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Editorial Board Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026)., Caroline Aiello Editor-In-Chief

Student Journal of Information Privacy Law

Masthead Editorial Board Vol. 4 No.2

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Foreword, Caroline Aiello

Student Journal of Information Privacy Law

Foreword

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The Bent Clinician: How Dental Work Is Reshaping Your Spine - And What To Do About It, Kelly Davis Pt, Dpt, Faaompt, Mt

New Orleans Dental Association News

Musculoskeletal disorders affect somewhere between 64 and 93 percent of dental professionals over the course of their careers. Neck pain, shoulder aches, low back fatigue — these aren’t just the cost of doing good work. They are predictable patterns that, with the right understanding, you can absolutely change.

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Noda News Summer 2026

New Orleans Dental Association News

New Orleans Dental Association (NODA) News includes regular columns with regional news impacting the New Orleans membership including: columns from the President and Executive Director, feature articles relating to the field of dentistry, association events and upcoming activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

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Resiliency Planning And The Reorganization Of Legal Authority In Rural Maine, Nicholas F. Jacobs, Skylar Thielbar

Maine Law Review

Resiliency has become a dominant and largely unchallenged organizing principle of contemporary state-local governance in Maine, particularly as it affects rural towns and communities dependent on extractive industries. This Article argues that resiliency planning is not merely a policy orientation, but a distinct form of legal authority, which operates through an administrative structure that is closed off to normal channels of political accountability and judicial review. Focusing on Maine, the Article shows how statewide resiliency planning reallocates authority across state and local institutions, shaping fiscal access and territorial development without triggering the doctrinal safeguards of public law. Rural governance, where …

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Betschart V. Oregon: A Seven-Day Standard For Maine, Henry Gates

Maine Law Review

Maine lacks a clear standard for ensuring the right to counsel for indigent defendants. The State’s public defense system is struggling to meet Maine’s constitutional mandate: To provide indigent defense services in rural areas and across the state. An aging bar with few new attorneys working in rural areas—where there are often higher relative prosecution rates and a corresponding increased need for legal services—is contributing to the problem. This has resulted in a legal system that negatively impacts rural communities and indigent defendants to the point that one court concluded the state is violating the Sixth Amendment. Following the Ninth …

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One Year's Seeding: Looking Back On The Last Seven Years Of Maine's Progress Toward Rural Justice, Christopher Northrop, Seth Main

Maine Law Review

Nationally, the crisis in access to legal services in rural areas continues to grow despite significant attention and efforts to reverse this troubling trend. This Article explores Maine’s efforts to address our legal deserts. The Article’s starting point is a retrospective look at our 2019 national symposium on rural justice and accompanying Maine Law Review issue. We will try to measure successes and failures, while also addressing the significant impact caused by the intervening pandemic. The Article will then shift to an analysis of the current landscape, focusing on the role of the University of Maine School of Law. We …

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Legal Deserts Over Time, Cory L. Dodds

Maine Law Review

Legal deserts—counties with exceptionally low attorney availability—shape housing stability, personal safety, health outcomes, and economic security in rural communities. Yet, national scholarship has not yet determined whether attorney scarcity is transient or durable and relies largely on cross-sectional snapshots and population-based headcounts benchmarked to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) threshold of one attorney per 1,000 residents. These measures can obscure temporal dynamics, overstate functional supply, and embed contested normative assumptions about adequacy. This Article offers a national, longitudinal, and definition-sensitive analysis of legal deserts using county-level data from the forty-eight contiguous states at three observation points. Attorney supply is measured …

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The Other Right To Counsel: The Civil Guarantee In State Constitutions, Dmitry Bam

Maine Law Review

When most people speak of the right to counsel, they speak in the singular. After the Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, the right to counsel in criminal prosecutions has become one of our most cherished fundamental rights. It is a right ingrained in our culture. Even children can recite the mantra that the accused have the right to a lawyer, and if they can’t afford a lawyer, one will be provided to them free of charge. It is no surprise, then, that our constitutional focus is trained on the criminal defendant’s right to counsel. After all, there …

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Foreword, Adam Fortier-Brown

Maine Law Review

Access to legal services in America has emerged as one of the most pressing structural challenges facing the legal community. As attorneys increasingly concentrate in metropolitan areas, large areas are left with few practicing attorneys and challenging prospects of attracting many more. The consequences of this challenge reach across nearly every aspect of life in these communities—from housing and family stability, to starting or winding down businesses, and critically, to the constitutional guarantees that attach when someone is charged with a crime. Yet, these challenges have also generated a period of genuine creativity and collaboration between communities and different institutions. …

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Rurality And Redistricting: California's Proposition 50, Rural Identity, And Democratic Legitimacy, Lisa R. Pruitt

Maine Law Review

When California voters embraced mid-decade congressional redistricting in 2025, the greatest media attention landed on the state’s First Congressional District, CA-01. It is residents of that district who are likely to feel the consequences of the new maps most profoundly. In the form established by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission in 2021, CA-01 occupied more than 26,000 square miles in the state’s northeastern corner. The district included a number of inland counties stretching from Modoc, tucked into the corner formed by the Oregon and Nevada state lines, to Colusa, in the Great Central Valley. The cluster of ten counties—hereinafter “old …

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Editorial Board Vol. 78 No. 2 (2026), Adam Fortier-Brown Editor-In-Chief

Maine Law Review

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Enhancing Learning Strategies Of First-Year Medical Students Through A Remedial Course At A Medical School In The Caribbean, Aruna Ullal, Ed.D., Andrea Wilson, Phd

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Remediation is a crucial factor for some students to succeed in a medical career. Well-designed remedial courses can enhance students’ learning skills and improve their study habits, promoting long-term retention and academic success. A medical school in the Caribbean has designed a remedial program called the Learning Enhancement Course, with the goal of supporting underperforming students in enhancing their study skills and gaining the competencies necessary to progress in their medical school journey. This quantitative study examined the influence of the remedial course on students’ learning and study skills after their participation in this structured course. We analyzed archival pre- …

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Optimizing The Timing Of Reminders For Unopened Apps, Haifeng Ji, Xiaoxue Ma, Giang Huong Le, Hua Wei, Haoyu Chen, Kiran Kokare

Defensive Publications Series

When a large number of applications are installed on a user device, a user may forget to use an app they have not engaged with or that they use infrequently. While reminders can improve app engagement, reminders delivered at inopportune times may not improve user engagement and may be perceived negatively. This disclosure describes techniques to personalize the timings of reminders to users to open installed apps. With user permission, machine learning (ML) is used to predict a suitable time to notify the user to open an app. A trained ML model analyzes permitted user and app data to personalize …

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Optimized Wishlist-Based Gift Purchase Flow For Digital Storefronts, Caitlyn Milne

Defensive Publications Series

Gifting via wishlists is a multi-step process that requires manual data entry for item selection and adding to cart, recipient information, gift message, payment information, etc. This disclosure describes techniques that eliminate unnecessary intermediary steps in the purchase flow of digital goods to streamline and speed up gifting. The techniques allow users to view the wishlist of a target gift recipient and select a gift option to reach a gifting purchase flow. In the purchase flow, recipient-related information is automatically inferred from the source. By retrieving recipient information automatically, intermediary steps for manual data entry of recipient information and/or steps …

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Bootstrap Connectivity For Mobile Devices Without Sim Cards, Aguibou Barry, Tim Auer, Wendy Wang, Pankaj Kumar

Defensive Publications Series

In some geographies, the lack of ubiquitous WiFi can complicate electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) adoption. In some geographies, carriers can mandate device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to enable bootstrap connectivity, but eSIM-based bootstrap connectivity can be expensive for OEMs. This disclosure describes techniques that leverage extensible authentication protocol/ transport layer security (EAP-TLS) to enable secure connectivity of a mobile device to a cellular or satellite 5G network without an eSIM or physical SIM (pSIM). Following successful EAP-TLS authentication, the carrier enables traffic between the EAP-TLS-authenticated user equipment (UE) and the relevant service (based upon carrier-defined specific network policy). In …

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Context-Aware Personalized Modular User Interfaces Using Artificial Intelligence, Stephanie Brisendine, David Karam, Chorong Johnston, Dj Oh, Tyler Kugler, Tim Raupach, Alok Chandel, Lucas Dupin, Hannah Bowman

Defensive Publications Series

Current computing devices display static home screens. Also, application data is isolated within individual applications. This forces users to access different apps for information, creating a high cognitive load. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, automatically generates and presents an adaptive, contextually appropriate user interface (e.g., home screen interface) on a computing device. The user interface provides seamless, proactive, personal assistance throughout the day and reduces the effort (and time) the user needs to spend to access desired information. With user permission, data from multiple sources is aggregated and an on-device machine-learned model is implemented to identify user …

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Shadow-Channel Verification For Multi-Body Model Fusion: An Independent-Recompute Witness For Detecting Silent Value-Faults In Interpolated Language-Model Inference, David Lee Wise, Avan Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes a system and method for verifying the intermediate quantities used in multi-body language-model fusion by means of an independent recomputation channel — a "shadow channel" — that runs parallel to the primary fusion pipeline. In multi-body fusion, a primary model (e.g., a transformer language model) is combined with one or more auxiliary bodies (e.g., an n-gram count model and a nearest-neighbour/datastore retrieval model) by interpolating their per-position probabilities. Conventional fusion consumes each body's reported probability directly and is therefore blind to two failure classes: (a) crash-faults, in which an auxiliary quantity becomes non-finite (e.g., a softmax …

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The Vanishing Customer: A Framework For Analyzing Benefit–Burden Decoupling In Attention-Economy And Ai-Companion Transactions, David Lee Wise, Avan Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating benefit–burden decoupling in digital-service transactions, with particular application to attention-economy platforms and conversational AI-companion systems. The framework treats two observed phenomena — the relocation of the paying party from customer to product (wherein a user's attention, data, or disclosure is monetized while the user is denied the status of a served customer), and the relocation of responsibility from maker to user (wherein a provider retains the financial benefit of a design or deployment decision while attempting, via terms-of-service disclaimers and "sole-risk" framing, to shed the decision's downstream burdens) — as …

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Managing A Plurality Of Parallel Batches, Saeed Alrahma, Michael Butler, Matthew Markwell

Defensive Publications Series

Limited accelerator memory on mobile devices may restrict the concurrent execution of parallel large language model workloads. The capacity of the key‑value cache may often constrain the number and length of these tasks. A workload scheduling method is disclosed to manage these memory constraints. When the cache capacity is reached, the state of a specific workload is serialized and moved to an alternative memory location. This process frees cache slots, which allows other parallel tasks to proceed. Once memory is vacated by completed tasks, the serialized state is restored to an accelerator cache for continued processing. This approach enables the …

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Proactive Make-Before-Break Traffic Steering In Evpn Multi-Homing Using A Bgp Extended Community For Pre-Failure Link Degradation Signaling, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A method and system for proactive Make-Before-Break (MBB) traffic protection in an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is disclosed. A first Provider Edge (PE) router monitors a physical-layer Bit Error Rate (BER) on a link to a multi-homed Customer Edge (CE) device. When the measured BER crosses a configurable threshold while the link remains operationally up, the first PE router originates a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) UPDATE carrying a new transitive Extended Community that signals link degradation, the BGP UPDATE being attached to an EVPN Type 1 Ethernet Auto-Discovery per-Ethernet Segment route. Remote PE routers receiving the Extended Community migrate …

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Automated Cloud Service Optimization Via Simulated Transitions And Feature Parity Analysis, Paras Mamgain, Sridharshini Saravanan, Jaspreet Singh

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods can automate the analysis of cloud service consumption to assist with challenges in selecting between a-la-carte and bundled purchasing models, as manual evaluation may be slow and resource-intensive. A computational framework, which can operate on a computing device such as a server or personal computer, may leverage a large language model to ingest and analyze diverse data sources, for example, billing information, system logs, and service documentation. The system can simulate the financial and operational impact of transitioning to a bundled service, using semantic reasoning to assess functional equivalence beyond simple keyword matching. This automated evaluation process …

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Latent Policy Manifold For Governing And Selecting Orthogonal Ai Directives, Nathan Myung-Chul Kim, Abraham Addisie

Defensive Publications Series

A system for managing modular directives for large language models can address challenges associated with redundant or conflicting instructions. The system can create a latent policy manifold by vectorizing a repository of natural language instructions and applying a matrix factorization technique, such as singular value decomposition, to identify an underlying orthogonal basis. This manifold can be used by an offline governance component to analyze and reduce redundancy in the instruction repository and by an online routing engine to select a subset of instructions at runtime. The selected subset of instructions can be both relevant to a given query and mathematically …

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System For Identifying Geospatial Features Using Language Model-Guided Segmentation, Mira Leung

Defensive Publications Series

Geospatial information systems can face challenges from incomplete data, such as missing locations for building entrances, and difficulties processing complex natural language queries. A system can dynamically identify geospatial features using a multi-stage process. For example, a large language model can interpret a user's natural language query and an associated image to identify a relevant point of interest. Subsequently, a specialized machine learning segmentation model can analyze a localized region of the image to delineate a specific feature, such as an entrance. This approach can facilitate the on-demand generation of geospatial feature coordinates in response to semantic requests, which can …

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United States V. Alfonso: The Eleventh Circuit's Choice To Follow The Tide Of Other Circuits In Deciding What Constitutes The High Seas, Jaidin Winsor

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

In United States v. Alfonso, three appellants challenged the constitutionality of the assertion of subject matter jurisdiction by the United States over a vessel involved in illicit drug smuggling activity within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Dominican Republic. On appeal the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected this challenge. The decision made by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals followed the approach taken explicitly by the Fourth Circuit and indirectly by the First and Second Circuits. This decision affirmed the expansive reach of United States territorial jurisdiction and is likely to encourage other cCircuits …

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The National Flood Insurance Program And Where We Go When The Next Storm Hits, Kevin Fitzpatrick

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

This article argues that what makes the difference in success between these two regimes is how strictly the scientific advice underlying catch limits the advice is adhered to, and the influences allowed unto decisionmakers in the catch limit negotiation process. Whereas the United States uses the scientific advice about the MSY as a strict upper limit in determining annual catch limits, the EU does not. This allows stakeholders in the EU’s CFP governance, in particular fishing industry actors, to influence regulators to raise TACs above adequately precautionary levels in the name of “balancing” sustainable fishing with short-term economic interests. The …

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High Stakes On The High Seas: Sailing Through Mdlea Jursidictional Waters, Sean Kim

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

In Spring, Texas, there is a house that has flooded twenty times due to heavy rain and flooding, resulting in National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) payouts totaling over $912,000 to cover the repairs. This house’s current value is $42,000, so the payouts have dwarfed its value by over nineteen times. The story of this home is indicative of an ongoing crisis regarding the NFIP, but also a larger crisis of how we manage the risks of flooding in the United States. Flooding causes more damage in the United States than any other severe weather-related event, costing an average of $5 …

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"Tac-Ing" On Coherence: Achieving Sustainable Baltic Sea Fisheries Management By Hooking Precautionary Science And Greater Transparency In Eu Total Catch Negotiations, Patrick Seroogy

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

This article argues that what makes the difference in success between these two regimes is how strictly the scientific advice underlying catch limits the advice is adhered to, and the influences allowed unto decisionmakers in the catch limit negotiation process. Whereas the United States uses the scientific advice about the MSY as a strict upper limit in determining annual catch limits, the EU does not. This allows stakeholders in the EU’s CFP governance, in particular fishing industry actors, to influence regulators to raise TACs above adequately precautionary levels in the name of “balancing” sustainable fishing with short-term economic interests. The …

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Alaska's Hidden Gems: Advocating For The Protection Of Deep-Sea Corals, Both In The Courtroom And Beyond, Lauren Beizer

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

Coral reefs are ecologically, financially, and aesthetically one of the world’s greatest resources. Off the coast of Alaska, many unique species of deep-sea cold-water corals exist and provide various public health benefits, contribute vital ecosystem functions to their surrounding environment, and serve as economic tourist attractions. Alaska’s corals reefs are exceedingly valuable to the earth due to their overall ecological value. However, these unique coral species significantly lack state and federal protections–which have recently been under consideration in several lawsuits at the federal level. American Oceans Campaign v. Daley and Oceana, Inc. v. National Marine Fisheries Service et al., are …

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Rape And Sexual Assault On The High Seas: A Case Of Murky Jurisdiction, Linny Kit Tong Ng

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

Rape and sexual assault on the high seas present a complex, dual-faceted challenge encompassing both legal and socio-cultural dimensions. The high seas are marked by jurisdictional ambiguity. International law assigns jurisdiction to the flag State of the vessel. However, many vessels are registered to States lacking adequate legal frameworks or the capacity to address such crimes effectively. While international law does allow for intervention by other States under certain principles of jurisdiction, the lack of legal clarity and political will often results in hesitation from non-flag States, except for the United States. This hesitance leaves victims without recourse. This Article …

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Editorial Board Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026)., Caroline Aiello Editor-In-Chief

Student Journal of Information Privacy Law

Foreword, Caroline Aiello

Student Journal of Information Privacy Law

The Bent Clinician: How Dental Work Is Reshaping Your Spine - And What To Do About It, Kelly Davis Pt, Dpt, Faaompt, Mt

New Orleans Dental Association News

Noda News Summer 2026

New Orleans Dental Association News

Resiliency Planning And The Reorganization Of Legal Authority In Rural Maine, Nicholas F. Jacobs, Skylar Thielbar

Maine Law Review

Betschart V. Oregon: A Seven-Day Standard For Maine, Henry Gates

Maine Law Review

One Year's Seeding: Looking Back On The Last Seven Years Of Maine's Progress Toward Rural Justice, Christopher Northrop, Seth Main

Maine Law Review

Legal Deserts Over Time, Cory L. Dodds

Maine Law Review

The Other Right To Counsel: The Civil Guarantee In State Constitutions, Dmitry Bam

Maine Law Review

Foreword, Adam Fortier-Brown

Maine Law Review

Rurality And Redistricting: California's Proposition 50, Rural Identity, And Democratic Legitimacy, Lisa R. Pruitt

Maine Law Review

Editorial Board Vol. 78 No. 2 (2026), Adam Fortier-Brown Editor-In-Chief

Maine Law Review

Enhancing Learning Strategies Of First-Year Medical Students Through A Remedial Course At A Medical School In The Caribbean, Aruna Ullal, Ed.D., Andrea Wilson, Phd

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Optimizing The Timing Of Reminders For Unopened Apps, Haifeng Ji, Xiaoxue Ma, Giang Huong Le, Hua Wei, Haoyu Chen, Kiran Kokare

Defensive Publications Series

Optimized Wishlist-Based Gift Purchase Flow For Digital Storefronts, Caitlyn Milne

Defensive Publications Series

Bootstrap Connectivity For Mobile Devices Without Sim Cards, Aguibou Barry, Tim Auer, Wendy Wang, Pankaj Kumar

Defensive Publications Series

Context-Aware Personalized Modular User Interfaces Using Artificial Intelligence, Stephanie Brisendine, David Karam, Chorong Johnston, Dj Oh, Tyler Kugler, Tim Raupach, Alok Chandel, Lucas Dupin, Hannah Bowman

Defensive Publications Series

Shadow-Channel Verification For Multi-Body Model Fusion: An Independent-Recompute Witness For Detecting Silent Value-Faults In Interpolated Language-Model Inference, David Lee Wise, Avan Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

The Vanishing Customer: A Framework For Analyzing Benefit–Burden Decoupling In Attention-Economy And Ai-Companion Transactions, David Lee Wise, Avan Lee Wise

Defensive Publications Series

Managing A Plurality Of Parallel Batches, Saeed Alrahma, Michael Butler, Matthew Markwell

Defensive Publications Series

Proactive Make-Before-Break Traffic Steering In Evpn Multi-Homing Using A Bgp Extended Community For Pre-Failure Link Degradation Signaling, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Automated Cloud Service Optimization Via Simulated Transitions And Feature Parity Analysis, Paras Mamgain, Sridharshini Saravanan, Jaspreet Singh

Defensive Publications Series

Latent Policy Manifold For Governing And Selecting Orthogonal Ai Directives, Nathan Myung-Chul Kim, Abraham Addisie

Defensive Publications Series

System For Identifying Geospatial Features Using Language Model-Guided Segmentation, Mira Leung

Defensive Publications Series

United States V. Alfonso: The Eleventh Circuit's Choice To Follow The Tide Of Other Circuits In Deciding What Constitutes The High Seas, Jaidin Winsor

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The National Flood Insurance Program And Where We Go When The Next Storm Hits, Kevin Fitzpatrick

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

High Stakes On The High Seas: Sailing Through Mdlea Jursidictional Waters, Sean Kim

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

"Tac-Ing" On Coherence: Achieving Sustainable Baltic Sea Fisheries Management By Hooking Precautionary Science And Greater Transparency In Eu Total Catch Negotiations, Patrick Seroogy

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

Alaska's Hidden Gems: Advocating For The Protection Of Deep-Sea Corals, Both In The Courtroom And Beyond, Lauren Beizer

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

Rape And Sexual Assault On The High Seas: A Case Of Murky Jurisdiction, Linny Kit Tong Ng

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal