Immigration Law
Imported Ideas: Ghana’s Attempt to Make Democracy Its Own
How Ghana tried to combine traditional leadership with modern democracy in its local government system.
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Immigration Law
Alien Invasion? The Legal Roots of Modern Immigration Enforcement
How historical laws and court decisions have shaped modern immigration enforcement.
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Technology & Law
Fiscally Effective With Disastrous Consequence: Race, Rights, and AI-Based Predictive Policing
AI-based predictive policing is promoted as a cost-effective way to prevent crime, but its reliance on historically biased data can reinforce racial discrimination.
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Technology & Law
Investigative Technology or Mass Surveillance: Flock Cameras and the Fourth Amendment
How police use surveillance cameras to track people's movements and the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections.
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Policy
The Legal Limits of the Federal Government’s Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
How the government controls the EPA’s ability to regulate climate change.
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Policy
Starvation or Sickness: How the Trump Administration’s Cost-Cutting Dismantles Modern Food Safety
How government cuts may have contributed to a major foodborne illness outbreak.
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Business law
The Responsible Party is… Not?
A closer look at responsibility, accountability, and the gaps that can emerge between them under the law.
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Technology & law
The Legal Status of Digital Replicas of Deceased Performers & Voice Cloning
How emerging voice-cloning tools are testing the boundaries of publicity, consent, and intellectual property.
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Comparative politics
Participation on Paper: Civil Society and Citizen Engagement in the United States & Russia
A comparative examination of citizen participation and the institutions that either sustain or constrain it.
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International law
Power, Politics, and the U.S. Challenge to the International Criminal Court
The United States does not simply decline ICC jurisdiction—it works to ensure jurisdiction never meaningfully applies to American actors.
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Constitutional law
How 9/11 and the War on Terror Led to the Expansion of Executive Power
Legal ambiguity, bureaucratic interpretation, and presidential framing have permanently altered the foundations of American governance.
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Technology & law
Transformative or Infringing? Fair Use Doctrine and the Training of Large Language Models
A study of how generative AI challenges the boundaries of transformation and infringement in copyright doctrine.
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Comparative politics
State Capacity, Legitimacy, and the Gaza Crisis
A comparative analysis of the Palestinian conflict through the lens of state capacity and political legitimacy.
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Law & society
Measuring Risk: How Data Constructs Reality
How quantitative systems shape the realities institutions see—and the decisions they make in response.
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