Articles, notes, and symposia pieces published in CLR’s print volumes.
Print Edition
Sex, Drugs & Innovation Law: Regulating the Legality of “Poppers”
This Note examines the current legal landscape around “poppers,” an alkyl nitrite-based inhalant that has a strong association with the LGBTQ+ community as a party and sex drug.
The Prosecutorial Ethics of Investigating Police Shootings While Accepting Campaign Contributions from Police Unions
This Note is concerned with the unique conflict of interest presented when a prosecutor who accepts campaign contributions from a police union is responsible for investigating police shootings or other officer misconduct.
Bridging Silos: Environmental and Reproductive Justice in the Climate Crisis
This Article makes two interventions into existing legal scholarship. First, the Article identifies an intersectional nexus of hazard between environmental and reproductive justice, which is especially acute for women of color living in under-resourced communities. Second, the Article argues for a ground-up approach based on community power-building and interdisciplinary cooperation, which can inform legal and policy solutions at scale.
Traffic Courts
This Article provides the first comprehensive study of traffic courts. It makes four principal observations about their inner workings.
Whack-A-Mole Reasonable Suspicion
This Article examines police officers’ and deferential courts’ emerging reliance on the term “blading” or “blading away,” as a behavior supporting the reasonable suspicion constitutionally required for a stop and search. After conducting a comprehensive analysis of the term’s usage in state and federal courts over the past five years, the Article groups three contradictory categories of meaning and argues for the abolition of "blading" as a justification.
Admitting AI Art as Demonstrative Evidence
This Note explains both how artificial intelligence companies could institute initiatives for better quality assurance at the front end, and how courts can encourage such measures through new applications of existing evidentiary and procedural rules. The Note ultimately argues that the emerging use of GAI imagery may necessitate stricter standards in demonstrative evidence law.
Rejecting Public Utility Data Monopolies
As the first exploration of this question, this Article tests the continuing application and rationale of the state action immunity doctrine to the evolving services that a utility provides as the grid becomes digitized.