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Filling the Gap: Refining Sex Trafficking Legislation to Address the Problem of Pimping

May. 2, 2015—Filling the Gap: Refining Sex Trafficking Legislation to Address the Problem of Pimping AUTHOR J.D. Candidate, May 2015, Vanderbilt University Law School; B.S., 2011, Lipscomb University

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Criminal Asset Forfeiture and the Sixth Amendment After Southern Union and Alleyne: State-Level Ramifications

Mar. 19, 2015—Criminal Asset Forfeiture and the Sixth Amendment After Southern Union and Alleyne: State-Level Ramifications AUTHOR J.D. Candidate, 2015, Vanderbilt University Law School; B.A., 2010, University of Pennsylvania.

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Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: States Lead Misguided Offensive to Enforce Sales Tax Against Online Retailers

Mar. 19, 2015—Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: States Lead Misguided Offensive to Enforce Sales Tax Against Online Retailers AUTHOR J.D. Candidate, 2015, Vanderbilt University Law School; M.A., 2010, University of Memphis; B.S., 2006 Full Sail University.

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Baptizing O’Brien: Towards Intermediate Protection of Religiously Motivated Expressive Conduct

Jan. 26, 2015—Baptizing O’Brien: Towards Intermediate Protection of Religiously Motivated Expressive Conduct AUTHOR J.D. Candidate, May 2015, Vanderbilt University Law School; B.A., 2010, The King’s College.

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Proposed Legal Constraints on Private Student Lenders

Jan. 26, 2015—Proposed Legal Constraints on Private Student Lenders AUTHOR J.D. Candidate, 2015, Vanderbilt University Law School; B.S., 2010, University of Arizona.

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Heuristics, Biases, and Consumer Litigation Funding at the Bargaining Table

Jan. 26, 2015—Heuristics, Biases, and Consumer Litigation Funding at the Bargaining Table AUTHOR J.D./Ph.D. in Law and Economics, expected 2017, Vanderbilt University Law School.

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Trademarked for Death? A Licensee’s Trademark Rights After an Executory Contract is Rejected in Bankruptcy

Oct. 17, 2014—Trademarked for Death? A Licensee’s Trademark Rights After an Executory Contract Is Rejected in Bankruptcy ABSTRACT Upon declaring bankruptcy, a licensor of a trademark is given the option to “reject” its license agreements with trademark licensees. Due to the absence of trademarks from the definition of “intellectual property” in the Intellectual Property Licenses in Bankruptcy...

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Keep Your Friends Close: A Framework for Addressing Rights to Social Media Contacts

Oct. 17, 2014—Keep Your Friends Close: A Framework for Addressing Rights to Social Media Contacts ABSTRACT The proliferation of social media poses numerous new challenges that require the law to find creative solutions. One pressing legal question is who has the superior right to social media contacts as between an employee who manages a company’s social media...

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Confrontation and the Law of Evidence: Can the Language Conduit Theory Survive in the Wake of Crawford?

Oct. 17, 2014—Confrontation and the Law of Evidence: Can the Language Conduit Theory Survive in the Wake of Crawford? ABSTRACT The interrogation of non-English-speaking defendants by government officials usually requires the aid of an interpreter. In the event that the interpreter is unavailable to testify to the truth of his translations in court and a third-party witness...

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Tentative Interpretations: The Abracadabra of Administrative Rulemaking and the End of Alaska Hunters

May. 16, 2014—Tentative Interpretations- The Abracadabra of Administrative Rulemaking and the End of Alaska Hunters

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