Princeton Legal Journal, Law Review
The Princeton Legal Journal’s Law Review regularly publishes long-form legal scholarship from staff writers and outside contributors alike. Currently, the Review publishes issues at the end of the Spring and Fall semesters.
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Hypocrisy vs. Sovereignty: Accounting for the Colonial Vestiges of Public Law 83-280 in Alaska
By Dane Lester — Over the past three hundred years, the United States has expanded from a series of British royalist colonies on America’s East Coast to a fully-fledged democratic nation taking up the third-largest land area of any country…
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Liberty on Trial: A Case for Civil Right to Counsel in Eviction Proceedings
By Natalia Murillo Gonzalez — Right to counsel for tenants facing eviction remains unrecognized as a fundamental right—a contradiction to our country’s commitment to liberty. The label of ‘evicted’ is one that burdens many; in 2018, 3.6 million evictions were…
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From Financing to Frontlines: Interpreting Funds in the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism
By Katherine Lee — According to international law, states may supply terrorists with arms but not artwork, grenades but not gold, and dynamite but not diamonds. This interpretation in the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s most recent ruling draws a…
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Abortion Exceptionalism in the Post-Dobbs Period: Violation of Equal Protection?
By Anika Sekar — Arbortion exceptionalism refers to the substantial difference in how abortion is treated compared to other medical procedures and forms of medical care. Oftentimes, abortion is subject to additional regulations that similar medicines are not; for example,…
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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…
