The latest edition of the School of Law’s flagship legal journal includes analysis of juvenile courts, racial annexation in rural North Carolina and emerging challenges to the First Amendment.
Elon Law Review has published Volume 18, Issue 1, featuring scholarship on the evolving intersection of law, technology and the First Amendment.
This volume includes articles from contributors to the law review’s 2025 symposium, “Breaking News: First Amendment on Trial,” which explored emerging challenges to free speech and expression. It also features legal analysis by Elon Law graduates of the Class of 2025.
Published annually by Elon Law students, the Elon Law Review is dedicated to advancing thoughtful, practice-informed legal scholarship that engages timely and complex legal questions shaping the profession and society.
The volume continues the journal’s commitment to rigorous analysis of emerging legal issues.
“The Elon Law Review is proud to present Volume 18 to scholars, practitioners and readers interested in timely legal issues,” said Rachel Claffee L’26, the journal’s editor-in-chief. “This edition features scholarship exploring how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping the First Amendment and journalism. It also includes analysis of juvenile commercial sexual exploitation courts, racial annexation in rural North Carolina, the reasonable doubt standard, and disaster resilience, including work completed by members of the Elon Law Review Class of 2025.”