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No Freedom without Oak Flat
Author: Jack Dowd, PPL Fourth Year, Class of 2025 This Op-Ed examines a recent lawsuit filed by an Apache legal group against the U.S....
Chelsea Divers
Jul 1, 20246 min read
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the Courtroom: Achieving a More Accurate Assessment of Guilt
Author: Peter Knight, Graduating PPL Fourth Year, Class of 2024 As the title suggests, this paper focuses on how intellectual and...
Chelsea Divers
Jun 3, 20241 min read
Consumer Social Responsibility, Freedom, and the Environment: Why Protecting Individual Freedom Requires Climate Regulation
Author: William Ham, Graduating PPL Fourth Year, Class of 2024 The degradation of Earth’s natural resources looms large in modern social...
Chelsea Divers
May 28, 20241 min read
Broken, Battered, and Bruised: Exploring the Complexities of Intimate Partner Violence, Gender Inequality, and Injustice
Author: Lauren LeVine, Graduating PPL Fourth Year, Class of 2024 This paper addresses the intricacies of intimate partner violence (IPV)...
Chelsea Divers
May 8, 20241 min read
A Religious Right to an Abortion?
Author: Jack Dowd, Rising PPL Fourth Year, Class of 2025 Update as of May 12th, 2025: The author, Jack Dowd, no longer holds some of the...
Chelsea Divers
May 8, 20241 min read
Intergenerational Power and Environmental Responsibility
Author: Julianne Feuchter, Graduating PPL Fourth Year, Class of 2024 This paper explores the power dynamic between generations in regard...
Chelsea Divers
May 7, 20241 min read
From Us to You: Hello From '24
Hello and Welcome to the PPL Class of 2026! My name is Chelsea Divers, and I am a current fourth year in the PPL program. It is a...
Chelsea Divers
May 6, 20243 min read
Does the Current American Democracy have the Capacity to Truly Represent the People?
Author: Julianne Feuchter, Current PPL Fourth Year This paper explores the question of whether our current government system is capable...
Chelsea Divers
Nov 30, 20231 min read
Deliberate Abstention is Privilege
Author: Colette Marcellin In their paper “Is There a Duty to Vote?,” Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky reject the common conception of...
Lauren Mooney
Aug 8, 20189 min read
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO COLORADO COURT OF APPEALS
Author: Susannah Kelley, PPL Fourth Year SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP. LTD., ET AL., PETITIONERS V COLORADO...
Lauren Mooney
Aug 8, 201812 min read
Individual Autonomy in Rawls’ Theory of Justice
Author: Levi Moneyhun, PPL Fourth Year The vast majority of modern mainstream political discourse accepts the individual as the most...
Lauren Mooney
Aug 8, 20188 min read
Gerrymandering, Grand Theory, and Gill v. Whitford
Author: Levi Moneyhun, Fourth Year PPL Student I. INTRODUCTION Chief Justice Earl Warren, who presided over the Supreme Court’s historic...
Lauren Mooney
Aug 8, 201822 min read
The Conflict of Veiled Ignorance: An Analysis of the Rawlsian Original Position
Author: Lauren Mooney, PPL Class of 2019 In an effort to discern the most just form of government, John Rawls proposes an objective...
Lauren Mooney
Aug 1, 201810 min read
Going dark: implications for private, public sector protocol
Memo: “Going Dark” and its Implications for Private, Public Cyber Protocol What is it? Going Dark is a situation in which the government...
Lauren Mooney
Aug 1, 20183 min read
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Within the PPL Program at the University of Virginia, we strive to encourage university members to seek the greater truths, challenging...
Lauren Mooney
Feb 19, 20182 min read
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