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ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Patent-Ineligibility as Counteraction
Today, normative debates over restrictions on patent-eligibility are uniformly premised on a discrimination theory of patent-ineligibility: the restrictions are assumed to cause the patent…
Kevin Emerson Collins -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Prisoners and Pleading
Last year, prisoners filed nearly 27,000 civil rights actions in federal court. More than 92 percent of those actions were filed pro se. Pro…
Richard H. Frankel & Alistair E. Newbern -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Future-Proofing Energy Transport Law
The U.S. energy system is critical to every aspect of the nation’s economy and daily life. That energy system, in turn, is completely dependent…
Alexandra B. Klass -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Prosecutorial Analytics
The institution of the prosecutor has more power than any other in the criminal justice system. What is more, prosecutorial power is often unreviewable…
Jason Kreag -
CommentaryVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Confirming Supreme Court Justices in a Presidential Election Year
Justice Antonin Scalia’s death prompted United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to argue that the…
Carl Tobias -
NoteVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Closing the Financial Privacy Loophole: Defining “Access” in the Right to Financial Privacy Act
There is a hole in Fourth Amendment protection that is teetering on the verge of rapid expansion. The omnipresence of technology in the 21st…
W. Faith McElroy -
NoteVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Digitizing Tribal Law: How Codification Projects such as Tribal Law Online could give New Rise to American Indian Sovereignty
“Today, in the United States, we have three types of sovereign entities– the Federal government, the States, and the Indian tribes.” The oft- forgotten…
Jacob Franchek