Central States Law Schools Association 2025 Scholarship Conference

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2025

• Sharon Brett, The Ubiquity and Unconstitutionality of Law Enforcement Gang Designations
• Nirej Sekhon, Defensive Force, The Constitution, And Policing
• Joe Schremmer, The Architecture of Oil and Gas Law

• Nikola Datzov, AI Jurisprudence: Toward Automated Justice
• Jacob Bronsther, Liability to Society
• Joseph A Figueroa, Unitary Legislature Theory: A Constitutional Third Law of Motion

• Chinonso Anozie, Beyond the Ideology of Renewables
• Mekonnen Ayano, The Vanishing Commons: How Land Titling and Mechanization Restructure Rural Life

• Rishi Bhalerao, Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Laws Relating to Rape in India
• Greg Brazeal, Does Voluntary Manslaughter Exist in South Dakota?

• Blake Klinkner, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37 and the Failure to Preserve Electronic Information: Has the 2015 Repeal of the Safe Harbor Provision Resulted in Improved Preservation of Digital Data?
• Julia Ernst, Well-Being for Seasoned Legal Professionals
• Uma Outka, Public Interest Intervenors in Public Utility Commissions

• Noah Chauvin, The Capture of the Congressional Intelligence Committees
• Raff Donelson, The Missed Opportunity Doctrine
• Jesse Cheng, The "Character" and "Process" of Capital Punishment

• Inbar Druyan, Permitted but Harmful: Legal and Governance Challenges in Environmental Tort Law
• Zhaoyi Li, The Fiscal Theory of Corporate Governance
• Grant Christensen, Tribal Court Judgments

• Chad Flanders, “Unprotected” Categories of Speech Under the First Amendment: An Analysis and Explanation, With an Eye Toward Explaining Paxton v. Free Speech Coalition
• Sarah Cravens, Continuing Authority Over Disciplinary Proceedings after Judges Step Down

• Brian Downing, The European Accent of US Digital Platform Speech
• Tolulope Falokun, The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain Technology in Creative Entrepreneurship: Intelligent Non-Fungible Tokens (I-NFTs) and the Need for a Shift in Intellectual Property Law
• Gregory Dickinson, Law Proofing the Future

• Angela Dixon, Warm and Cool Like Wool: Disempowering the Sting of the Shave
• Paolo Farah, Cultural Heritage on Trial: Indigenous Rights and the Limits of Global Law - Case Studies from the Hopi, San, Maori, and Sami Peoples
• Grace Carson, Coming Full Circle:What Non-Tribal Jurisdictions Can Learn from Tribal Restorative Justice Laws  

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

• Regina Hillman, Collective Queer Resistance
• Chester Fernãndez, Cruel and NOT unusual - The Treatment of Trans Defendants in Criminal Sentencing
• Kimberly Dasse, Bloody Hell: The Environmental Toll of Single-use Menstrual Products and the Case for Change

• Jarod Gonzalez, The WARN Act and Common Law Successor Liability
• Ying Zhou, Incentivized Delegation in Corporate Criminal Investigations: State Action, Unconstitutional Conditions, and Fifth Amendment Erosion
• Bethany Gullman, Not the Doctor: How the Medi-Spa is Testing the Regulatory Limits of a Learned Profession

• Burke Griggs, Federal Environmental Properties
• Alexandra Fay, Coordinated Sovereignty: Federal Tools for Resolving State-Tribe Conflict
• Jill Family, Unitary Executive Theory and Immigration Law

• Nachman Gutowski, Disclosing the Machine: Trends, Policies, and Considerations of Artificial Intelligence Use in Law Review Authorship
• Christopher Jaeger, A Two-System Theory of Negligence
• Renee Henson, Social Media Liability Insurance

• Vinay Harpalani, Equal Protection and the Harm of Racial Classifications
• Brooke Jackson, Eugenics in a Trojan Horse of Compassion: 
  Why Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Act Violates its Obligations Under Article 6(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for Persons with Disabilities
• Richard Gutierrez, The (Im)Proficiency of Firearms Examiners

• James May, Human Dignity Rights in America
• Brandy Johnson, The Underserved Meet The Unprepared: Teaching Medical Students About Disability

• Cortelyou Kenney, Pure Cooperation and Turning the Other Cheek in The Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Mathematically-Based Theory of Social Movements, Non-Violence, and Historical Change Within the Boundaries of Constitutional Law
• Rosa Newman, Fear of the Roof

• Jon Lee, The Ethics of Trademark Policing
• Jiaying Jiang, Agentic AI in Financial Advising

• Dan Lewerenz, The Enacted Purposes Canon and the Regulation of Indian Tribes as Employers
• Chan Mcnamarah, Present Discrimination

• Robin Craig, Co-Managing the Ocean with Tribes: The Current Spectrum in the United States
• Candice Kline, What is Fair in Chapter 11 and Mass Torts? Revisiting Insurance Channeling Injunctions in Mass Tort Cases Post-Purdue Pharma

• Rachel G Ngo Ntomp, Territoriality and the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
• Christine Buamah, Beyond State-Centered Implementation: Indigenous Knowledge Systems as Tools for Domesticating International Human Rights in Africa

• Jennifer Oliva, Regulating Healthcare Coverage Algorithms in the Shadow of ERISA
• Tracy Pearl and Stacey Tovino, Excluded at the Root: Health Insurance Discrimination Against Hair Loss Conditions
• Danielle Shelton, The Custody Illusion for Children with Mental Disabilities

• Joseph Prestia, Making Memories: Mnemonic Constitutionalism, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Rule of Law
• Michael Smith, General Relativity and Constitutional Time

• Patrick Perkins, The Tariff Threat: Exempting Small Businesses From Tariffs
• Hussein Sulub, Somaliland
• Dyllan Taxman, Defining Dishonorable Conditions

• Hayley Stillwell, When Silence Doesn’t Incriminate: Regauging the Fifth Amendment’s Reach
• April Xiaoyi Xu, How Should U.S. Criminal Law “Treat” Personality Disorders: Guilty Mind and Insanity Defense

• Quinn Yeargain, Our Carceral Constitutions
• Patrick Brayer, A Study of the Tap In Center Movement: How Collaboration in the Legal System is Reducing the Negative Impact of Bench Warrants and Restoring Justice in Communities 

• Jeremy Telman, Mandatory Arbitration, Contracts of Adhesion, and Seventh Amendment Chutzpah
• Jane Davidson, Celebrity: Litigating Image and Reputation in the Public Eye

• Barbara Zabawa, A Right to Try Disease Prevention
• Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, The Doctrine of Foreign Equivalents