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Kentucky's Alford Predicament: The Case For Curbing Qualified Guilty Pleas In The Commonwealth, Ben Whatley

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Right To Have Rights In United States Territories, Anthony M. Ciolli

Kentucky Law Journal

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Immigration Detainers, Local Law Enforcement, And Constraints On Bureaucratic Discretion: Recent Trends Under The Second Trump Administration, Richard T. Middleton, Sheridan Wigginton

Kentucky Law Journal

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From Militarization To Military Enforcement: The U.S. Armed Forces And Immigration Control In The Second Trump Administration, Kit Johnson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Immigration Bridges, Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Duty To Develop Imperative In Immigration Proceedings, Sabrineh Ardalan, Tiffany J. Lieu

Kentucky Law Journal

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Deportation After Death By Incarceration: A Right To Redemption, Jennifer Lee Koh, Tin Nguyen

Kentucky Law Journal

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A Sherbert Colored Lens: Apache Stronghold And The Uphill Battle For The Recognition Of A Substantial Burden For Indigenous Plaintiffs, Emma P. Collins

Kentucky Law Journal

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Enforcement Mechanisms For Supreme Court Ethics Codes: Applying State Models To Scotus, Katherine Nipper

Kentucky Law Journal

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Hope In The Holler: How Eminent Domain Can Bring Economic Justice To Central Appalachia, Matthew B. Chaney

Kentucky Law Journal

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History And Tradition Of Inequality, Advocacy, And Progress, Teri Dobbins Baxter

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Birth Of Creditor Qualified Immunity, Daniel M. Tavera

Kentucky Law Journal

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States Strip Local Governments Of Authority To Govern Causing Some Rural Communities To Suffer, Terence J. Centner

Kentucky Law Journal

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Much Ado About Nothing: The Effect Of The "Nullity Rule" On Purported Pro Se Litigants In Federal Court, John T. Lambert

Kentucky Law Journal

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Consumer Bankruptcy: A "Gem" Of The Legal Profession But A Diamond In The Rough, Tori Harris

Kentucky Law Journal

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Arbitration Clause Expansion, Hossein Fazilatfar

Kentucky Law Journal

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The New Parens Patriae, Meredith Johnson Harbach

Kentucky Law Journal

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Against First Amendment Traditionalism, Jacob M. Schriner-Briggs

Kentucky Law Journal

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Competition For All? The Ftc’S Ban On Non-Competes And The More Effective Route In Promoting Competition, Aniqah Nashiat

St. John's Law Review

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Employment contracts have historically included non-compete agreements, which are restrictive covenants forbidding employees from working “for competitors of their former employer for a certain period of time and over a defined geographic area.” American jurisprudence has always left enforcement of these non-competes to states. In the federal government, Congress has never successfully passed legislation on the per se illegality of non-competes. Instead, President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2021 aimed at promoting the interests of American workers because companies requiring them to sign non-competes restricted their ability to change jobs. Biden explained that strengthening antitrust laws would …

Caging Songwriters In The Compulsory Licensing Framework: A Battle Of Fairness And Equity, Maria Kaganis

St. John's Law Review

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Imagine it is November 2023, and you log onto Spotify to stream your favorite music. As you do, you notice you now have access to up to fifteen hours of the most popular audiobooks. You really enjoy the addition of audiobooks to Spotify and have used the new feature for months. Come March of 2024, however, you get an email stating that Spotify will be introducing a . . . music-audiobook bundle as part of your current subscription? Is that not what you already had? Shrugging it off, you move on and continue enjoying your music, audiobooks, and podcasts …

Closing Symposium Remarks: Reflections On A Legacy That Endures, Jelani Jefferson Exum

St. John's Law Review

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I am back again, but this time, to give my closing remarks and to reflect on this extraordinary day. I think that is a fitting word for it. I want to take a moment to reflect on our experience together and to celebrate the enduring power and purpose of scholarship at St. John’s Law. This has been a wonderful opportunity to hear from our faculty, to engage with one another, and to witness the profound ways in which scholarship shapes the law, the academy, and society.

Opening Symposium Remarks: Celebrating 100 Years Of Scholarly Impact At St. John’S Law, Jelani Jefferson Exum

St. John's Law Review

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Good morning, everyone. It is both an honor and a joy to open today’s symposium—Impact That Endures: Celebrating the Past, Present, and Future of St. John’s Law Faculty Scholarship.

As we gather in this centennial year of St. John’s Law, we have the opportunity to reflect not only on our history but also on our identity. So that means thinking about who we have been, who we are, and then also, who we aspire to be.

Zeus Network And The Commercialization Of Conflict: A Critical Analysis Of Exploitation, Representation, And Reality Television, Delante Clark

Graduate Scholarship and Creative Works

This study examines Zeus Network as a prominent example of the commercialization of conflict within contemporary digital media. Through reality based programming that frequently emphasizes confrontation, public humiliation, emotional volatility, and interpersonal disputes, the network has cultivated a profitable entertainment model built upon spectacle and controversy. Drawing upon conflict theory, critical race theory, and media sociology, this paper investigates whether Zeus functions as a platform for cultural representation and economic opportunity or as a system that monetizes dysfunction for audience consumption. Particular attention is given to the portrayal of Black women and Black communities, whose experiences often become central to …

Strings Attached: Science Regulation By Science Funders, Nicholson W. Price Ii

Reviews

Who regulates the physical and informational risks of scientific research? Who makes sure that researchers keep intensely personal data secret, or lock their dangerous chemicals away safely, or don't haphazardly create superviruses that could kill us all? You could be forgiven for assuming it was, well, a regulator—OSHA or the CDC or some similar entity that can promulgate binding rules and enforce them. But as Doni Bloomfield shows in the fascinating How Science Grantmakers Govern, you’d be (mostly) wrong. Instead, a key substantive and procedural regulator of the risky business of scientific research is, in fact, the funder of that …

Lessons Learned For The Independent Panel For Evidence For Action Against Amr From Previous International Science Panels: Stakeholder Views From The 2025 Lagos Workshop, Iruka N. Okeke, Anthony Mcdonnell, Ayodele A. Akinyele, Javier Guzman, Kevin Outterson

Faculty Scholarship

In September, 2024, the UN General Assembly assigned the Quadripartite Joint Secretariat on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) the task of establishing an Independent Panel for Evidence for Action against AMR (IPEA). To promote stakeholder views and input around the constitution and functioning of this Panel, which could feed into the Quadripartite Joint Secretariat’s consultation process, we independently commissioned seven papers to examine the lessons that could be learned from other high-level scientific panels. We then convened 85 stakeholders, primed with the background papers. The Workshop, held in Lagos, Nigeria in April, 2025, drew representation from around the world, particularly low-income or …

The 2024 New European Pact On Migration And Asylum: Recasting The European Legal Framework For Asylum Between Protection Guarantees And The Effectiveness Of Migration Management, Ali Mourad

BAU Journal - Journal of Legal Studies - مجلة الدراسات القانونية

The New European Pact on Migration and Asylum, adopted on 14 May 2024, constitutes one of the most far-reaching reforms undertaken by the European Union in this field. Through a package of ten legislative instruments, it reorganizes screening at the external borders, procedures for international protection, the determination of the Member State responsible, solidarity mechanisms, crisis and force majeure situations, and the role of databases and European Union agencies. This reform emerged in a context in which the migration crises of 2015 and 2016 exposed the limits of the Dublin system, whose application, particularly the irregular-entry criterion—concentrated responsibility in practice …

Who Controls The Block? How States Can Regulate Tokenized Residential Real Estate, David J. Reiss, Joseph Bizub, Justin Peralta

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

In July 2025, the City of Detroit filed a major nuisance abatement action against RealT, a fintech that had sold blockchain-based fractional interests in more than four hundred Detroit rental properties to some 22,000 investors around the world. Within a year, a court had ordered the company’s rents into escrow, the company had conceded to its investors that its “model no longer works,” and it had announced the liquidation of its portfolio -- leaving tenants without basic services and token holders facing steep losses.

This article uses the rise and collapse of RealT, together with case studies of the other …

Ai And Legal Malpractice: Are We Due For A Reckoning?, John Browning

Texas A&M Law Review

As the rate of AI adoption by lawyers steadily climbs, unfortunately so has the number of incidents of AI misuse by attorneys. For some time, courts satisfied themselves with giving offending lawyers warnings, ordering them to take additional CLE, and/or administering relatively nominal monetary sanctions. Lately, however, frustrated judges throughout the country have upped the ante by not only assessing increasingly higher sanctions but also imposing case dismissals and suspensions or disciplinary referrals for the lawyers involved. As this article discusses, with their negligence exposed to the public eye and the harsh gaze of their clients, lawyers who misuse AI …

Assessing The Impact Dynamics Of Less Lethal Ammunition, Steven Bermejo

Student Theses

Less-lethal ammunition is widely used by law enforcement as an alternative to lethal force during crowd control, on-street confrontations, and other situations requiring force. Although these projectiles are intended to reduce risk of fatal injury, serious injuries and fatalities have been reported, highlighting the need to better understand the factors that influence their impact behavior. This study evaluated the impact dynamics of four types of 12-gauge less-lethal ammunition, including rubber buckshot, single rubber ball, double rubber ball, and Byrna kinetic projectile, using kinetic energy calculations derived from projectile mass and velocity measurements. In addition, Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared …

From Global Principles To National Implementation: The 9th Un Conference And Its Product Safety Resolution, Suruchi ., Kumar Jyotish

International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice

The 9th United Nations Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection of 2025 advanced international consumer protection law by extending its scope. The Product Safety Resolution adopted at the Geneva-based conference is the first binding global resolution on product safety. Addressing the wide scope of problems associated with the emergence of more complex global and online markets, the Resolution presents a set of legal criteria to ensure the safety of goods, liability of defaulting manufacturers, rights of consumers, and the laying out of appropriate procedures. This paper presents a critical evaluation of the normative context of the Resolution and its variation …