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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Show Me the Money”: The SEC’s Use of Distribution as a Tool for Investor Protection, Coleman Gilkey Newton

Policing the Strait: How China’s Policing of the Taiwan Strait Violates the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, Elizabeth C. Parker

The Chicken or the Egg: The Proper Order of Analysis when Determining the Enforceability of a Delegation Clause and the Broader Arbitration Agreement in Consumer Contexts, Parker Reynolds

A Common Law Corporate Crisis: The Status of Common Law Criminal Immunities for Foreign State-Owned Enterprises in a Post-Halkbank Era, Sydney E. Robson

Plausible to Proper: Clarifying Federal Circuit Jurisdiction over Walker Process Appeals, Peter James Rozewicz

The Domestic and International Limitations of the Third-Party Doctrine in the Digital Age, Miguel E. Serrano

Successors in Interest and PTAB Estoppel, Spencer Seufert

Constructing Solutions: Addressing Liability and Ownership Risks Associated with Business Information Modeling, Connor Sheehy

Towards a New Orbit: Addressing the Legal Void in Space Mining, Rebekah Shields

Addressing Base Erosion: Impact of the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act on Tax Inversions and Profit Shifting, T. Scott Shogren

Regulating the Psychedelic Renaissance: FDA’s Critical Role in the Push for Scheduling Reform to Expand Research into Psychedelic Medicines, Saumya Sinha

Destruction and Discrimination: How France Violated the Fundamental Rights of Irregular Migrant Children in Mayotte, Molly E. Smith

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

When Platforms Infringe: Defining the Scope of Section 230’s Intellectual Property Carve-Out, Annabel Weinbach

Communication Decency Act and the Intellectual Property Exception, Casey Windsor

Restructuring Undefined Assets: Valuation of Stablecoins and Their Impact on the Bankruptcy Process, Olivia Woodmansee

Finding Rights in the Fine Print: How Terms of Services Agreements can Turn Consumer Search History into Digital Property, Dalia Wrocherinsky

The Presumption Against Suicide as the Standard for ERISA Accidental Death and Dismemberment Benefit Cases, Krista Zamurs

Submissions from 2023 2023

Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight: How the Philippines' Halted Media Speech Despite Its Commitment to the ICCPR, Alexis Mozeleski

Exposing Sedated Legal Responses to Non-Consensual Pelvic Exams Under Anesthesia, Ashleigh Austel

The Revolution Will Not Be Moderated: Examining Florida and Texas's Attempts to Prohibit Social Media Content Moderation, Caroline Jones

One Choice is No Choice At All: Indonesia is Violating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Requiring Political Parties to Adhere to Its national Ideology of PANCASILA, Daniel Brezina

Maintaining Due Process By Extending Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. To Federal Class Actions, Felicia D. Sych

The Endangered Species Are Not Alright: The EPA’s Recent Progress Trying to Reconcile FIFRA and the ESA Does Not Go Far Enough, Katherine Foley

The Push to Grow the Capacity of Inspectors General: What Should Be Next for the Inspector General Community, Madison Gestiehr

A Reckoning For Religious Freedom: India's BJP and the International Implications of Anti-Muslim Leadership, Heather Holman

No Harm No Foul?: The Remnants of Pure Consumer Harm in Monopsony Cases under the Sherman Act, William Jackson

Ransomware Groups on Notice: U.S. Cyber Operation Against REvil is Permissible Under International Law, Justin Singh

The Collateral Effects of Reproductive Restrictions: Dispensing Methotrexate Violates Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri's Public Accommondation Laws, Kanta Mendon

Outer Space Resource Extraction: The Regulation of Commercial Space Actors, Katie Parnow

French-Tipped Formaldehyde: Why FDA’s Statutory Framework Enables Toxic Chemical Exposures in Manicure Products; How Rulemaking or Congressional Action Can Curb Its Detrimental Effect on Occupational Health, Ahn-Thi Le

Deathly Delegation: Analyzing Mississippi's Execution Statute Under the Nondelegation Doctrine, Megan Meissner

Biting the Hand that Feeds?: The Need for Independence and Impartiality in the Title IX Sexual Misconduct Investigation Process at Colleges and Universities, Mehraz Rahman

Fear and Loathing in the American Workplace: Paving the Bog of Logomachy, Sam Salinger

Stars, Stripes, and Surveillance: The United States' Failure to Regulate Data Privacy, Sam Begland

In Controversy: The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act Federal Jurisdiction Requirements and Why the 9th Circuit Is Right that Reasonable Attorneys’ Fees Should Count Towards the Amount in Controversy, Gabrielle Scanlin-Sherman