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Full-Text Articles in Law
Innovative Regulatory And Financial Parameters For Advancing Carbon Capture And Storage Technologies, Zen Makuch, Slavina Georgieva & Behdeen Oraee-Mirzamani
Innovative Regulatory And Financial Parameters For Advancing Carbon Capture And Storage Technologies, Zen Makuch, Slavina Georgieva & Behdeen Oraee-Mirzamani
Fordham Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Lessons From Renewable Energy Diffusion For Carbon Dioxide Removal Development, Anthony E. Chavez
Lessons From Renewable Energy Diffusion For Carbon Dioxide Removal Development, Anthony E. Chavez
Fordham Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Regaining Control Over The Climate Change Narrative: How To Stop Right-Wing Populism From Eroding Rule Of Law In The Climate Struggle In India, Binit Agrawal
Fordham Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Textiles As A Source Of Microfiber Pollution And Potential Solutions, Lea M. Elston
Textiles As A Source Of Microfiber Pollution And Potential Solutions, Lea M. Elston
Fordham Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Utilizing Tort Law To Deter Misconduct In The Public Sector, Boaz Segal
Utilizing Tort Law To Deter Misconduct In The Public Sector, Boaz Segal
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Symposium: Consumer Welfare Market Structure And Political Power, Edward J. Janger
Symposium: Consumer Welfare Market Structure And Political Power, Edward J. Janger
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
Two competing visions dominate the fields of antitrust and consumer protection: neo-liberal and progressive. The neo-classical approach is associated with Robert Bork and the Law and Economics Movement. The progressive strand is older, identified with Brandeis and early 20th Century social reform. As a matter of chronology the Brandeisian view dominated into the 1970s, but from 1980, until recently, the Borkian law and economics approach has been in ascendancy in Congress, the academy, and in the courts. Technological change and events in the broader economy have caused the politics and the academic focus to shift. The financial crisis of 2008-09 …
Cyber-Insecurity: The Reasonableness Standard In Internet Of Things Device Regulation And Why Technical Standards Are Better Equipped To Combat Cybercrime, Chynna Rose Foucek
Cyber-Insecurity: The Reasonableness Standard In Internet Of Things Device Regulation And Why Technical Standards Are Better Equipped To Combat Cybercrime, Chynna Rose Foucek
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
While the Internet of Things (IoT) has created an interconnected world via phones, laptops, and even household devices, it is not infallible. As cyber-attacks increase in frequency, affecting companies of all sizes and industries, IoT device manufacturers have become particularly vulnerable, due in large part to the fact that many companies fail to implement adequate cybersecurity protocols. Mass data breaches occur often. However, these companies are not held accountable due to the use of the reasonableness standard in existing cybersecurity legislation, which is flexible and malleable. In 2019, the California Legislature enacted a cybersecurity law specific to IoT device manufacturers. …
Warranty, Product Liability And Transaction Structure: The Problem Of Amazon, Edward J. Janger, Aaron D. Twerski
Warranty, Product Liability And Transaction Structure: The Problem Of Amazon, Edward J. Janger, Aaron D. Twerski
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
Amazon, and other internet sales platforms, have revolutionized the manner in which goods are purchased and sold. The obligations undertaken by Amazon in those sales are unclear, both as a matter of transparency, and as a matter of legal doctrine. Is Amazon a store? Is it a shipper? Is it a telephone? In various transactions Amazon can play some or all of these roles. Choosing the right metaphor has consequences. Amazon knows this and has done everything it can to deploy the metaphors selectively to its best legal and practical advantage, even when the chosen characterizations are inapt or even …
A History Of Consumer Class Actions In State Courts, Anne Fleming
A History Of Consumer Class Actions In State Courts, Anne Fleming
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
Most historians date the “modern” class action to the 1966 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Yet, the class action or “representative suit” has a longer, unexplored history in the state courts. In the late 1930s and 1940s, a group of scrappy, first-generation lawyers tried to build their businesses by aggregating the small-sum claims of many consumers. The defendants in these cases were, for example, lenders who failed to comply with the technicalities of state disclosure mandates, and utility companies that charged consumers extra fees. Each consumer’s claim was small, but, as a group, the claims could yield …
The Revolution Of The Commercial Space Industry: Why Current Laws Must Be Replaced Before American Business Expands To The Moon And Beyond, Drew M. Fryhoff
The Revolution Of The Commercial Space Industry: Why Current Laws Must Be Replaced Before American Business Expands To The Moon And Beyond, Drew M. Fryhoff
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
Space, the final frontier. Resting at the rim of the Earth, an endless void full of opportunity awaits those who are willing to take a leap of faith. Historically, only national space programs have been capable of orchestrating expeditions to outer space. However, American aerospace companies now rival governmental entities in their abilities to operate beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. State-of-the-art developments in aerospace technology have positioned the American commercial space sector to become more productive than national space programs in the years to come. Unfortunately, the potential of the American commercial space sector is severely hindered under the Treaty on …
Close, But No Cigar: Issues With Louisiana Revised Statutes § 9:2800.27 And The Collateral Source Rule, Andrew G. Jarreau
Close, But No Cigar: Issues With Louisiana Revised Statutes § 9:2800.27 And The Collateral Source Rule, Andrew G. Jarreau
Louisiana Law Review
The article discusses issues on the collateral source rule in Louisiana, the ruling by the state Supreme Court in the case Bozeman v. State, and why the state's Revised Statutes  9:2800.27 contradicts the policy behind tort recovery.
Dodging Public Nuisance, Albert C. Lin
Dodging Public Nuisance, Albert C. Lin
UC Irvine Law Review
Public nuisance claims against fossil fuel companies, drug companies, lead paint manufacturers, and other industries have raised the specter of onerous abatement orders and damage awards. While courts sometimes have rejected these industry-oriented public nuisance claims on their substantive merits, in climate change cases federal district courts have turned to doctrines of avoidance—including jurisdictional defenses and justiciability doctrines—to dismiss cases and avoid reaching the substantive merits. This dodging of public nuisance, often supported by questionable legal analysis, not only undermines the functions of tort law, but also cuts short important discussions between the judiciary, the political branches, and the broader …
Torts, Jarome E. Gautreaux
Torts, Jarome E. Gautreaux
Mercer Law Review
This Article addresses recent cases decided during the survey period in the area of torts. This survey period is especially remarkable for a couple of cases decided by the Georgia Supreme Court that overruled prior precedents.
History Uprooted: Georgia Applies Apportionment To Strict Liability Claims, Carey Sartain
History Uprooted: Georgia Applies Apportionment To Strict Liability Claims, Carey Sartain
Mercer Law Review
Adrienne Johns had experience riding motorcycles for over 20 years when in 2013, total failure of the front brake on his 2006 Suzuki GSX-R1000 caused him to hit a curb, throwing him from his bike and knocking him unconscious. The accident resulted in Johns being hospitalized for over two months following spinal fusion surgery and surgery to repair his hand. Subsequent to the accident, he discovered that there had been a recall notice from Suzuki related to his bike model’s front brake. At trial, Johns proved that a design defect in the front brake had ultimately caused the brake to …
Illuminating False Light: Assessing The Case For The False Light Tort In Canada, Fraser Duncan
Illuminating False Light: Assessing The Case For The False Light Tort In Canada, Fraser Duncan
Dalhousie Law Journal
The false light tort has been the most contentious of the four privacy torts recognized in many US states, receiving criticism for its uncertain connection to privacy interests, its overlap with defamation and its chilling effect on free speech. While the tort has not previously received much judicial or scholarly attention in Canada, the recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Yenovkian v Gulian recognized false light as a cause of action in the province. This article cautions other Canadian common law courts against following suit through an analysis of the nature, history, and criticisms of the …
Civil Liability For Encouraging Bad Behavior: From Cheering At A Gang Rape To Promoting Opioid Abuse, James A. Henderson Jr.
Civil Liability For Encouraging Bad Behavior: From Cheering At A Gang Rape To Promoting Opioid Abuse, James A. Henderson Jr.
Florida Law Review
This Article examines the civil liability of actors who encourage others to behave badly, thereby causing harm. The analysis distinguishes between individual encouragers and business-entity encouragers. Individuals most often intend for the bad behaviors and the consequential harms to occur—witness cheerleaders at a gang rape. This Article advocates stern treatment of such mean-spirited malcontents. On the one hand, if their encouragement is a but-for condition of the others’ harm causing bad behavior, they should be subject to liability based on traditional intentional tort. On the other hand, if their encouragement is not a but-for condition, this essay proposes an exception …
Fraud Is Now Legal In Texas (For Some People), Val D. Ricks
Fraud Is Now Legal In Texas (For Some People), Val D. Ricks
Texas A&M Law Review
Three intermediate appellate courts in Texas have held that corporate actors— directors, officers, managers, shareholders, and probably common employees and agents—are immune from personal liability for fraud that they themselves commit as long as their deceit relates to or arises from a contractual obligation of the corporation. Similar actors in limited liability companies also enjoy immunity. These courts do not require that the business entities themselves be liable for the fraud. When the entities are not liable, these new holdings leave fraud victims no remedy at all, even if a jury would find fraud. One (or maybe two) Texas appellate …
Enough Is As Good As A Feast, Noah C. Chauvin
Enough Is As Good As A Feast, Noah C. Chauvin
Seattle University Law Review
Ipse Dixit, the podcast on legal scholarship, provides a valuable service to the legal community and particularly to the legal academy. The podcast’s hosts skillfully interview guests about their legal and law-related scholarship, helping those guests communicate their ideas clearly and concisely. In this review essay, I argue that Ipse Dixit has made a major contribution to legal scholarship by demonstrating in its interview episodes that law review articles are neither the only nor the best way of communicating scholarly ideas. This contribution should be considered “scholarship,” because one of the primary goals of scholarship is to communicate new ideas.
Where We’Re Going, We Don’T Need Drivers: Autonomous Vehicles And Ai-Chaperone Liability, Peter Y. Kim
Where We’Re Going, We Don’T Need Drivers: Autonomous Vehicles And Ai-Chaperone Liability, Peter Y. Kim
Catholic University Law Review
The future of mainstream autonomous vehicles is approaching in the rearview mirror. Yet, the current legal regime for tort liability leaves an open question on how tortious Artificial Intelligence (AI) devices and systems that are capable of machine learning will be held accountable. To understand the potential answer, one may simply go back in time and see how this question would be answered under traditional torts. This Comment tests whether the incident involving an autonomous vehicle hitting a pedestrian is covered under the traditional torts, argues that they are incapable of solving this novel problem, and ultimately proposes a new …
"The New Weapon Of Choice": Law's Current Inability To Properly Address Deepfake Pornography, Anne Pechenik Gieseke
"The New Weapon Of Choice": Law's Current Inability To Properly Address Deepfake Pornography, Anne Pechenik Gieseke
Vanderbilt Law Review
Deepfake technology uses artificial intelligence to realistically manipulate videos by splicing one person’s face onto another’s. While this technology has innocuous usages, some perpetrators have instead used it to create deepfake pornography. These creators use images ripped from social media sites to construct—or request the generation of—a pornographic video showcasing any woman who has shared images of herself online. And while this technology sounds complex enough to be relegated to Hollywood production studios, it is rapidly becoming free and easy-to-use. The implications of deepfake pornography seep into all facets of victims’ lives. Not only does deepfake pornography shatter these victims’ …
Maximizing The Value Of America’S Newest Resource, Low- Altitude Airspace: An Economic Analysis Of Aerial Trespass And Drones, Tyler Watson
Maximizing The Value Of America’S Newest Resource, Low- Altitude Airspace: An Economic Analysis Of Aerial Trespass And Drones, Tyler Watson
Indiana Law Journal
Recognizing that tort law is a unique area of law that was judicially created by rational human beings with an innate sense of economic justice, this Note seeks to apply positive economic theory—derived from ex post analyses of tort cases—to an ex ante analysis to predict how and to what extent the existing and proposed aerial trespass rules will further economic efficiency in the context of drones and airspace rights. Part I will provide (1) an overview of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) current regulatory framework and the development of the common law aerial trespass doctrine and (2) an overview …
Seeking (Some) Climate Justice In State Tort Law, Karen C. Sokol
Seeking (Some) Climate Justice In State Tort Law, Karen C. Sokol
Washington Law Review
Over the last decade, an increasing number of path-breaking cases have been filed throughout the world, seeking to hold fossil fuel industry companies and governments accountable for their actions and inactions that have contributed to the climate crisis. This Article focuses on an important subset of those cases—namely, the recent surge of cases brought by states, cities, and counties all over the United States alleging that the largest fossil fuel industry actors, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron, are liable in state tort law for harms caused by climate change.
The Article begins with a synthesis of the history of …
Patent Accidents: Questioning Strict Liability In Patent Law, Patrick R. Goold
Patent Accidents: Questioning Strict Liability In Patent Law, Patrick R. Goold
Indiana Law Journal
Accidental infringement of patent rights is a pervasive and growing problem in the Information Age. As IP rights proliferate and expand in scope, it is becoming increasingly easy for companies and individuals to inadvertently infringe patents. When such accidental infringement occurs, patent law holds the infringer strictly liable. This contrasts with many areas of tort law where defendants are only liable if they act negligently.
This Article questions the normative desirability of strict liability in patent law. Assuming the primary value of patent law is utilitarian, this Article poses the research question: what liability rule will maximize social welfare? This …
Unbuckling The Seat Belt Defense In Arkansas, Spencer G. Dougherty
Unbuckling The Seat Belt Defense In Arkansas, Spencer G. Dougherty
Arkansas Law Review
The “seat belt defense” has been hotly litigated over the decades in numerous jurisdictions across the United States. It is an affirmative defense that, when allowed, reduces a plaintiff’s recovery for personal injuries resulting from an automobile collision where the defendant can establish that those injuries would have been less severe or avoided entirely had the plaintiff been wearing an available seat belt. This is an unsettled legal issue in Arkansas, despite the growing number of cases in which the seat belt defense is raised as an issue. Most jurisdictions, including Arkansas, initially rejected the defense, but the basis for …
Nuisance Most Fowl: The Problem With Chicago's Permissive Livestock Ordinance And How To Fix It, Shelley Geiszler
Nuisance Most Fowl: The Problem With Chicago's Permissive Livestock Ordinance And How To Fix It, Shelley Geiszler
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Consortium And Workers’ Compensation: The Demolition Of Consortium, Michael Green, David M. Layman
Consortium And Workers’ Compensation: The Demolition Of Consortium, Michael Green, David M. Layman
Louisiana Law Review
The article discusses issues on spousal consortium claims and workers' compensation in the U.S., including the aspects of compensation for accidental injuries and tort claims.
Doj Blows The Whistle On Professional Whistleblowers: But The Circuits Are Split On Whether Dismissals Will Be Swift, Jennifer Harchut
Doj Blows The Whistle On Professional Whistleblowers: But The Circuits Are Split On Whether Dismissals Will Be Swift, Jennifer Harchut
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Respondeat Superior Vicarious Liability For Clergy Sexual Abuse: Four Approaches, Patrick Hornbeck
Respondeat Superior Vicarious Liability For Clergy Sexual Abuse: Four Approaches, Patrick Hornbeck
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
Table of Contents
Forward: State Enforcement In An Interstate World, Margaret H. Lemos
Forward: State Enforcement In An Interstate World, Margaret H. Lemos
BYU Law Review
“State Enforcement in an Interstate World” is an important topic—fully deserving of all the attention it has received. Past commentators on this topic have generally treated the federal government as a unitary entity. Building on prior work on the subject, this Article explores the polycentric nature of federal regulatory authority and shows how cooperation and rivalry have long been dominant realities of the modern administrative state. The Article discusses how these dynamics complicate analysis of state enforcement in an interstate world and identifies strategies for reducing the frequency and magnitude of the seemingly inevitable conflicts.