Environmental Justice Considerations in Siting Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal
Luis Cruz 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 499 There are 80,000 metric tons of uranium stranded at nuclear power plant sites throughout the United States with no clear path to permanent disposal. Although there is a consensus on using a consent-based siting process for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel, no statutory authority exists to... Read More
Pro-Choice Plans
Brendan S. Maher 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 446 After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Constitution may no longer protect abortion, but a surprising federal statute does. That statute is called the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), and it has long been one of the most powerful preemptive... Read More
Police Policing Police
Zachary D. Kaufman 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 353 Police killings of George Floyd and at least 2,218 other Black Americans since 2015 amplified a racial reckoning and intensified demands for meaningful, overdue police reform. This Article is the first legal scholarship to argue that Congress and state legislatures across the United States should enact... Read More
Superfluous Judicial Activism: The Takings Gloss
Michael Allan Wolf 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 287 In the summer of 2021, the Supreme Court released opinions in three Takings Clause cases. The Justices did not focus primarily on the dozen words that compose that Clause. Instead, the Court considered the expansive judicial gloss on those words, the extratextual aspects established by takings... Read More
The Center Cannot Hold: Why the NLRB Should Assert Jurisdiction over Division I Collegiate Athletes
Andrew Mendelson 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 255 In 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) declined to assert jurisdiction over a group of football players at Northwestern University; yet, the following year, the NLRB asserted jurisdiction over a group of student assistants at Columbia University. In the past several years, there... Read More
Incorporating the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases into the Federal Procurement Lifecycle
Evan Matsuda 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 224 Federal procurement has an important role to play in mitigating and adapting to climate change. The massive scale of the government’s purchasing power—more than $600 billion in Fiscal Year 2022—puts the federal government in a unique position to mitigate anthropogenic climate change by purchasing and creating markets... Read More
The Monetary Executive
Christina Parajon Skinner 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 164 Contemporary presidents possess a significant array of powers to intervene in the economy unilaterally, via executive order or the Treasury Department’s tools. But the Constitution does not vest the Executive Branch with monetary or fiscal power. Rather, the President has accumulated vast monetary power gradually, over... Read More
“Nutrition Facts Labels” for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Based Medical Devices—The Urgent Need for Labeling Standards
Sara Gerke 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 79 Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), particularly its subset Machine Learning (“ML”), is quickly entering medical practice. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has already cleared or approved more than 520 AI/ ML-based medical devices, and many more devices are in the research and development pipeline. AI/ML-based medical devices... Read More
Bibb Balancing: Regulatory Mismatches Under the Dormant Commerce Clause
Michael S. Knoll & Ruth Mason 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1 Courts and commentators have long understood dormant Commerce Clause doctrine to contain two types of cases: discrimination and undue burdens. This Article argues for a further distinction that divides cases into singlestate burdens, which arise from the application of a single state’s law... Read More
Learning from Leaders: Using Carpenter to Prohibit Law Enforcement Use of Mass Aerial Surveillance
Allie Schiele · March 2023 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 14 In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department (“BPD”) resurrected its dragnet aerial surveillance initiative—the Aerial Investigation Research (“AIR”) program. Using a plane outfitted with high-definition cameras, BPD was able to observe the daily movements of hundreds of thousands of Baltimore residents. Sophisticated technology such... Read More