Tag: Review
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Non-Refoulement: Reality or Reverie?
By Ritika Asher – The Central Mediterranean route is the deadliest migration route, with an estimated 24,000 deaths and disappearances since 2014. This route gained prominence in the mid-1990s, as thousands left the Northern coast of Africa in the hopes…
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The Unconstitutionality of Modern Plea Bargaining: Curbing Prosecutorial Vindictiveness
By Ava Chen — Plea bargaining is a central fixture of the American justice system—an estimated 98% of criminal cases are resolved through guilty pleas, with only 5% of defendants exercising their right to a jury trial. According to a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
