A Municipal Speech Claim Against Body Camera Video Restrictions
This Comment describes one approach to securing public access to the data collected by police‐worn body cameras (PWBC). Ever since… Continue reading →
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Halo Is Not the Saving Grace for the Patent System
Patent law is facing growing pains as it tries to operate within a framework originally created with different technology in… Continue reading →
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The Nuclear Option: What Can States Do to Encourage Clean Energy After Hughes and EPSA?
In the absence of federal climate change policy, many states have adopted programs that encourage clean energy generation from sources… Continue reading →
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Unsettled: Victim Discretion in the Administration and Enforcement of Criminal Restitution Orders
In 2008, a prominent Philadelphia businessman, Donald Dougherty, Jr., was charged with nearly one hundred counts of fraud, theft, bribery,… Continue reading →
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Blacklisting Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Designations of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) by the Secretary of State under Section 1189 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death… Continue reading →
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Smart Contracts and the Cost of Inflexibility
“Smart contracts” are decentralized agreements built in computer code and stored on a blockchain. Proponents imagine a future where commerce… Continue reading →
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FDA Regulation of 3D‐Printed Organs and Associated Ethical Challenges
The implications of pervasive implementation of 3D printing with biological material, also known as “bioprinting,” are vast. They present never‐before‐seen… Continue reading →
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Anti‐SLAPP Statutes and the Federal Rules: Why Preemption Analysis Shows they Should Apply in Federal Diversity Suits
In an effort to protect the exercise of free speech, many states have enacted “anti‐SLAPP” statutes—which provide special motions making… Continue reading →
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Implicit Bias as Social-Framework Evidence in Employment Discrimination
The role of implicit bias as evidence in employment discrimination claims continues to evolve, as does research attempting to explain… Continue reading →
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The Machine Author: What Level of Copyright Protection Is Appropriate for Fully Independent Computer‐Generated Works?
U.S. copyright law is grounded in a utilitarian philosophy: authors are granted a limited monopoly to incentivize production of original… Continue reading →