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Pharmacists Refusing to Dispense OTC Birth Control
November 19, 2012
by Katelyn DeRuyter, UMN Law Student, MJLST Staff Can your access to a legal method of birth control be blocked by your pharmacist? It seems...
Growth of Social Media Outpaces Traditional Evidence Rules
November 14, 2012
by Sabrina Ly Evidence from social networking websites is increasingly involved in a litany of litigation. Although the widespread use of social media can lead...
Are DNA Databases the Future of Our Criminal Justice System?
November 14, 2012
by Jennifer Nomura, UMN Law Student, MJLST Staff DNA is a key piece of evidence in criminal trials. But despite what we see on Law...
Free Consortium Event, Nov. 15: Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Legal Policy?
November 14, 2012
by MJLST Studies of adolescent brain development have influenced debates on issues such as the constitutionality of the juvenile death penalty, if sentencing juveniles to...
To Serve or Not to Serve the Shareholders; That Is the Question
November 9, 2012
by Maya Suresh, UMN Law Student, MJLST Staff Hikma Pharmaceutical Company recently received the 2012 Client Leadership Award of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) due...
Brains on Drugs: The Need for a Drug Policy That Embraces Scientific Understanding of Addiction
November 7, 2012
by Mike Borchardt, UMN Law Student, MJLST Managing Editor The strong showing in polls for marijuana legalization efforts in Colorado and Washington illustrate that America's...
Political Data-Mining and Election 2012
November 6, 2012
by Chris Evans, UMN Law Student, MJLST Managing Editor In " It's the Autonomy, Stupid: Political Data-Mining and Voter Privacy in the Information Age," I...
Censorship Remains Viable in China– but for How Long?
November 6, 2012
by Greg Singer, UMN Law Student, MJLST Managing Editor In the west, perhaps no right is held in higher regard than the freedom of speech...