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Young Lawyer's Interest Network: Canada's Legalization Of Cannabis And The Impact On The American Border, Denise Calle

The Year in Review

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Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, Mark E. Wojcik, David W. Austin, Andrea Deffenu, Jon Fortin

The Year in Review

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Adjusting Community Survey Data Benchmarks For External Factors, Allen Miller, Nicole M. Norelli, Robert Slater, Mingyang N. Yu

SMU Data Science Review

Abstract. Using U.S. resident survey data from the National Community Survey in combination with public data from the U.S. Census and additional sources, a Voting Regressor Model was developed to establish fair benchmark values for city performance. These benchmarks were adjusted for characteristics the city cannot easily influence that contribute to confidence in local government, such as population size, demographics, and income. This adjustment allows for a more meaningful comparison and interpretation of survey results among individual cities. Methods explored for the benchmark adjustment included cluster analysis, anomaly detection, and a variety of regression techniques, including random forest, ridge, decision …

International Human Rights, Sara Blackwell, Heather Cohen, Mark Du, Uche U. Ewelukwa, Claudia Feldkamp, Samantha Rowe, Mali Torres

The Year in Review

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International Transportation Law, Andrew M. Danas, Feifan Drouyor, Jason W. Drouyor, Jane Hong, Jessica B. Horwitz

The Year in Review

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Russia/Eurasia, Kimberly Reed, Roman Buzko, Maria Grechishkina, Anastasia Herasimovich, Maryna Ilchuk, Amanda Weir

The Year in Review

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Mexico, Ana Karen Inzunza Sánchez, Bianka Aryesha Llamas Covarrubias, Eduardo Sánchez Madrigal, Fernanda Ambrosio Agraz, José Antonio Cervantes Acosta, José Edgardo Muñoz López, José Francisco Marcías Calleja, María Del Rocío De Orta Abúndi, Soyla H. León Tovar, Yurixhi Gallardo Martínez, Susan Burns, Zel Saccari

The Year in Review

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Aerospace And Defense Industries, Randy Cook, Francesca Harker, Waqas Shahid, Nicholas J. Spiliotes, Aki Bayz, Felix Helmstaedter, Tak-Kyun Hong, Philippe Shin, R. Locke Bell

The Year in Review

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Criminal Procedure: Confessions, Searches, And Seizures, Honorable Barbara Parker Hervey, Carson Guy, Alexander R. Comsudi

SMU Annual Texas Survey

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The Deficiencies Of Oregon Ballot Measure 110, Jacob Towles

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

In 1970, the Federal Government enacted the Controlled Substance Act (CSA), which made certain drugs and substances illegal absent a medical prescription. The control of drugs through the CSA exists to prevent harm to the public. Nonetheless, some cities and states have enacted laws that allow for the benefit of selling or pleasure of using illegal drugs to outweigh the legal ramifications.

In November 2020, The Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, also known as Oregon Ballot Measure 110 (Measure 110), made Oregon the first state in the country to decriminalize all drugs. Measure 110 was enacted with the overarching …

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Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Predicting Bearing Fault In The Drone Freight Industry: Legal Liability In Australia, Prue Vines, Anthony Song, Matthew Priestley, Elias Aboutanios

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

Many people are now aware of drones or remotely piloted aircraft (RPAs), and several others have predicted the significant impacts that drones will bring across society. Today, there is an expectation that drones will play a pivotal role in industries such as surveillance, security, surveying, construction, and freight transport. However, in all these cases, whenever a drone is flying over a populated area, it poses a danger to people or things on the ground. Perhaps the sector where the greatest risk of injury to the everyday person exists is the drone delivery industry. The drone freight industry is proliferating fast, …

The Unexpected Consequences Of Automation In Policing, Elizabeth E. Joh

SMU Law Review

This Article has two aims. First, it explains how automated decision-making can produce unexpected results. This is a problem long understood in the field of industrial organization, but identifying its effects in policing is no easy task. The police are a notoriously difficult institution to study. They are insular, dislike outsiders, and especially dislike critical outsiders. Fortunately, we have the benefit of a decade’s worth of experimentation in police use of automated decision-making and the resulting political backlash against some of these uses. As a result, some large urban police departments have undergone external investigations to see whether tools like …

Compelling Code, Nicole Ligon

SMU Law Review

Does the First Amendment protect computer code from being compelled by the government? As society becomes more reliant on coded devices— like pacemakers, insulin pumps, and even some baby bassinets—courts will need to grapple with this question. In considering compulsions related to code, this Article concludes that intermediate scrutiny is almost always the appropriate standard of review. Rather than expressing a particular viewpoint, code generally constitutes a functional and neutral script. Given that a machine’s interpretation of code generally results in an objective action, not a subjective belief, the government need only show in most instances that the compulsion furthers …

Public Safety Concerns And Meeting The Dudenhoeffer Pleading Standard, Douglass G. Brown

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

This Comment analyzes the recent Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) stock drop cases against The Boeing Company (Boeing) and reviews the underlying pleading standard in these cases that the Supreme Court set forth in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer. With the tremendous amount of assets in retirement plans—and specifically in employee stock ownership plans—litigation under ERISA can be extremely costly to employers, especially those in the airline industry that offer these plans. The current pleading standard for stock drop cases has become a practically insurmountable barrier to plaintiffs, even when their employers know they are negligently creating products …