Category: Business
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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 can they possibly be controlled? Since the 1940s, major oil companies within the United States and…
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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 Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA)’s attempt to preserve amateur status maintained that college athletes were to…
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Fly Big or Stay Home?
By Nicholas Vickery — Whether it be for business, vacation, medical treatment, family matters, or something else, Americans are frequently flying. It is thus no surprise that the recent events surrounding the proposed JetBlue acquisition of Spirit Airlines are of great public interest. The two airlines reached a merger agreement on July 28, 2022, and…
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Steering Towards Safety: Analyzing the Constitutionality and Effectiveness of Alternative Regulatory Frameworks in the Production of Self-Driving Vehicles
By Clay Reiferson — How do we weigh the value of the lives of future generations against the people of today? In the United States, federal and state governments are left to ponder this question as they seek to regulate the burgeoning self-driving car industry. It is widely accepted that, by removing human error, self-driving…
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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law: Contemporary Implications of Forced Tender Legislation
By Cecilia Quirk — From the invention of paper money in 7th century China to the FDR administration’s decision to drop the gold standard in 1933, money has constantly evolved in unexpected, even unsettling ways. Just as a world without paper money, or even without credit cards, seems unimaginable today, it’s no wonder that the…
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The Role of Environmental Personhood in Corporate Practices
By Anna Shin — Climate change has been at the forefront of environmental issues in both local communities and the global stage. The United Nations now labels climate change as a crisis that affects every country on every continent, and the problem only seems to be worsening by the year. While ordinary individuals can make…