Professor Deborah Sivas looks at the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)—how it has come to play a central role in the protection of human and ecological communities and potential changes in a new Trump administration.
Professor David Sklansky discusses the interplay of criminal justice and American democracy, exploring a link between failures of the criminal legal system and a shift in American politics toward populism, polarization, and pessimism.
The U.S. ranks 107th out of 142 countries in its citizens’ ability to access and afford legal representation for civil matters. Professor David Freeman Engstrom and Rhode Center Executive Director Lucy Ricca discuss potential remedies.
Students from SLS's International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic recently served as official observers at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, with a front row seat to the world’s highest-profile environmental negotiations. Their experience is helping to bolster their clinic work with Colombian human rights organization Dejusticia.
Professor Michelle Mello's recent research explores methods for screening late-stage career physicians to ensure patient safety. The paper sheds light on policies that some hospitals have implemented to screen aging physicians, and offers recommendations to improve fairness, effectiveness, and physician acceptance of these programs.
