Abbie Conrad (JD 2024-2025 student) – Page 4

The Second Coming of the Second Section: The Fourteenth Amendment and Presidential Elections

May 18, 2024

By David B. Froomkin & Eric Eisner.The Fourteenth Amendment is a gift that keeps on giving. In the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, scholars were quick to observe that Section 3 of the Fourteenth…

Multistate Failure: Advocating for an Affirmative Defense for Sex-Trafficking Victims in Line with Feminist Legal Reasoning

May 18, 2024

By Katharine Greer. Chrystul Kizer entered Gary, Indiana’s junior high performing arts academy with a dream of becoming a violinist. She practiced all hours of the day trying to master music by composers like Beethoven. She was a “burgeoning artist” and…

The Canon of Natural Law Avoidance

May 18, 2024

By William Harren. The relationship between natural law and positive law represents one of the oldest unresolved questions in American jurisprudence. When Thomas Jefferson wrote, “[w]e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” he invoked natural…

Co-Authoring with an AI? Ethical Dilemmas and Artificial Intelligence

May 18, 2024

By Hadar Y. Jabotinsky & Roee Sarel. Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is rapidly advancing, particularly in the area of generative AI—a technology capable of producing new and rich content in response to human prompts. Generative AI systems have been causing quite a…

The Proactive Process: An Empirical Study of Disparities in Workplace Accommodations

May 18, 2024

By Heidi H. Liu. Recent legislation and caselaw have imposed an affirmative obligation on employers to provide employees with workplace accommodations. Whether someone receives an accommodation, however, often first depends on whether they ask. And asking for accommodations can be fraught.…

American Exceptionalism And/In Affirmative Action

May 18, 2024

By Lucy Williams.In 2014, a nonprofit group called Students for Fair Admissions (“SFFA”) filed two lawsuits challenging the use of race in university admissions. In one suit, against Harvard College, SFFA alleged that Harvard’s admission policies violate Title VI of…

Resolving Equity’s Erie Problem

May 18, 2024

By Andrea Olson.It is an open secret that equity has an Erie problem. In 1945, the Supreme Court insisted that federal courts sitting in diversity must apply certain general equitable principles when faced with suits seeking equitable relief, even for…

History Repeats Itself: Arizona’s Immigration Laws

Apr 04, 2024

Special Edition: 1L Blog Contest Winner By Maya Dominguez. Anti-Immigration Laws and Racial Profiling Most people condemn racial discrimination, but many fail to realize that anti-immigration laws are based on many of the same principles. Immigration policies are closely tied…

Arizonans Will Fortunately Avoid Yet Another Political Redistricting Challenge

Apr 02, 2024

Special Edition: 1L Blog Contest Winner By Ethan Schafer. Partisan Redistricting Violates Democratic Values Partisan redistricting, also called gerrymandering, involves artfully “cracking” and “packing” voters into federal and state legislative districts so the political party in power can draw lines…

St. Isidore Virtual Catholic Charter School and the Battle for Religious Charters

Mar 28, 2024

By Olivia Lechnir. St. Isidore and Arizona’s Penchant for ChartersTwo lawsuits are currently pending before the Oklahoma Supreme Court and District Court of Oklahoma County regarding St. Isidore Virtual Catholic Charter School, seeking to block the school’s opening for the 2024-2025…