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Eyes On Every Corner: Pole Cameras And The Living History Of The Fourth Amendment, Benjamin D. Semark

Helms School of Government Undergraduate Law Review

The right to security in personal effects has been well-established since the foundation of the United States of America. This right finds its roots in the English common law right against trespass. Although ancient, it has proved timeless, adapting and growing with new technology and societal expectations. Courts have expanded the interpretation of this right, adapting its reach to maintain the spirit of the Fourth Amendment with rulings such as Katz, Jones, and Carpenter. However, this Amendment is on the cusp of a Katz-like rework to accommodate technological advancements. The Supreme Court has not yet fully …

Imitation, The Sincerest Form Of Flattery: Whether The Unauthorized Use Of A Trademark After The Termination Of A Franchise Constitutes Counterfeiting?, Rachel Auld

Helms School of Government Undergraduate Law Review

This Note examines whether the unauthorized use of a trademark after the termination of a franchise constitutes counterfeiting. Currently, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Sixth and Ninth Circuits are divided in answering this question. The Sixth Circuit has held that a franchisee’s use of a franchisor’s trademark following the termination of a franchise does not constitute a counterfeit mark under the Lanham Act. However, the Ninth Circuit has held that a licensee’s use of a licensor’s certification mark following the termination of the license does constitute a counterfeit mark. While certification marks and trademarks differ in name, …

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Helms School of Government Undergraduate Law Review

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The Abortion Case The Supreme Court Has Been Waiting For?, Rachel Landis

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog

This past week, Louisiana’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit, Markezich v. FDA, challenging the distribution of medication abortion to patients without an in-person doctor’s appointment. When the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA’s”) approval of mifepristone in 2024, it was considered a setback for the anti-abortion movement.  Markezich confronts the FDA’s approval of telehealth, and the Supreme Court could rule differently this time because of key differences in standing.

This post was originally published on the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice website on February 26, 2026. The original post can be …

Foreword, Marlene Coss

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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When Constitutional Protection For Religious Liberty Gets Lost In Translation: A Case Study From Washington State, Robert W. Gomulkiewicz

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

Protecting religious liberty can present difficult challenges when religious liberty conflicts with laws prohibiting discrimination. Balancing religious liberty and nondiscrimination requires courts to accurately apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s complex First Amendment jurisprudence, including cases that address compelled speech, expressive association, and church autonomy. Amidst all the complexity, protection for religious liberty can get lost in translation. One important venue where protection can get lost in translation is in religious liberty cases decided by state supreme courts. The decisions of state supreme courts are especially significant because they provide the authoritative construction for state statutes and the state constitution. In …

The Merit Systems Protection Board And Removal Doctrine In The Second Trump Administration, Nathan A. Thomas

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

In a federal civil service of millions, a means of adjudicating internal employment disputes objectively and efficiently is integral to the continued confidence of the federal workforce.1 This is the role occupied by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.2 On February 10, 2025, President Trump fired MSPB Chairman Cathy Harris without citing any reason, in direct violation of the good cause standard needed to remove an MSPB Board member. 3 President Trump’s unjustified firing of Chairman Harris reopens the ongoing assault on removal doctrine, but this note argues that the structure of the MSPB is constitutional under current removal doctrine. …

Masthead

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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Geofence Surveillance And The Possibility Of Radicalization, Bardia Moghtaderi Zadeh

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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Violent And Property Crime In The Mountain West, 2024-2025, Sydney Mitchell, Kian Parikh, Kristian Thymianos, Olivia K. Cheche, William E. Brown Jr.

Criminal Justice

This fact sheet presents 2024-2025 violent and property crime data for the Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Crime data are sourced from the Real-Time Crime Index (RTCI) created by AH Datalytics. The RTCI table, “Reported UCR Part One Crimes Year to Date” compares violent and property crime rates during the time frames of January-October 2024 and January-October 2025 for states across the U.S. This fact sheet highlights the violent and property crime rates in each Mountain West state and considers how these data have changed between January-October 2024 and January-October 2025.

Gendered Harms In Armed Conflict: International Legal Responses To The Gendered Effects Of The War In Sudan, Naima Dams

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis interrogates how international law conceptualizes, prosecutes, and ultimately limits the understanding of sexual violence in contexts of war and displacement. Drawing on feminist legal theory, postcolonial critique, and ethnographic fieldwork with Sudanese women displaced in Egypt, it questions the dominant legal framing of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) as episodic, exceptional, and individualized. Instead, it reveals sexual violence as structural, continuous, and embedded in the everyday realities of racialized, gendered, and colonial harm.

Through ethnographical narratives, the study exposes how survivors' experiences often exceed the legibility frameworks of humanitarian and legal institutions, which prioritize spectacular, forensic evidence over slow, …

Our Nev. Judges, Inc. V. Dist. Ct., 142 Nev. Adv. Op. 16 (Feb. 26, 2026), Michael Martinelli

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

A Writ of Mandamus cannot join claims from separate and distinct cases except in rare circumstances.

Comments On The Draft Environmental Impact Statement On Post-2026 Operational Guidelines And Strategies For Lake Powell And Lake Mead, Anne Castle, John Fleck, Eric Kuhn, Jack Schmidt, Katherine Tara, Kathryn Sorensen

The Traveling Wilburys of the Colorado River

Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Post-2026 Operational Guidelines and Strategies for Lake Powell and Lake Mead (DEIS). The undersigned colleagues with experience in Colorado River matters commend the Bureau of Reclamation and its consultants for the tremendous effort involved in preparing this environmental impact analysis. We are especially impressed by Reclamation’s effort to analyze policy alternatives within the context of the deep uncertainty about what future hydrology might be. Your work is novel in its effort to provide the public with a sense of what the performance, robustness, and vulnerability …

Egger Enter., Llc V. State Engineer, 142 Nev. Adv. Op. 18 (Feb. 26, 2026), Hunter Patterson

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The State Engineer needs only to address the relevant NRS 534.090(3) factors in a forfeiture proceeding, and retaining unused water rights while seeking new uses does not constitute good-faith diligence.

Austin V. State [State Of Nevada], 142 Nev., Adv. Op. 12 (Feb. 26, 2026, Erika Loveland

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

An attached garage is part of a "dwelling" under NRS 205.067. Thus, forcibly entering an attached garage without permission constitutes a home invasion.

Aubry (Malcolm) V. State 142 Nev. Adv. Op. 14 (Feb. 26, 2026), Francesca Manz

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Nevada Supreme Court holds that NRS 174.035 permits juries to consider voluntary intoxication with a disease or defect of the mind in evaluating insanity, so long as intoxication is not the sole cause; conflicting jury instruction required reversal and remand.

Silvanus V. State Of Nevada, 142 Nev. Adv. Op. 15 (Feb. 26, 2026), Rocco Marino

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

In cases with split ‘guilty but mentally ill’ and ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ verdicts, district courts retain discretion in sequencing civil commitment and incarceration under NRS 175.539 and NRS 175.533.

Stuckey Vs. Apex Materials, Llc, 142 Nev. Adv. Op. 17 (Feb. 26, 2026), William Mcadorey

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Employees pursuing prevailing-wage or overtime claims under NRS Chapter 338 must utilize the administrative remedies provided therein.

City Of Reno V. Dist. Ct. (Conrad) (Civil) [State Of Nevada], 142 Nev. Adv. Op. 13 (Feb. 26, 2026), Nathan Mackay

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Before issuing an ex parte writ of mandamus, a district court must address why regular inter partes procedure is inadequate. A district court that does not consider whether ex parte practice is appropriate abuses its discretion in issuing the writ.

Happy Hour, Minority Law Student Alliance (Mlsa), Latin American Law Students Association (Lalsa), Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (Apalsa)

2025–2026 Flyers

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Professionalism Etiquette And Email Lab, Cardozo Fashion Law Society

2025–2026 Flyers

Join us for an interactive workshop with coffee, tea, cookies and brownies !

Hayman Center Lunch, Heyman Center On Corporate Governance

2025–2026 Flyers

EU and US approaches to sustainable finance,

Cardozo Talent Show, Student Bar Association (Sba)

2025–2026 Flyers

Have a talent you've been hiding from your friend ? Ready to find out who's a secret superstar ? Come show off or show out for the annual talent show!

Meeting The Challenge Of Civic Education In Hyperpolarized Times, Linda C. Mcclain

Faculty Scholarship

What role can civic education play in polarized times? That is the pressing question posed by Civic Education in Polarized Times, edited by Elizabeth Beaumont and Eric Beerbohm.1 As Beaumont’s introduction explains, “as political polarization has intensified across the world, civic education seems more urgent, but it has also become more challenging.” (P. 1.) The volume brings together an eminent group of education scholars, legal scholars, political theorists, and philosophers to consider challenging questions about how to carry out civic education “in a polarized era” and “for a polarized era.” (P. 2.)

Amicus Brief In Trump V. Barbara: An Originalist Defense Of Birthright Citizenship, Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Evan D. Bernick

Faculty Scholarship

For nearly all of the first 235 years under the Constitution, the citizenship of every child born in the United States to alien parents, with immaterial exceptions, was a given. Then, in 2025, the Trump administration changed course. Even though the Fourteenth Amendment makes no mention of limiting birthright citizenship to the children of domiciled parents, the Government now claims that is what “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” has always meant. While the Government and its amici admit that the common law recognized the citizenship of children of transient aliens, their remaining “survey of history range[s] from the constitutionally irrelevant” …

Masalah Voting Dalam Praktek Demokrasi Pancasila, Razali Abdullah, S.H.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Asas Patut Sebagai Asas Kerja Penyelesaian Perkara Menurut Hukum Adat Bali, Atmadja S.H.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Kriminalistik, Pengungkap Materiele Waardheid, I Nyoman Nurjaya, S.H.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Strategi Pencegahan Kejahatan Dan Pembangunan Nasional, Prof. Abdul Karim Nasution, S.H.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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Hak-Hak Azasi Manusia Menurut Undang-Undang Dasar 1945 Dan Penjabarannya Di Dalam Hukum Perjanjian Nasional, Ny. Mariam Darus Badrulzaman

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

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