2025 Scholarship Report

Welcome to the Scholarship Committee’s inaugural scholarship report. NLSVCC member-authors are marked with an asterisk. This report includes publications for calendar year 2025. Going forward, we plan to issue quarterly reports including forthcoming works.

If you are interested in joining the Scholarship Committee or learning more about the committee’s work, please contact the committee chair, Jessica Wherry (jwherry@ubalt.edu). Many thanks to law student Garrett Palladino for compiling this list.

Congratulations to all the authors!

Ashlyn Anderson-Keelin, “I Was Young and Dumb”: Why Age Should be Considered in the Military Discharge Upgrade Process, 12 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 431 (2025).

Julie Marie Baldwin & Erika J. Brooke, The Veterans Treatment Court Call Revisited: Where We Are Now in the Wake of Rapid Adoption, 21 U. St. Thomas L.J. 88 (2025).

Carley Bomrad, Comment, Granting Presumption of Service Connection for PFAS Exposure in Veterans, 55 Envtl. L. Rep. 10282 (2025).

*Meghan E. Brooks, Presuming Enough? Keeping the Pact Act’s Promise, 110 Iowa L. Rev. 571 (2025).

Carlissa R. Carson, Conflicting Canons of Construction: The Aftermath in Veterans’ Law, 90 Brook. L. Rev. 781 (2025).

Ryan Else, Veterans Treatment Courts as Models for Domestic Veteran Deradicalization, 21 U. St. Thomas L.J. 55 (2025).

*Rebecca L. Feldmann, Bad Paper & The Problems with Moral Turpitude in the VA Context, 90 Mo. L. Rev. 57 (2025).

Emma K. Fowler, A “Civil Death” of the Military Accused: The Vast Impacts of Collateral Consequences of Court-Martial Convictions and the Need to Reform Military Sentencing Practice, 232 Mil. L. Rev. 29 (2025).

Lindsey Gailmard, Daniel E. Ho & Mark S. Krass, Congressional Intervention in Agency Adjudication: The Case of Veterans’ Appeals, 134 Yale L.J. 2461 (2025).

Amy C. Gaudion, Discord and the Pentagon’s Watchdog: Countering Extremism in the U.S. Military, 100 Ind. L.J.1743 (2025).

Roger Hill & Erhan Bedestani, Got Your Six? Veterans and the Family Court System, 63 Fam. Ct. Rev. 105 (2025).

Jody Hughes, Luke B. Gahan, Jessica Smart & Lakshmi Neelakantan, Strengthening Military and Veteran Couple Relationships: A Rapid Review of the Effectiveness of Relationship Education for Military Couples, 63 Fam. Ct. Rev.640 (2025).

Brockton D. Hunter, Veterans, Violent Extremism, and Involvement in the Criminal Justice System: Historical Patterns, Causal Factors, and Intervention Opportunities, 21 U. St. Thomas L.J. 10 (2025).

*Kristine Huskey, *Hillary Wandler, Jacquelyn Francisco & Lindsey Kirchhoff, Native American Veterans: Acknowledging Their Service, Recognizing Their Needs, And Learning from Their Tribal Restorative Tradition, 21 U. St. Thomas L.J. 108 (2025).

Jenny Kim, Dishonorably Charged: Rescuing Noncitizen Veterans from the “Deconstitutionalized Zone,” 21 Stan. J. Civ. Rts. & Civ. Liberties 258 (2025).

*Elizabeth G. Kubala & *Seth M. Owens, “Band-Aids Don’t Fix Bullet Holes:” The Veterans Who Are Not “Veterans,” The Unique Crises They Face, and Why Proactive Interagency Collaboration is Key, 76 Syr. L. Rev. 73 (2025).

*Hugh McClean, Dred Scott, Military Enslavement, and the Case for Reparations, 113 Ky. L.J. 555 (2025).

*Eleanor T. Morales, Reparations for Project One Hundred Thousand, 74 Duke L.J. 1139 (2025).

*Jennifer Morrell, *Alexander Scherr, *Judy Ann Clausen, *Hillary Wandler & *Morgan MacIsaac-Bykowsi, Law School Veterans Clinics: Helping Veterans, Training Students, Improving the System, 21 U. St. Thomas L.J. 145 (2025).

*Sunita Patel, Policing Campus Protest, 125 Colum. L. Rev. 1277 (2025).

Bronson Phillips, Comment, Chevron’s Grip Meets Resistance: The Pro-Veteran Canon as a Path to Correcting Interpretive Precedent, 18 Est. Plan. & Cmty. Prop. L.J. 173 (2025).

Megan E. Rohn, Comment, Farewell, Feres: Does the Camp Lejeune Justice Act Overturn the Feres Doctrine?, 74 Emory L.J. 747 (2025).

Mya Sistad, Note, Veterans Treatment Courts in North Dakota, 100 N.D. L. Rev. 275 (2025).

Johnathan R. Vinokurov, Note, From Deference to Duty: Advancing The Pro-Veteran Canon in The Loper Bright Era, 18 Drexel L. Rev. 257 (2025).

Sydney L. Wagner, Note, Settling Skaar: The End of Class Actions and the Need for New Mass Adjudication of Veteran Claims for Disability Compensation, 110 Iowa L. Rev. 945 (2025).

*Hillary Wandler, “Do What Has to Be Done”: How the Codes We Live By Shape Rural Access to Justice, in Global Reflections on Positionality in Rural Access to Justice Research (Michele Statz & Daniel Newman, eds. 2025).

Emma Wardour, Believing Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma: the Imperativeness of Altering the Claim Interpretation and Adjudication Process for Veterans Seeking Disability Compensation and Benefits, 33 Fed. Circuit B.J. 325 (2025).

*Jessica Lynn Wherry, Denied by Dysfunctional Design: How the DD-293 Application Form Thwarts Pro Se Veteran-Applicants’ Discharge Upgrade Requests, 74 Am. U. L. Rev. 1057 (2025).

Xuting Zhang, Battling the Clock: Retroactive Remedies and Constitutional Rights in Veterans’ Benefits, 120 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 90 (2025).

Beth K. Zilberman, Institutional Dissonance in Administrative Adjudications, 57 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 435 (2025).

Note, Codify Gardner, 138 Harv. L. Rev. 2093 (2025). (Author: Casey Nakamura)