Brown Undergraduate Law Review — Vol. 2 No. 2 (Spring 2021)

A LETTER FROM
THE EDITORS
For our final time as editors-in-chief, we are proud to present the Spring 2021 issue of the Brown
Undergraduate Law Review (BULR). This moment marks one full year since our organization?s public
introduction into the greater Brown community, a year replete with challenges owing both to the global
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the BULR?s rapid expansion. We can still recall our final staff meeting before the
mass exodus from campus in March 2020: a group of nine colleagues methodically discussing new submissions
and initial plans for remote editing procedures. While our overall mission has never wavered, the BULR hardly
resembles this pre-COVID manifestation. Instituting stronger and more efficient selection and editing criteria as
well as new digital platforms such as the Blog, our staff more than quadrupled to 37 members, far exceeding the
capacity of our former meeting space in the Watson Institute. This expanded team navigated our third semester
of virtual operation, contributing new methods to optimize our efficacy while engendering closer relationships
with authors. We owe all our accomplishments to the outpouring of student support for and engagement with
our organization that enabled this mind-boggling growth. In many ways, the tumultuous nature of pandemic life
provided the perfect stress test for our burgeoning publication, allowing our team to mature and excel in a
hyper-complicated and ever-changing environment. We remain confident that this institutional memory will
allow the BULR to master the inevitable future vicissitudes.
As purveyors of substantive legal discourse, we typically reserve this letter partially as a means of
acknowledging current legal issues plaguing both the United States and the greater world. Yet, the word
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