Category Archives: Student Blog

A Pattern of Downplaying COVID-19: A Closer Look into how the Trump Administration and the Bolsonaro Administration have handled COVID-19

By: Jillian Blumenthal, 2L A year ago, almost no one could have imagined the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to societies across the globe. Words such as quarantine and social distancing began to dominate our vocabulary. Countries around the world have taken different approaches in an attempt to combat COVID-19. Some of the approaches […]

CFPB Policy Change Leaves Americans Vulnerable to Predatory Payday Lenders

By: Danielle A Greenberg, 2L If COVID is an invisible enemy, it has successfully held the U.S. under siege for several months. And with resources running low, both the Legislature and the Trump Administration have decided to follow the example set by Vercengetorix, expelling their most vulnerable citizens into a no-man’s-land of debt and financial […]

A Global Call for ICE Investigation: Disturbing Allegations in Whistleblower Complaint Raise Concern Over Hysterectomies Performed at Georgia Detention Center

By: Sofia Waterhouse, 3L Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse formerly employed by the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, recently filed a whistleblower report claiming an alarmingly high rate of hysterectomies performed on Spanish speaking women at the detention center. On September 14th, Project South, along with several other human rights groups, filed […]

A Broken Network: Argentina’s Public Service Decree and its Lasting Effects on Telecommunication Investments

By: Camila Chediak, 2L The COVID-19 outbreak left nations around the globe scrambling to provide relief to billions of people. The pandemic created an unprecedented disruption that has been met with a wide range of government responses from every country—though not all responses have been praised. One recent unpopular response to the pandemic comes from […]