Zachary Meagor

During my development services internship at the City of Morgan Hill, I performed policy research and wrote numerous sections for the Public Art Master Plan. Adopted by the Morgan Hill City Council, the plan establishes a clear vision and framework for public art throughout the city, guiding future art installations and investments.

What is the Community Reinvestment Act and Fair Lending Policy? How are these policies enforced and are they effective?

What are Opportunity Zones? Does this federal policy effectively address housing and community development issues?

What is sexual extortion and how can public policy address this issue?

Here I outline the importance of public transportation for low-income households and propose an underground subway line through the Vermont Corridor in Central and South Los Angeles.

How did visual and artistic culture inform the urban planning of Los Angeles during the mid-twentieth century?

Here I argue against the 2010 SCOTUS decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, using a pragmatic perspective on common law rulemaking.

In this Op-Ed, I argue for the creation of legal personhood for Artificial Intelligence agents to simplify court disputes in an ever-evolving and increasingly complicated technological context.

Is the common law a system of rules? Does judicial decisionmaking have standards?

Are law and morality necessarily intertwined? Is it true that "an unjust law is no law at all"?