Written by Jonathan Laifman

Editor-In-Chief

Dear Reader,

It is with great pleasure that I introduce the Spring 2022 Symposium. Through our first publication, we explored how the First Amendment has evolved in the modern era with the perfuse use of social media in society. This temporal topic strikes deep to some of the issues which most directly affect our everyday life. What is social media? Is it public or private? Subject to follow free speech protections or not? What are reasonable free speech protections in an era where so many can be reached with such ease?

I would like to first thank my co-founder and Managing Editor Marshall Amaya. Without his support from the very beginning, there would have been no Trojan Review to fill with an executive board, no staff writers to write, and no paper to publish. Thank you. Naturally, I need to recognize the debt to Vice Dean Donald Scotten and Professor Jeff Rodgers. When the two of you heard about Marshall and my ambitious idea to start an undergraduate law review, you both were immediately on board with zero reservations. Your work has helped us develop from a club of people with passion to an organization - still with passion - with the skills and resources to make something of it. To our executive board who took their free time to read others’ works and morph the final product into something of high quality and to our writers that wrote the product, thank you. There would be no organization to run or publication to publish without your work and energy.

Finally, to our reader. Thank you for taking your time to read our work. I believe that not only will you find articles that show budding lawyers, but a level of insight and analysis which has meaningful implications in today’s world.

Enjoy!