Past Journal Issues
Volume 25:2
Spring 2024
RACE, POLITICS, AND REDEMPTION: AN INVESTIGATION INTO VIRGINIA’S DEATH PENALTY REPEAL | Written by Michael L. Radelet
THE RIGHT TO CLEAN WATER: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT AND THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT AND A PROPOSAL FOR WATER REGULATION REFORM | Written by Kaylin Guillory Makowsky
COVID-19: A XENOPHOBIC PANDEMIC — A GUIDE TO DECREASE THE NUMBER OF HATE CRIMES DIRECTED TOWARDS ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS | Written by Taylor Smith
ALTERNATIVES TO APPLYING THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE TO SOCIAL MEDIA: AMENDING SECTION 230 AND REVIVING THE PUBLIC INTEREST STANDARD WITHIN THE FCC | Written by Kristian A. Caruso
Volume 25:1
Fall 2023
TWO THEORIES OF PROPERTY CONTRASTED | Written by: Jason Mays
ASIAN AMERICANS: PAWNS IN NEGATING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | Written by: Anna Nguyen
REALIZING THE MUSIC: A STATUTORY AMENDMENT TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO COPYRIGHT FOR MUSICIANS | Written by: Tristan K. Diermann
THE NOT-SO-NATURAL DISASTER: CONSTRUCTING AFRICAN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS BY COLLAPSING INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS | Written by: T. Alexander Hartford
UNDERSTANDING FACTUAL INNOCENCE IN LOUISIANA POST-ARTICLE 926.2: FREESTANDING OR FREE FALLING? | Written by: Sophie Squire
Volume 24:2
Spring 2023
SWEEPING AWAY SURVIVAL: HOW ANTI-HOMELESS LAWS INFRINGE ON THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO SURVIVE | Written by: Lauren J. Hall
AIN’T DERE NO MORE: HOW ADDRESSING EQUITY GAPS IN LOUISIANA PROPERTY LAW CAN MITIGATE THE GENTRIFICATION OF NEW ORLEANS | Written by: Paige Franckiewicz
PROPERTY RICH AND MONEY POOR: AN ANALYSIS OF THE UNIFORM PARTITION OF HEIRS’ PROPERTY ACT AND DISCUSSION OF ITS BENEFITS THROUGH A NATIONWIDE IMPLEMENTATION | Written by: Elise Gibbens
THE FEDERAL FIASCO OF LABELING: WHY THE NATIONAL BIOENGINEERED FOOD DISCLOSURE STANDARD NEEDS TO BE ALTERED IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE ISSUES IT PURPORTS TO ADDRESS | Written by: Asia Allen
Volume 24:1
Fall 2022
LIBERTY UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION: WHY THE COURT SHOULD USE THE PERSONAL DIGNITY AND AUTONOMY TEST | Written by: Jack I. Primack
NOWHERE TO HYDE FROM CLIMATE CRISES: A PROPOSAL TO ENACT A FOURTH EXCEPTION TO THE HYDE AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE ABORTION FUNDING FOR SURVIVORS OF MAJOR NATURAL DISASTERS | Written by: Sarah deQuay
A DREAM COME TRUE: DACA RECIPIENTS, THE EXCLUSION THAT PREVENTS THEM FROM RECEIVING HEALTH CARE, AND THE REMEDIES NECESSARY TO PROTECT THEM | Written by: Mindy Parker
SPINNING TALES OF FINANCIAL EXIGENCY: THE SUBVERSION OF TENURE CONTRACTS | Written by: Mary Catena
Volume 23:2
Spring 2022
The Death Penalty Across the Mason-Dixie Line: A Comparison of Capital Punishment in Louisiana and Ohio
Exposing Flagrantly Inhumane Uses of Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention: A Case Study on Louisiana’s Pine Prairie Ice Processing Center
Remixing the Music Modernization Act with Fan-Powered Royalties & Harmonizing the Industry for All
The Sound of Racial Disparity: A Copyright Law and the Black Musician
The Exclusion of Public Legal Education from Mandatory and Aspirational State Pro Bono Service Requirements
Volume 23:1
Fall 2021
Covid Evictions: The Legality of National Eviction Moratoriums
Food for Thought: Expanding the Pandemic-EBT Program to Provide Emergency Food Assistance for All
Save Our Community Stages: How Providing Federal Relief to Community Theaters During Covid-19 Can Benefit All NonProfits
A Time for Just Reckoning? Temporalty, Law, and Transactional Justice in Changing Societies
Data, Deference, and Non-Disclosure: Shredding Light on Louisiana’s Deaths Behind Bars from 2015-2019
Volume 22:2
Spring 2021
Flood Victims Are At the Mercy of the Elements and of Their Insurers: The Case for An Improved National Flood Insurance Program
Louisiana SLAPPS Back: An Analysis of Louisiana’s Anti-SLAPP Law, It’s Ambiguity, and How the State Should Remedy It
The Case for Katz: The Importance of the Continued Application and Reform of the Katz Test in the 21st Century
Volume 22:1
Fall 2020
Bostock v. Clayton County and the Folly of Textualism: A Utah Case Study
An Examination of Anti Price Gouging Laws and Shortages
Internships: The Solution to Racial and Ethnic Discrepancy in the Legal Field
Coming to Peace with Police Interrogations: Abandoning the Reid Technique and Adopting the Peace Method
The College Admission Scandal: An Opportunity for Legislative Reform to Advance Equal Opportunity in the College Admissions Process
Volume 21:1
Fall 2019
An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Maintaing a Cpaital Punishment System in the Pelican State
Legal and Non-Legal Responses To Gendered Alcohol Marketing
Ending the Incel Rebellion: The Tragic Impacts of an Online Hate Group
A Criminal Law Reform in Louisiana and its Profound Impact on Battered Women Charged with Murder
Citizen-Initiated Referenda in Australia: Lessons from Norfolk Island
Older Issues
Spring 2019
(Dis)placing the Law: Lessons from South Africa on Advancing U.S. Asylum Rights
The Collapse of Democracy: The Flint Water Crisis from a Human Rights Perspective
Theorizing Towards a Federally Protected Right to Education for Black Students
Judicial Politics: The Dissolution of the Third Branch of Government
Fall 2018
Nicola’s Law: An Underused Tool for Louisiana
Believing Without Seeing: The Problem of Eyewitness Misidentification
Rethinking Nondisclosure Agreements in Sexual Misconduct Cases
Do the Adoption Services of Catholic Charities Really Operate in the Best Interest of the Children Needing Adoption
Anti-Sanctuary City Laws: Why They Should Never Be Passed in Louisiana