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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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Is FINRA a State Actor? A Question that Exposes the Flaws of the State Action Doctrine and Suggests a Way to Redeem It
Jun. 14, 2014—Is FINRA a State Actor?
Making or Breaking Your Billion Dollar Case: U.S. Judicial Assistance to Private International Arbitration Under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a)
Jun. 14, 2014—Making or Breaking Your Billion Dollar Case
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
Save Now, Win Later: Removing Statutory Barriers to Prize-Linked Savings Initiatives
May. 16, 2014—67 Vand. L. Rev. 907 – Watford
Bond, Buckley, and the Boundaries of Separation of Powers Standing
Mar. 24, 2014—4 – Marks _67_Vand_L_Rev_505
Getting to the (Non)Point: Private Governance as a Solution to Nonpoint Source Pollution
Mar. 24, 2014—5 – Robisch_67_Vand_L_Rev_539
Immunity Games: How the State Department Has Provided Courts with a Post-Samantar Framework for Determining Foreign Official Immunity
Mar. 24, 2014—6 – Smith_67_Vand_L_Rev_569
Delimiting Title VII: Reverse Religious Discrimination and Proxy Claims in Employment Discrimination Litigation
Jan. 22, 2014—Delimiting Title VII: Reverse Religious Discrimination and Proxy Claims in Employment Discrimination Litigation
Multiple-Agency Delegations & One-Agency Chevron
Jan. 22, 2014—Multiple-Agency Delegations & One-Agency Chevron