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In late 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to expedite the rescheduling of cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. If finalized, the reclassification would mark a significant policy shift with concrete legal, economic, and research implications. What does this mean for recreational/medical use, state and federal drug law, […]

On August 7, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights broke new ground in international human rights law by recognizing the “right to care” as an autonomous and enforceable right. Advisory Opinion 31/25 recognizes care as an essential and universal human need on which functioning societies and humanity itself depend and outlines an array of […]

Wed, Feb 11, 12:30-1:15 pm, on Zoom. Register through CSM (limited to 25 RSVPs, with wait list). Judge Micah W. J. Smith (’06) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii previously worked at O’Melveny & Myers and as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the Southern District of New […]

Judge Eric D. Miller, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, previously served in the Department of Justice and as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission and was a Partner at Perkins Coie. He also clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and the U.S. Supreme […]