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NoteVol. 103 · Iss. 4
Loosening the Confidentiality Straitjacket
In May 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized its rule invalidating most non-competition agreements for approximately thirty million workers across the United States.…
Jaden A. Lanza -
ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 1
Drug Dealing: Making Public Pharma Work
The U.S. market for prescription drugs is failing many Americans. Drug prices in the United States are nearly three times higher than in comparable…
Sahil Agrawal, Melissa Barber, Amy Kapczynski & Trudel Pare -
ArticleVol. 102 · Iss. 5
Woke-Washing at Work
In the modern era, corporate marketing and branding processes frequently encompass a public commitment to progressive social causes favored by a firm’s base of…
Peggie Smith & Marion Crain -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 3
The Ghosts of the Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is perhaps the most important piece of social legislation enacted in the United States in the…
Gabriel Scheffler -
CommentaryVol. 101 · Iss. 2
Corporate Consolidation of Rental Housing & the Case for National Rent Stabilization
Rental housing in the United States is increasingly owned by corporate landlords that operate under a different set of incentives, behind a level of…
Brandon Weiss -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 4
The Political Economy of WTO Exceptions
ABSTRACT In a bid to save the planet from rising temperatures, the European Union is introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism—essentially a levy on…
Timothy Meyer -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 1
Public Actors in Private Markets: Toward a Developmental Finance State
The recent financial crisis brought into sharp relief fundamental questions about the social function and purpose of the financial system, including its relation to…
Robert C. Hockett & Saule T. Omarova -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 1
Copyright and Inequality
The standard theory of copyright law imagines a marketplace efficiently serving up new works to an undifferentiated world of consumers. Yet the reality is…
Lea Shaver -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 1
Social Innovation
This Article provides the first legal examination of the immensely valuable but underappreciated phenomenon of social innovation. Innovations such as cognitive behavioral therapy, microfinance,…
Peter Lee -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 4
Fiduciary Blind Spot: The Failure of Institutional Investors to Prevent the Illegitimate Use of Working Americans’ Savings for Corporate Political Spending
For decades, American workers have been subjected to increasing pressure to become forced capitalists, in the sense that to provide for retirement for themselves,…
Leo E. Strine Jr. -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 3
Privacy Law’s False Promise
Privacy laws have never seemed stronger. New international, national, state, and local laws have been passed with the promise of greater protection for consumers.…
Ari Ezra Waldman -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 3
Collective Goods and The Court: A Theory of Constitutional Commodification
Not everything is or should be for sale. Collective goods such as our democracy and parts of our natural environment would be destroyed if…
Eric W. Orts & Amy J. Sepinwall