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Hallie Cooper* College sports’ relationship with money has seen immense change over time. Prior to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”), colleges and universities paid their athletes. Following the creation of the NCAA, college athletes were no longer allowed to receive payment from schools or other outside sponsorship deals. The NCAA consistently relied on the…

Isabella Spence * This past summer, the Minnesota legislature legalized adult recreational use of marijuana. Effective as of August 1, 2023, Minnesotans twenty-one years of age and older are allowed to possess or transport a maximum of two ounces of marijuana in a public place and possess a maximum of two pounds of marijuana in a…

Rebecca Schmit* Law school can be a daunting experience for anyone considering attending. From the anticipated long hours of studying, the grades being largely determined by one final exam, and the sheer cost of it all are bound to cause some uneasiness. Yet, the level of uncertainty that a law student feels may differ if…

Megan J. Miller* Introduction:Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land Is Your Land,” which has become like an “alternative national anthem.” Although seen by most Americans as a “patriotic anthem” emphasizing that “we are all equally entitled to the rights of this country, including the land we stand on,” not everyone shares that same sentiment. Native Americans,…

Julia Abreu Siufi* On January 24, 2024, the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was flooded with AI-generated sexually explicit pornographic images of Taylor Swift. The AI-generated images attracted more than forty-five million views before they were removed by the platform for violating the platform policy. X’s safety moderators again reinforced that posting…

Louisa Botten* It’s no secret that lawyers and law students struggle with mental health issues and maintaining wellness. For law students, the finals period can be especially challenging. Finals can seem like a never-ending period of studying and stress that simultaneously feels like a runaway train. Not only have the looming pressures of exams and…

Camryn Davis* Background  As sex trafficking exponentially rose with use of the internet and digital communication, so did public pressure on United States officials to tackle the problem. In 2018, Congress enacted the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (commonly referred to as “FOSTA”) with strong bipartisan support. While FOSTA was…

Tess Register* Friday, January 26th, 2024, was an unseasonably warm day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, perhaps due to the heat that rapper Megan Thee Stallion dropped on her latest single, Hiss. In this “warning to her haters,” Megan called out fake friends who had used proximity to her to amplify their own fame, rapping, “I just…

Joe Maney* History of the LSAT The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) will turn seventy-seven this year. In 1947 at Cambridge University, the Deans of Rutgers, Northwestern, Syracuse, Stanford, Cornell, the University of Southern California, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Harvard, attended a meeting organized by Frank H. Bowles of Columbia…

Abby Sokolowski* The amount of data is growing exponentially and expected to continue to grow over the next five years, and US privacy law is failing to keep up. As data explodes, the flaws of the current US privacy framework becomes clearer, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive federal framework. The current data privacy framework…