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Illegal Sex Toy Patents, W. Nicholson Price Ii
Illegal Sex Toy Patents, W. Nicholson Price Ii
Reviews
In Patenting Pleasure, Professors Sarah Rajec and Andrew Gilden highlight a surprising incongruity: while many areas of U.S. law are profoundly hostile to sexuality in general and the technology of sex in particular, the patent system is not. Instead, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has over the decades issued thousands of patents on sex toys—from vibrators to AI, and everything in between. This incongruity is especially odd because patent law has long incorporated a doctrine that specifically tied patentability to the usefulness of the invention, and up until the end of the 20th century one strand of that …
Book Review: Social Media And Democracy: The State Of The Field And Prospects For Reform, Cynthia W. Bassett
Book Review: Social Media And Democracy: The State Of The Field And Prospects For Reform, Cynthia W. Bassett
Faculty Publications
Social Media and Democracy illuminates the empirical social science research done to date to tease apart the effects social media has had on representative democracies. It is a collection of essays by academic social scientists researching the intersection of social media and democracy from a variety of angles.
A Radical, Subaltern Chorus: Saidiya Hartman’S Album Of Rebellious Young Black Women, Linda C. Mcclain
A Radical, Subaltern Chorus: Saidiya Hartman’S Album Of Rebellious Young Black Women, Linda C. Mcclain
Faculty Scholarship
Saidiya Hartman opens her powerful and lyrical Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval with an epigraph from Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen’s Quicksand: “She was, she knew, in a queer indefinite way, a disturbing factor.” As I read Hartman’s brilliant narrative recreation of the voices, words, and intimate lives of “young black women,” at the turn of the twentieth century, as they sought “to create autonomous and beautiful lives, to escape the new forms of servitude awaiting them, and to live as if they were free” (P. xiii), another Harlem Renaissance novel came to mind: Jessie …
Mega-Dams And Indigenous Human Rights, Kate E. Britt
Mega-Dams And Indigenous Human Rights, Kate E. Britt
Law Librarian Scholarship
Mega-Dams and Indigenous Human Rights (“Mega-Dams”) is a 2020 monograph by Itzchak Kornfeld. Kornfeld is a law professor with extensive experience working with governments and non-governmental organizations on the legal and geological aspects of water development, water sustainability, and sustainable development of land. Mega-Dams reflects this expertise, as well as the author's express opinions.
A Grammar Of Legal Thought, Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson
A Grammar Of Legal Thought, Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson
Publications
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Book Review, Aamir S. Abdullah
Lawyers, Mistakes, And Moral Growth (Reviewing Mike H. Bassett, The Man In The Ditch: A Redemption Story For Today), Vincent R. Johnson
Lawyers, Mistakes, And Moral Growth (Reviewing Mike H. Bassett, The Man In The Ditch: A Redemption Story For Today), Vincent R. Johnson
Faculty Articles
In the literature of legal ethics, relatively little is said about the psychic turmoil that lawyers face while anticipating or defending a grievance, malpractice claim, or criminal charge. Even less is said about how lawyers who are found guilty of violating professional standards should go about rebuilding their reputations and personal lives after such proceedings have run their course, often with embarrassing results having been made public. Against this bleak backdrop, a dazzlingly introspective and hopeful book about lawyers and their mistakes-and about their suffering and possible moral growth-has been published.