While most states mandate some form of age-appropriate sex education in schools, very few mandate adequate teaching on menstruation, and even fewer incorporate education on managing or dealing with abnormalities in menstruation. Awareness of serious conditions like Endometriosis highlight the need for sex education in schools, yet the need must be balanced against the parents’ rights to opt-out of sex education training. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor Leigha Whitridge advocates for nationwide reform in the area of menstruation education and looks to the country’s capital for inspiration on how to institute such change.

While the guarantee of an impartial jury remains a touchstone of the American justice system, the endless information at any juror’s fingertips presents an attack on this guarantee. High profile cases present more problems than ever as access to social media makes keeping juries impartial a tall task. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor Preston Goodman explores remedies to jury impartiality problems in the modern era.

Twelve cents an hour. Seems a near laughable number of cents, but twelve cents an hour is what inmates within the United States Federal Prison System are earning. Prisoners struggle not only with low wages but also affording basic necessities at the commissary where prices are marked up sometimes five times what they would be outside the prison walls. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor Hannah Carroll explains how paying inmates mere cents an hour combined with exorbitant prices for basic necessities has resulted in a violation of the United States Constitution’s Eight Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause.

While generally car buyers who take out a loan on their vehicle leave dealership lots satisfied, many of these borrowers, upsold into a vehicle they may not be able to afford, discover “negative equity” and its implications. Borrowers rarely comprehend the gravity of possessing negative equity until faced with its debilitating consequences. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor John Simms explores the current realities borrowers with negative equity face and cleverly proposes using an existing consumer protection statute to curb the massive amounts of negative equity in the automotive market.