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Preventing Harm At The Source: The Case For Regulatory Justice, Keith Ellison

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

What if the key to reducing crime in our communities was not more prosecution, but smarter regulation? I argue in this Article that consumer law is an underused and powerful addition to traditional criminal law in combating crime. Drawing on six cases brought by my office over the last seven years, I show how consumer protection statutes and civil common law doctrines can be used to hold manufacturers, distributors, and retailers responsible for practices that facilitate criminal harm, like gun violence, car theft, and drug misuse. While not a substitute for all criminal enforcement, this “regulatory justice” approach shifts moral …

Dismantling Disability Segregation, Seth E. Packrone

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

Over fifty years ago, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) promised that students with disabilities would attend school alongside their nondisabled peers in the least restrictive environment. Yet today this pro-inclusion educational vision remains unrealized. School districts nationwide continue to place many students with disabilities in segregated educational settings, including disability-only public schools. These schools frequently function as stops along the school-to-prison pipeline or as dumping grounds for low-income students of color who have disabilities that affect their behavior.

Congress originally intended for the IDEA to dismantle this type of disability segregation, but courts have made a series of …

Faith Investors, Amelia Miazad

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

It is the best of times for advocates of religious liberty and the worst of times for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investors. Over the past few decades, the Supreme Court has expanded protections for religious individuals, organizations, and corporations by interpreting the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses evermore expansively. Meanwhile, for ESG investors, times are grim. Conservative lawmakers have vowed to “eradicate this evil pollutant from our markets” and are making good on their promise with a wave of legislation, investigations, and congressional hearings—aimed at preventing investors from incorporating environmental and social issues into investment decisions. The Securities and Exchange …

State Vras And The State Of The Vra, Michael Pernick, Adam Harper

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

For decades, changes in the interpretation and application of federal election law have limited the reach of hard-won protections for voters of color enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (the federal VRA). United States Supreme Court opinions, including Shelby County v. Holder, Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Louisiana v. Callais, have rendered the core provisions of the federal VRA wholly ineffective. Against this backdrop, State Voting Rights Acts (SVRAs) have emerged as a necessary and urgent response to protect the right to vote—not merely filling the gaps left by federal retrenchment, but building the durable, …

The Poly Problem In Zoning: Redefining "Family" For A Changing Society, Aric Short, Tanya Pierce

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

Single-family zoning has long dictated not only where people may live but also with whom. Although extensively critiqued for perpetuating racial and economic exclusion, these laws also privilege relationships defined by blood, marriage, or adoption and marginalize nontraditional families. This Article focuses on a particularly overlooked group: polyamorous families who often face legal uncertainty, social exclusion, and housing discrimination due to restrictive zoning definitions of “family.”

As polyamory gains cultural visibility and increasing legal recognition—through West 49th Street, LLC v. O’Neill and municipal reforms in cities like Somerville and Cambridge—now is the time to examine zoning's role in reinforcing outdated …

Possible Reconsideration To The Library Of Congress Classification System’S Liberal Placements Of African American Psychology And African American Social Science, Eddie Hughes

Southern University and A&M College: John B. Cade Library Publications

The Library of Congress Classification (LCC), developed by Herbert Putnam in 1897, remains the predominant system for organizing materials in U.S. academic libraries. By integrating innovations with earlier classification systems by Charles Cutter and Melvil Dewey, the LCC divides human knowledge into 21 classes, each represented by alphabetic codes. While Psychology is classified under BF and social sciences under HQ, materials on African American Psychology and African American Social Science are primarily cataloged under Class E—History of America—specifically E185.625 and E185.86. This placement raises critical questions about the appropriateness of categorizing these subjects as historical rather than disciplinary. Given African …

Arkansas Razorback Men's Golf Record Book, 2025-2026, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Athletics Media Relations

Arkansas Men's Golf

No abstract provided.

The Southeastern Librarian 73(4) Winter 2026 (Full Issue)

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Keeping The Chattahoochee: Reviving And Defending A Great Southern River, Melanie Vincent

The Southeastern Librarian

Sally Sierer Bethea

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025

ISBN: 9780820374512

210 pp. $20.95 (Pbk)

West Virginia Pre-K-12 Enrollment Projections, John Deskins

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

Creative Works By Courtney Doherty, Courtney Doherty

The Art of Medicine

• Inside Voices
• Starting Lineup

Children Past Curfew: Surveillance, Resistance, And Childhood In Philippine Martial Law Children's Literature, Krisna Marie T. Balolong

Children's Literature (MA) Theses

This paper examines how two Philippine children's books depict state surveillance and its effects on a child's perspective of family, authority figures, and childhood. Through analysis of Augie Rivera's Isang Harding Papel and Sandra Nicole Roldan's At the School Gate, this project makes a connection between children's literature and surveillance studies, offering new framework to engage with children’s literature depicting authoritarian regimes and state violence, especially in cases where children were targets of their governments. Each book is examined by their representations of state surveillance during the Martial Law era of the Philippines, as well as each characters’ individual …

Art Of Medicine - 2026

The Art of Medicine

No abstract provided.

Is Seeing Still Believing? Comparing Deepfake Regulations In The U.S. And E.U., Sara Weitz

Emory International Law Review

The rapid advancement of deepfake technology has fundamentally altered the trustworthiness of audio and visual media. Deepfakes, synthetic media generated through artificial intelligence, can skew political discourse, manipulate elections, and disproportionately harm women through nonconsensual deepfake pornography. As these issues intensify, the law must provide adequate protections without stifling innovation and infringing on fundamental rights. This requires a careful balancing act.

This comment compares the emerging regulatory frameworks governing deepfakes and artificial intelligence in the United States and European Union. In the United States, constitutional constraints limit federal regulation, resulting in a fragmented patchwork of laws at the state level. …

Toward Conditions For Consensus Of Noisy Bounded-Confidence Models, Madeline Reeve

HMC Senior Theses

Models of opinion dynamics aim to describe the spread of opinions over time in a social network. However, many canonical models are deterministic and thus may fail to capture uncertainty present in social interactions. This work investigates the effect of adding noise into bounded-confidence models, a class of opinion dynamics models where agents are more likely to be influenced by opinions close to their own. In particular, we propose a noisy modification of the Deffuant–Weisbuch bounded-confidence model. We prove that in this model all agents eventually adopt the same opinion—that is, our model converges to consensus. In doing so, we …

Gilded Crowns: How Wisconsin Can Address The Growing Phenomenon Of Private Equity In Dentistry, Connor D. Reed

Marquette Law Review

In recent years, for-profit businesses and private interests have gained a substantial foothold in dentistry, often in the form of private equity investment in dental service organizations. While there is an undeniable upside to this influx of investment, the dangers are too substantial to ignore. Wisconsin's Corporate Practice of Medicine laws are not as robust for dentistry as they are for medicine generally, making the practice of dentistry in Wisconsin ripe for private equity exploitation. This Comment explores solutions to that problem. By looking to the laws of other states, its own existing laws, and some previous legislative efforts, Wisconsin …

What Race Means For Health Among Black Americans: How Microaggressions Shape Self-Efficacy And Readiness For Behavior Change, Amanda Lee Almond

Publications and Research

Objectives: Persistent racial disparities in cardiovascular health among Black Americans reflect not only structural inequities in the United States, but also the racialized meanings of cardiovascular disease reproduced through public and private health communication. Drawing on ecological systems theory, this research examines how beliefs linking race and cardiovascular disease are reinforced through routine clinical interactions and how these meanings shape health behavior change. Method: Across two experimental mixed-methods studies, a model integrating ecological, social–cognitive, and behavior-change frameworks was tested. In Study 1 (N = 374), health-message framing was experimentally manipulated to examine effects on self-efficacy and decisional balance while controlling …

Roots To Recovery: How Therapeutic Horticulture Can Heal Sexual Trauma, Fiona E. Larsen-Teskey

Scripps Senior Theses

Sexual assault is one of the most prevalent sources of trauma among females. While still requiring more research, therapeutic horticulture (TH), also known as gardening therapy, has so far shown promising results regarding trauma recovery. In this study, I seek to discover how TH can aid in female sexual assault recovery. To determine its impact, I will conduct a three-month experiment with two groups: those who receive cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and those who receive CBT plus TH. I will specifically measure three common side effects survivors face: dissociation, shame, and PTSD. These categories will be measured through surveys and …

The Genius Dilemma: Innovation Versus Antifraud In Stablecoin Regulation, Seth C. Oranburg

Scholarly Articles

The 2022 TerraUSD collapse, erasing $50 billion and exposing unregulated stablecoin risks in a $260 billion market, led Congress to enact the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act of 2025 (GENIUS Act). This statute exempts compliant payment stablecoins from the Securities Act's "security" definition, enforces strict reserve requirements, and creates a tailored private right of action-shifting authority from ex post Rule lob-5 litigation to ex ante prudential oversight while maintaining market discipline via calibrated remedies.

As the first doctrinal analysis of this landmark legislation, this Article contends GENIUS resolves regulatory fragmentation, optimizes risk allocation under uncertainty, and …

From The Desk Of The Editors: Dr. Alex Garcia-Putnam And Amelia Sethi (Student Co-Editor), Alex Garcia-Putnam, Amelia Sethi

Spectrum

No abstract provided.

Physical Health Impacts Of Increased Digital Technology Use, James Poupolo

Spectrum

No abstract provided.

Cultivating Creative Courage: How Metacognition And Choice Influence Risk-Taking In Secondary Visual Arts, Shea Meehan

Master of Education in Transformational Teaching and Learning

This action research project explored how embedding metacognitive reflection and elective levels of challenge into classroom routines influenced students’ willingness to take creative risks in a secondary visual arts classroom. Conducted in two high school graphic arts classes totaling 38 students, the study introduced daily reflection prompts, structured choice through a “Creative Risk Ladder” (Safe, Stretch, Bold), critique activities and opportunities for student voice and autonomy within open-ended creative projects. Data was collected through student surveys, daily reflections, observational field notes and student artifacts. Findings suggest that students were more willing to engage in creative risk-taking when projects felt personally …

Fostering Student Joy And Motivation For Reading, Meghann Mcdonald

Master of Education in Transformational Teaching and Learning

Noting the decline in students’ access to school library spaces, along with growing educator discourse surrounding declining youth reading enjoyment, the critical question emerged: What classroom strategies increase students’ motivation and enjoyment of reading? This classroom inquiry took place in a sixth-grade Humanities classroom of 21 students at a small Catholic school in North Seattle. Drawing from research surrounding aesthetic reading, reader identity, student agency, and reading community, the study investigated how an independent reading routine, student choice in text selection, and peer interactions around reading influenced students’ motivation and enjoyment of reading. Data was collected over a three-week period …

The Joy Of Reading: An Action Research Project, William Cronin

Master of Education in Transformational Teaching and Learning

This study is to investigate what impact sustained silent reading in class will have on student enjoyment in reading. The study was conducted over a two-week period in which students were given 10-15 minutes for sustained silent reading of a hard-copy book of their choice at the end of each class meeting. They were then asked in a survey how they felt after reading, and to give a reason why they answered in that way. Students were also surveyed at the beginning and end of the study with a series of questions about their reading habits and enjoyment level. The …

Character Kinetics: An Interactive, Immersive Installation On The Mindfulness Of Asemic Writing, Danielle S. Desmarteau

Scripps Senior Theses

Character kinetics is an installation art piece that explores how writing asemically (without language) can ease the body and mind into the present moment, allowing one to focus on the material and movement of mark-making. Throughout the semester, I held workshops where participants were invited to scribble it out, to express their thoughts and surroundings without needing to make sense in the context of language. The resulting pieces were transformed into sculptural paper forms suspended in air, creating an interactive three-dimensional space inviting viewers to analyze the infinite possibility of interpretation within asemic symbolism.

Library Advisory Council 2025-2026 End Of Academic Year Report, Central Washington University

Library Advisory Council for CWU Libraries

Library Advisory Council 

2025-2026 

End of Academic Year Report 

Infringement Through Imitation: Ai Chatbots And The Characters They Infringe, Isabella Herrera

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Chatbots that purport to embody the personas of copyrighted characters are poised to be a central issue for the IP legal field and the entertainment industry. In September of 2025, Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Character.AI, a leader in the “character” chatbots market, demanding removal of numerous chatbots that were reportedly based on characters from Disney franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, and the Pixar films. Character.AI allegedly removed all infringing characters, however it remains unclear whether character chatbots platforms are required to do so under IP law. This Note addresses the issue of copyright infringement for character chatbots and …

Ghostwriting The Government, Bridget C.E. Dooling

Marquette Law Review

Ghostwriting is when a writer prepares materials to be issued under someone else’s name. The word describes a politician’s use of a speechwriter, a student’s purchase of a term paper, or a tongue-twisted admirer asking a poet to craft a love letter on his behalf. It also happens inside organizations every day: staff draft documents for others “up the chain” to sign. But when legislators rely on staff and lobbyists to draft bills, when an agency head relies on staff or contractors to write a rule, and when a judge relies on her clerk for a draft opinion, the benefits …

Que Ondee Sola - Winter 2026, Xavier Morales-Greene

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include:

Wear Your Crown Freely, Boricua Feminism and the Fight for Decolonization, Envision Community Services Provides 14 Years of Restorative Justice in Pilsen, If You Loved Me- Intimate Partner Violence in Latin Communities, Cosas and Linda from Guarida de Cosas, No Kings Protest 2025, We Won! HITN Takes Home Three Emmys at 68th New York Awards, Our History is a History of Solidarity, Ramon Lopez- The Ethnographer of Paseo Boricua, The United Shits of Amerikkka, Stop the Deportation of 340,000 Haitians with Temporary Protected Status, The Journey of South American Immigrants, Austin, Acostumbrando el …

Students Shouting Louder Than School Bells: An Analysis Exposing Anti-Youth Rationales In Federal Courts, Edward D. Scott Jr., Christopher L. Mathis

Missouri Law Review

In a paradigm-shifting departure from conventional First Amendment analysis, this study is the first empirical examination of First Amendment rights, spanning every level of the federal judiciary, for students in public schools. Departing from conventional narratives, our scholarship examines how the federal court adjudicates the nuances surrounding the First Amendment within public K-12 educational institutions.