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Set Up To Fail: Youth Probation Conditions As A Driver Of Incarceration, Jyoti Nanda
Set Up To Fail: Youth Probation Conditions As A Driver Of Incarceration, Jyoti Nanda
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Youth probation is the most common form of punishment for youth in the United States criminal legal system, with nearly a quarter of a million youth currently under supervision. Yet the role youth probation conditions play in the incarceration of youth has not been the focus of legal scholarship. Youth probation is a court-imposed intervention where young people remain at home under the supervision of a youth probation officer and are required to adhere to probation conditions, rules, and court-ordered conditions. The orders rely on standardized terms on youth probation condition forms. This is the first scholarly Article to excavate …
Tax's Digital Labor Dilemma, Amanda Parsons
Tax's Digital Labor Dilemma, Amanda Parsons
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Digitalization has reshaped the relationship between companies and their customers and users. Customers and users increasingly serve a dual role. They are not only consumers but also producers, creating data and content. They are a value-creating workforce, functioning as “digital laborers.”
Digital laborers’ value creation highlights that there are two parts to the question of whether multinational companies are paying their “fair share” of taxes—one of amount and one of location. First, are companies’ total tax bills paid across all countries in line with their global income? Second, is taxing authority over multinational companies’ income being divided amongst countries in …
Fastcase Features: A Quick Guide For Former Casemaker Users, Baylee Suskin
Fastcase Features: A Quick Guide For Former Casemaker Users, Baylee Suskin
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No abstract provided.
The Truman Show: The Fraudulent Origins Of The Former Presidents Act, Paul F. Campos
The Truman Show: The Fraudulent Origins Of The Former Presidents Act, Paul F. Campos
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When President Donald Trump was impeached for a second time, many commenters pointed out that, if Trump were to be convicted by the Senate, he would likely lose millions of dollars in future taxpayer-funded benefits. These benefits are provided to ex-presidents by the Former Presidents Act, a 1958 statute of considerable political significance and ongoing controversy, that nevertheless has to this point been ignored completely by the legal academic literature.
This Article represents the first sustained discussion of the FPA in that literature. It concludes that the statute should be revoked — and it centers its critique on the law’s …
May I Pay More? Lessons From Jarrett For Blockchain Tax Policy, Amanda Parsons
May I Pay More? Lessons From Jarrett For Blockchain Tax Policy, Amanda Parsons
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In this article, Parsons examines Jarrett, t in which the taxpayers argue that blockchain reward tokens should be included in income only upon sale or exchange (a position that would raise their tax bills), and she explores why they sought this treatment and what implications it holds for policymakers trying to develop a tax regime for blockchain activities.
Debunking The Myth That Police Body Cams Are Civil Rights Tool, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Debunking The Myth That Police Body Cams Are Civil Rights Tool, Scott Skinner-Thompson
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Cryptocurrency, Legibility, And Taxation, Amanda Parsons
Cryptocurrency, Legibility, And Taxation, Amanda Parsons
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In Jarrett v. United States, a taxpayer in Tennessee is arguing that staking cryptocurrency did not result in him earning “income” under federal income tax law. This case illustrates the fundamental challenge that cryptocurrency and blockchain technology present for tax law. Wealth creation in the crypto space is not readily legible to the state. This absence of legibility threatens tax law’s reliance on placing economic activities into categories to determine how they should be taxed. Furthermore, this case highlights the harms Congress and Treasury are risking by not taking action on cryptocurrency taxation. The uncertainty and lack of guidance on …
Hunting And Gathering On The Legal Information Savannah, Susan Nevelow Mart, Adam Litzler, David Gunderman
Hunting And Gathering On The Legal Information Savannah, Susan Nevelow Mart, Adam Litzler, David Gunderman
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This article asks, what is it like for novice researchers to research real-world legal problems using four platforms: Bloomberg Law, Fastcase, Lexis Advance, and Westlaw? The study findings produced some surprises, as well as some clear implications for teaching legal research.
The Press’S Responsibilities As A First Amendment Institution, Helen Norton
The Press’S Responsibilities As A First Amendment Institution, Helen Norton
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Criminal “Justice” As Racial Justice?, Aya Gruber
Affirmative Consent, Aya Gruber
Manipulation And The First Amendment, Helen Norton
Frustration, The Mac Clause, And Covid-19, Andrew A. Schwartz
Frustration, The Mac Clause, And Covid-19, Andrew A. Schwartz
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COVID-19's impact on business has been exasperating—but is it Frustrating? The Frustration doctrine of contract law excuses a party from its contractual obligations when an extraordinary event completely undermines the principal purpose of making the deal. This doctrine has long been a marginal player in contract litigation, as parties rarely invoked it—and usually lost when they did.
The COVID-19 pandemic, however, is precisely the type of extraordinary event that Frustration was designed to address, and the courts have been inundated over the past year by a wave of colorable Frustration claims. This timely Article describes the Frustration doctrine and explores …
Identity By Committee, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Identity By Committee, Scott Skinner-Thompson
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Even in school districts with relatively permissive approaches to defining and embodying gender, the identities of transgender and gender variant students are often governed by complex regulatory protocols. Ensuring that a student is able to live their gender at school can involve input from a host of purported stakeholders including medical providers, mental health professionals, school administrators, the student’s parents, and even the broader community. In essence, trans and gender variant students’ identities are governed by committee, which reduces students’ control over their lives, inhibits self-determination, constricts the scope of permissible gender identities, subjects them to incredible degrees of state …
Resistance Is Not Futile: Challenging Aapi Hate, Peter H. Huang
Resistance Is Not Futile: Challenging Aapi Hate, Peter H. Huang
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This Article analyzes how to challenge AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) hate—defined as explicit negative bias in racial beliefs towards AAPIs. In economics, beliefs are subjective probabilities over possible outcomes. Traditional neoclassical economics view beliefs as inputs to making decisions with more accurate beliefs having indirect, instrumental value by improving decision-making. This Article utilizes novel economic theories about belief-based utility, which economically captures the intuitive notion that people can derive pleasure and pain directly from their and other people's beliefs. Even false beliefs can offer comfort and reassurance to people. This Article also draws on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary theories about …
Roundtable Two: Environmental Law Education: New Techniques In The Classroom And Beyond, Lincoln Davies, Karrigan Bork, Sarah Krakoff
Roundtable Two: Environmental Law Education: New Techniques In The Classroom And Beyond, Lincoln Davies, Karrigan Bork, Sarah Krakoff
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Introduction: Privacy Studies, Surveillance Law, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Introduction: Privacy Studies, Surveillance Law, Scott Skinner-Thompson
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This Dialogue section examines perspectives on how privacy law scholarship and surveillance scholarship can be further enriched with more critical reflection and discussion between the disciplines and includes valuable contributions from thought leaders in each field.
Rennard Strickland: Legal Historian And Leader, Charles Wilkinson
Rennard Strickland: Legal Historian And Leader, Charles Wilkinson
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No abstract provided.
7 Everyday Useful Westlaw Tips. Plus, Bonus Trick List!, Aamir S. Abdullah
7 Everyday Useful Westlaw Tips. Plus, Bonus Trick List!, Aamir S. Abdullah
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No abstract provided.
The (Un)Just Use Of Transition Minerals: How Efforts To Achieve A Low-Carbon Economy Continue To Violate Indigenous Rights, Kathleen Finn, Christina A.W. Stanton
The (Un)Just Use Of Transition Minerals: How Efforts To Achieve A Low-Carbon Economy Continue To Violate Indigenous Rights, Kathleen Finn, Christina A.W. Stanton
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Distrust, Negative First Amendment Theory, And The Regulation Of Lies, Helen Norton
Distrust, Negative First Amendment Theory, And The Regulation Of Lies, Helen Norton
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This symposium essay explores the relationship between “negative” First Amendment theory—rooted in distrust of the government’s potential for regulatory abuse—and the government’s regulation of lies. Negative First Amendment theory explains why many lies are protected from governmental regulation—even when the regulation neither punishes nor chills valuable speech (as was the case, for example, of the statute at issue in United States v. Alvarez). But negative theory, like any theory, also needs limiting principles that explain when the government’s regulation is constitutionally justifiable.
In my view, we engage in the principled application of negative theory when we invoke it in (the …
Is It Time For A New Civil Rights Act? Pursuing Procedural Justice In The Federal Civil Court System, Suzette M. Malveaux
Is It Time For A New Civil Rights Act? Pursuing Procedural Justice In The Federal Civil Court System, Suzette M. Malveaux
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The United States has recently been engaged in some of the largest civil rights movements since the 1960s—from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo—and calls for justice for marginalized communities are stronger than ever. Many decry the longstanding violence and systemic discrimination such communities experience, and advocate for stronger substantive civil rights. What has received less attention, however, is the violence done to those rights by the U.S. Supreme Court's obstructionist civil procedural jurisprudence. Over the last half century, the Court has systemically eroded Americans' capacity to enforce such substantive rights in the civil court system. This erosion arcs away from …
Authoring Prior Art, Joseph P. Fishman, Kristelia A. García
Authoring Prior Art, Joseph P. Fishman, Kristelia A. García
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Patent law and copyright law are widely understood to diverge in how they approach prior art, the universe of information that already existed before a particular innovation’s development. For patents, prior art is paramount. An invention can’t be patented unless it is both novel and nonobvious when viewed against the backdrop of all the earlier inventions that paved the way. But for copyrights, prior art is supposed to be virtually irrelevant. Black-letter copyright doctrine doesn’t care if a creative work happens to resemble its predecessors, only that it isn’t actually copied from them. In principle, then, outside of the narrow …
The Case For Data Privacy Rights (Or 'Please, A Little Optimism'), Margot E. Kaminski
The Case For Data Privacy Rights (Or 'Please, A Little Optimism'), Margot E. Kaminski
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Survival Voting And Minority Political Rights, Douglas M. Spencer, Lisa Grow Sun, Brigham Daniels, Chantel Sloan, Natalie Blades
Survival Voting And Minority Political Rights, Douglas M. Spencer, Lisa Grow Sun, Brigham Daniels, Chantel Sloan, Natalie Blades
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The health of American democracy has literally been challenged. The global pandemic has powerfully exposed a long-standing truth: electoral policies that are frequently referred to as "convenience voting" are really a mode of "survival voting" for millions of Americans. As our data show, racial minorities are overrepresented among voters whose health is most vulnerable, and politicians have leveraged these health disparities to subordinate the political voice of racial minorities.
To date, data about racial disparities in health has played a very limited role in assessing voting rights. A new health lens on the racial impacts of voting rules would beneficially …
Anti-Subordination Torts, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Against The Wind: James Boyd White And The Struggle To Keep Law Alive, Todd M. Stafford
Against The Wind: James Boyd White And The Struggle To Keep Law Alive, Todd M. Stafford
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No abstract provided.
Voter Data, Democratic Inequality, And The Risk Of Political Violence, Bertrall L. Ross Ii, Douglas M. Spencer
Voter Data, Democratic Inequality, And The Risk Of Political Violence, Bertrall L. Ross Ii, Douglas M. Spencer
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Campaigns' increasing reliance on data-driven canvassing has coincided with a disquieting trend in American politics: a stark gap in voter turnout between the rich and poor. Turnout among the poor has remained low in modern elections despite legal changes that have dramatically decreased the cost of voting. In this Article, we present evidence that the combined availability of voter history data and modern microtargeting strategies have contributed to the rich-poor turnout gap. That is the case despite the promises of big data to lower the transaction costs of voter outreach, as well as additional reforms that have lowered the barriers …
Pay-To-Playlist: The Commerce Of Music Streaming, Christopher Buccafusco, Kristelia A. García
Pay-To-Playlist: The Commerce Of Music Streaming, Christopher Buccafusco, Kristelia A. García
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Payola—sometimes referred to as “pay-for-play”—is the undisclosed payment, or acceptance of payment, in cash or in kind, for promotion of a song, album, or artist. Some form of pay-for-play has existed in the music industry since the nineteenth century. Most prominently, the term has been used to refer to the practice of musicians and record labels paying radio DJs to play certain songs in order to boost their popularity and sales. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the FCC has regulated this behavior—ostensibly because of its propensity to harm consumers and competition—by requiring that broadcasters disclose such payments.
As …
Realizing Diversity, Sustainability, And Stakeholder Capitalism, Peter H. Huang
Realizing Diversity, Sustainability, And Stakeholder Capitalism, Peter H. Huang
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Stakeholder capitalism conceives of capitalism with companies maximizing their long-term value, while considering in addition to the interests of their shareholders, also the interests of all their other stakeholders. Examples of such additional stakeholders include customers, employees, communities, creditors, competitors, society at large, and our planet. America today does not have stakeholder capitalism. Instead, America presently has shareholder capitalism, in which publicly held corporations only maximize their stock value to shareholders.
This Essay analyzes proposals for the United States Securities Exchange Commission to require that all reporting companies make periodic mandatory Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosures of comparable, standardized, …