Princeton Legal Journal, Law Review
The Princeton Legal Journal’s Law Review regularly publishes long-form legal scholarship from staff writers and outside contributors alike. Currently, the Review publishes issues at the end of the Spring and Fall semesters.
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FTO Fallout: The Corporate Risks of Labeling Mexican Cartels as Terrorists
By Daniel Zayas — In February 2025, the war on drugs that the United States has prosecuted since the Nixon administration reached a new degree of fervor with the designation of several Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).…
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Are We All Americans?: Elk v. Wilkins and Native American Citizenship Before, During, and After Reconstruction
By Carolina Pardo — When Robert E. Lee went to negotiate his terms of surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, he stopped at the sight of a brown man amongst the Union generals. Everyone held their breath…
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Starlink Spectrum Wars: Examining the FCC’s Role in Regulating the New Space Age
By Hriday Unadkat – January 27, 1967, was a momentous day in Washington, London, and Moscow. Just ten years after the first-ever satellite, the Sputnik spacecraft, was launched into orbit, delegates from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the…
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Reframing Refuge From Persecution: The Right to a Stable Climate
By Sanjana Kumar — The climate crisis has been described internationally as “the greatest human rights challenge of the 21st century.” Despite this, there has been great difficulty in legally recognizing it as such. This article focuses on existing variability…
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Regulating Artificial Intelligence: Antitrust and Anti-Discrimination Policy
By Ava Chen — In 2023, the large language model GPT-4 passed the Uniform Bar Examination, scoring in the 90th percentile of real-life test takers. From demonstrating legal expertise to crafting convincing deep-fakes, the capabilities of artificial intelligence are exponentially…
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The Independence of State Constitutional Interpretation and The New Jersey Courts’ Reliance on Federal Doctrines of Liberty
By David Chau — Under the American Federalism system, 51 constitutions coexist. They often overlap and come into conflict with each other over a plethora of issues from governance to individual liberties. As state constitutional law continues to rise in…
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The Glyphosate Debate: Challenging Federal Preemption of State Failure-to-Warn Claims
By Daniel Zayas — Over the past decade, thousands of cases have reached federal courts to gain redress for injuries that plaintiffs have sustained while using Roundup, a popular pesticide manufactured by American agrochemical corporation Monsanto to kill weeds and…
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“Best Interest” vs. Strict Scrutiny: The Battle for the Freedom of Speech in Child Custody and CPS Cases
By Kaylee Kasper — As it stands, the US legal system promotes a largely hands-off approach to regulating the internal affairs of families. Parents have the liberty to determine how they intend to raise their children, dictating their day-to-day activities…
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The Puzzle of Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Preemption in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta
By Carolina Pardo — In his concurring opinion in United States v. Lara (2004), Justice Thomas writes, “Federal Indian policy is, to say the least, schizophrenic.” Justice Thomas aptly characterized Federal Indian law as contradictory and inconsistent. Since Christopher Columbus…
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The Delta Between Burden of Proof of Fear and Likelihood for Asylum Seekers
By Sanjana Kumar — This article explores the disparity between the evidentiary standards imposed on asylum seekers under the Refugee Act of 1980 and the international framework in the 1967 United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees it…
