Abbie Conrad (JD 2024-2025 student) – Page 11

Conference Realignment: What Does It Mean for Student-Athletes at Arizona’s Universities?

Oct 03, 2023

By Bailey Stoltzfus. Arizona State and the University of Arizona Are Joining the Big 12 in 2024 In August 2023, news broke that Arizona and Arizona State had applied and been accepted to join the Big 12 athletic conference. The…

How Joe Biden Can Keep Breaking Records for Confirming Indigenous Judges

Sep 30, 2023

Guest post by Professor Carl Tobias. President Joe Biden recently traveled to Arizona, Nevada, and Utah when touting his many efforts to protect the environment, curtail climate change, and preserve natural, cultural, and historical resources. For example, Biden designated one million…

<em>Dexter v. Big League Advance Fund</em>: An Early Test of State NIL Laws

Dexter v. Big League Advance Fund: An Early Test of State NIL Laws

Sep 28, 2023

By Andrew Ford. NFL Player Files Suit Over NIL Deal In the new frontier of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) contracts for college and high school athletes, a complaint recently filed by Chicago Bears defensive tackle Gervon Dexter, Sr. confirmed what some…

Navigating Autonomous Vehicles Levels: The <em>Vasquez</em> Case and the Debate Between Level 3 and Level 4 Autonomy

Navigating Autonomous Vehicles Levels: The Vasquez Case and the Debate Between Level 3 and Level 4 Autonomy

Sep 26, 2023

By Bennett Houck. Phoenix, Arizona has been one of the foundational locations for Autonomous Vehicle (“AV”) testing since 2016. Fellow Phoenicians may remember that in March of 2018 an Uber AV struck and killed a pedestrian crossing Mill Avenue in…

Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts: The Impact of Expansive School Choice on Public Education, Student Protection, and the State Budget

Sep 21, 2023

By Samantha Fox. Expanded School Vouchers in Arizona School Choice has been a topic of debate among politicians, religious leaders, parents, and educators for decades. At the center of the debate are parents wishing to pull their children from the…

Standing in Reserve: A New Model for Hard Cases of Complicity

Sep 19, 2023

By Nicholas Almendares & Dimitri Landa. The “hard cases” for the law relating to accomplices deal with the definition of what counts as aiding and abetting a crime. A retailer might sell a murder weapon in the ordinary course of business,…

Transgender Equality and Geduldig 2.0

Sep 19, 2023

By Katie Eyer. In 1974, Geduldig v. Aiello held that pregnancy discrimination is not facially sex discrimination. Only four years later, Congress repudiated Geduldig in the statutory context in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. For decades, Geduldig remained largely moribund,…

Jammed from Justice: How International Organization Immunity Enshrines Impunity

Sep 19, 2023

By Joanna Jandali. In a tiny fishing village along the Kutch coastline of India, families wake up to ash falling from the sky. Foul smells loom in dark clouds over the settlements, while chemicals and excess salts taint local sources…

Morally Regulatable Lives: Corporate Sovereignty, the Rise of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, and the Ironic Demise of The Walt Disney Company’s Reedy Creek Improvement District

Sep 19, 2023

By Ashton P. Jones-Doherty. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby is a misunderstood case. Since the decision in 2014, scholars have split into two camps, debating Hobby Lobby’s religious liberty concerns. One camp argues Hobby Lobby unconstitutionally allows corporations the right to enact…

Uncharted Violence: Reclaiming Structural Causes in the Power and Control Wheel

Sep 19, 2023

By Tamara Kuennen. The “Power and Control Wheel” (“the Wheel”) is an iconic image in the anti-gender violence field. On a single vivid page, it captures multiple layers of intimate partner abuse. In the Wheel’s hub are the words “power and…

Author: Abbie Conrad (JD 2024-2025 student)