A collection of research papers submitted for various courses at the BYU Law School.
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Submissions from 2009
Witch Hunting: How America has Dealt Legally with Societal Threats From Salem to 9/11, Eric Boyd Vogeler
Representing the Underdogs, Reed Willis
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Education: How the Founders Omitted Education from the Founding Documents, McKenna Woodger
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: the Failure of Forced Friendships in Unnatural Balkan Nations from Mohac to Kosovo, Kyle R. Woods
The Story of My Father, Jordan L. Zendejas
Submissions from 2008
The President's Veto, Jared Michael Asbury
Justifications for Patent Systems: the Way it Was, the Way it Is, and the Way it Always Will Be, Mark I. Bentley
Who's Black, Who's Brown, and Who Cares?: A Legal Discussion of Hernandez v. Texas, Gilbert Bradshaw
Steaming the Constitutional Convention From a State Patent System to a National Patent System, Robert Branham
Understanding Roe and its Siblings: Three Functional Constitutional Privacy Right Models to Tell the Story, Timothy L. Chandler
The Constitutionality of National Conscription: The Selective Draft Law Cases of 1918, Darin A. Childers
Letters of "His Excellency": Constructing Washington's Road to the Constitutional Convention, Geoffrey C. Dietrich
Gun Control Misconceptions, Mike Dixon
An Unnatural Inheritance: The Roman Slave System and its Effects On and Similarities To the Slave Law of the American South, Christopher Droubay
A Balancing Act: Weighing Victims' and Defendants' Rights in the Criminal Justice System, Rhonda Puett Gividen
Perspectives on the Origins of the Constitution, Roger Seth Higgs
Evolution of Patent Protection: Have We Learned From the Past?, Travis Jensen
Removing the Controversy in Environmental Regulation, Michelle Kincaid
Suicide: Hemlock, the Saturday-Night Special, and Injections Oh My! A Legal and Historical Perspective, Brandee R. Lynch
Unity in the Wilderness: The Real Lesson of the Iroquois for a New Nation, Chase Manderino
Why Preflight Searches of Airline Passengers Illustrate the Need for a New Constitutional Approach to the Fourth Amendment, Steven R. Minert
Benjamin Franklin's Compromise, Bradford Monson
Mormon Plural Marriage and the Law: 1852-1890, Samuel H. Peterson