Skip to main content

Celebrating WCL Student Authors

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

Submissions from 2026 2026

Salay v. Slovakia: a Contemporary Case on Educational Discrimination against the Romani People, Sara Apostol

Corporate Cybersecurity Governance: Director Liability Under Europe’s NIS2 Directive and the Emerging Fiduciary Duty of Proactive Cybersecurity Oversight, Stacey B. Barrack

De Novo Review for Asylum at the Circuit Court Level: Comparing a Stringent Standard of Review for Asylum Seekers in the U.S. to the European Court of Human Rights’ Standard, Dani Gómez

Blurring the Lines: A Reflection on the ‘Relaxation’ of the Organization Requirement of Article 7(2)(a) of the Rome Statute since the Situation in Kenya Decisions, Leonardo Helman

Behind the Headlines: Media Control in Bangladesh Post July Revolution, Nahida Islam

Cloudy Oversight: How Administrative Conflict Over International Airline Alliances’ Antitrust Immunity Harms Consumers of Commercial Air Transportation., HaMin Jeong

Rights on Paper, Violations in Practice: Israel, the U.S., and the Failure to Enforce Judicial Pro¬tections and International Obligations in Cases of Arbitrary Detentions, Anjali Narayanan

Modernizing Campus Accountability: How Illinois State Policy Can Inform an Update to the Clery Act's Federal Sexual Assault Reporting Framework, Sophie Putrim

Corporate Responsibility in Business Dealings with War Criminals, Michael "Mac" Richards

The Elusive Nexus Standard: Differing Approaches to the Asylum Nexus Standard as Applied to Religious Persecution Perpetrated by Gangs, Chloe Schalit

Reproductive Rights & Absolutist Abortion Bans: Beatriz v. El Salvador & Human Rights Standards in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Jordan Schucker

Diamonds Are Forever, As Are Trademarks: Articulating The Twists Of Section 43(A) Trade Dress Protection For Jewelry Designs Through The Facts Of David Yurman v. Mejuri, Daphne Singer

Reporting Materiality Under the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules: How Corporate Boards Balance Duty and Risk for Cyber Threats and Incidents, Deborah Slattery-Pereira

Kidfluencer Protection: Illinois’ Attempt at Expanding its Version of the Coogan Law., Genevieve Sloan

A Prosecutor’s Ethical Duty to Divert, Jordan Stevenson

“No One Can Hear You Scream”: Intimate Partner Violence and Family Justice Centers in Rural America, Jordan Stevenson

Nondo v. Tanzania: AfCHPR Signals Its Resolve on Democratic Preservation, Maggie Titus

Outbid By Technicality: How Streaming Services Weaken Legacy Media’s Matching Rights, Arthur Yolles

Submissions from 2025 2025

How Pretrial Detention Deprives a Child’s Access to Education: The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Juvenile Justice Reform Act, Abby Groetsch

Vulnerability in the Law, Sara Aziz, Aisli Ali, Casey Williams, Lindsey Nye, Saya Khandhar, and Sofia Bazdekis

The Right to Arbitrate(?): Integrating Consumer Protection into Judicial Review of the McCarran-Ferguson Act and the New York Convention, Rachel Bamberger

Defining “Delineation”: How the Circuit Split on the Delineation Test for the Copyrightability of Fictional Characters Can Be Fixed, Kurt Bauer

Femicide is a Human Rights Violation, not a Cultural Consequence: Why Nigeria is Violating the Maputo Protocol, Bolu Jegede

Cultural Conquest: Russia's Strategic Assault on Ukrainian Heritage as Both a Catalyst for and a Casualty of Conflict, Brittan Harrell

Uncorking the Twenty-First Amendment: A Spirited Exception to Distill the Dormant Commerce Clause, Lars Emerson

Swapping In: Why the Ninth Circuit's Statutory Interpretations Best Protect American Investors From Overseas Violations of U.S. Securities-Trading Laws, Leo Garonski

A New Blue Sky: SEC Considerations in the Regulation of Autonomous AI Misconduct, Cristian Gonzalez

What We Can Learn from the Notorious P&ID v. Nigeria, Emily Granja

Historical Tradition, the Second Amendment, and Marrying Gun Rights and Regulation: Examining the Proposals in Gavin Newsom's Twenty-Eighth Amendment and Their Place in Second Amendment Jurisprudence, Guy Cheatham

Crippled by War: Arguing Russia’s Actions in Ukraine Constitute Disability Persecution Under Article 7(1)(h) of The Rome Statute, Davis Hayman

Federal Compassionate Release Principles: Defining the Contours of Analyses Under the “Other Reasons” Bucket, Hannah Jacobs

Time is Money and Anticompetitive: The Luxury Watch Industry's Weaponization of Intellectual Property Against the Right to Repair, Isha Jadhav

Blood Cobalt: Unmasking And Charging Corporations For Involvement In International Law Violations In The Democratic Republic Of Congo, Bolu Jegede

In Violation of Diplomatic Treaties: A Look Into Ecuador's Forced Extraction, Josie C. Tarin

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Administering Federal Programs in America’s Territories, Grace T. Kelly

The Tightrope Walk of FTAs: Balancing the Relationship Between Foreign Investments and Public Interests, Savannah Kelly

Harmful Connections: How Tort Law Can Address Algorithmic Account Recommendation Harms and Protect Youth Social Media Users, Francesca Kennedy

Martinique’s Octroi de Mer: Ancient Dock Dues Threaten the Integrity of the European Union’s (EU) Internal Market and Contribute to the Cost of Living Crisis., Johanna Leffler

The IRS's Misguided Playbook for NIL Collectives, Olivia M. Lubarsky

Mailing It In: Due Process Requires Technology-Driven Safeguards in Public Benefits, Eric Lukoff

The Death of Amateurism: How A Vertical Restructuring of the NCAA Could Preserve Its Role as the Governing Body of Collegiate Athletics, Miles M. McDonald

Ziada v. Netherlands: Accountability of State Officials in the European Court of Human Rights, McKenzie Gallagher

The Last Line of a Weak Defense: the Waning Force of the NCAA's Procompetitive Defense of Amateurism in § 1 Compensation Challenges, Morgan Small

Bringing Cases Back to Life: The Voluntary Cessation Doctrine and Public Prison Defendants, Caitlen Moser

This Union Drive Could Have Been an Email: Adapting Representation Elections to the Internet Age Under the NLRA, Jack Murer

Assessing the Post-Purdue Landscape of Consensual Third-Party Releases Through Contract Law, Kaori Nagase

One Giant Leap for Monopolies: Spectrum, SpaceX, and the FCC's Public Interest Paradox, Sarah Neal

The Software Inducement Paradox, Dylan Niederland

Remote Work's Complication of Companies' Personal Jurisdiction Standings: Morphing the Historical Analysis to Fit Modern Remote Work Characteristics, LindaRose Piccolo

Imperfect Justice: Gaps in the ICC’s Reparations and Victim Participation, Alyssa Price

Holding Out for Better Weather: Foreign Aid and the Principle of Humanity in Armed Conflicts and Natural Disasters, Nicholas Schwartz

Holding the Line: Maryland's Federal Accountability Unit and the Fight against Unlawful Federal Actions, Mehek Singh

Double Standards in the Drug Trade: How European Nations Escape Sanctions While Senegal May Bear the Burden, Erin Soro

The Inadequacy of Perpetuating Vestiges of Segregation in K-12 Curriculum: The Justiciability of Reviewing Duties to Adequacy in Florida's Education Clause, Soumya Sreerama

From the KKK to the Modern Day: How an Accurate Understanding of History can Inform the Proper Standard for Punishing Civil Rights Conspiracies Under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), Bair Srivastav

The Poorer the Author, the Better Their Art: How For-Profit Fanfiction Can be Fair Use., Jordan Stevenson

Quota Reform, Repression, and the Fight for Human Rights in Bangladesh, Noreen Tareque

The “Gray Zone”: Safeguarding Diplomatic Premises from Attacks by Third Countries, Tim Streit

Military Service Academies: The Final Battleground for Affirmative Action, Krista Trefen

In The Shadows Of Sovereignty: An Analysis Of The Legality Of The Memorandum Of Understanding Between Ethiopia And Somaliland, Nathan Yost

Submissions from 2024 2024

The Constitutionality of Barring Undocumented Immigrants from Second Amendment Protections, Abby Vorhees

Taking A Step Back: Have We Already Seen Judicial Takings?, Anna Sargent

Clothes Captioning: The Demand for a Sustainable Fashion Industry and the European Union’s Push for Digital Product Passports, Grace Baer

The Planned Pregnancy Problem: Incentivizing Uniform Surrogacy Law Reform Through Title X Expansion, Brooke Baragar

The Very Interstate Nature of the Internet? Establishing Uniform Requirements for Internet Transmissions Within Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Catherine Beal

Regulating the Renewable Revolution: Revisiting FERC’s Authority Under the Federal Power Act Post-Major Questions Doctrine, Charles Beauregard

Freedom to Traumatize Children?: Unreasonable Publicity and Non-Celebrity Children’s Right to Privacy, Alexis Berg

Charting the Course: Trips-Plus Agreements and the Intersection of Intellectual Property with Digital Trade, Mira Burri and María Vásquez Callo-Müller

Adopting the Benefit-of-the Doubt Rule in Veterans' Affairs Adjudication that Congress Intended, Christopher L. Galarza

Dammed If You Don't: What the Bureau of Reclamation Can do to Address a Drying Colorado River, Kirsten Companik

Rank and File: The Depth of “Officer” Under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, Jason D'Antonio

Captured Without Consent: Reckoning With Non-Volitional Disclosures Around the Home in Long-Term Pole Camera Cases, Katelyn Donaldson

Restraining the Heartless: Erosion of Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute and the Path Forward for Victims Seeking Redress, Alexa M. Duffy

The Secret's Out: The Role of Restrictive Covenants in Trade Secret Law, Magdalene Eallonardo

Seed Patents: Enabling Innovation Beyond Biological Deposits, Ellaina Sanders

The Downstream Consequences of Transunion LLC v. Ramirez: Why 5 U.S.C. § 2954 Plaintiffs Have Article III Standing Consistent with Lower Courts’ Interpretation of Transunion, Erin McCoy

Hollywood's Triple Threat: Writers, Actors, and Antitrust Regulators Take on the Streaming Giants, Remy S. Farkas

“Clothing” the De Minimis Loophole: The Story of an Exception Swallowing Rule, Stephen Finan

The Rats Don’t Run This City, We Do: How Federal and State Agency Collaboration Can Aid in the ‘War on Rats’ in the Public Housing Developments, Alexandra Fochios

Adopting the Benefit-of-the-Doubt Rule in Veterans’ Affairs Adjudication That Congress Intended, Christopher L. Galarza

Amnesty Laws in Modern Peace Agreements: An Analysis of the Northern Ireland Legacy Act Under International Law, McKenzie Gallagher

Charter Schools and Emos: Who's In Charge, Brendan Glynn

Out-of-State Abortion on Company Dime: An Analysis of State Legislation and ERISA, Erin Elizabeth Hanlon

Affirmative Acts, Passive Retention, and Exercising Control: Applying City of Chicago v. Fulton to Related Provisions of the Automatic Stay, Halloran Hoffmann

The Validity of Trade Restrictions on Artificial Intelligence Technology Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade's National Security Exception, Isabelle Brundieck

Whack-A-Drone: Examining the Effectiveness of U.S. Export Controls on Semiconductors and Other Components Used in the Production of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Olivia Kaempf

Measuring the Unmeasurable: Foreign Aid and the Rule of Law, Natallia Karkanitsa

Securing Workers' Futures: Why Replacing Union Workers with Artificial Intelligence in Creative Professions is the New Subcontracting, Katherine J. Kyriakoudes

Slavery Still Exists and May Have Produced Your Hairdryer, Katherine Pratty

Neglected Riches: Exposing China’s Selective Default on the Hukuang Railway Bonds and the Avenue for Financial Accountability Under the Successor Government Doctrine, William Krag

Securing Workers’ Futures: Why Replacing Union Workers with Artificial Intelligence in Creative Professions is the New Subcontracting, Katherine J. Kyriakoudes

Defining "Use in Commerce": The Supreme Court's Evolving Extraterritorial Application of the Lanham Act, Hannah Lief

State Taxing Power over Tribal Leasing Activity: Balancing Bracker with the Call to Modernize, Caitlyn Lindstrom

The Gig Worker Question: Reviving the FTC’s Competition Rulemaking Authority to Protect Collective Bargaining, Sarah Madsen

An Icy Invasion: Russia's Seizure of the Norwegian Waters in the Arctic, Margaret Turchinski

The Downstream Consequences of Transunion LLC v. Ramirez: Why 5 U.S.C. § 2954 Plaintiffs Have Article III Standing Consistent With Lower Courts’ Interpretation of Transunion, Erin McCoy

A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action: How American Unwillingness To Escalate Emboldens Mexico’s Populist Ambitions, David Montero

Deception in Place of Equal and Impartial Administration of Justice: The Use of Deception When Interrogating Juveniles, Emily A. Moran

Thank You for Your (Continued) Service: How DoD's Medical Standards Find Some Service Members Eligible to Deploy, but Ineligible to Lead as Commissioned Officers, Sophia A. Navedo-Quinones

A Matter of Time: Artificial Intelligence, the Fourth Amendment, and Changing Privacy Expectations, Will Nesbit