Dying for Equal Protection

Teri Dobbins Baxter Volume 71, Issue 3, 535-588 When health policy experts noticed that health outcomes for African Americans were consistently worse than those of their White counterparts, many in the health care community assumed that the poor outcomes could be...

Reconceiving Legal Siblinghood

Ruth Zafran Volume 71, Issue 3, 749-782 How should the state treat siblings’ legal relationships in cases where the relationship is based solely on genetics, such as between siblings who were born of the same sperm donor, but did not grow up together? How should it...

Affording Obamacare

Isaac D. Buck Volume 71, Issue 2, 261-306 As it approaches its tenth birthday, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is devolving. Intended to solve problems that had vexed American health care for generations, the ACA built a comprehensive structure by...

Unmasking the Right of Publicity

Dustin Marlan Volume 71, Issue 2, 419-474 In the landmark 1953 case of Haelan Laboratories v. Topps Chewing Gum, Judge Jerome Frank first articulated the modern right of publicity as a transferable intellectual property right. The right of publicity has since been...

Net Neutrality: A State[d] Approach

Katherine Grainger Volume 71, Issue 2, 475-500 In 2018, the Federal Communications Commission ended federal net neutrality protections in its Restoring Internet Freedom Order. In response, many states introduced legislation to create their own state-level protections....

The Roper Extension: A California Perspective

Zoe Jordan Volume 71, Issue 1, 197-228 Although adulthood legally begins at age eighteen, young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one are distinct from the rest of the adult population. Many studies conducted over the last two decades have revealed that...

Algorithmic Discrimination Is an Information Problem

Ignacio N. Cofone Volume 70, Issue 6, 1389-1444 While algorithmic decision-making has proven to be a challenge for traditional antidiscrimination law, there is an opportunity to regulate algorithms through the information that they are fed. But blocking information...

Counterfeit Campaign Speech

Rebecca Green Volume 70, Issue 6, 1445-1490 We are entering an era in which computers can manufacture highly-sophisticated images, audio, and video of people doing and saying things they have, in fact, not done or said. In the context of political campaigns, the...

Data Philanthropy

Yafit Lev-Aretz Volume 70, Issue 6, 1491-1546 The term “data philanthropy” has been used to describe the sharing of private sector data for socially beneficial purposes, such as academic research and humanitarian aid. The recent controversy over an academic...

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Free Speech Legacy

Nadine Strossen Volume 70, Issue 5, 1317-1330 Justice Kennedy has been hailed by free speech advocates as a leading free speech champion. In contrast, other experts have not only criticized particular opinions and votes by Justice Kennedy that rejected free speech...

Judicial Embrace of Racial Gerrymandering Cases

Nina Rose Gliozzo Volume 70, Issue 5, 1331-1387 This Note seeks to explore the way courts engage with claims of racial gerrymandering. The Supreme Court has described judicial oversight of redistricting as an “unwelcome obligation.” These complex cases are both highly...

Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.: An American in Paris

Victor Qiu Volume 75, Issue 4, 1137-1162 By the time federal appellate courts began to examine the withdrawal of money from an ATM and the question of to whom that money belongs pursuant to the first paragraph of the Federal Bank Robbery Act (“FBRA”), 18 U.S.C....

The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Richard Marcus Volume 70, Issue 4, 1107-1110 Hastings lost a tremendous resource when Geoff Hazard died. But he was a resource for much more than Hastings. Indeed, he was probably the most significant resource for American law, or at least those parts devoted to...