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Taming America's Sugar Rush: A Traffic-Light Label Approach, Alexia Brunet Marks

Publications

Excess added sugar negatively impacts health and can lead to a litany of problems, such as diet-related chronic diseases, e.g., diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and obesity, costing Americans millions in rising medical bills each year. Even more, new studies reveal that individuals with these underlying chronic diseases are at a higher risk of complications from COVID-19 and other viruses compared to those who are deemed healthy. And yet added sugars are difficult to avoid because unlike naturally occurring sugars found in fruits, vegetables, and milk, these sweeteners are added during food processing and preparation.

The problem is that while consumers …

Narrowly Tailoring The Covid-19 Response, Craig Konnoth

Publications

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Medical Civil Rights As A Site Of Activism: A Reply To Critics, Craig Konnoth

Publications

See Craig Konnoth, Medicalization and the New Civil Rights, 72 Stan. L. Rev. 1165 (2020).

See also Rabia Belt & Doron Dorfman, Response, Reweighing Medical Civil Rights, 72 Stan. L. Rev. Online 176 (2020), https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/reweighing-medical-civil-rights/; Allison K. Hoffman, Response, How Medicalization of Civil Rights Could Disappoint, 72 Stan. L. Rev. Online 165 (2020), https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/how-medicalization-of-civil-rights-could-disappoint/.

Remutualization, Erik F. Gerding

Publications

Policymakers need to rediscover the organizational form of business entity as a tool of financial regulation. Recent and classic scholarship has produced evidence that financial institutions organized as alternative entity forms – including investment bank partnerships and banks and insurance companies organized as mutual or cooperatives – tend to take less risk, exploit customers/consumer less, or commit less misconduct compared to counterparts organized as investor-owned corporations. This article builds off the work of Hill and Painter on investment banks organized as partnerships, Hansmann on the history and economics of banks and insurance companies organized as mutuals and cooperatives, and other …

Race, Space, And Surveillance: A Response To #Livingwhileblack: Blackness As Nuisance, Lolita Buckner Inniss

Publications

This article is an invited response to an American University Law Review article titled “#LivingWhileBlack: Blackness as Nuisance” that has been widely discussed in the news media and in academic circles.

While The Water Is Stirring: Sojourner Truth As Proto-Agonist In The Fight For (Black) Women’S Rights, Lolita Buckner Inniss

Publications

This Essay argues for a greater understanding of Sojourner Truth’s little-discussed role as a proto-agonist (a marginalized, long-suffering forerunner as opposed to a protagonist, a highly celebrated central character) in the process that led up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Though the Nineteenth Amendment failed to deliver on its promise of suffrage for black women immediately after its enactment, black women were stalwarts in the fight for the Amendment and for women’s rights more broadly, well before the ratification of the Amendment and for many years after its passage. Women’s rights in general, and black women’s rights in …

Symposium: The California Consumer Privacy Act, Margot Kaminski, Jacob Snow, Felix Wu, Justin Hughes

Publications

This symposium discussion of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review focuses on the newly enacted California Consumer Privacy Act (CPPA), a statute signed into state law by then-Governor Jerry Brown on June 28, 2018 and effective as of January 1, 2020. The panel was held on February 20, 2020.

The panelists discuss how businesses are responding to the new law and obstacles for consumers to make effective use of the law’s protections and rights. Most importantly, the panelists grapple with questions courts are likely to have to address, including the definition of personal information under the CCPA, the application …

(Un)Common Law And The Female Body, Lolita Buckner Inniss

Publications

A dissonance frequently exists between explicit feminist approaches to law and the realities of a common law system that has often ignored and even at times exacerbated women’s legal disabilities. In The Common Law Inside the Fe-male Body, Anita Bernstein mounts a challenge to this story of division. There is, and has long been, she asserts, a substantial interrelation between the common law and feminist jurisprudential approaches to law. But Bernstein’s central argument, far from disrupting broad understandings of the common law, is in keeping with a claim that other legal scholars have long asserted: decisions according to precedent, …

Can You Hear Me Later And Believe Me Now? Behavioral Law And Economics Of Chronic Repeated Ambient Acoustic Pollution Causing Noise-Induced (Hidden) Hearing Loss, Peter H. Huang, Kelly J. Poore

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This Article analyzes the public health issues of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (“NIHL”) and Noise-Induced Hidden Hearing Loss (“NIHHL”) due to Chronic Repeated Ambient Acoustic Pollution (“CRAAP”). This Article examines the clinical and empirical medical data about NIHL and NIHHL and its normative implications. It applies behavioral law and economics and information economics to advance legal policies to reduce CRAAP. Finally, this Article advocates changing individual and social attitudes about deafness and hearing loss to raise political awareness and social consciousness about NIHL and NIHHL. One way to change our attitudes is by practicing compassion, empathy, and kindness, including Loving-Kindness Mindfulness …

Regulatory De-Arbitrage In Twenty-First Century Cures Act's Health Information Regulation, Craig Konnoth

Publications

Health data regulation can be thought of at two levels. First, the micro- level of regulation has to do with Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Second, the macro-level concerns the networks on which EHRs are transmitted. The micro- and macro-levels of regulation interact. For example, EHRs need to be configured so that they can be transmitted on mandated networks. As a result, the lines do sometimes blur.

That said, the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures) clearly takes a dual approach to regulation. Cures was passed in December 2016 on a bipartisan basis. Its mandate was to address health data regulation at …

De-Democratizing Criminal Law, Benjamin Levin

Publications

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Amicus (Fall 2019), University Of Colorado Law School

Amicus

Issue at a glance:

• Training Lawyers with a Business Edge: The Colorado Law Way
• Alumni in Focus: Entrepreneurial and Business Law Success Stories
• Protecting Water Rights for Colorado Farmers: Acequia Project Completes Multi-Year Case Assisting Southern Colorado Farmers
• Holding Government Speech Accountable: Professor Norton Publishes Book on Government Speech and the Constitution
• Hitting the Trails To Hit the Books Harder
• A New Home for the Law Journals
• A Champion for Diversity: Honoring Milly Danielson Oppenheimer

Law Professor Comment Letter On Harmonization Of Private Offering Rules, Elisabeth D. De Fontenay, Erik Gerding, John Coffee, Jr., James D. Cox, Stephen F. Diamond, Merritt B. Fox, Michael Guttentag, Colleen Honigsberg, Renee M. Jones, Donald Langevoort, Saule T. Omarova, James Park, Jeff Schwartz, Andrew F. Tuch, Urska Velikonja

Research Data

Comment letter filed on Sept. 24, 2019.

"File No. S7-08-19"

"We are fifteen law professors whose scholarship and teaching focuses on securities regulation. We appreciate the opportunity to comment on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC” or the “Commission”) Concept Release on Harmonization of Securities Offering Exemptions (the “Concept Release”)."

Cost-Nothing Analysis: Environmental Economics In The Age Of Trump, Lisa Heinzerling

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

In Atmosphere We Trust: Atmospheric Trust Litigation And The Environmental Advocate's Toolkit, Jenna Lewis

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Still Melting: How Climate Change And Subsistence Laws Constrain Alaska Native Village Adaptation, E. Barrett Ristroph

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Fluid Standing: Incorporating The Indigenous Rights Of Nature Concept Into Collaborative Management Of The Colorado River Ecosystem, Meredith N. Healey

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Giving Biojet Wings: Policy Instruments For A Carbon Neutral Aviation Sector, Harri Kalimo, Olof Soebech, Leanor Reyes Mateo, Filip Sedefov

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

An Alternative To The Absolute Bar Effect Of Statutes Of Repose, Omeed Azmoudeh

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Amicus (Spring 2019), University Of Colorado Law School

Amicus

Issue at a glance:

• Features Associate Professor Harry Surden's path-breaking work on artificial intelligence and the law
• Spotlights the Maya Land Rights and Development Project, where students and pro bono attorneys work with Belizean indigenous organizations to secure Maya customary land tenure and promote sustainable economic development opportunities for Maya communities
• Highlights the Governmental Entrepreneurial Leadership Accelerator
• Features Colorado Law alumni working in the field of human rights
• Announces the Getches-Wilkinson Center's Fellows Program
• Recognizes milestones and successes of Colorado Law alumni

Not Just Air Pollution: How The Clean Air Act Can Fix Zoning, Transportation, And Afforadable Housing, Nicholas D. Monck

University of Colorado Law Review Forum

The Clean Air Act of 1970 produced a revolution in environmental law. From its unique approach to federalism to its technology forcing provisions, it remains an innovative statute to this day. In light of the growing threat posed by climate change, federal administrators have worked to adapt its text to deal with greenhouse gasses and carbon emissions. Global warming, though, is not the only context in which the Clean Air Act (CAA) can be used in ways not originally intended. Although not meant as an urban planning law, the CAA’s Transportation Control Plans (TCPs) offer an opportunity to promote smarter …

Betting On Blockchain, Cierra White

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Monitoring Migrants In The Digital Age: Using Twitter To Analyze Social Media Surveillance, Susan Miller

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Technology Education To Reduce Recidivism In Colorado's Youth, Joe Gaffney

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Building A Ladder To The Stars: A Competition Policy For The New Space Race, Gabrielle Daley

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

All Of That In One Page: The Application Of The 2015 Ftc Unfair Methods Of Competition Policy Statement To Net Neutrality Disputes, Joshua D. Wright, Jay S. Kaplan

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Born In The Usa: The Gdpr And The Case For Transatlantic Privacy Convergence, Gabe Maldoff, Omer Tene

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Implications Of The Software Defined Networking Revolution For Technology Policy, Nick Feamster

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Closing Keynote Address At The Spectrum Hall Of Shame: The Worst (And Best) Radio Policy Decisions, David J. Redl

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

House Journal: Seventy-Second General Assembly State Of Colorado First Regular Session, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

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