pleased to present our first print edition of 2019. Since our founding, we have operated on the principle that our writers delve into whatever legal or policy issues compel them. Our talented writers have never been assigned topics. As the mainstream news media continue to bombard and incite...
By Katya Pollock (PO’21) Last month, an 11-year-old in Argentina underwent a procedure similar to a caesarian section after officials in the northwestern province of Tucumán obstructed her right to a legal interruption of pregnancy (ILE). The girl, addressed using the pseudonym Lucía, had allegedly been raped by her grandmother’s 65-year-old partner. The case comes less than a year after...
By Rafael Santa Maria (PO ’20) Most petitions to the Supreme Court never receive a writ of certiorari, and thus are never adjudicated by the nation’s highest legal authority. With thousands of cases to consider, the Court must exercise extreme selectivity. However, when a petition is backed by amicus briefs from critically-acclaimed rappers and think tanks alike, the Court may just take notice...
By Savannah Green (CMC ’20) In Europe, Germany was the first country to participate in Daylight Savings Time (DST). It was implemented in 1916 and rapidly spread to other countries throughout Europe and the rest of the world. It began as a way to maximize daylight hours for economic growth and allow people to enjoy more sunlight after work in the summer. The idea was first presented in a paper by...
By Kimberly Tuttle (CMC’19) On average, 130 Americans die every day from opioid-related overdoses. America’s opioid epidemic is a severe national crisis that affects not only public health, but social and economic welfare as well. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that opioid misuse alone costs the United States over $78 billion a year, including costs accrued to healthcare...
By Musa Kamara (PO’22) The American anti-vaccination (anti-vax) movement found its roots when British anti-vaccinationist William Tebb visited the United States in 1879. Following Tebb’s visit, anti-vax groups in California, Illinois, and Wisconsin began to form and have continued to develop to this day. In 1998, another British anti-vaccinationist, Andrew Wakefield, published a study that...
By Alex Simard (PO’22) While the media centered its attention this week on the mounting scandals and investigations engulfing the Trump Administration, a Canadian scandal grew in scope and scale. On Monday, the Trudeau ministry faced its third major resignation in less than a month. Conservative opposition leader Andrew Scheer called again for the Prime Minister’s resignation, citing a loss...
By Katya Pollock (PO’21) At the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland this January, Dutch historian Rutger Bregman shocked fellow panelists and audience members with his harsh criticism of philanthropic efforts to address inequality. Berman lambasted the global corporate elite for initiating “stupid philanthropy schemes” which, he argues, serve only to distract from the rich’s own...
