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Celebrating WCL Student Authors

The Celebrating WCL Student Authors series presents scholarly articles written by Washington College of Law students.

Submissions from 2013 2013

The Importance of an Expansive Deference to Miller v. Alabama, Alexander L. Nostro

"It's Not You, It's Me" - When Are Client Companies Liable For Staffing Firms' Discriminatory Hiring Practices?, Lara Samuels

The China Syndrome: The International Trade Commission’s Rising Importance for Enforcing International Trade Secret Violations, Jonathan R. K. Stroud

The Tragedy of the Commons: A Hybrid Approach to Trade Secret Legal Theory, Jonathan R. K. Stroud

Discovery Without Limits? Obligation To Provide Discovery For Products Under Development At The International Trade Commission, Julia V. Svintsova

The NSA'S Prism Program And The New EU Privacy Regulation: Why U.S. Companies With A Presence In The EU Could Be In Trouble, Juhi Tariq

It's Not Easy Being G-Free: Why Celiac Disease Should Be a Disability Covered under the ADA, Claudia Trotch

Submissions from 2012 2012

A Risk Not Worth The Reward: The Stored Communications Act And Employers’ Collection Of Employees’ And Job Applicants’ Social Networking Passwords, Nicholas D. Beadle

Voiding Motherhood: North Carolina's Shortsighted Treatment of Subject Matter Jurisdiction in Boseman v. Jarrell, Susanna Birdsong

Informed Consent: A Right without a Remedy Examined through the Lens of Maternity Care, Kristen Ann Curran

Legislating Inclusion, Lia Epperson

Answer me or go to Jail: Why Court Ordered Polygraph Testing to Treat Probationers Violated the Fifth Amendment, Ashley J. Fausset

A Circuit Supreme: How the D.C. Circuit Court is Using a Presumption of Regularity in Latif v. Obama to Make New Law and Ensure No Detainees Are Released from Guantanamo Bay, Bonnie Lindemann

Made In America: A Comparative Analysis Of Copyright Law Protections For Fashion Design In Asia And The United States, Alexandra Mackey

Is Judge Rakoff Asking for Too Much - The New Standard for Consent Judgment Settlements with the SEC, Amanda S. Naoufal

Forward-Looking Improvements to Licensing the Next Generation of Nuclear Reactors, Arjun Prasad

California notwithstanding: Why the Ninth Circuit Erred in Following the California Supreme Court's Grant of Standing to the Proponents of Proposition 8, Sara Rappaport

A Thousand Tiny Pieces: The Federal Circuit's Fractured 'Myriad' Ruling, Lessons to Be Learned, and the Way Forward, Jonathan Stroud

Politicizing Patents - Patenting Biotechnology in the Wake of Section 33, Prometheus, and CLS Bank, Jonathan R. K. Stroud

Cows, Congress, and Climate Change: Authority and Responsibility for Federal Agencies to End Grazing on Public Lands, Marya Torrez

Public Health vs. Privacy: Rebalancing the Government Interest in Involuntary Partner-Notification Following Advancements in HIV Treatment, Leah H. Wissow

Draconian Discrimination: One Man's Battle with U.S. Immigration Law for Fairness, Justice, and American Citizenship, Rachel Zoghlin

Submissions from 2011 2011

An Idea of American Indian Land Justice: Examining Native Land Liberation in the New Progressive Era, Richael Faithful

An American Crisis: Proprietary Schools and National Student Debt, Charles Pollack

Businesses CAN-SPAM No More: A Look at How the Facebook, Inc. v. MaxBounty, Inc. Decision Will Negatively Impact the Way Businesses Market on Social Networking Websites, Yaritza Velez

Reaching Beyond the State: Judicial Independence, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Accountability in Guatemala, Edward H. Warner and Davis Jeffery

Submissions from 2010 2010

AT&T v. Hulteen: The Ghost of the Supreme Court on Pregnancy Discrimination and Pay Equality for Women’s Pension Benefits in America, Walakewon Blegay

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

Reexamining Models of Disability and Applying Rationality, Morality, and Ethics to Support Disability Rights in Context of Genetics, Gary C. Norman

Expanding the Scope of the Good-Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule to Include a Law Enforcement Officer's Reasonable Reliance on Well-Settled Case Law that is Subsequently Overruled, Ross Oklewicz

Stepping out of the Vehicle: The Potential of Arizona v. Gant to End Automatic Searches Incident to Arrest beyond the Vehicular Context, Angad Singh

TRIPS and Human Rights: The Case of India, Subramanya Sirish Tamvada

The Post-Medellin Case for Legislative Standing, James A. Turner

Regulating Secondhand Tobacco Smoke in the Americas: A Comparison of the Top Down and Bottom Up Approaches in Brazil and the United States, Leigh Warren

Money, Meet Mouth: The Era of Regulation and Prescription Drug Importation/Reimportation, Aaron Wong

Submissions from 2009 2009

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

The Limits of Presidential Recess Appointment Power, Michael McNerney

Protecting the Family Pet: The New Face of Maryland: Domestic Violence Protective Orders, Gary C. Norman

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

Submissions from 2008 2008

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

Help America Vote Act Enforcement, Tiana Butcher

Public Financing’s Last Breaths, Kellen Clemons

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