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2025 Annual Justice Festival Program, Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities, And Social Sciences

Justice Festival at Morehead State University

The program for the 5th Annual Justice Festival held on November 18, 2023 on the campus of Morehead State University.

Fred H. Cate Appointed To 23andme Research Institute Privacy Advisory Board, Maurer School Of Law - Indiana University

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Indiana University Maurer School of Law Distinguished Professor Fred H. Cate, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on information privacy and security law, has been appointed as an inaugural member to the newly formed Privacy Advisory Board of the 23andMe Research Institute, a leading nonprofit medical research organization focused on advancing genetic and health discoveries.

The appointment cements the Law School’s position as a global leader at the intersection of law, data governance, and privacy.

Law School News: Protecting Lgbtq+ Rights In Rhode Island: Insights From The Stonewall Lecture 11-18-2025, Alli-Michelle Conti

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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President Trump And Control Of Administrative Agencies: The Firing Of Nlrb Commissioner Gwynne Wilcox, Gwynne Wilcox, Daniel Silverman, David Rudenstine, Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy, Public Interest Law Student Association (Pilsa), American Constitution Society (Acs), Cardozo Chapter, National Lawyers Guild, Cardozo Chapter, Cardozo Federalist Society

2025 Event Invitations

On November 18, Gwynne Wilcox will join Dan Silverman at Cardozo to discuss her lawsuit against Trump and his administration for firing her as an NLRB commissioner. This conversation will be moderated by Professor David Rudenstine.

On January 27, 2025, President Trump removed Wilcox from the Board prior to her term’s expiration in 2028. Wilcox was the first Board Member to have been removed in 90 years of the Board's inception in 1935. Wilcox filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in Washington, DC, against President Trump challenging her unprecedented and unlawful termination based upon current statutory law and well-established Supreme …

Learning By Doing: The Importance Of Thoughtful And Limited Generative A.I. Use In The Il Legal Writing Classroom, Luke Repici

Faculty Publications

Technological advances that impact lawyers day-to-day work are nothing new. From typewriters, dictaphones, and computers to electronic legal research, email, and e-discovery, new technologies have changed the nuts and bolts of how lawyers practice for decades. Previous technologies may have replaced the pen with the typewriter and supplanted the letter for the email, but the lawyer remained the one doing the work. For more junior lawyers, this meant assigned tasks – reading cases, drafting motions, dictating client updates, summarizing discovery, and creating deposition outlines – could not be outsourced to technology.

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (“Gen AI”) presents …

Season 2 Episode 8: Where It Stops, No One Knows, Sara Gras

Season 02

While new scandals coming to light weekly, the growth of online sports betting hasn’t slowed. There are still new markets and opportunities to explore, including women’s and youth sports. In fact, it is difficult to imagine who could ever disrupt this wildly successful industry – except, of course, an industry that’s figured out a way around all the rules and regulations.

Features excerpts of interviews with:

Cole Wogoman, Senior Manager, Government Relations and League Partnerships
National Council on Problem Gambling

Ilya Beylin, Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall Law School

Legal Materials Referenced:

• Central Hudson Gas & Elec. v. …

Mmu: 11/17/25-11/23/25, Student Bar Association

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Vol. 69, No. 12 (November 17, 2025)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Face Card Declined: The Deepfake Threat To Biometric Security In Financial Systems, Hazel Fernandez

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

Once limited to entertainment and disinformation, deepfakes are now extending into the financial sector, where voice and facial impersonations exploit biometric authentication systems to facilitate fraudulent transactions. This evolution exposes gaps in existing legal and regulatory frameworks, raising critical questions about consumer protection and institutional safeguards. This Note argues for a reconceptualization of deepfake harms as both a privacy and a financial security issue. It examines the illusion of consent generated by synthetic impersonation and insufficient statutory protections. The analysis examines the patchwork of federal, state, and international laws governing data privacy and artificial media, highlighting the gaps that allow …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 11.17.25, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• Justice Amy Coney Barrett to judge final round of moot court tournament named in her honor
• Veterans Day 2025: Honoring our ND Law student veterans and reflecting on God, Country, Notre Dame
• Notre Dame faculty contribute to dialogue on artificial intelligence at the Vatican
• Notre Dame experts bridge law and child development to tackle crisis of family separation amidst armed conflict

Alumni News

• Notre Dame LL.M. Graduates Victoria Mendoza Ruiz and Mbonisi (Bo) Secure Prestigious UN Internships

Faculty Briefs

• Caleb Stone
• Christina Jones
• John Meiser
• Nicole Garnett
• Patrick Corrigan
• Mary Ellen O'Connell
• Haley Proctor
• Sadie Blanchard
• Nell …

For-Profit Arbitration And The Race To The Procedural Bottom, Jacob Thomas

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution (CJCR) Blog

For decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has expressed corporate favor by greenlighting mandatory arbitration clauses that modify the arbitration process to limit claims and maximize profit. These modifications include everything from authorizing provisions that require consumers to waive their right to a class action, to corporate specification of the forum, rules, and relevant procedures for arbitration. However, it is not only these company written arbitration clauses that are expanding corporate dominance in arbitration, there is an underexplored profit incentive helping to shape the corporate friendly structure of the arbitration process originating from the arbitration forums themselves.

The print edition of …

Nonparty Protective Relief In The Early Republic: Judicial Power To Annul Letters Patent, James E. Pfander, Mary E. Zakowski

Northwestern University Law Review

Much of the debate over the constitutionality of universal or nonparty protective relief in the federal court system has focused on lessons drawn from historical practice. But with its emphasis on injunctive relief, the literature has largely ignored forms of adjudication that arose outside the courts of equity and led to judgments and decrees affecting the rights of nonparties. As a result, the story of nonparty protective relief has not yet been fully told.

This Article offers a more complete story, highlighting proceedings in which federal courts issued judgments that settled a matter once and for all. Some familiar examples …

The Search Of A Search: Moderating Reverse Internet Keyword Warrants, Tui Rademaker

Northwestern University Law Review

Statistics show that Americans consistently turn to Google and other search engines to answer their most personal and private concerns, yet a new investigative tool risks law enforcement having vast discretion in the access of this data. With a keyword warrant, law enforcement can request from a search engine provider (usually Google) a list of probative search queries that users made over a specified time period. Such warrants are beginning to face legal challenges, and so far, courts seem reluctant to recognize the constitutional implications—instead leaving law enforcement with greater potential discretion over their use.

This Note assesses the constitutionality …

First Amendment Exceptions To Otherwise Valid Laws: A Doctrinal And Meta-Doctrinal Perspective, Richard H. Fallon Jr.

Northwestern University Law Review

When do the First Amendment’s Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses require exceptions to generally valid laws? Recently, the Supreme Court has upheld a number of such exceptions, which excuse some speakers and religiously motivated actors from legal duties that apply to others, including in prominent cases under antidiscrimination statutes and emergency pandemic regulations. By contrast, other landmark cases––such as United States v. O’Brien and Employment Division v. Smith—insist that First Amendment exceptions should be rare.

In analyzing the fraught and confusing issues that surround First Amendment exceptions, this Article makes four main contributions. First, it conceptualizes claims to …

Preventive Transparency In Third-Party Litigation Funding, Seth Katsuya Endo

Northwestern University Law Review

For years, efforts to comprehensively regulate third-party litigation funding have been unsuccessful. But bills requiring mandatory disclosure are being introduced in Congress, and the Advisory Committee for Civil Rules has finally agreed to take up the issue. By grounding the discussion of third-party litigation funding in both the broader civil procedure and professional responsibility scholarship, this Article identifies an easy, uncontroversial reform to preventively address the categorical concerns raised by the practice. The primary contribution is a doctrinal intervention, identifying how legal ethics are an integral part of federal civil procedure and then drawing out the implications for third-party litigation …

Malapportionment: A Murder Mystery, Daniel Wodak

Northwestern University Law Review

Malapportionment—electoral districts with divergent ratios of people to representation—was ruled to be unconstitutional in a widely venerated series of cases before the Warren Court. Those cases held that a principle of political equality, one person, one vote, is required by the Constitution. But what is the content of that principle? Many Justices and commentators declare that it is vague, empty, circular, or meaningless. This creates a murder mystery. Malapportionment was killed, but by what exactly? This Article seeks an answer by focusing on the Supreme Court’s commitments about the scope and strictness of one person, one vote: it …

Control As A Constitutional Threshold: Moody V. Netchoice And The Case For Human Authorship, Giselle Goad

Northwestern University Law Review

The Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC left a critical question unanswered: when do algorithmic outputs on social media platforms, such as recommended posts and videos, constitute the platform’s protected speech under the First Amendment? This Note contends that courts and litigants should borrow from the First Amendment’s speech-promoting partner, copyright law, and its authorship framework when answering that question. Copyright doctrine has already begun to grapple with how much human control is required over expressive outputs generated with the aid of technology, including AI, in order for an author to receive copyright protection over those outputs. …

Maybe It Is Time To Retire The Nlra, Jordan Pollack

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog

Within the first week of his presidency, President Trump removed National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and Board Member Gwynne Wilcox, leaving the NLRB without a quorum and therefore unable to have any real impact on cases brought before it.  This action sent unions and organizers into a panic as employers celebrated the expanded ability to get away with unfair labor practices and policies that limit strikes and work stoppages.  However, the history of unions in America is not one defined by the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”).  In fact, the NLRA was implemented to stifle the …

Torts And Pesticide Drift: Amending Right-To-Farm Acts In The Wake Of Widespread Dicamba Drift By Nicholas Brown** And Matt Roessing*

Journal of Legal Studies in Business

When crops die in a field prior to harvest, a farmer loses a portion of his salary for that year. When the cause of the crop loss is natural, farmers can usually seek compensation through crop insurance and government commodity support programs. When the crops were lost as a result of pesticide drift, these forms of compensation are not usually available to farmers.1 In order to make up for their losses, farmers can seek damages through judicial redress. For many decades, various state and federal laws have combined to complicate and at times prevent farmers adversely affected by pesticide drift …

Cover Page & Table Of Contents - Volume 23

Journal of Legal Studies in Business

JLSB vol. 23 Title Page & Table of Contents

Incorporating Tax Law Into Legal And Regulatory Environment Of Business Courses

Journal of Legal Studies in Business

No abstract provided.

Too Much, Too Little, Or Just Right? Beyond The Perception (Or Reality) Of Law School Rigor In Teaching Undergraduate Copyright Law

Journal of Legal Studies in Business

No abstract provided.

Redistricting, Gerrymandering, And Graham V. Adams: It's Time For An Independent Redistricting Commission In Kentucky, Kathleen Dudgeon

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

"Blocking Out The Haters:" Government Officials Create Split Among Federal Judiciary, Andrew Weisgerber

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Next Generation, Jeremiah Chin

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

New Challenges To Judicial Federalism, James A. Gardner

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Governors Slightly More Bound? A Critique Of The Uniform Law Commission's Model Public-Health Emergency Authority Act, Paul A. Diller

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Wages Of Hitching Wagons, Thomas B. Bennett

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Courting Jural Rights: The Kentucky Constitution And The Super Common Law Of Torts, Sarah L. Swan

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.