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ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 4
From Victim to Defendant: Advocating for Child Rights of Child Sex Trafficking Victims who Commit Any Criminal Offense as a Result of Their Victimization
Chrystul Kizer. Cyntoia Brown. Pieper Lewis. Alexis Martin. These names represent just a handful of survivors of child sex trafficking (CST) who committed violent…
Amanda N. Ghibaudo -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6
What is Penal Minimalism?
How much and what kind of criminal justice do fair societies need? This question underlies many of the debates on the criminal legal system…
Máximo Langer -
CommentaryVol. 101 · Iss. 4
The Consent of the Governed: Resistance as Constituent Power
The legal status of resistance to tyranny as a universal human right has received little attention in recent years. Following the conclusion of World…
Leigha Crout -
NoteVol. 87 · Iss. 5
Taste of Child Labor Not So Sweet: A Critique of Regulatory Approaches to Combating Child Labor Abuses by the U.S. Chocolate Industry
United States chocolate manufacturers, including Hershey’s and Mars, received unwelcomed media attention in 2001 as reports of the use of child labor on West…
Kemi Mustapha -
ArticleVol. 87 · Iss. 5
A No-Excuse Approach to Transitional Justice: Reparations As Tools of Extraordinary Justice
It is sometimes the case that a debate goes off the rails so early that riders assume the rough country around them is the…
David C. Gray -
ArticleVol. 88 · Iss. 5
A Realist Defense of the Alien Tort Statute
This Article offers a new justification for modern litigation under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a provision from the 1789 Judiciary Act that permits…
Robert Knowles -
ArticleVol. 88 · Iss. 5
The “Youngest Profession”: Consent, Autonomy, and Prostituted Children
Although precise statistics do not exist, data suggest that the number of children believed to be at risk for commercial sexual exploitation in the…
Tamar R. Birckhead -
NoteVol. 88 · Iss. 3
From Preservative to Transformative: Squaring Socioeconomic Rights with Liberty and the American Constitutional Framework
The U.S. Constitution is not designed to create legally enforceable socioeconomic rights. Despite growing consensus about the normative importance of judicial consideration of socioeconomic…
Micah Zeller -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 5
The Food We Eat and the People Who Feed Us
Food justice scholars and advocates have made a simple but important point: for all the attention we pay to the food we eat, we…
Stephen Lee -
ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 3
Amnesty for Even the Worst Offenders
In recent years, global policy makers have declared that heads of state must be held accountable through criminal prosecution for internationally wrongful acts. Scholars…
Jay Butler -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 4
The Law of Identity Harm
Identity harm refers to the anguish experienced by consumers who learn that their efforts to consume in line with their personal values have been…
Sarah Dadush -
NoteVol. 93 · Iss. 1
Protection for the Vulnerable: How Unaccompanied Minors From El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras Can Qualify for Asylum in the United States
In the past few years there has been an increased number of unaccompanied minors coming to the United States from El Salvador, Guatemala, and…
Melissa Weiss