May 10, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 4
Catherine T. Struve Volume 70, Issue 4, 1121-1128 Full...
May 10, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 4
Michele Taruffo Volume 70, Issue 4, 1129-1132 Full...
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Michael Traynor Volume 70, Issue 4, 1133-1140 Full...
Apr 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 3
Richard Albert, Malkhaz Nakashidze, Tarik Olcay Volume 70, Issue 3, 639-70 Many courts around the world have either asserted or exercised the power to invalidate a constitutional amendment. But we should not take the increasing prevalence of the doctrine of...
Apr 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 3
Charles W. Collier Volume 70, Issue 3, 671-88 This Article provides a selective introduction to some of the main social, cultural, historical, and intellectual issues surrounding gun violence and the desultory policy “debates” over gun control in America. Unregulated...
Apr 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 3
Reza Dibadj Volume 70, Issue 3, 689-716 Full...
Apr 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 3
Nicholas J. Johnson Volume 70, Issue 3, 717-70 Roughly a decade has passed since the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller and the battle over the basic legitimacy of the right to keep and bear arms continues. A significant segment of the academy,...
Apr 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 3
Adam Harris Kurland Volume 70, Issue 3, 771-850 Full...
Apr 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 3
Marilyn Cech Volume 70, Issue 3, 851-86 What do the Golden State Killer, the Havasupai Tribe, and Henrietta Lacks have in common? None of these individuals gave informed consent for the particular research uses of their genetic material. Biotechnological advancements...
Apr 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 3
Joshua B. Gurney Volume 70, Issue 3, 887-918 Domestic violence has riddled the indigenous communities of the United States for decades. Within this problem lies another—non-Indians perpetrate crimes of domestic violence against Indian women at disproportionately high...
Apr 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 3
Wendell Lin Volume 70, Issue 3, 919-48 In the backdrop of intense political division, San Francisco is proud to be a beacon of diversity and inclusion. But the “sanctuary city” has an appalling history of racism and continues to relegate marginalized communities with...
Feb 10, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
Jeffrey C. Dobbins – Volume 70, Issue 2, 331-366 Full...
Feb 10, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
Vanessa Casado Perez – Volume 70, Issue 2, 367-408 Parking on public streets is scarce. The current allocation system for parking spots based on the rule of capture coupled with low parking fees creates a tragedy of the commons scenario. The misallocation of...
Feb 10, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
Gregg Polsky – Volume 70, Issue 2, 409-454 Perhaps the most fundamental role of a business lawyer is to recommend the optimal entity choice for nascent business enterprises. Nevertheless, even in 2018, the choice-of-entity analysis remains highly muddled. Most...
Feb 10, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
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Feb 9, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
Jonathan Rohr and Aaron Wright – Volume 70, Issue 2, 463-524 Best known for their role in the creation of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, blockchains are revolutionizing the way technology entrepreneurs finance their business enterprises. In 2017 alone, tech...
Feb 9, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
Tseming Yang – Volume 70, Issue 2, 525-572 More than half a century ago, Rudolf Schlesinger announced a global survey of legal principles in the pages of the American Journal of International Law. The project’s objective was the identification of a “common core”...
Feb 9, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
Mike Chow – Volume 70, Issue 2, 573-594 In Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar, the United States Supreme Court resolved a longstanding circuit split by holding that implied false certifications—transactions involving a failure to...
Feb 9, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
Holly Jones – Volume 70, Issue 2, 595-620 Are babies commodities? Are they a proper subject of contract law? Many states say no, holding surrogacy contracts void as against public policy. Others, however, enforce surrogacy contracts. In the rare instances when...
Feb 9, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 2
Sophie Stocks – Volume 70, Issue 2, 621-638. Rising seas are encroaching on private properties along the California coast at alarming rates and rapidly changing the mean high tide line, which serves as the legal boundary determining the relative rights of the...
Jan 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 1
Lothar Determann - Volume 70, Issue 1, 1-44. Businesses, policy makers, and scholars are calling for property rights in data. They currently focus on the vast amounts of data generated by connected cars, industrial machines, artificial intelligence, toys and other...
Jan 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 1
Herbert Hovenkamp - Volume 70, Issue 1, 45-74. Full...
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Lawrence Rosenthal- Volume 70, Issue 1, 75-172. There is likely no methodological question of greater importance to constitutional law than whether adjudication should be based on the original meaning of the Constitution’s text, or instead reflect an evolving...
Jan 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 1
Drew Simshaw - Volume 70, Issue 1, 173-214. As in many other industries, artificial intelligence (“AI”) is poised to drastically transform the legal services landscape. “Bots,” automated expert systems, and predictive analytics are already changing the way consumers...
Jan 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 1
Brandon M. Weiss – Volume 70, Issue 1, 215-248. The primary goal of subsidized housing policy in the United States is to increase access to affordable housing for low-income households. Yet data show that states disproportionately award low-income housing tax...
Jan 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 1
Jennifer M. Bentley – Volume 70, Issue 1, 249-296. The cost of buying, operating, and maintaining manned aircraft traditionally limited the government’s ability to conduct widespread aerial surveillance. But drone technology is eroding this natural limit because...
Jan 2, 2019 | Volume 70, Issue 1
Alisha Patton – Volume 70, Issue 1, 297-330. This Note analyzes the pro-life crusade to defund Planned Parenthood and exclude private insurance plans that cover abortions from all subsidized insurance markets, ostensibly in accordance with decades-old case law...
Aug 19, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 6
Ignacio N. Cofone & Adriana Z. Robertson Volume 69, Issue 6, 1471-1508 On March 28, 2017, Congress killed the FCC’s attempt to protect consumer privacy on the internet and allowed ISPs to continue to track their users’ online behavior. We evaluate the impact of...
Aug 19, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 6
McKay Cunningham Volume 69, Issue 6, 1509-1544 The Supreme Court has long held that extreme partisan gerrymandering violates equal protection, but has simultaneously dismissed gerrymandering disputes as nonjusticiable political questions. In particular, the Court has...
Aug 19, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 6
Andrea Freeman Volume 69, Issue 6, 1545-1606 Laws and policies that impede Black mothers’ ability to breastfeed their children began in slavery and persist as an incident of that institution today. They originated in the practice of removing enslaved new mothers from...
Aug 19, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 6
Stephen F. Smith Volume 69, Issue 6, 1609-1672 For decades, the “guilty mind” requirement in federal criminal law has been understood as precluding punishment for “morally blameless” (or “innocent”) conduct, thereby ensuring that only offenders with adequate notice of...
Aug 19, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 6
Christina E. Urhausen Volume 69, Issue 6, 1673-1694 Brady violations have become a growing epidemic in California. As a result, California recently enacted a new law that amends section 141 of the Penal Code. The law changes the status of an “intentional” Brady...
Aug 2, 2018 | Online
Tiffany Ku Volume 69, Online, 28-51 This Note examines whether, under the Fourth Amendment, the United States government can conduct searches based on hash encryption to comb through large digital databases such as the cloud and find files known to be incriminating....
Jun 3, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 5
Justine Isola Volume 69, Issue 5, 1333-1338 Full...
Jun 3, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 5
Erwin Chemerinsky Volume 69, Issue 5, 1339-1354 Full...
Jun 3, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 5
David M. Howard Volume 69, Issue 5, 1355-1378 Democracy has evolved throughout history, and democracy can survive the challenges of the cyber age. However, democracy will be affected by the internet and increased cybersecurity. Cybersecurity and democracy sometimes...
Jun 3, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 5
Tessa Jolls & Michele Johnsen Volume 69, Issue 5, 1379-1408 The current focus on the validity, credibility, and trustworthiness of media and information is urgent and global. In the past ten to twenty years, the information landscape has fundamentally changed due...
Jun 3, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 5
Alexandra Andorfer Volume 69, Issue 5, 1409-1431 “Fake news” seems to be the phrase du jour these days. During the 2016 presidential election, fake news and propaganda proliferated on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, with many of the concocted...
Jun 3, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 5
Kaleigh E. Aucoin Volume 69, Issue 5, 1433-1469 The United States government’s use of what it refers to as “Network Investigative Tools,” presents several constitutional and privacy-related issues. Revelations stemming from the use of these NITsa form of...
May 26, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 4
Ignacio N. Cofone & Adriana Z. Robertson Volume 69, Issue 4, 1039-1098 Privacy loss is central to privacy law scholarship, but a clear definition of the concept remains elusive. We present a model that both captures the essence of privacy loss and can be easily...
May 26, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 4
JD Hsin Volume 69, Issue 4, 1099-1146 For more than half a century the heckler’s veto has been a source of provocation. On the one hand, there now appears to be widespread consensus among courts and commentators that allowing police to shut down a provocative speaker...
May 26, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 4
Noah M. Kazis Volume 69, Issue 4,1147-1223 The bicameral legislature is a cornerstone of the Madisonian system, a basic assumption of American constitutionalism. But a different constitutional vision is hidden in plain sight. Of the more than 90,000 local governments...
May 26, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 4
David Kwok Volume 69, Issue 4, 1225-1269 When employers retaliate against whistleblowers, courts and agencies often treat the retaliation as a private employment dispute best resolved by the whistleblower and employer. This cramped view of retaliation disregards...
May 26, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 4
Nancy Morawetz Volume 69, Issue 4, 1271-1310 In the first year of the Trump Administration, the courts played a critical role in reviewing and shaping federal immigration policy. When nonprofits and states filed prominent cases challenging the “travel ban,” the public...
May 26, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 4
Joseph G. Marano Volume 69, Issue 4, 1311-1332 Courts have consistently interpreted section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) as shielding internet service providers from liability for defamatory content posted by users. This is a significant departure...
Apr 6, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 3
Rebecca Aviel Volume 69, Issue 3, 721-769 We live in a moment of intense preoccupation with both marriage and federalism, one that is likely to persist well beyond the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. The decision served to reify marriage as a site of...
Apr 6, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 3
Joshua M. Divine Volume 69, Issue 3, 771-834 Sentencing disparity among similar offenders has increased at a disconcerting rate over the last decade. Some judges issue sentences twice as harsh as other judges on the same court, so a defendant’s sentence often depends...
Apr 6, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 3
Matteo Gatti Volume 69, Issue 3, 835-924 Shareholder approval in mergers generally takes a long time, but is it necessary? This Article finds that in the context of mergers, the approval requirement is not nearly as valuable a procedure as we might expect. I analyze...
Apr 6, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 3
Justin Marceau Volume 69, Issue 3, 925-960 The fiftieth anniversary of the Animal Welfare Act (“AWA”) was 2016. Most fiftieth anniversaries are cause for great celebration, but this one shouldn’t’ be because the AWA has caused more harm than good. In previous decades...
Apr 6, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 3
Michael Vitiello & Rosemary Deck Volume 69, Issue 3, 961-984 The United States is on a fast-track to a new era in marijuana law. The prospect of a federal pathway to legalization opens a Pandora’s Box of issues for states like California. This Article focuses on...
Apr 6, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 3
Jaclyn Gross Volume 69, Volume 3, 985-1008 Recently, it has become increasingly difficult for foreign nationals to successfully gain refuge in the United States from persecution in their home countries. The year 1990 marked the first time that the United States...
Apr 6, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 3
Gaby Lion Volume 69, Volume 3, 1009-1038 This Note discusses the current status of the rape kit backlog, and how it can be addressed through successful public-private partnerships in the DNA testing industry. DNA evidence contained inside rape kits is an invaluable...
Apr 1, 2018 | Online
Keiichiro Zushi Volume 69, Online, 1-27 Fully-automated driverless vehicles could not only provide a convenient means of transportation to many, but also become an effective tool to reduce greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions if properly regulated. To ensure that...
Feb 10, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 2
Khaled A. Beydoun Volume 69, Issue 2, 429-497 The United States Department of State has long employed a sectarian foreign policy strategy to advance its interests in the Mideast. The United States has sided staunchly with Saudi Arabia, the Sunni Muslim superpower in...
Feb 10, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 2
John D. Leshy Volume 69, Issue 2, 499-582 Arguments are sometimes made most recently in a paper commissioned by the State of Utah, and by a lawyer for a defendant facing charges for the armed takeover of a National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016that U.S. public...
Feb 10, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 2
Lydia Nussbaum Volume 69, Issue 2, 583-646 Zero-tolerance school disciplinary policies stunt the future of school children across the United States. These policies, enshrined in state law, prescribe automatic and mandatory suspension, expulsion, and arrest for...
Feb 10, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 2
George A. Croton Volume 69, Issue 2, 647-674 This Note considers whether a federal agency that grants a license, lease, or permit to a wind farm developer can thereafter be held vicariously liable for the developer’s violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act’s...
Feb 10, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 2
Joseph Dimont Volume 69, Issue 2, 675-700 Digital music streaming services, like Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal, currently distribute royalties based on a per-stream model, known as service-centric licensing, while at the same time receive income through subscription...
Feb 10, 2018 | Volume 69, Issue 2
Benjamin C. West Volume 69, Issue 2, 701-720 In the consumer data breach context, courts have seemingly limited a plaintiff’s ability to bring suit by applying the standing doctrine’s injury-in-fact requirement too rigidly. This is unacceptable, as the law of standing...
Dec 22, 2017 | Volume 69, Issue 1
David Blankfein-Tabachnick & Kevin A. Kordana Volume 69, Issue 1, 1-44 This Article rejects a central claim of taxation and private law theory, namely, Kaplow and Shavell’s prominent thesis that egalitarian social goals are most efficiently achieved through...
