Defending Public Memory in the Courts
Defending Public Memory in the Courts

President Trump has embarked on an effort in his second term to reshape narratives told at cultural and historical sites across the nation. A legal battle unfolding in Philadelphia is gaining national attention regarding the National Park Service’s move to take down an exhibit providing historical context on slavery at George Washington’s historical residence. There are a few legal arguments being deployed in the face of unprecedented attempts to omit information on public sites overseen by the Department of the Interior, but their success remains to be seen.

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Student ContributorAnnabel Williams '26Comment
A Brief Analysis of Noncompete Agreements: A Legal Perspective on the Trade-off Between Protecting Intellectual Property Rights and Labor Market Competition
A Brief Analysis of Noncompete Agreements: A Legal Perspective on the Trade-off Between Protecting Intellectual Property Rights and Labor Market Competition

From their genesis in English common law to their controversial use in the fast food industry, noncompete clauses have come to be a focal point in the debate about the interplay between business interests, employees’ rights, and economic growth. Although individual states have different regulations on noncompetes, the Federal Trade Commission recently tried and failed to instate a nationwide ban, allowing these much-disputed legal agreements to continue to play a role in American labor markets.

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Student ContributorAditi Bhattacharjya '28Comment
Clinics, Courts, and Culture Wars: Free Exercise as a Tool of Conservative Legal Change
Clinics, Courts, and Culture Wars: Free Exercise as a Tool of Conservative Legal Change

The pending Supreme Court Case Chiles v. Salazar tackles the issue of conversion therapy and the states’ purview in regulating it. This piece explores the mechanics of utilizing Free Exercise as a tool to advance conservative legal change and the ramifications that it can have for civil and human rights, especially regarding marginalized communities.

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Student ContributorSinclair Harris '27Comment
Crime Policy After the Pandemic: What Changed, What Worked, and What Didn’t
Crime Policy After the Pandemic: What Changed, What Worked, and What Didn’t

This analysis examines crime trends through the only lens that matters: measurable outcomes. Rather than speculation or political narratives, it focuses strictly on laws, court decisions, and enforcement actions that produced verifiable effects, positive, negative, or neutral. The goal is to distinguish what changed crime in the real world from what merely changed the debate.

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Student ContributorConnor Swenson '27Comment