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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Shifting the Battlefield: Exxon’s Attempt to Evade Legal Accountability
By Rida Mian — On Earth Day 2021, the City of New York filed suit against the Exxon Mobil Corporation, ExxonMobil Oil Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Shell Oil Company, BP P.L.C, BP America Inc. and the American Petroleum Institute…
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California’s Deepfake Dilemma: Truth, Technology, and the First Amendment
By Siya Mishra — In the midst of the 2024 U.S. presidential elections, voters were exposed to a lot of promotional political content: emails asking for donations, texts to get involved with campaigns, and billboards and advertisements promoting candidates. Yet,…
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Violence with Impunity? Unpacking the Criminal Jurisdiction of Tribal Courts
By Teresa Chen — For years, Native American populations have suffered violent crime rates far exceeding the national average. In 2020, non-Hispanic Native and Alaskan Native people experienced the second highest homicide rate of any ethnic group, with 84.3% of…
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GEO Group’s Claim to Merge Government Contractor Liability and Immunity Doctrines
By Mary Grace Walker — The Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in GEO Group, Inc. v. Menocal, No. 24-758 (U.S. argued Nov. 10, 2025), raises a procedural question about the collateral-order doctrine, but it also raises a deeper doctrinal inconsistency…
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Sex Discrimination: Comparable Worth Theory in Bohm v. L. B. Hartz Wholesale Corp
By Jeannie Kim — Sex discrimination in the workplace is a highly controversial issue that has remained relevant for decades, as people hold different definitions of equality and what it should look like. Because sex discrimination cases tend to be…
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Indefinite Inaction: Clarifying Article 17 and the ICC’s Principle of Complementarity After the 2009 Guinea Massacre Trial
By Erin William — The right to publicly assemble and protest is a key element of democracies worldwide. For civilians living under democratic governments, losing these rights is inconceivable. The erasure of freedom of speech creates fertile ground for human…
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The Reverse of What Was Intended: How the Law Treats Reverse Discrimination
By Vivek Kirpalani — Roughly five years ago, Marlean Ames sued her employer for discrimination. According to her performance evaluations, she was a competent employee working to promote the Prison Rape Enforcement Act at the Ohio Department of Youth Services.…
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You’re Fired! The Rise of Unconstitutional Layoffs in the Trump Administration
Vinayak Menon — In President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, roughly 25,000 federal workers have been terminated across 18 departments or agencies. While most of these cuts have targeted lower-level probationary employees, the Trump administration has also targeted…
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Charters, Churches, and the Court: Gauging the Future of Religion in Public Education
Tarun Iyengar — Religious public education is an uncommon phrase in the United States given current jurisprudence relating to the 1st Amendment Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses. However, this phrase has recently garnered serious attention after the Archdioceses of Oklahoma…
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The Flight Back to the Sherman Act: How Antitrust’s Shift Towards Consumer Welfare Has Overly Consolidated the U.S. Airline Industry
Tanner McNamara — The United States has long grappled with corporate concentration, from the Gilded Age monopolies of Rockefeller and Vanderbilt to today’s airline industry. However, not all monopolies surface into a market in the same manner, with law and…
