Founded 2024 • Published twice yearly

Fostering Legal Discourse and Research.

A student-run journal at Indiana University Bloomington. We publish rigorously edited articles, notes, and commentary by undergraduates working through the hardest questions in law — from Fourth Amendment doctrine to the governance of artificial intelligence.

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Just published

Volume II, Issue 1

Fall 2025

In this issue

Article

Congress's Constitutional Authority to Regulate Supreme Court Ethics Without Compromising Independence

Nathan Alex
Article

How the Border Zone Creates a Two-Tiered Bill of Rights

Spencer Robinson
Article

The Cost of Creation: Governing Germline Editing Technology

Vy Lan Chin
Article

Bartz v. Anthropic: Fair Use in the Development of AI Systems

Jasper Chambreau

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The Journal in brief

Publish

Two issues a year of student legal writing, each piece taken through source-checking, substantive edits, and a Bluebook citation review by our editorial board.

Train

Staff editors and writers learn legal research, the citation system, and close editorial reading — preparation that carries directly into law school.

From the blog — The Docket

Edited by Leo Cavinder

A Free and Independent Africa: Analyzing Post-Colonial Constitutionalism in African Nations

Sean Smith

Edited by Valeria Colmenarez

Defending Mother Nature: Climate Change Litigation and Its Impact on Global Environmental Systems

Sean Smith

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