It has long been acknowledged by Indigenous peoples that violence against our lands is deeply tied to violence against Indigenous people (especially women and girls) Our Bodies Are the Front Lines: Responding to Land-based Gender Violence By Annita Lucchesi This article is the third in a series of articles published by NPQ, in partnership with the First Nations...
The Board September 26, 2018 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a sweeping new data protection and privacy law out of the EU. One of the things the GDPR includes is the ability of EU citizens to send “Right to Erasure” requests to websites, asking that those websites remove content that might be private. Recently, we received one of these...
As with any abuses of executive power, each branch of government must protect the Constitution against abusive exercises of the pardon power, including to deter abuses and to hold the president accountable in cases of abuse. The following outlines how each branch can and should do so. Putting Pardons in Check Each branch of government has constitutional tools at its...
Michael Lissner July 13, 2023 Over the past decade, legal innovation has surged and society has reaped huge benefits from open legal information. At Free Law Project, our mission is to facilitate and accelerate these trends, but it can be difficult. The latest challenge came earlier this week, when a number of federal courts sent a memo implying that systems like...