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The article focuses on legality of metadata collection in the U.S. under the U.S PATRIOT Act. Topics include the legal justification for the investigation of Americans' private telephone records, the data collection program implemented by the U.S. National Security Administration under U.S. President Barack Obama, and if such practices are a violation of privacy.

The article focuses on reassessing the U.S. policies to secure nuclear arsenals worldwide. Accordingly, the paper considers the questions facing policymakers charged with designing a strategy to secure nuclear weapons and material worldwide from theft and use by terrorists. In tackling these questions, the paper proceeds in five parts such as the outlining of U.S. policy for preventing state behaviors that could facilitate nuclear terrorism, assessing the results of this policy, concluding that it has failed to produce adequate levels of fissile material security, exploring the reasons for this lack of progress, and the consideration of a range of potential options for creating stronger incentives for states to secure their nuclear stockpiles.

The article focuses on the federal administrative approach to redistricting reform in the U.S. Accordingly, the paper advocates the adoption of limited, selective federal oversight of congressional redistricting plans created by partisan legislatures, with an eye toward encouraging the use of independent redistricting commissions. Moreover, the paper also suggests the creation of a federal agency authorized to review partisan redistricting at the request of a substantial minority of a state's legislature, while providing a safe harbor for states that use independent agencies to redraw district lines.

The article discusses the extraterritorial constitution and the interpretive relevance of international law in the U.S. Accordingly, the paper proceeds in three parts. The first part discusses the state of the law following United States versus Verdugo-Urquidez and the contemporary significance of the question of extraterritorial application of the Constitution. The second part situates the impracticable and anomalous standard in historical context, drawing on the nineteenth-century use of international law to identify powers inherent in sovereignty. The third part argues that in the context of the war on terrorism, it is sensible to look to international humanitarian law to guide the inquiry into when certain rights apply extraterritorially.

The article discusses the ministerial exemption for religious employers in the U.S. Accordingly, the paper proceeds in five parts. The first part describes the history of the ministerial exception. The second part provides details of the constitutional bases for the exception under both Religion Clauses, and argues that the expressive association right further justifies the ministerial exception even though the case law has not yet recognized this rationale. The third part evaluates the primary duties test used to trigger the ministerial exception. The fourth part encourages adoption of a deferential primary duties test to cure these constitutional defects. The last part responds to potential criticisms of a deferential primary duties test.

The article focuses on the issues of vaccine law in the U.S. Accordingly, the paper suggests that vaccine law should be distinguished between two kinds of necessity such as the medical necessity and practical necessity. Those vaccines classified as medically necessary would be those that are the only known viable defenses against diseases taking hold in a community. However, practically necessary vaccines are those to which there are alternatives, but which alternatives are, in practice, not used by a significant number of people.

The article presents information about papers related to the U.S. law published in various journals. The provisions of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Federal Constitution guaranteeing common law procedure, including the right of indictment and trial by jury do not extend to the inhabitants of our insular possessions. It would seem that this applies equally to all the territories of the United States. It is suggested, there can be no distinction between the organized and the unorganized territories. The privileges guaranteed by the Bill of Rights in fact extend to the former only by virtue of an Act of Congress or a treaty provision.