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  • 2023 OSHA Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Rule: Implications for Employers and Workplace Safety By: Tatiyana Lewis With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and providing training, outreach, education, and assistance.[1]…

  • Reflection: An Examination of the Supreme Court’s Race-Conscious Admissions Ban By: Virginia Saylor October 23, 2023 Earlier this month, a faculty panel[1] led our law school in a robust discussion on the future of law school admissions in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision this past June concerning race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and…

  • Groff v. DeJoy: A Landmark Decision on Religious Accommodations and Employer Hardship By Carson Blakely October 9, 2023 The Supreme Court of the United States recently delivered a ruling in the case Groff v. DeJoy,[1] in which it considered the requirements for giving religious accommodations and determining undue hardship under Title VII of the Civil…

  • Advice to First-Year Law Students

    As we welcome first-year law students to campus, TLR members give encouraging words and advice on what they wish they would have known about law school. Jansen Carver, 3L: “Keep steady. It’s easy to burn out, feeling like you need to study the most. Consistency is key. You’re not alone in feeling overwhelmed and intimidated.…

  • A Letter From the Editor, Former Editor-in-Chief Nathaniel Pettit

    Institutions – either naturally[1] or purposefully[2] – resist change. Despite its prestige, the Tennessee Law Review is no different. When I started as Editor-in-Chief, it only took a few weeks to elucidate how an organization with both financial and social capital can be such a stranger to progress: it simply feels easier to not change…

  • Introducing the 2023-2024 TLR Executive Board

    February 9, 2023 Please join us in welcoming the TLR Executive Board for the 2023-2024 academic year: Editor In Chief: Virginia Saylor Managing Editor: Naudia O’Steen Copy Editor: Anna Grace Cole Publications Editor: Lisle Whitman Digital Editor: Bryce Danielle Bradley For more information on our executive board members, click here. For more information on our…

  • The Impact of the Doll Test

    By: Anna Grace Cole April 3, 2023 In 1954, the Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, establishing that segregated schools were unconstitutional with the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education.[1] The ruling was due in part to the work of Doctors Mamie and Kenneth Clark. Doctor Kenneth Clark was the first African American to…