Author: lw8376
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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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DACA and Presidential Authority: Navigating the Constitutional Limit of Executive Power
By Kaya Weerasuriya — “I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone.” President Barack Obama used this phrase as a metonymy for two actions he considered to be most effective for enacting change—the “pen” symbolizing his presidential capability to…
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Am I My Nation’s Keeper?: Nonenforcement and the Take Care Clause in Light of United States v. Texas
By Nathaniel Marks — The unlawful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador and the subsequent failure of the Trump Administration to return him (despite being ordered by a court to do so) seems to many to be the…