Blog – MC Law Review

November 5, 2024

You Can’t Block Them! Lindke v. Freed and the Intersection Between State Action and Social Media

Jenna Patano Constitutional Law

October 22, 2024

Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy: The Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Concerning a Circuit Split Over Proper Application of Copyright Act’s Statute of Limitations

Michael Reichard Contract Law

October 14, 2024

Mississippi’s Good-Faith Exception to In Terrorem Clauses

Will Kennedy Family Law

September 19, 2024

A Sword Rather Than a Shield: Revisiting Sullivan To Restore The Holding Of Falsity Accountable

Chris Favilla Constitutional Law

September 4, 2024

More Trouble than it’s Worth – Potential Issues with the Corporate Transparency Act

Jon Mical Hill Administrative Law

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You Can’t Block Them! Lindke v. Freed and the Intersection Between State Action and Social Media

November 5, 2024

Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy: The Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Concerning a Circuit Split Over Proper Application of Copyright Act’s Statute of Limitations

October 22, 2024

Mississippi’s Good-Faith Exception to In Terrorem Clauses

October 14, 2024

A Sword Rather Than a Shield: Revisiting Sullivan To Restore The Holding Of Falsity Accountable

September 19, 2024

More Trouble than it’s Worth – Potential Issues with the Corporate Transparency Act

September 4, 2024

Mississippi College Law Review Selects Articles for Publication in Volume 43

May 2, 2024

Beyond a plausible risk of genocide: Report #2 on South Africa v. Israel and Anatomy of a Genocide

April 30, 2024

Minor Gender-Affirming Care Bans: Legislators Know Best

March 8, 2024

This is (Not) Criminal! Türkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States & its Limitations on Immunity

March 2, 2024

A Plausible Risk of Genocide: Report #1 on South Africa v. Israel

February 18, 2024

What is a Wetland?

February 16, 2024

Care to Wager?

February 3, 2024

The International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice: Similarities and Differences

January 26, 2024

Open for (Strictly Heterosexual) Business!

November 18, 2023

Dobbs and the New Wild West: Surveying a Fluid Legal Landscape

November 3, 2023

Tort Reform & Mississippi: A Fevered Narrative

October 27, 2023

“Sweltering, Undisputed, and Suffocating” Jackson’s Crime Problem or the Legislature’s Solution?

October 20, 2023

Text, History, & Tradition: Considering the Second Amendment Post-Bruen

September 29, 2023

Disenfranchisement Talk

September 22, 2023

An Unexpected Consequence of Pardon Powers

September 15, 2023

All’s Fair in Love, War, and College Admissions

September 8, 2023

Arc of the Covenant: Does a Foreclosure on a Deed of Trust Extinguish Later Recorded Covenants?

September 1, 2023

Renegade Removal

August 25, 2023

AI and IP: The New Battleground

August 18, 2023

Hot Off the Press: Volume 40, Issue 3 of the Mississippi College Law Review – The Tribute Edition

January 20, 2023

Hot Off the Press: Volume 40, Issue 2 of the Mississippi College Law Review – The Mississippi Edition

January 13, 2023

Hot Off the Press: Volume 40, Issue 1 of the Mississippi College Law Review – The Racial Justice Symposium Edition

January 6, 2023

Critical Race Theory: A Contested Concept

December 16, 2022

Is Ticketmaster Mr. Perfectly Fine or Did They Do Something Bad? The DOJ’s Investigation into Ticketmaster After Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Presale Disaster

November 26, 2022

How Far is too Far: James v. Thompson and how Sample Ballots can Serve as Campaign Materials

November 18, 2022

“When They Let You Go, They Let You Go”: The VA’s Unreasonable Delay

November 11, 2022

Drowning the Delta: The History of the Flood-Control Project in the South Mississippi Delta

November 4, 2022

Arellano v. McDonough: Will the Supreme Court Allow Equitable Tolling for Service-Disabled Veterans?

October 28, 2022

Locked Down: Parents of Michigan School Shooter Face Criminal Charges

October 21, 2022

Like Stealing Candy from a Baby: The Most Egregious Embezzlement Scandal in Mississippi State History

October 14, 2022

Adoption of A.M.: To Be or Not to Be… a Family?

October 7, 2022

“A Tortuous Procedure Behind Closed Doors, Then a Theatrical Performance for Witnesses”: The Rise of “Botched” Executions and Death-Row Inmates’ Pleas for an Alternative Method

September 30, 2022

Torres v. Texas DPS: The New War Powers Waiver to State Sovereign Immunity

September 16, 2022

A Rabbi’s Plea to Exercise Religion Through Abortion

September 9, 2022

“A Cold Day in Hell is Still a Day in Hell”— Parchman Prison Gets Air Conditioning After 121 Mississippi Summers

September 2, 2022

Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Religion: Kennedy v. Bremerton School District Yields Triumph for Government Officials to Engage in Religious Observances in Schools

August 26, 2022

Denezpi v. United States: One Defendant, One Criminal Act, and Two Prosecutions—but No Double Jeopardy Violation

August 22, 2022

Federal Laws Protecting Diversity in the Workplace

August 12, 2022

“Protecting” Religious Liberty During Executions: Ramirez v. Collier Provides a Small Win for Death Row Prisoners

August 5, 2022

West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency: Coal Plants, Clean Power, and Climate Change

July 22, 2022

Mississippi College Law Review Symposium: “Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Passage of Title IX”

March 31, 2022

Volume 40 Article Summary: More Than Fifty Years After the Enactment of Federal Laws Forbidding Discrimination in Pay, The Wage Disparity Based on Sex Continues: Focusing on the Circuit Courts’ Differing Interpretations of “Factors Other Than Sex”

March 29, 2022

Discrimination and Disparity: Violating Olmstead v. L.C. Discriminates Against the Psychiatrically Vulnerable and Fosters Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Mental Health Disparities

March 18, 2022

You Have the Right to Remain Silent… and a § 1983 Claim? An Un-Mirandized Defendant’s Plea for Damages

March 11, 2022

“It’s like Liquid Fire Sneaking Towards the Heart” – American Prisons Turn to Un-Approved Drugs for Lethal Injection Executions

March 9, 2022

Bert v. O’Connor: Is Banning Discussions of Race in Public Schools Censorship or Protection

February 7, 2022

To Litigate or Arbitrate: Can A Losing Party Choose Both?

January 14, 2022

Mississippi v. Tennessee: The Fight for Sovereign Groundwater

November 1, 2021

Roe, Roe, Roe Your Boat Right Back Up to D.C.: Mississippi’s Plea to Overturn Roe v. Wade

October 11, 2021

Nestlé USA/Cargill v. Doe: Using Civil Procedure to Shirk Corporate Responsibility

October 6, 2021

Getting Direct with Circumstantial Evidence: Nevels v. State (Miss. 2021)

September 24, 2021

NCAA v. Alston: Tackling College Athlete Compensation

September 3, 2021

The Constitutionality of Vaccine Passports

August 20, 2021

Hot Off the Press: Volume 39 of the Mississippi College Law Review, Issue 2: The Mississippi Edition

August 4, 2021

In re Initiative Measure No. 65: Last Dance With Mary Jane and Mississippi’s Citizen-Initiative Process

June 21, 2021

Hot Off the Press: Volume 39 of the Mississippi College Law Review, Issue 1: The Opioid Epidemic Symposium Edition

June 2, 2021

Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.: Can a School Regulate a Student’s Off-Campus Speech?

April 25, 2021

Shot and Free but Still Seized: Torres v. Madrid‘s Clarification of Fourth Amendment Seizures of Persons

April 18, 2021

If You’re There, You’re There: A “New-ish” Development in Personal Jurisdiction Forty-One Years After World-Wide Volkswagen v. Woodson

April 16, 2021

Law Review Hosts Symposium on Racial Justice in Mississippi (video)

April 12, 2021

Sense & Severability: Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants & The Little-Known Key to the Affordable Care Act’s Future

April 11, 2021

The Rollback of Agency Deference

April 8, 2021

GameStop and the Phenomenon of Expressive Trading

April 1, 2021

Mississippi College Law Review Announces Publication Awards and New Executive Board

March 31, 2021

Harness v. Hosemann: Does § 241 of the Mississippi Constitution Violate the Fourteenth Amendment?

March 25, 2021

Symposium Edition Volume 38 Issue 2 of the Mississippi College Law Review Now Available

March 18, 2021

Symposium on “Racial Justice in Mississippi: What Happens Next?” on April 9, 2021 Offers 3 Hours Free CLE to Mississippi Attorneys

March 11, 2021

GameStop and Retail Securities Trading as Political, Social, or Aesthetic Speech

March 4, 2021

Check Your Privilege at the Bar: How the New York Bar Exam’s Discrimination Against Out-of-State Test Takers Violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment

February 25, 2021

Mississippi College Law Review Pays Tribute To Chief Judge Sharion Aycock

February 5, 2021

Newell v. State: Separation of Power Principles in Mississippi

January 27, 2021

Van Buren v. United States: Does a Police Officer Violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if the Officer is Authorized to Access Certain Information on a Computer but the Officer Accesses the Information for an Improper Purpose?

January 21, 2021

Side Hustle Your Own App: An Intellectual Property Guide

January 12, 2021

A Student’s Perspective of Graham v. Connor and Excessive Force Claims

December 21, 2020

Jones v. Mississippi: MC Law Graduate Argues Case Regarding Mandatory Juvenile Life Sentences Before Supreme Court

December 18, 2020

Licensing and the First Amendment: On a Crash Course

February 24, 2020

Sixteenth Section Land – Reappraisal of Rent Term

February 18, 2020