Princeton Legal Journal Forum
The Princeton Legal Journal Forum regularly publishes short-form legal scholarship from staff writers and outside contributors alike. The Forum focuses on publishing articles of contemporary relevance at a quicker pace.
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What’s in a Name…or a Voice? Protecting Artists from Deepfakes in the Music Industry
By Danielle Williams — In April of 2023, a collaboration between the highly acclaimed artists Drake and The Weeknd titled “Heart on My Sleeve” gained millions of views on various social media platforms and over half a million streams on…
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Cutting the Line: Judiciary Folly and Federal Telemedicine
By George Vavrik — Telemedicine represents a transformative approach to healthcare delivery, leveraging technological advancements to facilitate remote diagnosis, consultation, and treatment.Through modalities such as real-time video conferencing and asynchronous communication methods like store-and-forward mechanisms, telemedicine offers a versatile toolkit…
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To Infinity at the Expense of the Pond
By Jaylee Witcher — Just barely within the borders of the United States, Boca Chica Beach is home to a plethora of species, including shorebirds. Neatly within its silt and sand, these birds nestle their eggs, relying on the Texas…
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Should Homelessness be a Crime? A Critique of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
By Vinayak Menon — By July 24, 2018, Debra Blake was banned from entering every park in the small city of Grants Pass, Oregon. Her offense was trying to find a place to sleep. A decade earlier, Blake had lost…
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NFL Tackled By Antitrust Litigation: Route to Renegotiation of Streaming Deals
By Danielle Williams — In 2024, the NFL had its most-watched Week 1 on record, averaging 21 million viewers per game. The growing popularity of fantasy leagues and sports betting has given fans more reasons to root for teams outside…
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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…
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How to Prove Mental Illness in the Eyes of the Court
By Eunice Lee — Kahler v. Kansas, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 23, 2020, ruled that the Due Process Clause does not require Kansas to adopt an insanity test that aims to understand a defendant’s ability to…
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A Tale of Two States: Tackling Big Tech Across the Atlantic
By Justin Murdock — The Digital Markets Act (DMA) and its counterpart, the Digital Services Act (DSA), form the cornerstone of the European Commission’s efforts to regulate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. While the DMA specifically targets major tech companies…
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The Discriminatory Adversity in Defining “Adverse Employment Action”
By Kelly Kim — Wanza Cole, an African American woman, worked as an educator at the Wake County Board of Education in North Carolina from 1992-2015, where she eventually became a school principal in 2007. After claims of inadequate evaluation…
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The Real Lesson of Texas v United States
By Anna Ferris — In 2010, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius came before the Supreme Court seeking to clarify key tenets of the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare). First, the Court was called to decide whether…
