The Kentucky Law Journal is the tenth oldest continually-published law review in the nation. Publication has been continuous since 1913. The Journal publishes four annual issues in print as well as online original articles and notes. The following collection focuses on original online content. The Journal refers to these items as Online Originals or the Kentucky Law Journal Online. Kentucky Law Journal Online publishes short articles on various topics of interest to practitioners, scholars, judges, and students.
Submissions from 2024
Judicial Interpretations of the "Contributing Factor" Element of Sarbanes-Oxley Retaliation Claims, Ryan Crum
Disparate Impact Claims and the Americans With Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Billy J. Devericks II
Requiem for a Survivor: The Use of Battered Woman Syndrome in Acquitting Survivors of Abuse, Bailey Pierce
In an Era of Social Media and Cloud Computing, It’s Time for the Server Test to Retire, Kara West
Submissions from 2023
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Mergers and Acquisitions, Amanda Guillen
Not So Lucky in Kentucky: Constitutionality of Kentucky's Slot Machines, Ryan Roark
The Reciprocity of Conservation and Hunting: Improving Kentucky’s North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, Dustyn Sams
The Permissible Scope of Releases Within FELA Claims, Kaylee Secor
No Such Thing as a Child Prostitute: State Lawmakers Need to Enact Safe Harbor Laws to Protect Victims of Child Sex Trafficking, Blair Johnson Stevens
“Objective Falsity” in Healthcare Fraud and Abuse, Adriel Wilson
Submissions from 2022
Unconstitutional: Key Searches of Residential Doors by Law Enforcement Are Violative of the Fourth Amendment, Kendra Craft
Probation Ineligibility: A Time For Reconsideration in Kentucky, Brady Grove
A Strike Against Black Lives Matter: A Batson Violation or Preserving Impartiality, Andrew Moore
Nexus of Vulnerability: An Expanded View of Drug-Based Coercion, Ben VanSlyke
Submissions from 2021
American Moneymakers: The Future of Online Poker After PASPA, Christian Farmer
Telling the Whole Truth Behind the Mic: Applying the Rules of Evidence to True Crime Podcasts, Kami Griffith
Non-Restorable Competence to Stand Trial: A Loophole in Kentucky's Law, Sean Harrison
The USMCA: An Ideal "New NAFTA?", Robert Hudson
Setting a Dangerous Precedent: A Constitutional Analysis of Kentucky Courts' Public Policy Exception to Conflicts-of-Law Jurisprudence, Cameron F. Myers
A Ward of the State: The First Amendment as Protecting the Best Interest of the Child in Custody Disputes, Ellen C. Ray
Submissions from 2020
Public University Professors: Employees or Appointees?, Alicia Gilbert
Textualism and Culpability of the Reader, Collin Hong
Reexamining the Civil Money Penalties of EMTALA and Their Effect on Inner-City Hospitals, Rachele Taylor Yohe
Submissions from 2019
Looking Through An Originalism Lens To Resolve The Legislator-Led Prayer Circuit Split, Summer R. Bablitz
Taxing the Brave New World: A Comment on Professor Tessa Davis’s Article "Freezing the Future: Elective Egg Freezing and the Future of the Medical Expense Deduction", Jennifer Bird-Pollan
Concessions Causing Detrimental Impacts on the Original Vision of National Parks, Kelsey Bryant
Advancing a Unified Approach to Disjointed Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Justin Cloyd
Metaphors on Trademark: A Response to Adam Mossoff, “Trademark as a Property Right”, Brian L. Frye
The Curiously Nonrandom Assignment of Sixth Circuit Senior Judges, Clark L. Hildabrand
Throwing the Challenge Flag on the NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, Joseph T. McClure
Legal Realism Now?, David Simon
Legal Realism: Unfinished Business, Ramsi A. Woodcock
A Bellwether for Jury Selection Jurisprudence, Dan Ziebarth
Submissions from 2018
Graduate Students or University Employees? The NLRB Got It Wrong; It's Time for Congress to Get It Right, J. Austin Anderson
Kentucky – Legal Animal Abuse Or Weak Protection Laws?, Gabrielle J. Fulton
Circuit Split: An Efficient Rule to Govern the Sampling of Sound Recordings, Spencer K. Gray
Striking a Balance: Can Presumed Donative Consent End the Organ Shortage While Respecting Individual Autonomy?, Jennifer L. Henry
CAFA Removal and Jurisdiction: Basic Overview and Practice Points, Megan Niespodziany
A (Brief) Overview of Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation v. Wall-Street.com, LLC, Nicole Pottinger
Submissions from 2017
Consumer Class Conflict: The Battle against Heightened Ascertainability in the Sixth Circuit, Houston Alexander Bragg
Submissions from 2016
Why Your Company’s Cyber Breach Isn’t Currently a Bad Thing, Devon Paige Cobb
Meriting Consolidation: Why Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions Should Consolidate Federal Bribery Statutes, Kierston Eastham Rosen
Money for Nothing and Your Facts for Free: An Exploration of Political Spending and a Proposal for Combatting Big Money Interests, Chris K. Stewart
Submissions from 2015
Eldred & the New Rationality, Brian L. Frye
More Coverage, More Problems: No Private Remedies for Kentuckians Hurt by HIPAA Violations After Adoption of the Affordable Care Act, Chelsea N. Hayes
Will Kentucky Fall Victim to the EPA’s War on Coal? Examining the Commonwealth’s Options Under the Newest Power Plant Emission Standards, Matthew Hlinka
A Fare Deal: The Reasonable Regulation of Ridesharing, Dylan Merrill
Who Will Watch the Watchers?: Derivative Actions in Nonprofit Corporations, Thomas E. Rutledge
On a Path to Autonomy: Death With Dignity Paves the Way, Joseph J. Sherman
Knowledge is Power: Understanding Kentucky’s Human Trafficking Laws, Katie Smith
Limits to the Class Action Device: The Kentucky Wages and Hours Act Does Not Permit a Class Action, Timothy J. Weatherholt and Jeffrey A. Savarise
Not for Human Consumption: How Inept Legislative Policy Proliferates the Synthetic Drug Problem, Todd J. Weatherholt
Submissions from 2014
Getting Jurors to Awesome, Cortney E. Lollar
Who’s Quashing Who?: The Battle Between Scholars and Subpoenas, Julie Rosing
Equal Protection of Grocery Stores in the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages, Thomas E. Rutledge and Stacy C. Kula
“Friending” the NLRB: Applying Traditional Labor Rules to Social Media Cases, Lauren Weiner
Submissions from 2013
The Commonwealth’s Response to Kentucky’s Pill Mill Problem, Peter P. Cohron
Sticks and Stones: A Needed Legislative Reform to Kentucky’s Approach to Cyberbulling, Amanda East
Life and Death in Kentucky: Past, Present, and Future, Roberta M. Harding
