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Slavery and the Postbellum University: The Case of SMU

Jan 19, 2022 | Article, Civil Rights and Discrimination, Feature, Lolita Buckner Inniss, Skyler Arbuckle

By Lolita Buckner Inniss & Skyler Arbuckle Abstract People who practiced slavery across the United States, or engaged in slavery-related practices, were often the same civically-minded social, legal, and economic leaders who founded the nation’s first colleges and...

How Analogizing Socio-Legal Responses to Organ Transplantation Can Further the Legalization of Reproductive Genetic Innovation

Jan 19, 2022 | Article, Feature, Law and Society, Myrisha S. Lewis

By Myrisha S. Lewis Abstract The Nobel Foundation emphasized the significance of genetic innovation to society, science, and medicine by awarding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to “the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.” This Article focuses on “reproductive genetic...

Achieving Privacy

Jan 19, 2022 | Anupam Chander, Article, Dayoung Park, Feature, Isabel Yu, Meaza Abraham, Privacy Law, Sandeep Chandy, Yuan Fang

By Anupam Chander, Meaza Abraham, Sandeep Chandy, Yuan Fang, Dayoung Park & Isabel Yu Abstract Is privacy a luxury for the rich? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement or too expensive...

Let’s Move Criminal Justice Reforms Upstream: A Perspective from the Bench

Oct 5, 2021 | Article, Bridget McCormack, Criminal, Feature, Law and Society

By Bridget McCormack Abstract “[S]ometimes it feels like this. There I am standing by the shore of a swiftly flowing river and I hear the cry of a drowning man. So I jump into the river, put my arms around him, pull him to shore and apply artificial respiration. Just...

Reforming State Bail Reform

Oct 5, 2021 | Article, Criminal, Criminal Procedure, Feature, Lauren Boone, Law and Politics, Nathan Jackson, Shima Baughman

By Shima Baughman, Lauren Boone, and Nathan Jackson Abstract We are waist-deep in the third wave of bail reform. Scholars, policy makers, and the public have realized that the short period of detention before trial creates ripple effects on a defendant’s judicial fate...

Beyond Transparency: Police Union Collective Bargaining and Participatory Democracy

Oct 5, 2021 | Article, Feature, Law and Politics, Walter Katz

By Walter Katz Abstract Police unions rose in power partially in response to the civil unrest in urban neighborhoods in the 1960s. As unions gained political power, critics argue that they have frequently stood as obstacles to accountability-related reforms. One...

Barring Immoral Speech in Patent and Copyright

Mar 1, 2021 | Article, Feature, First Amendment, Intellectual Property, Ned Snow

By Ned Snow Abstract In the past three years, the Supreme Court has twice ruled that Congress’s moral bars to trademark protection violate the First Amendment. Those rulings raise a simple question in other areas of intellectual property. Does the First Amendment...

Using Extrinsic Evidence to Excuse a Liability Insurer’s Duty to Defend

Mar 1, 2021 | Article, Douglas R. Richmond, Feature, Insurance Law

By Douglas R. Richmond Abstract Most Americans and American businesses purchase liability insurance to protect against financial loss should they ever be sued. In furnishing this protection, liability insurers contractually promise policyholders that they will defend...

Taxing Employers for Imposing Mandatory Arbitration, Class Action Waiver, and Nondisclosure of Dispute Provisions

Mar 1, 2021 | Article, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, Feature, Rebecca N. Morrow, Tax

By Rebecca N. Morrow Abstract Employers impose coercive dispute resolution terms on their employees more frequently, more broadly, and with greater legal success than ever before. Recent survey data indicates that mandatory employment arbitration provisions bind more...

On the Broadness of the Fourth Amendment

Mar 1, 2021 | Article, Feature, Fourth Amendment, Janine Kim

By Janine Kim Abstract This Article considers the role of property rights in defining Fourth Amendment searches. Since United States v. Jones in 2012, the Supreme Court has relied on both privacy and property to determine whether a Fourth Amendment search has...
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