Boxed Out: Challenging the Use of Criminal Background Questions in Education and Employment

Keith Cunningham-Parmeter 94 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 322 Most colleges require applicants to disclose their criminal histories. Sweeping in scope, these admissions questions extend beyond violent crimes to include minor offenses such as shoplifting and marijuana possession. Given that students of color are arrested and punished at disproportionately high rates, colleges that require such disclosures...
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Tangled Up in Purple: Online Labor Organizing and the Takings Clause

Aaron Bernstein 94 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 229 Across the economy, employers’ widespread deployment of digital internal communications platforms—such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and more—has radically altered the patterns of intraworkplace communication. For employers, these platforms present evolving opportunities for increasing productivity and worker engagement—but only a docile, agreeable kind of engagement. For workers and...
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A Right, Not a Request: International Human Rights Law and the Repatriation of Remains from Former Indigenous Boarding Schools in the United States

Gray Kinnier 94 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 190 Under international law, Indigenous peoples have the right to the return of their human remains. More broadly, multiple international human rights tribunals have recognized the general human right to the return of the remains of a loved one or family member. In the United States, the Native...
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Allocating Electricity

Alexandra B. Klass & Dave Owen 94 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 60 The U.S. electricity system is premised on the ideas that utilities have a duty to serve all customers in their service territories and that electricity supply should always meet demand. Until recently, there has been little reason to question these foundational premises. U.S....
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Deepest Fakes

Mihailis E. Diamantis, Sean Sullivan & Eli Alshanetsky 94 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1 Deepfakes are visual and audio media that use artificial intelligence to portray people saying things they never said, doing things they never did, and experiencing events that never happened. Because deepfakes can be both persuasive and pervasive, many commentators fear that...
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Ellingburg and Restitution’s Constitutional Reckoning

February 20, 2026 Ellingburg v. United States, 607 U.S. ____ (2025) (Kavanaugh, J.) Response by Lula Hagos Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (Oct. Term 2025) Slip Opinion | SCOTUSblog Note: A version of this Response originally appeared on the Sentencing Matters Substack. Ellingburg and Restitution’s Constitutional Reckoning For years, criminal restitution has occupied...
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Reflections on Depp v. Heard: A Testament to the Role of the Jury

Benjamin G. Chew 93 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1485 This keynote address was delivered on October 25, 2024, at The George Washington University Law School. Mr. Chew discussed the Depp v. Heard trial and advanced two arguments: (1) The American jury system is the best, most democratic way of resolving most disputes involving human relationships,...
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