Allie Carter (CMC ’19) In July 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the landmark decision to permit gene therapy in the United States when they approved the leukemia treatment, Kymriah. The FDA’s decision to approve Kymriah both increases treatment options for many leukemia patients, and may lead to increased options for many others for whom innovations in gene therapy will...
Dear Readers, Welcome to the eighth print edition—Vol. 5, No. 1—of the Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy (CJLPP)! After reviewing many highly-qualified submissions, the editorial team is delighted to feature a number of especially stimulating papers in this issue. These cover a range of domestic and international topics in law and public policy, from U.S. sports law to Chinese health...
Conducted on February 9, 2015 by Byron Cohen CMC ‘16, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Transcribed by Gabe Magee PO ’20, Staff Writer Margaret D. Stock is an immigration attorney based in Anchorage, Alaska, and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve. She is a recognized expert on immigration law as it applies to US military personnel and veterans. Stock is a graduate of...
By Aarti Aggarwal (Jindal Global Law School ’18, India) In one of the most notorious cases of corporate tax avoidance of recent times, the European Commission has ordered Ireland to recover EUR 13 billion in back taxes plus interest from Apple, after ruling that a special tax arrangement for Apple to route profits through Ireland was illegal state aid.[1] This landmark decision has...
By James Dail (CMC ’20) The financial crisis of 2008 altered existing orthodoxy on monetary policy and changed the dynamic of the American economy. Monetary policy used to be fairly simple. If the economy was in a recession, then the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates. This would expand access to credit and provide the nation with needed economic activity. If the economy was doing...
By Caroline Skinner (SCR ’17), Former Interview Editor Transcribed by Kyleigh Mann (CMC ‘18), Staff Writer Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and a commentator for Fox News. After joining the Journal in 1994, he was named a senior editorial writer in 2000 and a member of the editorial board in 2005. Riley writes opinion...
Dina Rosin (CMC ’20) Is baking a cake an act of “speech”? This question is at the heart of the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission which will be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States in the fall of 2017. In this case, the Supreme Court will have to decide whether refusing to bake a cake on the basis of religious beliefs is a protected right under the...
By Nick Pap (PO ‘ 20) Tensions have escalated between China and Japan over the sovereignty of the Senkaku islands, as they contain valuable resources and are viewed as emblems of national pride. Taiwan has also claimed sovereignty over the islands, further complicating the disagreement. The recent elections in Taiwan have signaled a change in Taiwan’s political status quo and...
By James Dail (CMC ’20) The state of Utah is an enigma for education policy makers. Most of the states that receive high marks on state education rankings typically have two things in common: they spend a large portion of their budget on funding public education and they have low student-teacher ratios. By both of these measures, Utah should be at the bottom of the pack. It spends the...
By William Zheyuan Shi (CMC ‘20) Health care was one of the first severe battles for the Trump Administration. Disgruntled with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanding the budget deficit and threatening individual freedom, the GOP has long sought to replace ACA with new legislation. In March 2017, the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was proposed but lacked enough votes to pass in the House of...
