Tag: Review
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Food or Friends? A Critical Look at the Rights of Farm Animals in American Law
By Mikhail Perminov — As the agricultural industry expands, 62 percent of the world’s mammal biomass is made up of animals used for farming, while humans make up 34 percent and wild mammals make up only four.[1] According to the…
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The (Im)permanent Fund Dividend: Understanding the Law of Alaska’s Universal Basic Income
By Dane Lester — In 1976, voters in Alaska ratified Proposition Two in the state’s general election by over a thirty percent margin, redefining the state’s resource allocation to accommodate the then-lucrative oil development proceeds rapidly flowing into its economy.…
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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…
