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Second Amendment Immigration Exceptionalism, Pratheepan Gulasekaram

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This Essay critiques the decision to uphold federal gun restrictions on unlawfully present noncitizens on the basis of "immigration exceptionalism." It argues that courts should avoid applying bespoke constitutionalism to criminal laws, including gun laws, simply because the law regulates noncitizens. This Essay shows why such exceptional modes misapprehend long-decided Supreme Court cases and well-established legal doctrine. Further, it warns that an exceptional approach to Second Amendment claims by unlawfully present noncitizens cannot be cabined to either firearms or the unlawfully present. Rather, it portends a wider gulf in constitutional protections for all noncitizens across a variety of fundamental criminal …

Chatgpt, Ai Large Language Models, And Law, Harry Surden

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This Essay explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT/GPT-4, detailing the advances and challenges in applying AI to law. It first explains how these AI technologies work at an understandable level. It then examines the significant evolution of LLMs since 2022 and their improved capabilities in understanding and generating complex documents, such as legal texts. Finally, this Essay discusses the limitations of these technologies, offering a balanced view of their potential role in legal work.

Protecting Water, Sustaining Communities: Transforming Groundwater Management Entities Into Sources Of Power During And After Environmental Crises, Sarah Matsumoto

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Contract Customization, Sex, And Islamic Law, Rabea N. Benhalim

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Common law has historically deemed marriage and sex outside the right to contract. Yet, couples increasingly use contracts to provide legal rights to the unmarried in a variety of contexts ranging from same-sex relationships to surrogacy. Islamic law, on the other hand, has always conceived of marriage and sexual relationships as exclusively under the realm of contract law governed by private actors. This Article brings Islamic law into the larger conversation on the use of contracts for sexual and relationship agreements. It further proposes that Islamic law has something to offer Muslims and non-Muslims alike by empowering individuals to use …

Transitioning To Regenerative Agriculture One French Fry At A Time, Alexia Brunet Marks

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Regenerative agriculture—a farming practice that sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into the soil—has potential to turn into big business in this climate crisis. If farmers can accurately measure the amount of trapped carbon in their soil, they can sell that stored carbon as a “carbon credit,” a tradeable certificate representing the right to emit one metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) or the equivalent amount of another greenhouse gas. As more than seventy countries race to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in order to meet Paris Agreement1 goals, carbon credits are becoming the “new currency” to meet or exceed …

The Significance Of The Un Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples, S. James Anaya

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Introduction To The Symposium On Rabiat Akande, "An Imperial History Of Race-Religion In International Law", S. James Anaya, Adrien K. Wing

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Solidifying Students' Right To Gender Expression, Scott Skinner-Thompson

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Climate Risk, Insurance Retreat, And State Response, Mark Nevitt, Michael Pappas

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Climate change is fundamentally destabilizing the private insurance industry, with many high-profile insurance companies exiting states in the face of catastrophic, climate-induced risk. This rapid “insurance retreat” represents a major market signal in response to climate-exacerbated risks. Private businesses are making actuarial decisions, assessing that some locations are just too vulnerable to insure. At the same time, this insurance retreat also poses a policy challenge for states as they react to the mounting insurance gaps left by exiting private insurers.

This Article analyzes insurance retreat, its attendant policy challenges, and the lessons that can be drawn from state responses. It …

Dissenting Opinion?, Richard B. Collins

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Johnson v. M'Intosh is important for its extensive description of the racist Doctrine of Discovery. But its holding had no bearing on legal rights of American Indian nations. The opinion's articulation of tribal rights to land ownership and retained sovereignty were correctly stated.

Defining "Healthy" On Food Labels: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Alexia Brunet Marks

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Few definitions of the mid-twentieth century have survived into the twenty-first century. It is worth asking, then, why the definition of "health," articulated seventy-five years ago by the World Health Organization, has endured into the present. The 1948 definition reads as follows: "[h]ealth is a state of complete physical, mental[,] and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Aspirational in tone, the definition resonates with the surge among consumers towards healthier foods and overall well-being. However, in addition to wartime and pandemic concerns, today's threats to achieving "health" include climate change and a rise in diet-related …

Privacy Without The State?, Scott Skinner-Thompson

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Reflections On The Implied Covenant Of Good Faith And Fair Dealing Under Delaware Law: The Case Of Sandbagging, Mark J. Loewenstein

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Zoom As An In-Person Learning Platform, Sloan G. Speck

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented shift to remote learning spurred many legal educators to reassess their pedagogical norms and practices. These reassessments were enabled, in part, by the widespread adoption and acceptance of videoconferencing software, most notably Zoom, that accelerated from March of 2020. Zoom’s catalytic effect on pedagogy belies the fact that no single aspect of Zoom, by itself, is particularly pathbreaking. What is revolutionary, however, is how Zoom bundles diverse functionalities into a coherent package.

By recasting Zoom as a bundle of classroom functionalities--as an in-person learning platform--this Article presents a novel use case for Zoom in …

Race, Disability, And Section 230, Blake Reid

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Standing For Elections In State Courts, Miriam Seifter, Adam B. Sopko

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Litigation has become a fixture of electoral contests. Litigants today often challenge every step of an election, from the results themselves to picayune aspects of administration. In response to this deluge, some courts have rejected election lawsuits on standing grounds. Such rulings may be unsurprising in federal court, given the tension between the federal standing doctrine's injury requirements and the generalized nature of many election disputes. But most recent election cases take place in state court, where neither Article III nor the premises animating federal standing doctrine apply. State courts need election justiciability theories of their own.

This Article explores …

Ai Malpractice, Bryan H. Choi

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Should AI modelers be held to a professional standard of care? Recent scholarship has argued that those who build AI systems owe special duties to the public to promote values such as safety, fairness, transparency, and accountability. Yet, there is little agreement as to what the content of those duties should be. Nor is there a framework for how conflicting views should be resolved as a matter of law.

This Article builds on prior work applying professional malpractice law to conventional software development work, and extends it to AI work. The malpractice doctrine establishes an alternate standard of care—the customary …

Venture Capital And Financial Stability, Ann Lipton

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Will The Real Shareholder Primacy Please Stand Up?, Ann Lipton

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Every Billionaire Is A Policy Failure, Ann Lipton

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From The Editor, Sydney Weigert

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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Table Of Contents, Colorado Technology Law Journal

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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Fixing Algorithmic Pricing? Competition Concerns And Solutions, Henry Hauser

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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A Portfolio Approach To Trusted Intermediaries For Online Content And Conduct, David Sullivan

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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Rise Of The Knowmebots: Promoting The Two Dimensions Of Al Agency, Richard S. Whitt

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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Govtech Stack - Building And Buying Towards Digital Sovereignty, Smitha Krishna Parsad

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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How To Connect The Unconnected: Broadband Policy In Colorado, Nicole Genevieve Ela

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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"The Internet Is Forever": Evaluating Eraser Laws As A Viable Legislative Solution To The Sharenting Epidemic, Madeline Sands Finlayson

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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Review Of Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, And The Imperial Boomerang In Britain And The Us, Jonathon J. Booth

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Abortions, Location Data, And The Fourth Amendment: Geofence Warrants In A Post-Roe World, Marlaina Pinto

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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