Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2024
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Originalism and Jury Nullification in America: A Legal Basis for the Restoration of a Lost Right
By Lawson Wright — A peal of alarm bells shattered the brisk yet tranquil Saturday morning in Boston on February 15, 1851. A mob had stormed the local courthouse in an effort to rescue fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins from being returned to slavery under the newly strengthened Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Intended to mend…
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AI’s Assault on IP: The Inadequacy of the “Human Authorship” Test
By Nicholas Vickery — Each year, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) receives around half a million copyright claims, and typically, only a very small percentage of these claims are rejected. Recently, controversial claims involving works created by artificial intelligence (AI) have comprised some of these rejections.
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Aiding and Abetting Human Rights Abuse: Interpreting Nestle’s Focus Test and the Scope of Corporate Liability
By Daniel Zayas — From the banana plantations of Colombia to the cocoa farms of the Ivory Coast to the natural gas fields of Indonesia, U.S.-based corporations routinely turn a blind eye to human rights violations, ranging from child slave labor to murder.
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The Price for Plastic: How Oil Companies Float Through Anticompetitive Suits
By Tanner McNamara — The plastic that makes your water bottles, the gasoline that fuels your transportation, the natural gas that heats your house—if one company controls so many aspects of oil, a material so entrenched in our lives, how…
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How to Prove Mental Illness in the Eyes of the Court
By Eunice Lee — Kahler v. Kansas, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 23, 2020, ruled that the Due Process Clause does not require Kansas to adopt an insanity test that aims to understand a defendant’s ability to…
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A Tale of Two States: Tackling Big Tech Across the Atlantic
By Justin Murdock — The Digital Markets Act (DMA) and its counterpart, the Digital Services Act (DSA), form the cornerstone of the European Commission’s efforts to regulate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. While the DMA specifically targets major tech companies…
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The Discriminatory Adversity in Defining “Adverse Employment Action”
By Kelly Kim — Wanza Cole, an African American woman, worked as an educator at the Wake County Board of Education in North Carolina from 1992-2015, where she eventually became a school principal in 2007. After claims of inadequate evaluation…
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The Real Lesson of Texas v United States
By Anna Ferris — In 2010, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius came before the Supreme Court seeking to clarify key tenets of the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare). First, the Court was called to decide whether…
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What Constitutes a Human life?: Religious Language in Alabama’s Abortion Ruling
By Rida Mian — On February 16, 2024, the Supreme Court of Alabama released the controversial ruling that an extrauterine embryo is considered a person in the context of the law. The ruling came from an appeals case in which…
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Let the Bidding Begin: Tennessee v. NCAA and the Future of NIL Recruitment Bargaining
By Danielle Williams — The prohibition of pay-for-play in college athletics has long been a key component in preserving amateurism in college sports, an arena that generates millions of dollars in revenue for many institutions. Prior to 2021, the National…
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Protecting the First Amendment in Stopping Cop City: Unconstitutional Overbreadth in Georgia’s RICO Laws
By James Swinehart — In March 2021, then-Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms alongside the Atlanta Police Foundation announced plans to build the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center—a massive $90 million police training facility boasting shooting ranges, explosives testing grounds, and…
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“What about Me?”: How Upholding Non-Refoulement Principles Amidst Turbulent Pakistani-Afghani Relations Paves the Way for a More Peaceful Future
By Ila Prabhuram — The rights of Afghani refugees in Pakistan are being infringed upon and violated, exacerbating tensions and ongoing ethnic conflicts in the country. On October 3, 2023, Pakistan’s government announced a significant enforcement effort targeting individuals residing…
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Sahelian Storms: Evaluating Host State Mali’s Reacquisition of French Bases- Examining Mali-France Defense Treaties, ECOWAS Court Decisions, and the AfCFTA Perspective
By Ibrahim Ati — Echoing from the blue Tuareg, inhabitants of the Sahara and its deserts for centuries, comes a timeless proverb: ‘Ihanay amghar awar ihiniy alyad ibdadane.’ In translation, it reveals: ‘Seated, an elder sees farther than a youth…
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