http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595354 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:46:32 GMT 2026-03-13T11:46:32Z http://hdl.handle.net/10150/679732 Digitally Branded: The Developmental Catastrophe of Juvenile Sex Offender Registries Walker, Tammi Juvenile sex offender registration was never a natural fit for the youth justice system, but in the digital age, it has become deeply harmful. What began as a paper-based precaution has evolved into a sprawling digital regime that permanently brands adolescents at the most formative stage of life. This article examines how technological change has turned registration into a publicly searchable network of stigma—amplified by data aggregators, search engines, neighborhood apps, and real estate platforms—that makes youthful misbehavior both permanent and inescapable. Drawing on insights from developmental neuroscience and criminology, the article explains why adolescent sexual misconduct is often impulsive, peer-driven, and rarely predictive of future offending. Yet federal mandates like the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) continue to impose offense-based registration on youth as young as fourteen, ignoring evidence about adolescent development and undermining the juvenile justice system’s rehabilitative aims. The modern registry’s reach imposes novel harms that traditional legal frameworks have not fully addressed. Public access fuels ongoing exclusion, identity foreclosure, and algorithmic discrimination, locking youth into stigmatized identities and exacerbating racial and socioeconomic disparities. These harms ripple outward to destabilize families and communities. Empirical research confirms that juvenile sexual recidivism is rare and that registration fails to improve public safety. Instead, it misallocates resources and inflicts long-term damage. This article urges a rethinking of juvenile registration policies, calling for reforms grounded in developmental science, technological awareness, and evidence-based alternatives such as confidential monitoring, risk-based assessments, and therapeutic intervention. Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10150/679732 2026-02-16T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10150/678669 Building the Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and Advancement Laskowski, Casandra; Buckingham, Richard; Marks, Taryn; Miguel-Stearns, Teresa; Niedringhaus, Kristina; Parsons, Patrick; Pike, George The Future of Law Libraries initiative convened six regional roundtables on Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries with experts from academic, court, firm, and government law libraries, as well as allied professions, using scenario-building methodology to examine how AI is reshaping legal education, work, and systems and what law libraries must do to lead that change. The common message: legal information professionals must take an active, coordinated role in AI policy, training, and infrastructure or risk being sidelined as legal information vendors and non-library actors set the agenda. This white paper distills convergent themes and proposes collaborative directions. It explores three recommendations that sprang from the roundtables: 1) create a centralized AI organization, 2) develop tiered training for legal information professionals, and 3) establish a shared knowledge hub. If we are successful in this next stage, we will have coordinated advocacy and standards, a workforce with more advanced skills, and an open, authoritative, dynamic, centralized repository. We will be convening teams to push these recommendations forward and we provide a link in the Call to Action section for our colleagues to join this effort. White paper Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10150/678669 2025-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10150/678615 No Department, No Enforcement: Title IX After the Collapse of the Department of Education Walker, Tammi The structural foundations of Title IX enforcement are undergoing a profound transformation. President Trump’s 2025 executive order initiating the closure of the Department of Education, combined with the vacatur of the 2024 Title IX regulations and the Supreme Court’s elimination of Chevron deference in Loper Bright, has fundamentally dismantled the administrative framework that long anchored Title IX protections. Unlike prior regulatory shifts, these developments raise the question of whether meaningful federal enforcement will continue to exist at all. As administrative structures recede, courts will assume a much greater role in defining Title IX’s scope and enforceability, despite their institutional limitations. This Article argues that the resulting shift will narrow substantive protections, restrict access to justice, and produce fragmented interpretations of Title IX across jurisdictions. It examines the statute’s original design as an evolving administrative framework, explores the barriers marginalized students will face under a litigation-driven model, and explains why courts are ill-equipped to provide consistent, forward-looking guidance. This Article concludes by considering potential legislative reforms to restore national coordination in Title IX enforcement, drawing lessons from Congress’s intervention following Grove City College v. Bell. Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10150/678615 2025-09-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10150/678611 An Innovative Approach to Medical-Legal Partnership: Unauthorized Practice of Law Reform as a Civil Justice Pathway in Patient Care Balser, Cayley; Rupprecht Jane, Stacy; Coronado, Antonio M. This Article discusses the design of an innovative approach to the traditional medical-legal partnership. This potentially transformative service model proposes the use of unauthorized practice of law (UPL) reform to embed civil legal problem solving within a patient care setting. Unlike in the traditional medical-legal partnership — a service model which embeds lawyers within patient care settings to address patients’ justice needs — we explore the promise of patient advocacy through community-based justice workers (CBJWs): members of the community who are not lawyers but who have specialized legal training and authorization to provide civil legal help to those who need it most. This work is the result of a partnership between Innovation for Justice, a social justice legal innovation lab housed at both the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, and University of Utah Health. The present framework for UPL-reform-based medical-legal partnerships was developed through robust community-engaged research and design work across the 2022–23 academic year. This article discusses the research findings and proposes a framework for replication in other jurisdictions. Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10150/678611 2025-09-16T00:00:00Z