The Nebraska Law Review

COVID-19, Constitutions, and a Connected World: Assessing the Constitutionality of Remote Voting in Legislatures

Joseph R. Quinn, J.D. CANDIDATE (2022), UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA COLLEGE OF LAW

This article demonstrates that while there may be practical hurdles to overcome in order to implement remote legislative voting, neither the U.S. Constitution nor the Constitution of the State of Nebraska provide any detrimental barriers.

Cracking Self-Defense’s Intractable “Difficult Cases”

T. Markus Funk, Ph.D, Oxford University

Listen!: Amplifying the Experiences of Black Law School Graduates in 2020

Sarah J. Schendel, Associate Professor of Academic Support at Suffolk University Law School

"This Article includes the results of a pilot survey designed to determine the predominant themes in the experiences of Black law school graduates in 2020."

COVID-19 Control: Disrupting Doctor-Patient Relationships

Roy G. Spece, Jr., John D. Lyons Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

"This Article employs constitutional law to analyze, defend, or undercut the use of delay pronouncements, ethical codes, literature, and concepts."

Where’s the Meat? Lochner and the President’s Executive Order

Catherine M.A. McCauliff, Emeritus Professor, Seton Hall Law

Abused, Abandoned, Neglected, and Still Not Protected: The Need for an Expansion of Juvenile Immigrants’ Rights in Nebraska

Jayden Barth, J.D. candidate, 2022, University of Nebraska College of Law

"This Comment considers SIJS and calls for the expansion of protections for immigrant juveniles living in the State of Nebraska."

Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges: Treatment of Nebraska’s Certified Irrigated Acres

Carolyn Davis, J.D., 2021, Nebraska College of Law

"This Comment argues CIAs are considered real property under § 1031."

You Can Call Me Al: Regulating How Candidates’ Names Appear on Ballots

Peter Nemerovski, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law

"Candidates for public office often seek to run under names they consider electorally advantageous. Nicknames like the one in Weiler are but one of many types of additions, subtractions, and modifications that candidates have made to their names."

Universities’ Speech and the First Amendment

Kristine L. Bowman, Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law, and Professor of Education Policy, Michigan State University College of Education

"Given the practical importance of universities refuting systemi- cally discriminatory speech occurring on their campuses and in the world, it is important to examine how the law aligns with the claim that universities and their leaders should speak in this way."

Cell Phone Searches by Employers

Marc McAllister, Assistant Professor of Business Law at Coastal Carolina University

"The starting point for developing a framework for cell phone searches is the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures” by state actors, including public employers."