After trying and failing to receive protection from staff, Keith DeBlasio was raped in prison multiple times by a fellow inmate. Although...

In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the...

The last Supreme Court session resulted in numerous 6-3 decisions in which the conversative majority consistently contradicted...

Photo Credit: Gieves Anderson Carolina Rubio-MacWright is an artist, immigration lawyer and activist fighting for immigration justice. An...

James Forman Jr. is a professor at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes about criminal law policy, constitutional law, juvenile...

Rachel A. Pickens is a civil-rights attorney who graduated college from Boston University and received her law degree from Loyola...

As “smart” data-driven approaches have become increasingly common and successful in police departments across the country, a movement to...

The Equifax hack shocked Americans in both its scope and preventability. The Social Security numbers of over 143 million citizens were...

In the past few years, issues surrounding immigration, refugees, and displaced persons have proven to be ones transcending national...

In early September, the Twitter account of Texas Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz “liked” a post containing...

In 2015, the UN High Commission on Refugees interviewed over 400 children who had been taken into custody by the US federal government...

Haben Girma is an attorney and disability rights advocate. She was the first deafblind student to graduate from Harvard Law School and...

On a tense Friday last August, two teenagers shed tears in a Concord, New Hampshire courthouse. One was Owen Labrie, a 19-year-old...

Thecase centered on Dr. Mimi C. Lee and Stephen Findley, her ex-husband. Before their wedding, Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer and...

When you place a pod of ready-to-brew coffee into one of Keurig’s squat, iconic machines and press the ‘go’ button, you can be sure of a...

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that a group of banking-related software patents were invalid. The ruling was received with as much...

BPR’s Sabin Ray sat down with Professor Nina Tannenwald to analyze the legal implications in humanitarian law of the United States’...

Taking a case all the way to trial is usually a hard, expensive and exhausting process.  Obtaining an audience in federal court is often...