Volume 10 Number 1

• Emergency Detention and Involuntary Hospitalization: Assessing the Front End of the Civil Commitment Process

  by Richard C. Boldt

  The allocation of treatment resources in the behavioral health system in the United States has shifted dramatically over the past fifty years.

  10 Drexel L. Review 1

• From the Dark Tower: Unbridled Civil Asset Forfeiture

  by Vanita Saleema Snow

  This article seeks to reignite the conversation about discriminatory policing and how racially biased policing results in law enforcement disproportionately seizing African Americans’ property suspected of being related to illegal activity. But, it also attempts to situate issues of protest movements as a vehicle to move the Supreme Court to change discriminatory standards under forfeiture statutes.

  10 Drexel L. Review 69

• Moving Beyond the Federal Funding Hook: Management-based Regulation in Biomedical Research

  by Gabrielle Goldstein

  This Article identifies and describes the development of four areas of regulatory oversight: (1) human subjects research, (2) animal research, (3) scientific integrity and misconduct, and (4) financial conflicts of interest. Each is an example of management-based regulation: regulated entities have flexibility in designing policies and programs that meet generalized regulatory requirements.

  10 Drexel L. Review 127

• Big-Ag Exceptionalism: Ending the Special Protection of the Agricultural Industry

  by Sonia Weil

  This Article explores the harms the industrialized agricultural industry creates and the legal protections the industry enjoys in environmental law, animal cruelty law, labor law, anti-terrorism law, and through heightened protections in trespass and libel law.

  10 Drexel L. Review 183

• Note - Fixing United States Elections: Increasing Voter Turnout and Ensuring Representative Democracy

  by Ryan J. Silver

  It is imperative that the United States shift to a multi-party system, and that states enact laws to adopt single transferable vote/ instant runoff voting systems. These voting systems allow voters the opportunity to rank candidates, with their vote automatically going to the candidate who stands the best chance of winning. Only then will the United States have a truly representative democracy, increased voter turnout, and guaranteed fundamental rights for voters.

  10 Drexel L. Review 239

• Note - You Don’t Know What’s in Your Shampoo, and Neither Does the FDA: A Call for Change

  by Brittany Stepp

  In addition to implementing pending legislation, Congress should look to the European Union (EU) laws and adopt additional safeguards. Similar to the EU, it is essential that the FDA be granted authority to reevaluate and update permissible ingredients on a rolling basis.

  10 Drexel L. Review 277