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Student Author Celebration: 2022

Honoring our AUWCL student authors

Student Author Celebration 2022

Publications in WCL Journals

Administrative Law Review

Natalie Bishop, On the “Road” Again: The “Roadless Rule” Saga, the Tongass National Forest Exemption, and the Future of State-Specific Roadless Rules, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 421 (2021).

Olivia Miller, The Post-Carcieri Struggle for Tribal Land and the Case of the Mashpee Wampanoag, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 451 (2021).

Julian Moss, The Department of Defense’s Approach to Military Protective Orders: How It Fails to Provide Justice for Survivors of Domestic Abuse, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 689 (2021).

Aaron Yuratovich, You’ll Know It When You See It: The FCC’s Elusive Public Interest Standard, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 713 (2021).

Madison Bingle, Holes in the United States’ ‘Never Again’ Promise: an Analysis of the DOJ’s Approach Toward Atrocity Accountability, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 869 (2021).

Hope Kashatus, Ready to Roll: How the U.S. Election Assistance Commission can Strengthen State Compliance with Federal Voter Roll Maintenance, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 901 (2021).

Edward Leaf, TikTok, Tick-Tick Tock: How the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Can Mitigate the Threats Posed By Foreign-Made Software Applications, 6 Admin. L. Rev. Accord 343 (2022).

Cannon Jurrens, The Not-So Harmless Error Rule: How § 706 of the APA Could Be Applied in a More Effective Manner, 6 Admin. L. Rev. Accord 289 (2021).

James Gallagher, Improving the Legal and Regulatory Framework of Restraint and Seclusion in D.C. Public Schools, 6 Admin. L. Rev. Accord 289 (2021).

Katie Gallop, Timeout: A Case for Using NIL Legislative Momentum to Extend the Authority of the Department of Education to Regulate the NCAA, Admin. L. Rev. (2022).

Naomi Hughes, Critically Underregulated: An Analysis of the Federal Government’s Shortcomings on Cybersecurity and How President Biden’s Executive Order Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Admin. L. Rev. (2022).

Sarah Kerman, Flagged for Review: Implementing Analysis of Distributional Consequences in the Retrospective Review Process, Admin. L. Rev. (2022).

Haley Schlinger, A Proposed Rule That Nspires Few Tenants: The Shortcomings of HUD’s Public Housing Inspection Standards In Addressing Environmental Hazards, Admin. L. Rev. Accord (2022).

Taylor Gantz, Ephemeral by Nature: How the U.S. Copyright Office can Ensure Protections of Street Art by Fixing the Definition of Fixation, Admin. L. Rev. Accord. (2022).

Cole Eisenshtadt, Betting on Oversight: Repurposing Regulations for Cigarette and Tobacco Advertising to Address Sports Gambling, America’s Fastest Growing Vice Industry, Admin. L. Rev. (2022).

American University Law Review

Aisha Green, Comment, Comparing Dadd v. Anoka County with Corbitt v. Vickers: Why Defendants should Bear the Burden of Establishing Qualified Immunity in a Motion to Dismiss, 70 Am. U. L. Rev. 2091 (2021).

Vincent R. Johnson II, Comment, Sampling as Transformation: Re-Evaluating Copyright’s Treatment of Sampling to End Its Disproportionate Harm on Black Artists, 70 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 227 (2021).

Rebecca M. Dresner, Comment, BUILDing a Better Future in International Development: Why the DFC Should Be Considered An Agency to Comply with Development Finance Standards and Maintain Influence Abroad, 70 Am. U. L. Rev. 2043 (2021).

Allison D. Clark, Daily Fantasy Sports v. Internal Revenue Service: The Meaning of Wager and the Federal Excise Tax on Entry Fees, 70 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 281 (2021).

Chris Baumohl, Piercing the Veil: Reconciling FISA and the State Secrets Privilege in the Schrems II Era, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 235 (2021).

Madeline P. Fuller, Comment, When Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough: Why Age-Based Restrictions on Purchasing Firearms Pass Constitutional Muster, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 299 (2021).

Sarah Haddon, Note, Property Rights: Fiercely Contested, Strongly Guarded, and Continually Defended. How the Supreme Court's Decision in Cedar Point Emphasized the Court's Devotion to Private Property Rights, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 349 (2021).

Frances Krupkin, Comment, Making the VRA Great Again: Arizona Discriminatory Voting Restrictions Cannot Stand After Brnovich, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 14 (2021). 

Ryan Kaiser, Comment, That's Not Fair Use: Why Rule 68 Copyright Defendants Cannot Recover Post-Offer Attorney's Fees, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 693 (2021). 

Kelly A. Welsh, Comment, Institution Denied: The Evolution of Discretionary Denials of Inter Partes Review Under 35 U.S.C. § 314(A) Since Apple Inc. v. Fintiv, Inc., 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 741 (2021). 

Kathleen Hanley, Comment, Character Copyrightability in Chaos: How Unclear Character Copyrightability Tests Lead to Improper Results, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 1145 (2022). 

Madeline Bergstrom, Comment, An Apple a Day Keeps Educational Malpractice Lawsuits at Bay: Applying Principles of Medical Malpractice's "Locality Rule" to Deconstruct the Academic Abstention Doctrine, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 1105 (2022). 

Patrick W. Riley, Comment, When a Second Chance Gets a Second Chance: Reasonableness Review Reigns for Motions Under Section 404(B) of the First Step Act on Appeal, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 1183 (2022). 

J.E. Mills, Comment, Faulty Pipeline and the Holey Shale: The Fundamental Trespass of Fracking, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 95 (2022).

Tessa Zavislan, Inhospitable: Third Party Liability for Sex Trafficking in the Hospitality Sector, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).

Beck Sigman, Keeping Trans Kids SAFE: The Constitutionality of Prohibiting Access to Puberty Blockers, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).

Margaret Helein, “Youth Matters”: Why Demanding the Same Heightened Level of Mitigation in Juvenile Life without Parole Sentencing Proceedings as is Required in Capital Sentencing Proceedings is the Only Constitutional Option, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).

Nate McCabe, Defining “Habitat” Post-Weyerhaeuser: Critical Habitat Regulations Under the Endangered Species Act Must Promote Species Recovery, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).

Annemarie Gregoire, Florida Court Fees Cost the Vote: Blocking Amendment 4’s Felon Re-enfranchisement With Taxes, 71 Am. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).

American University Business Law Review

Abigail Gampher, The FECA’s Foreign Nationals Prohibition in United States v. Singh:  Criminalizing Campaign Contributions without the Requisite Mens Rea and the Ramifications for Foreign Corporations with Domestic Subsidiaries, 10 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 181 (2021).

Elizabeth Ashlee Kuan, Uniform Mortgage-Backed Securities:  An Analysis of the Regulatory Hurdles Caused by the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Standardization of the TBA Market, 10Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 207 (2021).

Alex Dourian, Two Minutes for Unfair Restraint:  How the NHL-CHL Player Transfer Agreement Serves as a Catalyst for Abuse of Dominance, 10 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 329 (2021). 

Kolton Whitmire, Dudenhoeffer: Why Concealment of Fraud Violates the Fiduciary Duty-of-Prudence, 10 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 353 (2021).

Monica Fritsch, Common Law Rules:  Applying Common Law Consent Principles to Reassigned Phone Number Disputes Under The TCPA, 10 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 491 (2022). 

Hannah Knab, Jack Daniel’s Highlights The Second and Ninth Circuit’s Divide on the Application of The Rogers Test, 10 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 517 (2022). 

Daniel Bartlett, The Seal Has Been Lifted:  NCAA and Predominantly White Colleges Must Soon Stop Exploiting Their Black Athletes, 11 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).

American University International Law Review 

Alexis Adams, A Monopoly as Vast as the Amazon: How Amazon's Proprietary Data Collection Is a Violation of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, 36 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. 567 (2021).

Lily Baron, No Child Should Feel Left Behind: The Illegality of Orphanage Voluntourism under Article 19 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of a Child36 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. 605 (2021).

Gregory Frering, The Olives of Others: The United States Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties on Ripe Olives from Spain36 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. 652 (2021).

Jared Green, Going Off the Rails on the Mayan Train: How AMLO’s Development Project Is on a Fast Track to Multiple Violations of Indigenous Rights, 36 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. 845 (2021).

Olivia Moulds, Fracking the Bedrock of Democracy: The United States Policing of Protests Violates the Right of Peaceful Assembly Under the ICCPR, 36 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. 887 (2021).

Kassidy Schmitz, TRIPing on Trade Secrets: How China’s Cybertheft of U.S. Trade Secrets Violated TRIPS, 36 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. 929 (2021).

Dan Atchue, Piercing the Veil of State Laicity in “La Belle Province”: How Quebec’s Religious Symbols Ban Violates Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 37 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. 57 (2022).

Paulina Lucio Maymon, Judging Women Who Kill Their Batterers in the United States: A Violation of Their Right to Equality Before the Law Under the ICCPR, 37 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. 97 (2022).

Victoria de la Cruz, Preserving the Sea in a Radio-Active World: How Japan’s Plan To Release Treated Nuclear Wastewater Into The Pacific Ocean Violates UNCLOS, 37 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. (forthcoming 2022).

Jonathan Morrisey, Can’t Go Back Now”: How Japan’s Refugee Recognition System Denies Rights and Shirks Obligations to Asylum Seekers Fleeing the 2021 Myanmar Coup d’État, 37 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. (forthcoming 2022).

Jordan Luber: Better Than Bullets: Ethiopia is Committing War Crimes by Starving Civilian Populations in the Ethiopian Civil War, 37 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. (forthcoming 2022).

Zach Parrish, Locked Up and Locked Down in the Land of the Free: a Look at the United States’ Prisons and COVID-19’s Disproportionate Effect on Black Americans’ Right to Health, 37 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. (forthcoming 2022).

Valerie Cook, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region and the Developing Adjudication of Violations of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, 37 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. (forthcoming 2022).

Isabella Zink, Storm Warning: New Zealand’s Treatment of “Climate Refugee” Claims as a Violation of International Law, 37 AM. U. INT'l L. REV. (forthcoming 2022).

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

Kaylette Clark, Detention of At-Risk Individuals During COVID-19: Humanitarian Parole and the Eighth Amendment, 29 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 403 (2021).

Abigail Whitmore, A Labor of Love: Finding Justice for Victims of Workplace Sexual Harassment Excluded from Title VII, 29 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 371 (2021).

Jane Manwarring, America’s New Death Sentence: Lack of Action to Protect Incarcerated People from Covid-19 Amounts to Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 29 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 495 (2022).

Inka Skłodowska Boehm, Punishment and Prejudice: Reproductive Coercion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Centers, 29 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 529 (2022).

Samiksha Manjani, Poor Gabriel: How Ambiguous State Immunity Policies for Child Protection Agency Workers Fail Children of Color, 30 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. (forthcoming 2022).

Kathleen Stoughton, Toxic Therapy: Examining the Constitutionality of Conversion Therapy Bans in Light of Otto, 30 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. (forthcoming 2022).

Nora Greene, Denouncing the Revival of Pre-Roe v. Wade Abortion Bans in a Post-Dobbs World Through the Void ab Initio and Presumption of Validity Doctrines, 30 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. (forthcoming 2022).

Kayla Ollendorff, Open Legs and Open Minds: How New York Can Become a Model for Decriminalizing Sex Work, 30 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. (forthcoming 2022).

 

Publications in WCL Briefs & Blogs

Sustainable Development Law and Policy Brief

Theresa Geib, The Overfished Pacific Bluefin Tuna: The Tragedy of a Highly Migratory Fish Species, 21 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 2, 12 (2021). 

Sydney Helsel, The Truth Is Always in Style: Targeting Greenwashed Advertising in the Fashion Industry, 21 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 2, 15 (2021). 

Rachel Keylon, Rulemaking Doubletake: An Opportunity to Repair and Strengthen the National Environmental Protection Act, 22 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 1, 4 (2021). 

Jaclyn Troutner, Paving a Path to Independent Tiny Living: An Introduction to Roadblocks, 22 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 1, 15 (2021). 

Bailey Nickoloff, Bison, Tribes, and Brucellosis in the Interagency Bison Management Plan, 22 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 1, 18 (2021).

American University Legislation & Policy Brief 

Demitri Dawson, Competitor Standing to the Rescue:  Saving the Emoluments Clause, Am. U. Legis. & Pol’y Brief (forthcoming 2022). 

Grace Fraser, Fintech: A Field Day of Arbitrage Gone AwryAm. U. Legis. & Pol’y Brief (forthcoming 2022). 

Publications in Non-WCL Journals

Sierra Kennedy, This Land Is Not Our Land, This Land Is Their Land: Returning National Park Lands to Their Rightful ProtectorsAmerican Indian Law Journal: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 3 (2022).

Lauren Bomberger, The OCC FinTech Charter and the Bank Holding Company Act, 29 U. Mia. Bus. L. Rev. 1 (2021).

Cyrus Mostaghim, Constructing the Yellow Brick Road: Preventing Discrimination in Financial Services Against the LGBTQ+ Community, 11 Mich. Bus. & Entrepreneurial L. Rev. 63 (2021). 

Andrew Hamm, Note, White v. Hesse: Challenging an Oklahoma County's Bail Practices Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, 26 Tex. J. on Civ. Liberties & Civ. Rts. 229 (2021). 

Andrew Hamm, Shifting Confrontation from Final Product to Forensic Process: Two Maryland Cases Demonstrate the Pitfalls of Justice Thomas' Approach to What is Testimonial and the Need for a Re-Framed Formality Test, 57 Crim. L. Bull. 879 (2021).

Writing Competition Winners

Ann McRitchie, 2021 Public Contract Law Journal Writing Competition, First Place, Government Dismissal Authority of False Claims Act Qui Tam Claims: An Analysis of The Current Political and Judicial Debate.