As a first time renter, attempting to make sense of your lease and the rights you are afforded as a tenant can oftentimes feel overwhelming and unfairly designed to benefit your potential landlord. Especially, as renters are very rarely offered the same legal and financial assistance or protection that Wyoming landlords are granted. While this…
The Wyoming Humanities Council will be hosting the Summer Institute on Human Rights from this Sunday, June 14 to Thursday, June 18 in the UW College of Law. This institute, a yearly staple of the Humanities Council calendar, will feature numerous speakers and discussions related to human rights both in general and specific to Wyoming….
If you’ve heard anything at all about HB83 or the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” in the past week, it is very likely that you’ve heard an opinion talking about how the bill is going to allow for businesses to discriminate against any particular demographic. Of course suppose the bill was created to serve this function,…
If the Religious Freedom Restoration Act makes it through the state Senate, private business owners could discriminate against individuals, including homosexuals, based upon a “sincerely held religious belief.” The bill, HB83, passed the House of Representatives on a 36-23 vote earlier in the legislative session. It was introduced and sponsored by Representative Nathan Winters, a…
If it is up to one Wyoming law student, many UW students will better understand their constitutional rights on campus. Travis Wagman, a second year UW law student, presented a power point to UW students regarding their rights as students on Wednesday. Wagman’s presentation, “How far is too far?” concerned students’ rights per the First…
On Wednesday the “Abortion, Women’s Rights and Human Rights in Transitional Perspective Seminar” was held at the Cheney International Center. Veronica Undurraga, law professor at Universidad Adolfo in Chile and lead scholar on global reproductive rights, and Elinor Burkett, visiting senior scholar in global studies, were the two guest speakers presented at the event. Undurraga…
