UCLA School of Law

against transgender rights and implored local governments keep women and children safe. Some argue that the presence of transgender women in the restroom is a threat to the safety and dignity of biological women. Others are fearful and interpret the law to mean men can, and will, pose as women to gain access to restrooms for nefarious purposes.. Incidents of public restroom assaults and voyeurism should command our attention, but are these crimes increasing, as feared by some? Despite fears to…

According to Adam Winkler, professor at the UCLA School of Law, banning certain guns doesn’t work because manufacturers find a way to make the same guns by changing some elements of their design, and many gun control laws are seen as ineffective amongst experts on the matter of gun control. This means that the benefits of the policy still have not been completely shown where laws on restricting guns are being ineffective. However, this could also mean that there…

Every Work of Art Serves a Purpose To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and Animal Farm are well-known literary classics that share a commonality. They have all been banned at some time during their existence. Books are the most commonly banned form of art, but films, music, and video games are subject to this fate as well. One of the first groups of people to ban books for political reasons were the Romans, even though they were considered to be somewhat liberal. In Germany during the 20th…

Prior to 2014, I insisted that our judicial system contained no racial biases. In truth, I remember before hearing about profiling and stop-and-frisk laws, asserting that people were making a fuss about race for no reason. A year later, I wrote a research paper for my advanced placement literature class about the problem of prison overcrowding. Then again, for my introductory sociology class last semester, I wrote a paper analyzing the effectiveness of varying methods proposed to decrease prison…

used to finance the respective sports programs in a school, thus the enormous amounts of revenue the NCAA makes isn 't for its personal use, the money is reinvested back…

Within our society women have fought hard to gain equal rights and recognition. Beginning with the right to vote in the 1920’s, to holding lead roles in the media and honorable positions in politics, and now fighting for equal wages amongst genders. Women are now becoming a powerful symbol for the new generation from having strong celebrities and activist define what is means to be a feminist and what feminism really is. Many women in pop culture are empowering those all over to take a stand and…

country that they were not born in, yet over time, develop a strong connection with America because they have lived in the country for the majority of their lives. The children of immigrants have assimilated by learning English, attending public school, and possibly going to college. Essentially, they are like any other typical American, but the place that they were born in prevents them from reaching their fullest potential to make positive contributions…

Censorship of Black like Me Roman, Y, Shemakov McClintock High School Abstract This report goes on to examine if the banning of the book "Black Like Me" was based on a reasonable grounds, and how censorship should be approached in the modern day and age. The paper concludes that the banning of the book was merely arbitrary, and the idea of censorship is an unnecessary evil that should be avoided at all costs, no matter how pejorative or invidious the language is, it has the right to exist and…

expenses. Mike Rose, a professor of education and information studies at UCLA, was able to experience life in the lower class. Growing up, he got the opportunity to observe his mother’s waitressing job. As a child he didn’t quite understand the mental and physical skill required for his mother’s area of expertise. As an adult he later recognized…

This article is however, subtly against the ruling. They state that “it’s a cynical ruling” and how “the Voting Rights Act was renewed overwhelmingly in 2006 by a Republican led Congress and signed into law by a Republican president, George W. Bush.” These two sentences are the center of the framing in this article. By stating that a Republican Congress and president acknowledged the importance of Sections 4 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act, this article…