Fourth Amendment. Prison Cells: Is There a Right to Privacy?

Reclaiming "abandoned" DNA: the Fourth Amendment and genetic privacy.

Minimal Protection of Public School Students’ Privacy Under the Fourth Amendment—How Little is Too Little?

Amendment—How Little is Too Little? NATALIA WALTERS

Genetic privacy, abandonment, and DNA dragnets: Is Fourth Amendment jurisprudence adequate?

L ast week, you killed someone. You meticulously removed any evidence which might link you to the crime. You are still the prime suspect, but you're not worried. The police have nothing, not even probable cause to search your apartment. You are literally getting away with murder. But you have a nagging cold with an awful cough. On your way out the door one morning, you spit some phlegm on the s...

Is there a Moral Right to Vote?

The question raised in this paper is whether legal rights to vote are also moral rights to vote. The challenge to the justification of a moral right to vote is that it is not clear that the vote is instrumental to the preservation of some critical interest of the voter. Because a single vote has ‘no impact’ on electoral outcomes, the right to vote is unlikely to serve the interests of the indiv...

Is there a constitutional right to clone?

Recent scientific innovations, and proposed legislation, have raised questions about the nature of the constitutional right to reproductive freedom, and in particular about whether there is a constitutional “right to clone.” This essay urges that as a matter of substantive due process, rationality review is probably appropriate, and that restrictions on both reproductive and therapeutic cloning...