Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

Dual Purposes of a Plea Bargaining Simulation: Pedagogical Skills Training and Controlled Data Collection Experiment About Crime Victim’s Access to Justice Via Counsel

True Man, Captive Mother: Abortion as a Fundamental Self-Defense Right

Abortion healthcare has faced significant challenges since the Supreme Court held in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that there exists no constitutional right to abortion. Contrastingly, the right to bear arms, grounded in the right to self-defense, has strong constitutional protections, as highlighted in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen . The extension of the right…

Bridging the Digital Divide: The Role of Evolving Space Law in Ensuring Equitable Access and Ethical Use of Climate Data

Reimagining Self-Regulation in Sexual Misconduct Complaints: Trust Through Transfer

To increase trust in the judiciary’s ability to self-regulate, any formal complaints about a judge should not be handled by a colleague down the hall, but a judge from a different circuit. In this Comment, I propose automatic transfer out of circuit to improve the handling of sexual misconduct complaints specifically. I first describe the different ways judicial conduct is regulated in the federal…

Incarcerated Persons’ Day in the Sun: Why Prisoners Should Have a Right to Fresh Air and Direct Sunlight

One word sums up the current state of a prisoner’s right s to fresh air and direct sunlight: conditionality. Because the rights are conditional in the United States, the sword of litigation hangs above prisons while residents are subject to violations of their limited constitutional rights. International law and medical research respectively recognize the right to, and need for, outdoor…

Vice, Morality, and Immigration: Critiquing and Examining the Application of Legal Moralism in the Criminalization of Immigrants for Vice-Related Crimes

Clemency for Justice Reform: A Restorative Pardon Proposal Using Conditional Pardons

President Donald Trump’s pardons to people convicted for the January 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol intensified the nation’s divisiveness. They also illustrate why proper clemency must be restored and used for its intended purpose to ameliorate injustice under the law. Clemency is not meant to be a “get out of jail free card” solely for family, friends, and political supporters. It is a…

Making Room for Cultural Humility in an Anti-DEI Space

This Article analyzes the intersection of state anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) laws and the American Bar Association (ABA) Standard 303(c)’s cross-cultural competency education mandate and offers suggestions for how these policies can coexist. The surge in anti-DEI laws issued in twenty states over the last four years has created challenges and uncertainty for public law schools and…

JBS’s Initial Public Offering: Threats to Environmental and Human Rights

This paper centers around the decision to be made regarding JBS, the world’s largest meat company, wanting to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and the environmental and social impacts that could result from the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval. JBS has been at the center of various controversies over the last several years, including sourcing cattle from ranches…

The Failure of FCC Diversity Initiatives: A Postmortem and a Proposal