While the guarantee of an impartial jury remains a touchstone of the American justice system, the endless information at any juror’s fingertips presents an attack on this guarantee. High profile cases present more problems than ever as access to social media makes keeping juries impartial a tall task. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor Preston Goodman explores remedies to jury impartiality problems in the modern era.

Twelve cents an hour. Seems a near laughable number of cents, but twelve cents an hour is what inmates within the United States Federal Prison System are earning. Prisoners struggle not only with low wages but also affording basic necessities at the commissary where prices are marked up sometimes five times what they would be outside the prison walls. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor Hannah Carroll explains how paying inmates mere cents an hour combined with exorbitant prices for basic necessities has resulted in a violation of the United States Constitution’s Eight Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause.

While generally car buyers who take out a loan on their vehicle leave dealership lots satisfied, many of these borrowers, upsold into a vehicle they may not be able to afford, discover “negative equity” and its implications. Borrowers rarely comprehend the gravity of possessing negative equity until faced with its debilitating consequences. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor John Simms explores the current realities borrowers with negative equity face and cleverly proposes using an existing consumer protection statute to curb the massive amounts of negative equity in the automotive market.

In the year 2025, data is currency, and for the convenience of participating in the digital market, most Americans are willing to pay. Yet, with new technologies like the quantum computer on the horizon, the safety of Americans’ data is in jeopardy as the quantum computer could decrypt what would take the classical computer billions of years to work through in mere hours. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor Bridget Lienau explores the future of cryptography and advocates for more comprehensive federal data privacy framework to unite American consumers, businesses, and government at all levels in minimizing the data which can be stolen and mitigating the harms of that which already has.

As Kentucky is set to become the home for advanced multibillion dollar manufacturing facilities, the need for reliable and diverse sources of electricity is more necessary than ever so that Kentucky can maintain cheap prices for consumers and become a hub for industrial growth. As the Commonwealth enters this new era, policymakers’ interest in nuclear power has grown as the General Assembly takes steps to prepare Kentucky for nuclear power. KLJ Vol. 113 Staff Editor Ben Schaeffer explores the possibility of nuclear power as the Commonwealths energy for its future. 

Since the Covid-19 Pandemic, the use of Non-Traditional Instruction (NTI) days in the Commonwealth of Kentucky has been a mainstay. While NTI days allow school districts to have flexibility in meeting their students' needs when in-person learning may not be viable, Kentucky legislators have taken issue with the program and have introduced legislation to eliminate NTI days entirely. KLJ Staff Editor Dalton Gregory explains the implications of this proposed policy and defends the efficacy of Non-Traditional Instruction while also providing areas of improvement for Kentucky schools.