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Volume 88.8
A Place Worth Protecting: Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis Under FEMA’s Flood-Mitigation Programs
Kelly McGee
B.A. 2017, Harvard University; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School.

Many thanks to Professor Lee Anne Fennell, Professor Jennifer Nou, Professor Mark Templeton, Phillip Kash, and the editors of the University of Chicago Law Review for their helpful conversations and insight.

In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit Harris County, Texas, causing $125 billion in damages and flooding 150,000 homes.

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There’s Something Fishy About McGirt: The Decision’s Hidden Effects on Indian Treaty-Based Fishing Rights in the Pacific Northwest
Alec F. Mouser
Alec F. Mouser is a Comments Editor for The University of Chicago Law Review and is a J.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. He received his B.A. in 2019 from William & Mary, where he studied History and Government.

He is grateful to Jim Westwood and Brad Grenham for their helpful comments and support, and to Tamara Skinner, Alex Meade, and Candice Yandam Riviere for their edits.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) sent a shockwave across the country as commentators began to consider what consequences could result from effectively declaring half of Oklahoma to be within an Indian reservation.

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