Junior Associates Selected for Publication in Volume 86 Announced!

The Louisiana Law Review Volume 85 Board of Editors is proud to announce the Junior Associates selected for publication in Volume 86. The decision process was extremely difficult this year because of the number of well-written student pieces.

Shane Aucoin – Mapping the Future: How State Legislatures Should Restrict Reverse-Location Searches after United States v. Smith

 

John Paul Bourgeois – Behind the Screens: Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Laws as Louisiana’s Solution to the Battle Between Profit and Privacy

 

John Brainard – Tesla’s Forced Middleman: Why Modernization in hte Automobile Industry Requires Louisiana to Revise its Direct Sales Law

 

Olivia Grice – From Clicks to Claims: Redifining Products Liability in the Amazon Era

 

Joseph Kehrli – For Pete’s Sake: A Comparative Analysis on Quantum Review After Pete v. Boland

 

Joseph Mengis – The Safe Assumption: Revising the Duty Standard for Deisgn Professionals in Louisiana Construction Litigation

 

Daniel Paisant ­– The Applicability of Comparative Fault in Contract-Based Actions: A Louisiana Circuit Split 

 

Jacob Palkowski – A New Day in the Office for Collegiate Athletes: College Athletes May Gain Recongition as Employees Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

 

Christopher Quina ­– The Corporate Transparency Act: Navigating Constitutional Limits and Feeral Interests in the Wake of Nat’l Small Bus. United v. Yellen

 

Isabella Rovere ­– Do We Trust Big Oil: Navigating Antitrust Concerns in Oil and Gas Mergers & Acquisitions

 

Melisse Speligene – When Laws Leave You Hanging: Negotiorum Gestio Steps in for Self v. BPX Operating Co.

 

Abby Talbot – The Open and Obvious Doctrine: Putting a “Figment of Judicial Imagination” Back into Its Rightful Place

 

William Jacob Voitier – Vested Property Rights: Examining the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Approach to Substantive Due Process in Bienvenu v. Defendant 1

 

Noah Williams – Underground or Under My Ground: The Potential for Subsurface Trespass Actions Caused by Carbon Capture and Storage Operations in Texas

 

Sydney Wright – Thawing the Bayou: Melting Away Noncompetes and Their Chilling Effect on Job Mobility in Louisiana

 

Rachael Youngblood – I Knew You Were Trouble: Deepfakes, Misinformation, and the Threat to Elections