This collection contains the blog posts of the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ).

Blog posts containing student work have been published since 2021 on the Cardozo ERSJ website and are archived here.

The Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (formerly the Journal of Law and Gender) has been a pioneering publisher of social justice-related legal scholarship for over twenty years. The Journal has distinguished itself by publishing the first and most prestigious annotated legal bibliography on current gender issues in different areas of law. The Journal is currently ranked number 14 in the nation in the category of gender, women, and sexuality, and will now be expanding its range to include topics of race and diversity.

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Submissions from 2024

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Discrimination In Incarceration: Incarcerated People Litigate to Witness the Solar Eclipse In New York, Mitchell Kevett

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Will the OECD’s Two-Pillar Solution Better the Global Economy?, Joon Young Lim

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Assessing Standing in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Katie Negroni

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Without Congressional Action, An 1873 Law Could Result In A National Abortion Ban, Hope Peraria

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The Dormant Commerce Clause and the Dubious Constitutionality of State Regulation of Social Media, Charles Bachmann

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Tenants’ Right to Counsel: Los Angeles Should Follow New York City’s Lead, Jacklyn Hadzicki

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Are Frozen Embryos People Too? Unpacking the Alabama Supreme Court’s Controversial IVF Ruling, Arielle Fetman

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Kendra’s Law: The Troubling Reality of Involuntary Assisted Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment in New York, Matt Donelian

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The Oregon Drug Battle: Is Measure 110 Making a Difference?, Olivia Cohen

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California Court Supports the End of Free Passes in Sexual Harassment Claims, Emily Hall

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The Unwelcoming Bench: Understanding Hostile Architecture’s Potential Legal Issues, Jenna Rosenstein

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Path To Progress: The Smarter Sentencing Act's Potential To Redefine U.S. Sentencing Norms, Emily K. Abrams

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Banning Trans Student-Athletes Won't "Save Women's Sports", Laura Tierney

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Can the ADA Protect Persons with Disabilities in Their Ability To Get to Work?, Jack Gatcliffe

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The IRS Audits an Easy Target — The Poor, George Galan

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A Band-Aid Solution: New York's Proposal to Address the Maternal Health Crisis, Emily Glazier

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How Summary Eviction Proceedings Fail Individuals Facing Housing Discrimination, Katherine Alonzo

Submissions from 2023

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My Body, My Data: California's Attempt To Protect Reproductive and Fertility Data, Yeniliz Peguero

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A Broken System: How New York City Is Failing Transgender Inmates, Skylar Corby

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The Urgent Issue of Suicide in NYC Jails, Kathleen Leuty

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Does Speaker Johnson's Election Forewarn Federal Anti-LGBT Legislation?, Gerald Dryden

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The Roe Repeal Behind Bars: Prison Pregnancies in a Post-Dobbs World, Hani Fish-Bieler

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The Uncertain State of Navajo Water Rights After Arizona v. Navajo Nation, Ezra Littlewood

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Maine's Right To Food: A Symbolic Right Or A Practical Right?, Tess Bedingfield

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The United States Must Do More To Protect Immigrants from Legal Fraud, Olivia Hendelman

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The Importance of Fair Vetting Procedures for Iranian Refugees, Andrea Shahrabani

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It’s Legal but Is It Harmful? Marijuana Education Needs a Major Boost, Avi Kiel

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The Failing Prison Health Care System: Texas Policy Decides that Chewing is Not a Medical Necessity, Adeline Beattie

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The Legal Implications of Anti-LGBTQ+ Curriculum Laws, Isabel Ortega-Romero

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Spendthrift Trusts: The Tension Between Testamentary Freedom and Public Policy Concerns, Hailey Dobin Reichel

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Abortions at Sea: In Search of Creative Reproductive Healthcare Solutions Post-Dobbs, William Fox

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Section 230: The Legal Shield Perpetuating Algorithmic Discrimination in Big Tech, Arifa Abrahim

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An Unsustainable Process: A Proposal to Expand Work Authorization to Prospective Asylees, Gabriela Amaral

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Beat It: A Proposal to End Bans on Masturbation While Incarcerated, Madison Dougherty

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New York Adult Survivors Act: A Retroactive Opportunity for Accountability and Justice, Cassidy Moon

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What is the Proper Role of Attorneys Representing the Child in Abuse and Neglect Cases?, Alexandra DeBenedictis

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The Concerning Implications of Texas’s Claim to Standing in United States v. Texas, Noa Gutow-Ellis

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The United States Federal Judiciary: A Perilous Gerontocracy, Zachary Verbit

Submissions from 2022

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Redistricting: Federal Law, State Constitution, and the Courts, Arisha Andha

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You Do Not Have the Right to Remain Silent: The Lack of Miranda Within “Child Welfare”, Jane Weiss

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Landlord Duties To Combat Tenant-on-Tenant Discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, Nicholas Cinquina

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The USCIS Policy Manual: Exercising Questionable Authority through Obscure Language, Marcy Pineda

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The Monkeypox Problem, Sean Dalton

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The Supreme Court Revisits Affirmative Action: The Potential for a Major Decline in Diversity, Jessica Waldman

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Race Discrimination in Temporary Protected Status: Why Honduras Still Lacks Sufficient Protection, Maleah Bradley

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The Failing Congressional Response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Crisis, Sarah Brody

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Chinese American Advocacy for Chesa Boudin’s Recall After The 2021 COVID Hate Crimes Act, Grace Ouyang

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The Jones Act: Legislative Enforcement of Puerto Rico’s Dependence on the Mainland United States, Tabatha Cortes

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Concerns Re: Rikers Island and the Increase in Inmate Deaths, Emma Guggenheimer

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The Reintroduction of the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act: Throwing Debtors a Lifeline, Zoe Zingale

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Where We Stand Today with the Public Charge Rule, Rachell Henriquez

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How a Podcast and Docuseries Helped to Release a 14 Year Prisoner, Julia Maxman

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Religious Freedom or Freedom to Discriminate?, Samantha Woods

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Getting Blunt About Civil Commitment: How NJ’s Institutionalized Cannabis-Users Are Systematically Denied Civil Liberties, Peri Feldstein

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NYC Housing & COVID-19: More Rent Burdened Than Before, Katherine Dunayevich

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From Lovers to Litigants: Is There No Better Way to Divorce?, Elka Wiesenberg Blonder

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Highlighting the Drug Policy Reform Act: Should the United States Push for Drug Decriminalization at the Federal Level?, Justin Danziger

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Partial Decriminalization of Prostitution: Sex Workers Still Aren’t Workers, Emma Bruder

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The Purdue Pharma Settlement: Should It Have Been Overturned?, Hillary Borker

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Hamptons Aesthetics vs. Shinnecock Rights: How the Federal Government Is Failing to Protect Indigenous Sovereignty, Lindsay Brocki

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The Latest on Abortion: How the Supreme Court Has Jeopardized a Woman’s Right to Choose, Paloma Bloch

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The Reality of America’s Inhumane Alternatives to Detention Program, Calli Schmitt

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Separation of Church and Bodily Autonomy, Payten Slaughter

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Stonewalling Democracy:Demanding the Elimination of the Senate Filibuster in the Pursuit of Progress, Davis Villano

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How the Migrant Protection Protocols Were Put in Place, and Where We Are Now, Anda Totoreanu

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Artifact-Checking: FinCEN Could Be on the Verge of Ending Artifact Appropriation, Salisha Kayum

Submissions from 2021

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Consequences of Seeking Environmental Justice: The Lawyer Who Took on Chevron and Paid the Price, Simran Kaur

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Abolishing the Corporal Punishment Exception to Child Abuse in New York, Julia Patz

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The Use of Solitary Confinement as a Form of COVID-19 Quarantine in Prisons, Danielle Bluth

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Rap Lyrics and Evidence of Guilt: The Racial Impact Of The Weaponization Of Evidence Rules, Brooke Hodgins

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Coercive Control: Crucial Legal Changes and Police Training, Bailey Appel

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NYC’s Immunocompromised Children Forgotten as City’s Children Return to School, Hannah Kramer

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The Prejudicial Impact of Federal Rule of Evidence 609 on Black Defendants, Niara Morrison

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Breaking Bond: How ICE Uses Bond Money to Fund Detention Centers, Bill Seguin

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H.R. 2590: Finally Conditioning U.S. Aid to Israel, Heidi Sandomir

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Student Loan Debt Forgiveness in a Pandemic, Samantha Berger

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Approaching the HIV Epidemic and COVID-19 Pandemic with Incarcerated People, Olivia Nevola

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Welcoming Shelters into Every Neighborhood: The New York City Homeless Shelter System and What Must Change, Emily Silverman

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Remote Work as an Accommodation under the ADA in a Post-COVID World, Sean Murphy

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Title 42 and the Haitian Border Crisis: Is the American Asylum System Irreparably Broken?, Steven Kaufman