Volume 72

Nia Johnson Volume 72, Issue 6, 1637-1663 Black Americans have constantly been victims of health disparities and unequal treatment in healthcare facilities. This is not new. However, more attention has been paid to accounts from Black Americans alleging that their...

Lauren Rogal Volume 72, Issue 6, 1663-1702 Theranos, Inc., the unicorn startup blood-testing corporation, was ultimately laid low by a former employee whistleblower. The experience of that whistleblower during and after her employment illuminates detrimental secrecy...

Angela Onwuachi-Willig Volume 72, Issue 6, 1703-1716 Just as the COVID-19 pandemic helped to expose the inequities that already existed between students at every level of education based on race and socioeconomic class status, it has exposed existing inequities among...

Lynnise E. Phillips Pantin Volume 72, Issue 5, 1453-1510 This Article critically examines startup culture and its legal predicates. The Article analyzes innovation culture as a whole and uses the downfall of Theranos to illustrate the deficiencies in Silicon Valley...

Michael Pressman Volume 72, Issue 5, 1511-1572 Plaintiffs in wrongful-death suits typically are unable to recover for the decedent’s “hedonic loss”—the loss of happiness (or wellbeing) incurred as a result of the lost life-years themselves. Although this omission...

Molly Edgar Volume 72, Issue 5, 1573-1604 In 2016, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a joint policy statement which notified human resource professionals of antitrust issues that may arise in the context of employee...

Emma Geering Volume 72, Issue 5, 1605-1636 With social conscientiousness as a core value, American society has utilized nonprofit organizations to motivate social change. But as resources are finite and expertise in the complex legal, operational, and organizational...

Giuliano G. Castellano & Andrea Tosato Volume 72, Issue 4, 999-1054 Commercial law is not a single, monolithic entity. It has grown into a dense thicket of subject-specific branches that govern a broad range of transactions and corporate actions. When one of such...

Thomas F. Cotter Volume 72, Issue 4, 1055-1120 This Article provides a comprehensive analysis of awards of “noneconomic” damages for reputational and emotional harm in intellectual property (IP) law, including trademarks, copyright and moral rights, the right of...

Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Weinstock Netanel Volume 72, Issue 4, 1121-1182 The fair use privilege of United States copyright law long stood virtually alone among national copyright laws in providing a flexible, open-ended copyright exception. Most countries’...

Christopher B. Seaman Volume 72, Issue 4, 1183-1226 Noncompete clauses in employment agreements are both common and controversial. An estimated twenty-eight million Americans—nearly twenty percent of the U.S. workforce—are currently bound by a noncompete. The...

Aric Short Volume 72, Issue 4, 1227-1274 Tenant-on-tenant harassment because of a victim’s race, gender, or other protected status, is a severe and increasingly widespread problem often targeting vulnerable tenants. The creation of a hostile housing environment...

David Takacs Volume 72, Issue 4, 1275-1278

Kelly Carson Volume 72, Issue 4, 1279-1312 Roughly forty percent of the United States population lives in an area threatened to be underwater by 2100 due to climate change. There are little to no infrastructural and policy frameworks to handle this problem. This Note...

Tyler Runsten Volume 72, Issue 4, 1313-1346 As climate change regulation from the federal level becomes increasingly unlikely, states and local governments emerge as the last stand against climate change in the United States. This tension ushers in questions of...

Tori Timmons Volume 720, Issue 4, 1347-1384 Anthropogenic climate change is among the gravest problems humanity faces. Nonetheless, global greenhouse gas emissions are not slowing, and the complete elimination of greenhouse gas emissions is not currently foreseeable....

Robert C. Bird Volume 72, Issue 3, 719-772 Science skepticism is on the rise worldwide, and it has a pernicious influence on science and science-based public policy. This Article explores two of the most controversial science-based public policy issues: whether...

Valarie K. Blake Volume 72, Issue 3, 773-826 The passage of Medicare for All would go a long way toward curing the inequality that plagues our health care system along racial, sex, age, health status, disability, and socioeconomic lines. Yet, while laudably creating a...

Elissa Philip Gentry & Benjamin J. McMichael Volume 72, Issue 3, 827-870 Unlike past public health crises, the opioid crisis arose from within the healthcare system itself. Entities within that system, particularly opioid manufacturers, may bear some liability in...

Adam M. Gershowitz Volume 72, Issue 3, 871-918 Imagine that a medical board revokes a doctor’s license both because he has been peddling thousands of pills of opioids and also because he was caught with a few grams of cocaine. The doctor is a family physician, not a...

Lauren Trambley Volume 72, Issue 3, 919-958 Although California was by no means an affordable state to reside in prior to 2008, Californians are still experiencing the reverberating effects of the collapse of the housing market in its present affordable housing...

Robert Wu Volume 72, Issue 3, 959-998 In the first three years of Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), over 227,000 borrowers applied for relief. The U.S. Department of Education granted relief to less than 3800 borrowers, denying forgiveness to roughly 98% of the...

Mark Glick, Catherine Ruetschlin, & Darren Bush Volume 72, Issue 2, 465-516 Big Tech is on a buying spree. Companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are gobbling up smaller companies at an unprecedented pace. But the law of competition isn’t ready for Big...

Ariel Jurow Kleiman Volume 72, Issue 2, 517-564 The public finance literature tells us that user fees will introduce market-like efficiency to public good provision. Meanwhile, criminal justice scholars note that criminal justice fees have run amok, causing crippling...

Amy R. Motomura Volume 72, Issue 2, 565-626 This Article analyzes a conflict between innovation and the patent system: innovation is a dynamic, iterative process, but a patent reflects only a single snapshot in time. Despite extensive scholarly and judicial discussion...

Scott J. Shackelford & Scott O. Bradner Volume 72, Issue 2, 627-662 As Internet-connected devices become ubiquitous, it remains an open question whether security—or privacy—can or will scale, or whether a combination of perverse incentives, new problems, and new...

Samuel Bayer Volume 72, Issue 2, 663-686 California has long permitted dual agency representation in residential real estate transactions, and consumers have long maligned the practice as presenting an unavoidable conflict of interest. However, dual agency provides...

Thomas Davis Volume 72, Issue 2, 687-718 Late 2017 marked, perhaps, the peak of Bitcoin frenzy. A number of specious, if not outright fraudulent issuers took advantage of this craze by publicly listing their stock while touting some connection to blockchain...

David M. Driesen Volume 72, Issue 1, 1-54 The debate over the unitary executive theory—the theory that the President should have sole control over the executive branch of government—has proven extremely parochial. Supporters of the theory argue that the original...

Luca Enriques & Dirk A. Zetzsche Volume 72, Issue 1, 55-98 This Article introduces the term Corporate Technologies (“CorpTech”) to refer to the use of distributed ledgers, smart contracts, Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning in the...

James P. George Volume 72, Issue 1, 99-168 The United States has attempted for years to create a more efficient enforcement regime for foreign-country judgments, both by treaty and statute. Long negotiations succeeded in July 2019, when the Hague Conference on Private...

Mark Moller & Lawrence B. Solum Volume 72, Issue 1, 169-228 Article III confers the judicial power of the United States over controversies between “citizens” of different states. In Section 1332(c) of Title 28 of the United States Code, Congress has provided that...

Bryce Clayton Newell & Bert-Jaap Koops Volume 72, Issue 1, 229-290 The search of a smartphone by the police in connection with an arrest carries the potential to intrude into the very core of an arrestee’s private life. Indeed, such a search has been compared to...

Alix Rogers Volume 72, Issue 1, 291-336 Under contemporary American law, human corpses and some bodily parts are classified as quasi-property. Quasi-property is an American legal conception composed of limited interests that mimic some of the functions of property,...

Joan C. Williams, Rachel M. Korn & Sky Mihaylo Volume 72, Issue 1, 337-464 This Article joins other voices in challenging what I will call the “implicit bias consensus” in employment discrimination law, first crystallized in the work of Susan Sturm and Linda...