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ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 2
Title Insurance: Protecting Property at What Price?
ABSTRACT The real property recording system is designed to protect purchasers and mortgagees against defects in title. Navigating that system is beyond the capacity…
Stewart E. Sterk -
NoteVol. 99 · Iss. 2
The Rise of the Data-Opoly: Consumer Harm in the Digital Economy
Introduction Our antitrust laws are a product of their time. Beginning in the 1870s, fundamental changes in transportation, communications, population growth, production technology, business…
Benjamin Fischer -
NoteVol. 99 · Iss. 1
Laws and Taxes and Big Tech, Oh My! The Case for a Federal Excise Tax on Targeted Digital Advertisements Created by Use of Personally Identifiable Data
Introduction Though there is no overt subscription fee for using “free” online platforms like Facebook, it is well established there is a hidden, continuous…
Alida Babcock -
ArticleVol. 87 · Iss. 6
A Fixer-Upper for Finance
Three facts bear notice in connection with our current financial troubles. The first is that the First World War, before the Second began, was…
Robert Hockett -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 5
The Food We Eat and the People Who Feed Us
Food justice scholars and advocates have made a simple but important point: for all the attention we pay to the food we eat, we…
Stephen Lee -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 1
Antitrust in Zero-Price Markets: Applications
“Free” products have exploded in popularity along with widespread Internet adoption—but many of them are not truly free. Customers often trade their attention or…
John M. Newman -
NoteVol. 95 · Iss. 3
The Future of GMO Labeling: How a New Federal Labeling Scheme will Alter Public Disclosure
Genetic modification is a process used for a myriad of purposes, including the cultivation of plant species that ultimately find their way into countless…
Maria DeGiovanni -
ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 1
Consumer Financial Protection in Health Care
There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems…
Erin C. Fuse Brown -
ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 1
Privacy, Poverty, and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans
This Article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the…
Mary Madden, Michele Gilman, Karen Levy & Alice Marwick -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
Safe Social Spaces
Technologies that mediate social interaction can put our privacy and our safety at risk. Harassment, intimate partner violence and surveillance, data insecurity, and revenge…
Ari Ezra Waldman -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
The Consent Myth: Improving Choice for Patients of The Future
Consent has enjoyed a prominent position in the American privacy system since at least 1970, though historically, consent emerged from traditional notions of tort…
Charlotte A. Tschider -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
The Pathologies of Digital Consent
Consent permeates both our law and our lives—particularly in the digital context. Consent is the foundation of the relationships we have with search engines,…
Neil Richards & Woodrow Hartzog