Arguendo - The George Washington Law Review

Volume 93

Inconclusive History

18 Apr 2025

Allen Rostron 93 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 26 This Essay argues that the Supreme Court should be willing to admit when history is inconclusive when analyzing issues from a historical perspective. In United States v. Rahimi, the Court stretched and strained to come up with historical justifications for its decision rather than simply acknowledging...

Judging the Court’s Performance: There is Much More to Question than the Blockbusters

03 Apr 2025

Alan B. Morrison 93 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 This Essay examines nine cases that the Court decided—many of them unanimously—and asks some rather mundane questions. Did the decision produce a winner and a loser, or was the outcome still unclear? Did the Court reach a conclusion where the record was fully developed? Did...

Balancing the Burden of Qualified Immunity: How to Better Address the Original Intentions of this Limited Defense to § 1983 Claims

23 Oct 2024

Gillian Isabelle 92 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 95 The doctrine of qualified immunity was born in a time of turmoil in the United States....

Transformative Manners of Use: The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical and a Call for Reform in Transformative Use Analysis

18 Oct 2024

Brice Kimble 92 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 65 Modern cases of copyright infringement largely deal with an analysis of ‘transformative use,’ a judicial creation...

Elhady Reversed: The Implications of Judicial Deference for Government Watchlist Plaintiffs

01 Aug 2024

Priyanka Mara 92 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 45 Since their inception over twenty years ago, contemporary government terrorist watchlists have faced routine criticism. These...

Legislation #FortheKids: Passing a Federal Age-Appropriate Design Code Act to Protect Adolescent Mental Health

09 Jul 2024

Nicolette DeLorenzo 92 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 18 Social media platforms profit on their addictive designs that harm the mental health of adolescent users....

The Court That Does Not Let Standing Stand in Its Way

13 Sep 2023

Alan B. Morrison 92 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 Article III of the Constitution limits the power of the federal courts to adjudicating cases...

Involuntary Work Program: Imposing Liability on Immigration Detention Center Contractors

11 Jul 2023

Molly Muoio's ('23) Note argues that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Voluntary Work Program violates international law and explores a theory of liability for forced labor under the Alien Tort Statute.

Learning from Leaders: Using Carpenter to Prohibit Law Enforcement Use of Mass Aerial Surveillance

07 Mar 2023

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...

Print Preview of Bibb Balancing: National Pork is a Bibb Case, Not a Pike Case

05 Nov 2022

Michael S. Knoll & Ruth Mason · November 2022 91 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 In October 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral...

Amending the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act’s Labeling Requirements for Cosmetics

03 Apr 2022

Jaina Patel · April 2022 90 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 31 The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, enacted in 1938, gives the Food and...

Amending the Endangered Species Act: Wildlife Protection in a Post-Tiger King Society

22 Feb 2022

Jonathan Peloquin · February 2022 90 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 Roadside zoos—such as the one in Netflix’s Tiger King documentary—present pressing issues concerning...

False Flags and the First Amendment: Lying Through Symbolic Speech

18 Nov 2021

Professor G. Alex Sinha · November 2021 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 133 Ivan Hunter, a leader of the right-wing Boogaloo Bois, recently pleaded...

Back to the Future: Sorting Old Law from New Technology in Blockchain Smart Contract Applications & Assessing the Need for Regulation

24 Sep 2021

Françoise Birnholz & Kelsey Barthold · September 2021 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 96 Permissioned blockchains, which allow automation of routine processes through smart...

A Structural Solution to Mitigating Artificial Intelligence Bias in Administrative Agencies

03 Jul 2021

Professor Aram A. Gavoor & Raffi Teperdjian · July 2021 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 71 The rise of artificial intelligence (“AI”) from nascent...

Early Delegations of Federal Powers

12 Apr 2021

John Vlahoplus · April 2021 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 55 Conservatives have long tried to eviscerate federal administrative law by divining an implicit...

The Battle for Recognition: Granting Hmong Special Guerilla Unit Veterans Access to VA Benefits

26 Mar 2021

Emily Jenkins · March 2021 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 28 Between 1961 and 1973, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency secretly directed and operated...

Click at Your Own Risk: Free Speech for Public Employees in the Social Media Age

17 Mar 2021

Madyson Hopkins · March 2021 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 An individual’s right to exercise free speech is one of the most fundamental...

Slavery, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration: Could the Thirteenth Amendment Hold the Key to Racial Equity in Criminal Justice?

21 Dec 2020

S. Thomas Perry · December 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 225 The United States incarcerates people at a higher rate than any other...

Funding Indigent Defense: A Judicial Solution to a Legislative Failure

18 Nov 2020

Abigail Hollinger · November 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 195 Every defendant in the United States is entitled to effective legal representation when...

What’s the Buzz about Standing?

14 Sep 2020

Justin W. Aimonetti & Christian Talley · September 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 175 Is the receipt of a single unsolicited, automated text...

Unmasking Demeanor

01 Sep 2020

Professor Julia Simon-Kerr · September 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 158 Demeanor is seen as a critical tool for assessing credibility in U.S....

Eckhardt v. Des Moines: The Apex of Student Rights

05 Aug 2020

Sean M. Sherman · August 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 115 Fifty-five years ago, Christopher Eckhardt embarked on a journey that would leave...

Clerking for a Retired Supreme Court Justice—My Experience of Being “Shared” Among Five Justices in One Term

13 Jul 2020

Professor Rory K. Little · July 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 83 In 1932, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. retired but continued to...

Law Clerks: A Jurisprudential Lens

13 Jul 2020

Professor Perry Dane · July 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 54 2019 was the putative hundredth anniversary of the formal institution of Supreme...

Supreme Court Clerks and the Death Penalty

13 Jul 2020

Professor Matthew Tokson · July 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 48 My first weeks as a Supreme Court clerk were, in many ways,...

The Concession that Dooms Originalism: A Response to Professor Lawrence Solum

05 Apr 2020

Professor Eric J. Segall · April 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 33 This essay responds to a recent article by Professor Lawrence Solum in...

Patent Law 101: The View from the Bench

03 Apr 2020

Professor Matthew G. Sipe · April 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 21 On April 17th, 2019, Senators Tillis (R-NC) and Coons (D-DE), along with...

Equality Is a Brokered Idea

31 Mar 2020

Professor Robert Tsai · March 2020 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 This essay examines the Supreme Court’s stunning decision in the census case, Department...

Exposure as Distortion: Deciphering “Substantial Injury” for FTC Data Security Actions

14 Nov 2019

Maxwell E. Loos · November 2019 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 42 If the Equifax breach of 2017 demonstrated anything, it is that consumers in...

A Review of The Cost-Benefit Revolution and Carceral Capitalism

11 Sep 2019

James Hannaway · September 2019 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 26 In The Cost-Benefit Revolution, Cass Sunstein celebrates the dominance of cost-benefit analysis in...

Of Birdies and Bribery: Closing the Corrupt Pathway Between Donors’ Checkbooks and Candidates’ Pockets

12 Mar 2019

Fahad Khan · March 2019 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 Each election cycle brings about new fundraising and spending tactics, and with them,...

A Review of Corporations and American Democracy

27 Dec 2018

Book Review by Lisa Bei Li, Elenore Wade, and Taylor Glogiewicz · Dec. 2018 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 60 Corporations and American Democracy (Naomi R....

Prescribing a Cure for Right-to-Try Legislation

17 Apr 2018

Marianne Spencer · Mar. 2018 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 30 In the past four years, thirty-eight states have passed legislation creating a right for...

Always On, Always Listening: Navigating Fourth Amendment Rights in a Smart Home

02 Mar 2018

Allegra Bianchini · March 2018 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 What do you say in your home when you think no one is...

Fifty Years of Katz: A Look Back–and Forward–at the Influence of Justice Harlan’s Concurring Opinion on the Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

30 Oct 2017

Martin McKown · October 2017 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 140 Nearly fifty years ago, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan introduced to the...

Keeping Non-Practicing Entities out of the Courtroom: Amending the Innovation Act to More Effectively Address the Abuse of the Patent Infringement Claim

29 Sep 2017

Adam Bofill · September 2017 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 116 There has been a growing abuse of patent infringement litigation by nonpracticing entities...

A Responsible Approach to Safety Regulation in the Automobile Industry

27 Aug 2017

Daniel S. Brookins · August 2017 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 83 Automobile safety is an issue of public health and welfare. People die...

Entire Fairness in the Trust Indenture Act

07 Jul 2017

Kirby M. Smith · July 2017 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 58 Recently, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 has reappeared in out-of-court restructuring...

Blazing a New Trail: Using a Federalism Standard of Review in Marijuana Cases

09 Mar 2017

Sandra M. Praxmarer · March 2017 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 25 The current marijuana conundrum continues to cause conflict and tension between the...

How the Supreme Court Derailed Formal Rulemaking

31 Jan 2017

Professor Kent Barnett · January 2017 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 1 Based on archival research, this Essay explores the untold story of how...

The Dangers of Misinterpreting Recently Amended FRE 801(d)(1)(B)

31 Dec 2016

Professor Laird C. Kirkpatrick and Professor Christopher B. Mueller · December 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 193 A recent amendment to Federal Rule...

When a Picture Is Not Worth a Thousand Words

30 Nov 2016

Andreas Kuersten · November 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 179 It is frequently put forth that the admission of neuroimaging evidence at criminal...

Confirming Circuit Judges in a Presidential Election Year

31 Oct 2016

Professor Carl Tobias · October 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 161 Over 2016, President Barack Obama tapped accomplished, mainstream candidates for seven of...

Rethinking Law Enforcement Officers in Schools

06 Oct 2016

Professor Jason P. Nance · October 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 152 A recent event that occurred in a South Carolina classroom illustrates...

The FPA and the Private Right to Preempt

29 Sep 2016

Matthew R. Christiansen · September 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 130 The boundary between state and federal authority over the electricity sector is...

The Supreme Court Meets a Gridlocked Congress

31 Jul 2016

Michael Ellement · July 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 116 Congress is at a standstill—increasingly unable to agree on, or even debate, new legislation widely supported by...

Domesticating the Alien Tort Statute

31 Jul 2016

Michael L. Jones · July 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 95 The Alien Tort Statute allows aliens to sue for violations of the law of...

Printing a Revolution: The Challenges of 3D Printing on Copyright

30 Jun 2016

Saahil Dama & Amulya Chinmaye · June 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 68 The ever-evolving nature of technology has brought us to the...

Due Process and the FTC’s Fair and Reasonable Approach to Data Protection

20 Jun 2016

Vladimir J. Semendyai · June 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 51 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has long had authority to bring enforcement...

The Natural-Born Citizen Clause, Popular Constitutionalism, and Ted Cruz’s Eligibility Question

13 Apr 2016

Professor Christopher W. Schmidt and Professor Matthew T. Bodie · April 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 36 This Essay argues that recent debates...

The Confrontation Clause After Ohio v. Clark: The Path to Reinvigorating Evidenced-Based Prosecution in Intimate Partner Violence Cases

01 Feb 2016

A. Ann Ratnayake · February 2016 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 18 Society has only recently made strides to help victims of intimate partner...

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