Spring 2025

"Today, breakfast cereal is as staple to the American diet as the Economics Department is to Williams College. But cereal’s rise to popularity was not without disputes regarding intellectual property law."

Elizabeth Cheng '27

"As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into hiring processes, Mobley v. Workday becomes a pivotal case in examining the intersection between data science, employment law, and civil rights. The outcome of this case will likely set important precedents for how courts should address allegations of discrimination in AI-driven hiring, who should be held accountable when bias is detected, and what legal safeguards should be in place to ensure equitable hiring practices."

  Jina Kang '27

"I think that while that overlapping jurisdiction leads to the need to collaborate across different agencies, the bigger issue is that all the national attention is on that management of public lands, but 70-something-percent of land in the United States is privately held, and there are very few mechanisms for policymakers to try and promote restoration on the private lands. It really is all voluntary. There's not always the tools in place. And so you get this incredibly uneven attention where the only place that the government can do reservation work is on federal land."

 Ben Connor '25

"There are currently 450,000 animal feeding operations in the US, producing about 90% of America’s meat and eggs. Eighteen thousand of these are CAFOs. CAFOs are so expansive that the largest farms house millions of animals, who are typically confined in boxes or stalls within massive, windowless structures. In addition, these animals produce mass amounts of waste. Even the smallest CAFO in America contains enough waste to equal the amount of urine and feces produced by 16,000 humans."

Clara Son '27