Dec 1, 2018 | Bethany Echols, Comment, Health Law and Policy, Human Rights, Immigration
By Bethany Echols Abstract This article argues for a change in United States asylum policy at a time when change is needed most. Those seeking asylum must prove that they fear persecution in their home country based on one of five protected categories and that their...
Dec 1, 2018 | Comment, Education Law, State and Local Government, Taylor Michals
By Taylor Michals Abstract This article analyzes the current state of the special education system in Texas following the 85th Legislative Session, focusing on the practical and legal implications of the limitation imposed by the Texas Education Agency in 2004 before...
Dec 1, 2018 | Alicia Pitts, Alien Tort Statute, Comment, Conflict of Laws
By Alicia Pitts Abstract For decades, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has played a valuable role in human rights litigation in U.S. courts. However, in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has limited the ATS’s effectiveness in a number of respects. In response to these...
Dec 1, 2018 | Chelsea Till, Comment, Constitutional Law, Disaster Law
By Chelsea Till Abstract Natural disasters are on the rise and religious organizations, the same organizations that came to victims’ rescue in the wake of the last natural disaster, are often left in the path of destruction. Under President Trump’s administration,...
Jun 1, 2017 | Comment, Consumer Protection, Erik Allison
By Erik Allison Abstract While mobile games such as Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans cost nothing to download, these games frequently prompt players to use real money to purchase the games’ digital currency, in-game lives, or new levels of the game not available to...
Jun 1, 2017 | Comment, Law, Morgan Francy
By Morgan Francy Abstract On Monday, January 10, 2017, some twenty-six million viewers tuned in to watch the Clemson Tigers beat the Alabama Crimson Tide with a last-second touchdown to clinch the title of National Champions for the first time since 1981. The world...
Jun 1, 2017 | Comment, Tax, Tayler Green
By Tayler Green Abstract Winning a Nobel Prize, a Pulitzer Prize, a World Cup, an Olympic medal, or a Paralympic medal is a meritorious achievement. Elinor Ostrom, a professor who received a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, disproved the long-held idea that...
Jun 1, 2017 | Comment, Efren Lemus, Law
By Efren Lemus Abstract In May of 2016, controversy arose out of Los Angeles, California, after federal authorities obtained a search warrant “allowing the government to force people present when the warrant [was] executed to press their fingers and thumbs on the...
Jun 1, 2017 | Comment, Cory Scanlon, Property Law and Real Estate
By Cory Scanlon Abstract Imagine two scenarios. In the first, you live in a quiet residential community with easy access to your city’s center. Your next-door neighbor, whom you have known for years, regularly rents out his home to one or two tourists who respect the...
Jun 1, 2016 | Comment, Jonathan Bass, Law
By Jonathan Bass Abstract National Football League (NFL) quarterbacks Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, and Cam Newton were not the only ones who had to contend with ferocious blitzes this past season. Television viewers were hard pressed to escape the stifling rush of ads...
