Volume 97
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CommentaryVol. 97 · Iss. 2
Exploiting Pre-Existing Beliefs
Advertisements and product labels for a wide range of consumer and investment products have highlighted product characteristics that some people erroneously believe make them…
Ahmed E. Taha -
NoteVol. 97 · Iss. 2
Blockchain Prediction Markets: Where They Came From, Why They Matter & How to Regulate Those Involved
The basis of CFTC prediction market jurisdiction stems from its interpretation of trades in prediction markets as swaps of commodity futures and options contracts. …
Joshua D. Dubin -
NoteVol. 97 · Iss. 2
Border Searches of Electronic Devices
In fiscal year 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) searched 33,295 electronic devices at the border without first needing a warrant. In fiscal…
Rebecca M. Rowland -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Hushing Contracts
The last few years have brought a renewed appreciation of the costs of nondisclosure agreements that suppress information about sexual wrongdoing. Recently passed bills…
David A. Hoffman & Erik Lampmann -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 1
The Indigenous McClain Doctrine: A New Legal Tool to Protect Cultural Patrimony and the Right to Self-Determination
In December 2010, the United States endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which obligates the United States to…
Matthew Birkhold -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Racial Antagonism, Sexual Betrayal, Graft, and More: Rethinking and Remedying the Universe of Defense Counsel Failings
Is a defendant entitled to a new trial when his counsel has repeatedly spouted ugly racial stereotypes and used racial epithets in referring to…
Sheri Lynn Johnson -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Re-Imagining the Business Trust as a Sustainable Business Form
An important policy debate has emerged in the United States concerning how business should evolve to encapsulate more fully the burgeoning sustainability-conscious management paradigm.…
Lee-Ford Tritt & Ryan Scott Teschner -
CommentaryVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Perjury by Omission
“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?” There are few legal phrases that the layperson can…
Ira P. Robbins -
NoteVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Genital Exceptionalism Has No Place in the Law: Improving Transgender and Intersex Rights in the 21st Century
Sex exceptionalism—also referred to as sexuality or sexual exceptionalism—is a concept that has recently been developed and explored in feminist legal scholarship. Sex exceptionalism…
Lindsey M. Walker -
NoteVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Should the Use of Automated License Plate Readers Constitute a Search After Carpenter v. United States?
Introduction Are our privacy interests implicated when police keep records of each and every time our cars are spotted by automated license plate readers?…
Stephanie Foster -
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Edwards v. M’Connel: Hiding Behind Legal Principles
Edwards v. M’Connel[i] is cited by a Tennessee state law treatise on res judicata, the legal principle stating that a prior court’s decision is…
Kelsie Overton -
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What Does it Mean to Discriminate “Because of . . . Sex”?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against their employees “because of . . .…
Cora Allen