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NIU Law Review Online Supplement
The online journal is a supplement to the three print editions of the Law Review published annually. It specifically highlights the work of NIU College of Law students and is generally published once a semester. Articles are in PDF format.
Vol. 13, no. 2 - Spring 2023
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Alexandria N. Short, Comment, Are Third Parties Creating a Loophole for Police Investigations?
Vol. 13, no. 1 - Fall 2022
Vol. 12, no. 1 - Fall 2020
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Margaret Kramer, Comment, State Prisons Turning into De Facto Mental Health Institutions: A Comparative Look at the Illinois and Nebraska State Prison Systems
Vol. 11, no. 1 - Fall 2019
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Kelsey Burge, Comment, Bridging the Gap Between Immigration Detainment and Parental Rights: A Constitutional Consideration of Migrant Children Separation
- Emily C. Neely, Note, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District: A Fumble the Supreme Court Needs to Recover
Vol. 10, no. 2 - Spring 2019
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Brittany A. Miller, Comment, Title IX After 45 Years: Overlooked Disparities in the National Junior College Athletic Association and California Community College Athletic Association
Vol. 10, no. 1 - Fall 2018
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Anastasia Coppersmith, Comment, Lost in Translation: Persons with Limited English Proficiency and Police Interaction in the United States
Vol. 9, no. 2 - Spring 2018
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Laura E. Schrauth, Comment, Law is a Battlefield: Why Musicians and Politicians Both Lose with Blanket Licensing
Vol. 9, no. 1 - Fall 2017
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Abby Cunningham, Note, Purpose, Prudence, and Path: Reevaluating the Primary Jurisdiction Doctrine in the Context of Opioid Litigation
Vol. 8, no. 2 - Spring 2017
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Jennifer Beebe, Comment, Injuries from Foul Balls, Broken Bats, and Railing Fall-Overs: Who is Liable?
- Nicole Page, Note, The Predatory Hiring Standard for Section 2 Violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act
Vol. 8, no. 1 - Fall 2016
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Brian E. Wilson, Comment, Respite for Tantalus: Illinois’s Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act – Due Process in (In)Action
- Adam N. Lichtenauer, Comment, THE FATAL FIALA FLAW: Hey! Why Not Just Make Arbitration Agreements Mandatory?
Vol. 7, no. 2 - Spring 2016
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Cole DeBlaey, Comment, The Great De-Bait: America, Deer Hunting, and the Camouflage of Anti/Pro-Baiting Regulations
- Tad Juilfs, Comment, Muddy Waters: Why Polluted Groundwater Infiltrating Navigable Waters Should Not Be Excluded From National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permitting
Vol. 7, no. 1 - Fall 2015
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Rikkilee Moser, Comment, As If All The World Were Watching: Why Today’s Law Enforcement Needs To Be Wearing Body Cameras
- Cora Moy, Comment, Equal Access: A Proposal For Homeschooled Students And Athletics
Vol. 6, no. 2 - Spring 2015
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Morgan Johnson, Comment, A Circuit Split Involving Ten Federal Circuits: Why Copyright Infringement Actions Should Be Allowed to Proceed After an Application for a Copyright is Filed
- Hailey Rehberg, Comment, Homeless Bill of Rights: How Legislators Get to Feel Pro-Homeless Without Effort or Money
Vol. 6, no. 1 - Fall 2014
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Samuel Perkins, Note, ‘Fixing’ the First Sale Doctrine: Adapting Copyright Law to the New Media Distribution Paradigm
- Kelli Schmidt, Comment, Protecting the Sanctity of Family: An Argument for the Equitable Parent Doctrine
Vol. 5, no. 2 - Spring 2014
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Corey Hickman, Comment, Pay-for-Delay and Interstate Commerce: Why Congress or the Supreme Court Must Take Action Opposing Reverse Payment Settlements
- Lars Okmark, Comment, “You Can’t Handle the Truth” . . . Well, the States That Is: The Legality of State-Imposed Transfer Taxes on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency
Vol. 5, no. 1 - Fall 2013
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Matthew Broucek, Comment, “Correcting” the Foreclosure Crisis?
- Robert Finegan, Comment, Debtors Deserve the Dischargeability of Tax Liability to be “Honest and Reasonable"
Vol. 4, no. 2 - Spring 2013
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Elizabeth George, Comment, The “Cowardly Counsel” Exception: Eliminating the Contemporaneous Objection Rule
- Dorota Gibala, Note, The Error in Finding that Undocumented Persons are Not “The People”: A Deeper Look at the Implications of United States v. Portillo-Munoz
Vol 4, no. 1 - Fall 2012
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Samantha Hardt, Comment, Beyond the Womb: An Argument for Fundamental Rights in Vaccination Exemption Law
- Seth McClure, Comment, Illinois’s Drug-Induced Homicide Statute: Injecting Some Sense Into a Misinterpreted Law
Vol. 3, no. 2 - Spring 2012
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Edward J. Boula III, Note, Grounding the Preemptive Effect of the Federal Aviation Act: A Look at the Third Circuit’s Recently Modified Field Preemption Ruling in Elassaad v. Independence Air, Inc. and the Effect of Wyeth v. Levine
- Daniel Nunney, Note, Illinois Supreme Court: Overturn Thompson v. Gordon and Protect Design Professionals from Unbargained-For, Extra-Contractual Obligations
Vol. 3, no. 1 - Fall 2011
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Joseph Pumilia, Comment, The FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules and Mobile Networks: Who Really Rules the Air?
- Patricia Ruiz, Comment, “If You Could Say It In Words, There’d Be No Reason to Paint”: Recovering Beloved Works of Art Through Civil Forfeiture
Vol. 2, no. 2 - Summer 2011
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Jessica Fiocchi, Comment, Particularly Serious Crimes and Withholding of Removal: An Aggravating Question
- Devin Noble, Note, Misinterpreting the Child’s Best Interests Standard: A Closer Look at In re Marriage of Guthrie and Illinois Child Removal Law
Vol. 2, no. 1 - Spring 2011
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Shannon R. Barnaby, Comment, The Times They Are a Changin’: Enactment of Historic Civil Union Act Is the Right Step for Illinois
- Benjamin W. Meyer, Note, Nolan & Ready—“Settling” for Less than Perfect in Illinois when Determining the Role Defendants Play in the Litigation After They Settle
Vol. 1, no. 2 - Spring 2010
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Mariam L. Hafezi Qualman, Comment, Illinois Does Not Care About Caregivers as Evidenced by the Ineffective and Exclusionary Custodial Claims Statute of the Probate Act
- Purvi Shah, Comment, Iraq Veterans’ War with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Claims Under a Procedural Due Process Analysis
Vol. 1, no. 1 - Fall 2009
- Table of Contents and Masthead
- Steven L. Boldt, Note, TOY STORY: Being Right for the Wrong Reasons in the Search for a “Greater Freedom”—A Critical Analysis of the Dissenting En Banc Opinions in Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Earle
- Joshua M. Austin, Comment, Current Trends in Inequitable Conduct are Adverse to Patent Policy as Seen Through the Exemplary Case of Big Pharma
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