Cruel and Unusual Construction: The Eighth Amendment as a Limit on Building Prisons on Toxic Waste Sites
Over the last four decades, the United States has witnessed the emergence of a leviathan prison industrial complex. Eager to… Continue reading →
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How to Avoid the Standing Problem in Floyd: A Relaxed Approach to Standing in Class Actions
David Ourlicht, a black Manhattan man in his twenties, was stopped and frisked by New York City police officers three… Continue reading →
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When Is a Tweet Not an Admissible Tweet? Closing the Authentication Gap in the Federal Rules of Evidence
The proliferation of social media has naturally led to the increased use of information found on social media to resolve… Continue reading →
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What to Do When Main Street Is Legal Again: Regional Land Value Taxation as a New Urbanist Tool
For most of the twentieth century, Americans left urban centers for suburban landscapes. [O]ver the last one hundred years, American… Continue reading →
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Unconscionability as a Coherent Legal Concept
“Contracts of adhesion” are those long, complicated, boring contracts that no one reads and everyone signs. For a long time,… Continue reading →
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Discriminatory Discretion: PTO Procedures and Viewpoint Discrimination under Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act
The current standards for denying and cancelling trademarks under section 2(a) of the Lanham Act are insufficiently clear to prevent… Continue reading →
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Investor Participation in Initial Public Offerings
During an initial public offering (IPO), shares of a company are sold to the public for the first time. To… Continue reading →
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The Limitations of Tradition: How Modern Choice of Law Doctrine Can Help Courts Resolve Conflicts within the New York Convention and the Federal Arbitration Act
The difficulties faced by parties trying to enforce rights secured through international arbitration stem from the fact that countries have… Continue reading →
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Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction for Indian Tribes: Inherent Tribal Sovereignty versus Defendants' Complete Constitutional Rights
Special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction for Indian tribes took effect nationally on March 7, 2015, and it was a historic… Continue reading →
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Dangerous Liaisons: Criminalization of “Relationship Hires” under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
On August 17, 2013, the New York Times published a front page story on JPMorgan Chase & Co. that cast… Continue reading →