In Pursuit of Antiracist Antitrust Enforcement
Angela Mackie-Rutledge
This Article asks whether there is a moral imperative for antitrust enforcement to be antiracist—and, if so, why. While antitrust law traditionally centers on economic efficiency and the consumer welfare standard, emerging scholarship highlights the racialized impacts of market structures, enforcement choices, and doctrinal assumptions. Situating antiracism alongside antitrust doctrine raises foundational questions: What values does antitrust serve? Can antitrust enforcement meaningfully address systemic racial inequities? And how should enforcers navigate the tension between the quantifiable demands of economic analysis and the qualitative realities of structural racism?
There Is No Refuge in Climate Change, Only Death: Exploring International Human Rights Approaches
Jamesha Caldwell
The collective consciousness of climate change is often reduced to many stark images of destruction, depicting its most blatant consequences: flooded cities, scorched landscapes, disappearing islands, and communities devastated by natural disasters. While we recognize this suffering, its implications for our own lives can feel like a distant prophecy, something we can anticipate experiencing but believe we may never personally encounter. This Note confronts that distance, exploring the human rights dimensions of climate-induced displacement and the urgent reality of climate refugees.
Reimagining Prediction Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System: Machine Learning Contributing to Mass Incarceration
Daveon Lilly
Machine learning, better known as artificial intelligence, is more than Alexa adding milk to your grocery list and Chat GPT writing an essay. Machine learning can also predict the likelihood of an incarcerated individual reoffending before they are released, and probation and parole officers use prediction algorithms to help persuade the judge to go with their probation, release, or sentencing term recommendation. This Note’s central claim is that these prediction algorithms contribute to mass incarceration because the algorithms’ biases keep Black men incarcerated while releasing white men who have committed similar or worse crimes.
“I Can’t Breathe”:
How Recording the Police Can Save a Life and the Justice System
Mackenzie Boyer
George Floyd cried out “I can’t breathe” twenty‑eight times during the 9 minutes and 29 seconds he was slowly dying at the hands of law enforcement, and these three words have echoed around the world as a “rallying cry for racial justice and police reform” strictly because his death was recorded by a bystander turned key witness. Police brutality is a systemic human rights issue in the United States, and growing awareness of the tactics police use against civilians has stemmed from video recordings connected with social media as officers responsible often walk free protected by qualified immunity despite citizens’ First Amendment right to free speech and freedom of the press. This Note will illustrate the imminent need for the right to record police activity to be a clearly established First Amendment right on the grounds that the desire to publicize such a severe social injustice outweighs a police officer’s safety net of qualified immunity stemming from that police officer’s civil and criminal wrongs.