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Submissions from 2025
Mapping the Immigration Industrial Complex: A Closer Look at the Environmental Risks of Immigration Detention, Amelia Chung and Chris Levesque
What Grounds the Animal Welfare Act? Examining Animal Experimentation Legislation through a Philosophical Angle, Xuning (Alina) Gao and Alexandra Bradner
The Rise of Accountability Mechanisms: The Next Wave of International Justice?, Alex Green, Zoë Goykhman, Joyce Katana, et al.
Effects of Perpetrator Race on Child Sexual Abuse Substantiation, Grace E. Jansen
Towards a Relational Understanding of Human-AI Responsibility Legislation, Aidan Jordan and Yang Xiao
The Effect of Daily Newspaper Openings and Closures on Local Public Finance, Andrew Mayer and Daniel Kolliner
Exploring The Relationship between Parents and Transgender Youths & How Parental Rights are invoked in reasoning for Anti-trans legislation, Chau Anh Nguyen and Austin Johnson
Federalist Society Affiliation Network, Hung Nguyen, Zachary McGee, and Sam VanderWeele
When “Do No Harm” and “Child Protection” Conflict: Assessing Drug Screening and Reporting Practices Among Ohio Healthcare Providers, Annika F. Schultz and Melina Singh
Legal Academia Associations with the Federalist Society, Samuel VanderWeele, Zachary McGee, and Hung Nguyen
Exploring Socio-Legal Advocacy On The Ground for Northeast Ohio Immigrant Communities: A Non-Profit Organization Assessment, Chau Vu and Chris Levesque
No View Under the Sun: A Content and Social Network Analysis of Political Engagement with Frasier Solar, Melissa Vu, Abby Warshauer, and Nicholas Theis
College Students’ Perceptions of SB-104 and the Role of Student-College Interactions, Oli Wulff and Austin Johnson
Stand Your Ground Laws Protect White, but not Asian Defendants, Sam Yue and Margaret Stevenson
Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization in China: A Legal Analysis, Andy Zhang and Aashna Aggarwal
Submissions from 2024
The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and College Admissions: A Quantitative Analysis, Niamh Cahill and Kyla Bender-Baird
Mesopotamia in the Midwest: Cultural heritage law, ethical debates, and the cuneiform tablets in the Blick-Harris Study Collection, Sacha L. Franjola and Brad Hostetler
Risk Protection Orders in Florida Municipal Law: Experiences Interning in Local Government, Rafael Frias IV and Jennifer Johnson
1. “What Border? Where?” Mapping Border Patrol Actions in Northern Ohio, Conner Gebben, Jennifer Johnson, and Eric Holdener
Geographic Health Disparities in U.S. Immigration Detention, Mae Ling Gorin and Chris Levesque
The Coroner System in America: an Autopsy of Expertise, Marielle Musick and Bradner
“Socialization” of Public Healthcare in Vietnam, Hung Nguyen and Michelle Mood
Immigration Legislation in Focus: Ethnicity as a Key Predictor of State-Level Policy, Olive O'Riordan and Powers
Exploring Racial Equity in the Treatment of Ohio’s Abused Children: A Multi-Site Children’s Advocacy Center Assessment, Christian R. Picot, Kathryn G. Wolf, and Margaret C. Stevenson
Legal Trust and Memory in Immigrants, Desideria Rood and Christopher Levesque
Federalist Society Affiliates in Private Practice and Legal Academia, Emerson Salome, Zachary McGee, Lisa Torrecillas-Jouault, et al.
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutorial Decisions: The Influence of Race and Victim Cooperativeness, Marissa H. Sun and Margaret C. Stevenson
The Federalist Society's Affiliates: Influence in Political and Legal Leadership, Lisa Torrecillas, Emerson Salome, Ashlee Molina, et al.
How have H-2A workers’ working conditions changed since COVID-19? Examining H-2A Workers’ Working Conditions During & After COVID-19 Lockdown, Chau Vu and Christopher Levesque
In the Name of National Security: An Analysis of U.S. Law, Cultural Production, and Political Rhetoric Following 9/11, Chloie Wilson
Trans Cultural Competence, Oli Wulff and Kyla Bender-Baird
Submissions from 2023
Toward a Sociogenic Understanding of Reparations: An Analysis of Japanese American Reparations and Yuri Kochiyama’s Revolutionary Praxis, Pritish Das and Khadene Harris
Trans Legal Cultural Competence, Amelia Kovach and Kyla Bender-Baird
Infusing Mental Health Supports in Youth Intervention Pathways (YIP) at the Chicago Department of Public Health, Lee Nah and Margaret Stevenson
Adolescent Sex Offenders Are Diverted from the Criminal Legal System, But Only If They Are White, Christopher Picot and Margaret Stevenson
Effects of Defendant Age on Mock Jurors’ Attributions For a Coerced Confession, Gabriela Rachman and Margaret Stevenson
Juvenile Mental Health Court, Madeline Russell and Abbie Erler
Understanding Jurors' Decisions in aMock Trial Involving Self-Inflicted Abortion: Effects of Defendant Raceand Abortion Attitudes, Marissa H. Sun and Margaret Stevenson
Submissions from 2015
“Sexual Harassment: An Old Problem in a Modern World” forthcoming in Robert Rycroft’s The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, Alma Urbano and Marla Kohlman