A Locked iPhone; Unlocked Corporate Constitutional Rights
The Roberts Court, extant for eleven years, has acquired the pejorative moniker, the “Corporate Court.” In the same short time… Continue reading →
Volume 164 (2015-2016)
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First Amendment Freeze Play: Bennett’s Strategy for Entrenching Inequality
Rick Perlstein has described American elections as the “[p]lutocrats’ [r]ight to [c]hoose.” Conservative media and academics have also lamented the… Continue reading →
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How Sausage Is Made: A Research Agenda for Campaign Finance and Lobbying
The constitutional law governing campaign finance regulation is back up for grabs. The late Justice Antonin Scalia was an unwavering… Continue reading →
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Wholly Native to the First Amendment: The Positive Liberty of Self‐Government
The Supreme Court has unequivocally and repeatedly rejected as “wholly foreign to the First Amendment” any suggestion that legislatures can… Continue reading →
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Introduction: Problems in the Existing Jurisprudence
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s seminal money‐in‐politics case, Buckley v. Valeo —an anniversary that coincides… Continue reading →
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Of Laundering and Legal Fees: The Implications of United States v. Blair for Criminal Defense Attorneys who Accept Potentially Tainted Funds
“In the common understanding, money laundering occurs when money derived from criminal activity is placed into a legitimate business in… Continue reading →
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Is the Philadelphia Wage Tax Unconstitutional? And If It Is, What Can and Should the City Do?
(Photo: Ethan Schwartz/Flickr) Philadelphia, the fifth largest city in the United States with a population over 1.5 million, has a… Continue reading →
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The Patent Spiral
Examination—the process of reviewing a patent application and deciding whether to grant the requested patent—improves patent quality in two ways.… Continue reading →
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Machine Learning, Automated Suspicion Algorithms, and the Fourth Amendment
At the conceptual intersection of machine learning and government data collection lie Automated Suspicion Algorithms, or ASAs, which are created… 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 →