Volume 11, Issue 1

Editor’s Welcome
Kate Brennan

Foreword
Stephen Wermiel

Competitor Standing to the Rescue: Saving the Emoluments Clause
Demitri Dawson

Fintech: A Field Day of Arbitrage Gone Awry
Grace Fraser

The Pandemic and Privacy: The Global Culture of Intrusion
Jon L. Mills, Lucca Viana, and Danielle Black

Volume 10, Issue 1

Editor’s Welcome
Warner Allison

The Intersection of Reducing Recidivism and Spurring Inclusive Economic Recovery
Scott B. Astrada and Israel X. Nery

The Cannabis Conundrum: Constitutional & Policy Concerns in Taxation of the Marijuana Industry
Beckett Cantley and Geoffrey Dietrich

Volume 9, Issue 1

Editor’s Welcome
Julie Flower

Forward
Kimberly Wehle

A More Perfect Electoral College: Challenging Winner-Takes-All Provisions Under the Twelfth Amendment
Eric T. Tollar and Spencer H. Kimball

The Great Holdup: How the Senate and the Filibuster Thwart Gun Legislation Most Americans Want
William G. Dauster

Unfinished Business: How “Split Authority” over U.S. Asylum Adjudications Highlights the Need to Relocate the Immigration Court System to the Department of Homeland Security
Kirsten Bickelman

Volume 8, Issue 1

Editor’s Welcome
Rachael A. Soloway

Foreword
Jamie B. Raskin

A More Sensible Surge: Ending DOJ’s Indiscriminate Raids of Healthcare Providers
Michael C. Barnes

Think of an Elephant? Tweeting as “Framing” Executive Power
Fernando R. Laguarda

Undocumented: The Need to Further Address the Intersection of Immigration and Domestic Violence in the United States
Julie Flower

Volume 7, Issue 1

Editor’s Welcome
John Spellman

The Need for Federal Disclosure and Fraud Protection in the Workplace
Carlos Garcia

Empowering American Victims of International Organized Crime: Proposing an Amendment to Clarify RICO’s Extraterritorial Application
Lisa Lindhorst

Closing the Courthouse Door on Private Attorneys General: Judicial Expansion of the First-to-file Bar in the False Claims Act is Inconsistent with the Act’s Text and Purpose
Dylan A. Consla

Volume 6, Issue 2

Editor’s Welcome
Zachary I. Gold

Suppuration of Powers: Abscam, Entrapment and the Politics of Expulsion
Henry Biggs

Will it Really SaVE you? Analyzing the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act
Rachel Marshall

Passing the Torch but Sailing Too Close to the Wind: Congress’s Role in Authorizing Administrative Branches to Promulgate Regulations that Contemplate Criminal Sanctions
Reem Sadik

Volume 6, Issue 1

Can Consumers Bring State Claims For Furnisher Errors on Their Credit Reports
Catherine Bourque

Is Statutory Immunity For Spaceflight Operators Good Enough?
Maria-Vittoria “Giugi” Carminati

Far From Fair, Farther From Efficient: The FTC and the Hyper-Formalization of Informal Rulemaking
Cooper J. Spinelli

How Reforming The Tort Of Negligent Hiring Can Enhance The Economic Activity Of A State, Be Good For Business And Protect The Victims Of Certain Crimes
Shawn D. Vance

Did Congress Intend For Corporations To Benefit From The MVRA?
Leslie M. Villacis Esq.

Volume 5, Issue 2

Two Steps Forward, and One Step Back: How The Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act Encourages Design-Build, But Roadblocks Remain
Thomas Ahmadifar

Uncharted Waters: How Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC v. Salazar Highlights Core Problems with Judicial Oversight of Agency Behavior
Kyle G. Bates

Curbing Executive Compensation: A New Tax Scheme
Tristen Cohen

Blue Jeans, Chewing Gum, and Climate Change Litigation: American Exports to Europe
Daniel Hare

Volume 5, Issue 1

Shearson v. United States Department of Homeland Security: The Sixth Circuit Exempts National Security from the Privacy Act
Douglas A. Behrens

Circumventing the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact Survives Constitutional Scrutiny Under the Compact Clause
Michael Brody

The Road to Abolition: How Widespread Legislative Repeal of the Death Penalty in the States Could Catalyze a Nationwide Ban on Capital Punishment
Nicholas M. Parker

Unlocking Secure Communities: The Role of the Freedom of Information Act in the Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Communities
Erica Lynn Tokar

Volume 4, Issue 2

Making the Case for Wilderness: The Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Lands Policy and Its Role in the Storied History of Wilderness Protection
Maureen O’Dea Brill

In Defense of the Obama Administration’s Non-Defense of DOMA
Daniel J. Crooks III

Finding Safe Harbor: Protection, Prosecution, and State Strategies to Address Prostituted Minors
Darren Geist

The Future of Limitless Debate: The Filibuster in the 113th Congress
Mark Kogan

The Disappearing Provision: Medical Liability Reform Vanishes From The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Despite State Court Split
Rafael Andre Roberti

Volume 4, Issue 1

The Americans with Disabilities Act: Should the Amendments to the Act Help Individuals with Mental Illness?
Abigail J. Schopick

Federal Efforts to Achieve Mental Health Parity: A Step in the Right Direction, But Discrimination Remains
Lucas Quass

“Strong Words, Gentle Deeds”: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Maryland Immigration Consultant Act Five Years On
Cori Alonso-Marsden

Saving Their Own Souls: How RLUIPA Failed to Deliver On Its Promises
Sarah Gerwig-Moore

Volume 3, Issue 2

Federal Register 2.0: Public Participation in the Twenty-First Century
Lauren R. Dudley

Attention All Internet Users: How Proposed Amendments to the Communications Decency Act Could Save Your Reputation
Niki Blumentritt

“Going Green” the Wrong Way: How Governments Are Unconstitutionally Delegating Their Legislative Powers in Pursuit of Environmental Sustainability
Brandon L. Boxler

Referenda and the District of Columbia’s Human Rights Act: Voting on Same-Sex Marriage in the Nation’s Capital
Jacob Stewart

Staring Down the Sights at McDonald v. City of Chicago: Why the Second Amendment Deserves the Kevlar Protection of Strict Scrutiny
James J. Williamson II

Volume 3, Issue 1

War Courts: Terror’s Distorting Effects on Federal Courts
Collin P. Wedel

Credit Default Swaps and Clearing
Nazanin Baseri

Religious Exemption or Exceptionalism? Exploring the Tension of First Amendment Religion Protections & Civil Rights Progress within the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
Richael Faithful

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – Except in a Job Interview: The Discriminatory Effect of the Policy on a Veteran’s Employment
Amanda Alquist Pope

Volume 2, Issue 2

“For Any Reason”: Paper Promises to Protect Service Members
Tami Martin

“Bring[ing] Our Enemies to Justice”: Terrorism and the Court
Anna Elazan

Filling the Criminal Liability Gap for Private Military Contractors Abroad: U.S. v. Slough and the Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2010
Missye Brickell

Why the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 Falls Short, and How It Could Be Improved
Rand Robins

Volume 2, Issue 1

The Scarlet “L”: Lobbying Reform and the First Amendment
Mona Sheth

Government Transparency and the Obama Era
Ross Schulman

Barack Obama and Congress: How the Rules of the Caucus Hinder the President’s Legislative Agenda
Jordan Acker

Volume 1, Issue 2

Breathing New Life into Old Technological Infrastructure: Broadband Internet as a Means of Jump-Starting the Economy and Connecting the Country
Elizabeth Chernow

Tax Relief in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Steven Gassert

ARMed and Dangerous: the Crime of Mortgage Fraud and What Congress Must Do to Stop It
Gabriel Zitrin

Disincentives to Data Breach: Problems with Notification and Future Legislative Possibilities
Ross Schulman

The Limits of Presidential Recess Appointment Power
Michael McNerney

Volume 1, Issue 1

Help America Vote Act Enforcement
Tiana Butcher

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct and Political Campaign Activities
Lauren Gilius

Public Financing’s Last Breaths
Kellen Clemons

Public Financing, George Bush, and Barack Obama: Why the Publicly Funded Campaign Does Not Work, and What We Can Do to Fix It
Jordan Acker