This series contains publications, including law review and journal articles, authored or co-authored by law students at the University of Richmond School of Law. To browse content in this series by author, use the link below:
Publications from 2024
Venture Capital's ESG Problem, Ryan A. Ashburn
Taxing the New With the Old: Capturing the Value of Data with the Corporate Income Tax in Virginia, Coleman H. Cheeley
First Comes Love: Advocating for a Revival of Pre-Obergefell Estate Planning Vigor for LGBTQ+ Couples and Families, Kimberly N. Furtado
Biopiracy: Using New Laws and Databases to Protect Indigenous Communities, Cleo-Symone Scott
Publications from 2023
When Dirty Data Leads to Dirty Policing, Madison Blevins
“If You Build It, They Will Come”: Reverse Location Searches, Data Collection, and The Fourth Amendment, Matthew L. Brock
Going the Extra Mile: Expanding the Promoting Affordable Housing Near Transit Act, Emily Casey
The Legislative Graveyard: A Review of Virginia's 2022 Regular General Assembly Session, Kaylin Cecchini and Haley Edmonds
Executive Order 14036: Promoting Competition?, Holly E. Fredericksen
A Call for Change: Doing More to Protect Black and Brown Victims of Domestic Violence, Kiana Gilcrist
Unavoidable Necessities: How COVID-19 and Ali v. Commonwealth Illustrate the Need for a New Balancing Test for Speedy Trial Right Claims, Roger D. Herring
“Fundamental Fairness”: Finding a Civil Right to Counsel in International Human Rights Law, Meredith Elliot Hollman
Individual Funding: A Policy Solution to Family Abuse in Rural Areas Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jessica King
State-Sanctioned Displacement: An Interstate Examination of Felon Disenfranchisement, Claudia Leonor
CFTC & SEC: The Wild West of Cryptocurrency Regulation, Taylor Anne Moffett
Analyzing the Post-Marchand “Expansion” of Mission Critical Risks: Cybersecurity, Climate Change, and Caremark, Kelly O'Brien
Python Patrol: Combatting The Problem of Evasive Non-Native Snakes in Florida, Jessica Rooke
Duped by Dope: The Sackler Family’s Attempt to Escape Opioid Liability and the Need to Close the Non-Debtor Release Loophole, Bryson T. Strachan
Publications from 2022
Ensuring Black Lives Matter When the Penalty is Death, Sidney Balman
Make Some Sense of Scent Trademarks: The United States Needs a Graphical Representation Requirement, Gabrielle E. Brill
Expanding American Indian Land Stewardship: An Environmental Solution for a Country in Crisis, Haley Edmonds
Expanding Medicaid in the Postpartum Period, Madison P. Harrell
Why Not Both Nature and Nurture: Using Behavioral Genetic Markers as Sentencing Factors, Seely Kaufmann
Copyright Takes to the Streets: Protecting Graffiti Under the Visual Artists Rights Act, Michaela S. Morrissey
Applying Products Liability Law To Facebook’s Platform and Algorithms: Addiction, Radicalization, and Real-World Harm, Grant W. Shea
Utilizing Tax Incentives to Increase Gender Parity on Corporate Boards, Mary Tursi
Examining the Relationship Between Environmental Justice and the Lack of Diversity in Environmental Organizations, Haley Walter
Publications from 2021
Strictly Speaking, What Needs to Change? A Review of How Statutory Changes Could Bring Strict Products Liability to Virginia, Ryan C. Fowle
How Judicial Application of CDA § 230 and FHA § 3604 Have Created Safe Havens for Online Housing Discrimination, Sophia A. Studer
Publications from 2019
Regulating from the Ground Up: Controlling Financial Institutions with Bank Workers’ Unions, Emma Cusumano
Jury Sentencing in the United States: The Antithesis of the Rule of Law, MaryAnn Grover
The First Amendment & The Great College Yearbook Reckoning, MaryAnn Grover
THEY STILL JUST DON’T GET IT: THE LESSONS OF THE #METOO MOVEMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS, MaryAnn Grover
Obtaining and Enforcing a Security Interest in Local Currency under Article 9 of the UCC, Marina C. Leary
Evaluating a Permanent Court Solution for International Investment Disputes, Emily Palombo
Cyberstalking: Holding Perpetrators Accountable and Providing Relief for Victims, Kara Powell
SYSTEM ACCOUNTABILITY AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, Alta Viscomi
Publications from 2018
Removing Race From the Jury Deliberation Room: The Shortcomings of Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado and How to Address Them, Lauren Crump
Bargaining Towards Equality: The Effects of Implicit Bias Training on Plea-Bargaining, John Dunnigan
Transparency or Loopholes: Target Locations, FISA Warrants, and Reasonable Belief, John Fortin
Rapid DNA Testing and Virginia's Rape Kit Backlog: A Double-Edged Sword Masquerading as a Miracle, or the Future of Forensic Analysis?, Emma C. Greger
The Imperfect but Necessary Lawsuit: Why Suing State Judges is Necessary to Ensure that Statutes Creating a Private Cause of Action are Constitutional, Stephen N. Scaife
In re Trulia: Revisited and Revitalized, Emma Weiss
The Unanswered Conundrum: Inconclusive Record and the Burden of Proof for Immigration Relief, Yanie Yuan
Publications from 2017
The 2016 Amendments to Criminal Rule 41: National Search Warrants to Seize Cyberspace, “Particularly” Speaking, Devin M. Adams
Uncivil Asset Forfeiture: An Analysis of Civil Asset Forfeiture and Virginia H.B. 48, Brent Ashley
Regulating Human Germline Modification in Light of CRISPR, Sarah Ashley Barnett
The Highest Court: A Dialogue between Justice Louis Brandeis and Justice Antonin Scalia on Stare Decisis, P. Thomas Distanislao, III
For the Sake of Consistency: Distinguishing Combatant Terrorists from Non-combatant Terrorists in Modern Warfare, Alexander Fraser
Our Oceans Need Sharks: A Comparative Analysis of Shark and Turtle Conservation Law in Australia and the United States, Gabrielle Stiff Heim
When Is It Necessary for Corporations to Be Essentially at Home: An Exploration of Exceptional Cases, Pricilla Heinz
Digital Technology and Analog Law: Cellular Location Data, the Third-Party Doctrine, and the Law‘s Need to Evolve, Justin Hill
“Pay to Prescribe”: A Case for Strengthened Enforced of the FCPA in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry in 2017 and Beyond, John T. Jessee Jr.
Amateurism and the NCAA: How a Changing Market Has Turned Caps on Athletic Scholarships into an Antitrust Violation, Daniel Laws
Mandated Ethical Hacking—a Repackaged Solution, Corinne Moini
Protecting Privacy in the Era of Smart Toys: Does Hello Barbie Have a Duty to Report, Corinne Moini
Protecting America's Elections from Foreign Tampering: Realizing the Benefits of Classifying Election Infrastructure as Critical Infrastructure under the United States Code, Allaire M. Monticollo
Civil Rights and the Charter School Choice: How Stricter Standards for Charter Schools Can Aid Educational Equity, Rachel E. Rubinstein
Uniform Rules: Addressing the Disparate Rules that Deny Student-Athletes the Opportunity to Participate in Sports According to Gender Identity, Chelsea Shrader
Bunker Intermediaries and their Rights to a Maritime Lien Under CIMLA, Chresanthe E. Staurulakis
Private Right of Action Jurisprudence in Healthcare Discrimination Cases, Allison M. Tinsey
The Uncertain Status of the Puerto Rico Ports Authority: Working Towards a Uniform Arm-of-the-State Test, Jessica Landry Wildeus
Publications from 2016
3.14 Rio 2016 and the Birth of Brazilian Transparency, Pat Barr, Albert Flores, Kat Gavin, Shaun Freiman, Tyler Klink, Carter Nichols, Ann Reid, and Rina Van Orden
Humane Proposals for Swift and Painless Death, Bryce Buchmann
Criminal Law and Procedure, Aaron J. Campbell
An App for Third Party Beneficiaries, Alexandra W. Cook, J. Kyle Lowder, and Michelle Sonntag
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Painful Motion is Limited Motion, Tyler Crowe
Civil Practice and Procedure, Christopher S. Dadak
A Red Card for FIFA: Corruption and Scandal in the World’s Foremost Sports Association, Chance Esposito
"During War, the Law is Silent," Or is it?: Examining the Legal Status of Guantanamo Bay, Kate Frisch
Through the Lens of Complex Systems Theory: Why Regulators Must Understand the Economy and Society as a Complex System, James M. Giudice
The Will to Prevail: Inside the Legal Battle to Save Sweet Briar, James M. Giudice and J. Westwood Smithers III
Analyzing the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act's Governance of Employer Non-Compliance, D. Paul Holdsworth
Lost in Translation: How Practical Considerations in Kirtsaeng Demand International Exhaustion in Patent Law, Dustin M. Knight
Charting the Course: Charter School Exploration in Virginia, Katherine E. Lehnen
Charting the Course: Charter School Exploration in Virginia, Katherine E. Lehnen
Grow Up Virginia: Time to Change our Filial Responsibility Law, Sylvia Macon
Introducing the University of Richmond Law Review Online Edition, Carter Nichols and P. Thomas Distanislao, III
From Mainstreaming to Marginalization? IDEA's De Facto Segregation Consequences and Prospects for Restoring Equity in Special Education, Kerrigan O'Malley
Innocent Suffering: The Unavailability of Post-Conviction Relief in Virginia Courts, Kaitlyn Potter
“One of the Worst:” The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Richmond, Virginia, Cassie Powell
Calling an End to Culling: Predictive Coding and the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Stephanie Serhan
Compensating the Wrongfully Convicted: A Proposal to Make Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Whole Again, Alanna Trivelli
Waging the War Against Unpaid Labor: A Call to Revoke Fact Sheet #71 in Light of Recent Unpaid Internship Litigation, Rachel P. Willer
Publications from 2015
Who is Best Suited to Combat Sexual Violence on College Campuses?: An Analysis of H.B. 1785, Susana Bass
A Shot in the Dark: Why Virginia Should Adopt the Firing Squad as its Primary Method of Execution, P. Thomas Distanislao, III
Danger in the DMCA Safe Harbors: The Need to Narrow What Constitutes Red Flag Knowledge, Hank Fisher
Socioeconomic Integration and the Greater Richmond School District: The Feasibility of Interdistrict Consolidation, Barry Gabay
There’s No Place Like Work: How Modern Technology is Changing the Judiciary’s Approach to Work-At-Home Arrangements, as an ADA Accommodation,, Benjamin D. Johnson
What’s Worse, Nuclear Waste or the United States’ Failed Policy for Its Disposal?, Christopher M. Keegan
Richard Prince, Author of The Catcher in the Rye: Transforming Fair Use Analysis, Brockenbrough A. Lamb