The NUULR Digital Edition serves as the publication’s op-ed style forum, offering undergraduate writers the opportunity to explore legal issues, policy debates, and emerging topics in law through concise scholarship. Authors are free to write on any topic of their choosing that engages with law or public policy. Each submission is approximately ten pages in length, allowing writers to present focused arguments while contributing thoughtful perspectives to ongoing legal and societal conversations.
SPRING 2026
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Placing a Bet: The Future of Prediction Market Regulation
Prediction markets have rapidly evolved into widely accessible platforms that allow users to trade contracts on the outcomes of real-world events. Though they are a…
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How Definitions Restrict Access to Fertility Care for LGBTQ+ Couples
The United States has seen a significant expansion in access to fertility treatments over the past decade, driven by shifting perspectives on infertility and improved…
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Lost in Translation: The GDPR, TikTok, and the Absence of a Comprehensive U.S. Data Privacy Framework
In the digital age, privacy has become a second thought to innovation and entertainment. As social media algorithms get smarter and Americans turn to platforms…
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Stuck in the Middle: The Classification Problem in the Gig Economy
The rise of the gig economy has produced one of the most pressing classification problems in contemporary American labor law. As platform-based work becomes an…
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Criminalization of Homelessness as a Public Status
This article argues that municipal anti-camping and anti-sleeping ordinances, when enforced in the absence of adequate shelter, constitute a modern mechanism of punishment that effectively…
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Down With PASPA: How Congress Can Legally Regulate Sports Betting Following the Murphy v. NCAA Ruling
Before its 2018 overturning, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) made it unlawful for a government entity or person to operate,…
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Innovation or Exploitation?”Patent Trolls” and their Application to Biotechnology
The United States patent system has a foundational bargain: in exchange for publicly disclosing a certain invention, the inventor receives a limited monopoly to exclude…
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It Starts at the Margins: How Immigration Enforcement Is Paving the Way for the Surveillance State
Historically, immigration law has always been treated with a degree of exceptionalism. The plenary power doctrine has long dictated that the political branches of government…
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