Rep. Kevin McCabe, R-Big Lake, speaks March 20, 2023, on the floor of the Alaska House. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) An Alaska House member has proposed a bill that seeks to establish ...

HELENA, Mont. — Hazing has been in the spotlight across the state and nation and one Montana lawmaker wants to define it in state statute and make it a criminal offense. House Bill 516 would define ...

Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a former public defender, claims people who commit crimes out of desperation shouldn't be viewed as criminals.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Rape is Rape Act into law Tuesday, changing the way New York penal law defines the crime. The legislation, which has passed in the Assembly for 12 ...

State lawmakers began their legislative push Tuesday to define and criminalize grooming, an increasingly familiar colloquial term that describes an adult deliberately fostering a connection with a ...

The Virginia Law Review is a journal of general legal scholarship published by the students of the University of Virginia School of Law. The continuing objective of the Virginia Law Review is to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

An Alaska House member has proposed a bill that seeks to establish definitions of “life” and “person” in criminal law, prompting dozens of Alaskans to testify against it, saying it would ...