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Importance of Protecting Clean Water
There is no reference to the right to clean water in the U.S. Constitution; however, the United Nations General Assembly does recognize a “human right to water.” In the winter 2017 edition of The Legal Eagle, we published a story on the clean water crisis in United...
Development of Gene Editing Advancing Rapidly
If you could eradicate a disease from the human race would you do it? It seems like an easy question to answer. In reality, it’s not so simple. In the spring 2017 edition of The Legal Eagle, we published a story on the ethics of gene editing. Since then, researchers...
Making Voter Registration Automatic
There are currently more than 200 million registered voters in the United States. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau conservatively estimates that more than 20 percent of eligible voters are not registered. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of...