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Why Does the United States Fail to Address the Green Sukuk as An Ideal Vehicle for Environment-Forward Projects?
March 31, 2021
By: Sarah Snebold, Volume 105 Staff Member Within a globalized economy, it would be foolish to turn a blind eye to Islamic finance and its...
A Galaxy Not so Far Away: the States Strike Back at Big Tech Over Google and Facebook’s Alleged “Jedi Blue” Price-Fixing Scheme
March 29, 2021
By: Avery Bennett, Volume 105 Staff Member INTRODUCTION Recently, mounting scrutiny and criticism of technology companies’ business practices have led to well publicized calls for...
Preserving the E-Market of Ideas: How a Narrow “Right to Be Forgotten” Exception to Section 230 Can Combat Digital Harassment Without Decimating Digital Discourse
March 25, 2021
By: Jordan Francis, Volume 105 Staff Member Depending on who you ask, we have either handed the levers of public discourse over to the maleficent...
Patent Pledging Problems: the Open COVID Pledge and Long-Term Solutions to Licensing Intellectual Property in Global Emergencies
March 23, 2021
By: Marra Clay, Volume 105 Staff Member The American intellectual property system has a single primary goal: to encourage creators to make new things that...
A Poll Tax by Any Other Name: How the Eleventh Circuit Erred in Upholding Florida’s Pay-to-Vote Requirement and What Comes Next
March 17, 2021
By: Dina Kostrow, Volume 105 Staff Member Until recently, Florida was one of only a few states in which citizens convicted of a felony permanently...
Cruel and Unusual: the Supreme Court's Failure to Protect Death Row Prisoners During the Government's Recent Rush of Executions
March 15, 2021
By: Julia Potach, Volume 105 Staff Member On July 14, 2020, the federal government executed death row prisoner, Daniel Lewis Lee, and carried out its...
Rittmann v. Amazon.com: a Wrong Turn for Gig Workers Looking for Clarity in the Federal Arbitration Act
March 11, 2021
By Zach Krenz, Volume 105 Staffer The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) makes arbitration clauses enforceable. Section 2, which outlines the breadth of the Act, states...
Getting What’s Due: Incarcerated Individuals and COVID Stimulus Payments
March 8, 2021
By: Mollie Wagoner, Vol. 105 Staff Member In the wake of the pandemic, Congress issued two rounds of payments, commonly referred to as stimulus checks...
The Ubiquity of Social Media Dictates the Result: Why the Supreme Court Should Affirm the Third Circuit in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. as a Matter of Non-Discrimination
March 1, 2021
By: Miriam Solomon, Volume 105 Staff Member In B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District, the plaintiff, a sophomore in high school, was removed from the...