Submissions from 2024
The Politics of Possession and Gun Violence: The Bruen Decision's Impact on Firearm Regulation, Jacob Butler
A Denial of Personhood: Why Hate Crime Legislation is Necessary to Assure Proportionality in Punishment, Clare Godfryd
Zero-Option Defendants: United States v. McLellan and the Judiciary's Role in Protecting the Right to Compulsory Process, Wisdom U. Onwuchekwa-Banogu
Submissions from 2023
Role-Reversible Judgments and Related Democratic Objections to AI Judges, Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi
Reproductive Crimes, Hayden Golemon
Role-Reversibility, AI, and Equitable Justice - Or: Why Mercy Cannot Be Automated, Stephen E. Henderson and Kiel Brennan-Marquez
The Neuroscience of Trauma Supports Diminished Capacity as a Nuanced Approach to the ICC Case of an Ex-Child Soldier, Lee Hiromoto, Ramail Siddiqui, and Landy F. Sparr
Not All Evidence is the Same: Habeas Corpus and Actual Innocence. A Practically Unusable Exception for Fundamental Miscarriages of Justice?, Samantha C. Olexa
White-Collar Crime, Sentencing Gender Disparities Post-Booker, and Implications for Criminal Sentencing, Sarah Turner
The Need for Fairness and Accuracy for Women in Sentencing: Surmounting Challenges to Gender-Specific Statistical Risk Assessment Tools, Elizabeth E. Wainstein
Submissions from 2022
The Saga of Reginald McFadden—"Pennsylvania's Willie Horton" and the Commutation of Life Sentences in the Commonwealth: Part I, Regina Austin
The Saga of Reginald McFadden—"Pennsylvania's Willie Horton" and the Commutation of Life Sentences in the Commonwealth: Part II, Regina Austin
Of Law and Men, @badgaltranny -
Immigration Public Defenders: A Model for Going Beyond Adequate Representation, Matthew Chang
Reexamining the Application of Duress and Necessity Defenses to Prison Escape in the Context of COVID19, Bill Clawges
Friends Without Benefits: Criminal Insider Trading Liability and the "Personal Benefit" Test After Blaszczak, Curtis A. French
Regulating Police Chokeholds, Trevor George Gardner and Esam Al-Shareffi
Cannibalizing the Constitution: On Terrorism, the Second Amendment, and the Threat to Civil Liberties, Francesca LaGuardia
Submissions from 2021
State Courts Must Combat Mass Incarceration by Granting Broader Retroactivity to New Rules Than is Provided Under the Federal Teague v. Lane Test, Jamila Johnson and Talia MacMath
American Law Enforcement Responses to COVID-19, Matthew B. Kugler, Mariana Oliver, Jonathan Chu, and Nathan R. Lee
Where Should We Land?: Flyover Districts as Proper Venue for Crimes Committed in Air on Domestic Flights, Megan E. McCarthy
Submissions from 2020
COVID in Menard, Deandre Banks
The Opportunity in Crisis: How 2020's Challenges Present New Opportunities for Prosecutors, Chesa Boudin
Sick Deal: Injustice and Plea Bargaining During COVID-19, Ryan T. Cannon
Pandemic Thoughts While on Lock, Kevin Dugar
Following Data: The "Defund the Police" Movement's Implications for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Michael Heise and Jason P. Nance
Crisis and Coercive Pleas, Thea Johnson
Learning Facts from Fiction in Jay-Z's 99 Problems, Karl T. Muth