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.
Submissions from 2024
Can the ADA Protect Persons with Disabilities in Their Ability To Get to Work?, Jack Gatcliffe
The IRS Audits an Easy Target — The Poor, George Galan
A Band-Aid Solution: New York's Proposal to Address the Maternal Health Crisis, Emily Glazier
How Summary Eviction Proceedings Fail Individuals Facing Housing Discrimination, Katherine Alonzo
Submissions from 2023
My Body, My Data: California's Attempt To Protect Reproductive and Fertility Data, Yeniliz Peguero
A Broken System: How New York City Is Failing Transgender Inmates, Skylar Corby
The Urgent Issue of Suicide in NYC Jails, Kathleen Leuty
Does Speaker Johnson's Election Forewarn Federal Anti-LGBT Legislation?, Gerald Dryden
The Roe Repeal Behind Bars: Prison Pregnancies in a Post-Dobbs World, Hani Fish-Bieler
The Uncertain State of Navajo Water Rights After Arizona v. Navajo Nation, Ezra Littlewood
Maine's Right To Food: A Symbolic Right Or A Practical Right?, Tess Bedingfield
The United States Must Do More To Protect Immigrants from Legal Fraud, Olivia Hendelman
The Importance of Fair Vetting Procedures for Iranian Refugees, Andrea Shahrabani
It’s Legal but Is It Harmful? Marijuana Education Needs a Major Boost, Avi Kiel
The Failing Prison Health Care System: Texas Policy Decides that Chewing is Not a Medical Necessity, Adeline Beattie
The Legal Implications of Anti-LGBTQ+ Curriculum Laws, Isabel Ortega-Romero
Spendthrift Trusts: The Tension Between Testamentary Freedom and Public Policy Concerns, Hailey Dobin Reichel
Abortions at Sea: In Search of Creative Reproductive Healthcare Solutions Post-Dobbs, William Fox
Section 230: The Legal Shield Perpetuating Algorithmic Discrimination in Big Tech, Arifa Abrahim
An Unsustainable Process: A Proposal to Expand Work Authorization to Prospective Asylees, Gabriela Amaral
Beat It: A Proposal to End Bans on Masturbation While Incarcerated, Madison Dougherty
New York Adult Survivors Act: A Retroactive Opportunity for Accountability and Justice, Cassidy Moon
What is the Proper Role of Attorneys Representing the Child in Abuse and Neglect Cases?, Alexandra DeBenedictis
The Concerning Implications of Texas’s Claim to Standing in United States v. Texas, Noa Gutow-Ellis
The United States Federal Judiciary: A Perilous Gerontocracy, Zachary Verbit
Submissions from 2022
Redistricting: Federal Law, State Constitution, and the Courts, Arisha Andha
You Do Not Have the Right to Remain Silent: The Lack of Miranda Within “Child Welfare”, Jane Weiss
Landlord Duties To Combat Tenant-on-Tenant Discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, Nicholas Cinquina
The USCIS Policy Manual: Exercising Questionable Authority through Obscure Language, Marcy Pineda
The Monkeypox Problem, Sean Dalton
The Supreme Court Revisits Affirmative Action: The Potential for a Major Decline in Diversity, Jessica Waldman
Race Discrimination in Temporary Protected Status: Why Honduras Still Lacks Sufficient Protection, Maleah Bradley
The Failing Congressional Response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Crisis, Sarah Brody
Chinese American Advocacy for Chesa Boudin’s Recall After The 2021 COVID Hate Crimes Act, Grace Ouyang
The Jones Act: Legislative Enforcement of Puerto Rico’s Dependence on the Mainland United States, Tabatha Cortes
Concerns Re: Rikers Island and the Increase in Inmate Deaths, Emma Guggenheimer
The Reintroduction of the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act: Throwing Debtors a Lifeline, Zoe Zingale
Where We Stand Today with the Public Charge Rule, Rachell Henriquez
How a Podcast and Docuseries Helped to Release a 14 Year Prisoner, Julia Maxman
Religious Freedom or Freedom to Discriminate?, Samantha Woods
Getting Blunt About Civil Commitment: How NJ’s Institutionalized Cannabis-Users Are Systematically Denied Civil Liberties, Peri Feldstein
NYC Housing & COVID-19: More Rent Burdened Than Before, Katherine Dunayevich
From Lovers to Litigants: Is There No Better Way to Divorce?, Elka Wiesenberg Blonder
Highlighting the Drug Policy Reform Act: Should the United States Push for Drug Decriminalization at the Federal Level?, Justin Danziger
Partial Decriminalization of Prostitution: Sex Workers Still Aren’t Workers, Emma Bruder
The Purdue Pharma Settlement: Should It Have Been Overturned?, Hillary Borker
Hamptons Aesthetics vs. Shinnecock Rights: How the Federal Government Is Failing to Protect Indigenous Sovereignty, Lindsay Brocki
The Latest on Abortion: How the Supreme Court Has Jeopardized a Woman’s Right to Choose, Paloma Bloch
The Reality of America’s Inhumane Alternatives to Detention Program, Calli Schmitt
Separation of Church and Bodily Autonomy, Payten Slaughter
Stonewalling Democracy:Demanding the Elimination of the Senate Filibuster in the Pursuit of Progress, Davis Villano
How the Migrant Protection Protocols Were Put in Place, and Where We Are Now, Anda Totoreanu
Artifact-Checking: FinCEN Could Be on the Verge of Ending Artifact Appropriation, Salisha Kayum
Submissions from 2021
Consequences of Seeking Environmental Justice: The Lawyer Who Took on Chevron and Paid the Price, Simran Kaur
Abolishing the Corporal Punishment Exception to Child Abuse in New York, Julia Patz
The Use of Solitary Confinement as a Form of COVID-19 Quarantine in Prisons, Danielle Bluth
Rap Lyrics and Evidence of Guilt: The Racial Impact Of The Weaponization Of Evidence Rules, Brooke Hodgins
Coercive Control: Crucial Legal Changes and Police Training, Bailey Appel
NYC’s Immunocompromised Children Forgotten as City’s Children Return to School, Hannah Kramer
The Prejudicial Impact of Federal Rule of Evidence 609 on Black Defendants, Niara Morrison
Breaking Bond: How ICE Uses Bond Money to Fund Detention Centers, Bill Seguin
H.R. 2590: Finally Conditioning U.S. Aid to Israel, Heidi Sandomir
Student Loan Debt Forgiveness in a Pandemic, Samantha Berger
Approaching the HIV Epidemic and COVID-19 Pandemic with Incarcerated People, Olivia Nevola
Welcoming Shelters into Every Neighborhood: The New York City Homeless Shelter System and What Must Change, Emily Silverman
Remote Work as an Accommodation under the ADA in a Post-COVID World, Sean Murphy
Title 42 and the Haitian Border Crisis: Is the American Asylum System Irreparably Broken?, Steven Kaufman
