Kif Augustine-Adams and Ivan Meitus, Law School The MEG funds that I received supported student participation in pro bono legal assistance fieldwork at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, as well as student participation in an academic conference to present and discuss our research. The funds also supported teaching assistants who returned […]
Post-Genocide Rwanda Peacebuilding Efforts: The Perspective of the People
Amerins Tolman and Ben Cook, Law School Introduction: In 2015, there were forty active conflicts worldwide, with approximately 167,000 fatalities. These statistics are representative for the past decade. Many fatalities are associated with the inability to create lasting peace in the developing world, due to a lack of peace-building techniques, assistance from the transnational justice […]
Does Transparency Mobilize Citizens and Decrease Corruption?
Neal Bangerter and Brigham Daniels, BYU Law School I worked with Professor Brigham Daniels on his ongoing research with Mark Buntaine at UC Santa Barbara. This is a summary of the results from the 2018 phase of the project. Introduction Transparency in government is widely considered to have a positive impact on governance, by equipping […]
Child Prisoners: Asylum-Seeking Detainees in the U.S. and the Violation of the Flores Settlement Agreement
Miriam Sweeney and Carolina Nunez, J. Reuben Clark School of Law After hearing about the American asylum-seeking crisis, it wasn’t enough to know that attorneys around the country were pushing legislation to close family detention centers. I pored over articles about what makes American private corporations feel entitled to imprisoning children. In order to structure […]
National Parks and the Threats They Face: A World Survey
Jared Meek Mentor: Brigham Daniels, J. Reuben Clark Law School National Parks and the Threats They Face: A World Survey Introduction The earth is experiencing profound changes in its ecological health and rate of biodiversity loss across the globe. For example, birds, insects, and mammals of Europe are migrating northwards and uphill in response to […]
Information as a Solution to Encroachment in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Hugo Fraga and Dr. Brigham Daniels, J. Ruben Clark Law School In many parts of the world, the accountability of public agencies to citizens is limited. Graft, corruption, and mismanagement are a way of life. Citizens have few ways to influence official decisions. Many times, the fundamental problem is information. Citizens are not well informed […]
Encroachment of Bwindi National Park, in Relation to Richness and Diversity of Tree Species
Catherine Johns and Dr. Brigham Daniels, College of Law This project originally aimed to research tree richness and diversity using the Point Quarter method in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park but after the first day attempting to work, I learned how impossible the forest actually is. Having never experienced such a dense mountainous forest, not even […]
Law Schools Environments Study
Jacob S. Walker and Alf Pratt, Communications; Eileen Crane, Pre-law Advisor The researchers aimed to establish a set of criteria for judging the environments at various law schools, and then apply these criteria to five national law schools. The students specifically examined the academic and social environments at each school as they relate to a […]
International Center for Law and Religion Studies
Professor Cole Durham, J. Reuben Clark Law School In 2010 Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr. received a grant in the amount of $20,000 to help offset the cost of mentoring and training selected law students following their first year of law school. These funds were received and accounted for by the International Center for Law […]
Legal Perspectives on Magic in Ancient Roman, Greek, and Jewish Laws
Brock Mason and John Welch, JD, Law School For my research project, I continued working with John W. Welch of the BYU Law School, investigating how Roman, Greek, and Jewish law accounted for magic. As part of my research, I traveled through Turkey and Greece searching for sources during the summer of 2012. During my […]