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Missing The Role Of Property In The Regulation Of Insider Trading, Kevin R. Douglas

Catholic University Law Review

For decades, legal scholars have evaluated the law and practice of insider trading through a property lens. Some have debated whether a property rationale is useful for explaining past cases or might make a useful framework for deciding tough cases in the future. Others have explored which market actors should be allocated property rights in inside information in order to increase the efficiency or liquidity of U.S. securities markets. Yet scholars seem to have missed the fact that officials have consistently relied on the violation of some party’s property rights to justify imposing liability for insider trading—including in classical theory …

Re-Envisioning Law Student Scholarship, Emily Zimmerman

Catholic University Law Review

This Article recommends that we think more intentionally about how law students’ engagement in scholarship can promote their professional development. In so doing, we should recognize that legal scholarship plays a different role for law students than it does for law professors. Rather than trying to replicate law professors’ relationship with scholarship, the pedagogy of law student scholarship should focus more intentionally on the value of scholarship for law students—most of whom will not become law professors.

This Article suggests that much of the value of scholarship for law students lies in process, rather than product. Rather than thinking …

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 …

Meaning, Biology And Identity: The Rights Of Children, Anika Smith

Catholic University Law Review

Sperm and egg donation in the United States is only loosely regulated, and the current regime privileges the anonymity of the adult donor over the child’s right to identity. The majority of people conceived through anonymous donation do not support the practice but find their rights abrogated by contracts made by their intentional and biological parents. Donor reliance on the anonymity guaranteed by those contracts is shifting as at-home genetic testing limits their expectation of privacy, with more biological ties being discovered by children conceived through gamete donation. This Comment explores the child’s right to identity in family law cases, …

Mmu: 10/19/20–10/25/20, Student Bar Association

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This Week @ NDLS

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Week Of October 19, 2020 - October 23, 2020, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Today at Cardozo 2020

Events occurring this week have been sponsored by:

• Black Asian & Latino Law Students Association (BALLSA) Alumni Group
• Black Law Students Association (BLSA)
• Cardozo Alumni Mentor Program (CAMP)
• Cardozo Business Law Society
• Cardozo Center for Public Service Law
• Cardozo Entertainment Law Society
• Cardozo FAME Center
• Cardozo Fashion Law Society
• Cardozo Federalist Society
• Cardozo Financial Services & Compliance Alumni Group
• Cardozo International Law Society
• Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR)
• Cardozo Minority Law Student Association (MLSA)
• Cardozo National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
• Cardozo Office of Diversity & Inclusion
• Chabad at Cardozo
• Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy
• Heyman Center on …

State Of Utah, Plaintiff /Appellee V. Gino James Cecala, Defendant /Appellant : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from convictions for murder, a first degree felony; discharge of a firearm with serious bodily injury, a first degree felony; obstruction of justice, a second degree felony; possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, a second degree felony; and thirteen counts of felony discharge of a firearm, third degree felonies, in the Third Judicial District, Salt Lake County, the Honorable James T. Blanch presiding

GREGORY W. STEVENS, Counsel for Appellant

JEFFREY D. MANN, SEAN D. REYES, CHOU CHOU COLLINS, BRIAN WILLIAMS, Counsel for Appellee

Copyright, Andrea Wallace

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Copyright is intended to incentivize the production of new creative works and protect authors’ connection to them. In return, the author receives exclusive rights over the creative work and can commercialize or release them for various uses. Once the copyright expires, these works pass into the public domain and can be used by anyone to produce new creative works and knowledge.

GLAMs (Galleries, Archives, Libraries, and Museums) protect, preserve, and extend access to these works (and many other materials) for the appreciation of current and future generations. This is often facilitated today by digitizing collections and making them available online. …

Emotions, My Dear Watson: Dissecting Copyright/Trademark Infringement In Netflix’S Portrayal Of Sherlock Holmes, Dionissia Siozios

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) Blog

On September 23, 2020, Netflix released the “Enola Holmes” movie despite being embroiled in a lawsuit for alleged copyright and trademark infringement brought by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels). “Enola Holmes” is a film based on a book about the life of Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister. The movie stars actress Millie Bobby Brown as Enola, and Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes. In the complaint, the estate argues that although most of the Holmes novels are in the public domain, Doyle only began to give Holmes true human emotion in the last …

Ucla V. Under Armour: Invoking The Force Majeure Clause, Reid Zank

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) Blog

Under Armour was hoping its logo would quietly disappear from the players’ uniforms and the athletic facilities at the University of California, Los Angeles (“UCLA”), after informing UCLA this past June that they were discontinuing their partnership with the school.1 However, UCLA is not taking this lying down. On August 26, 2020, UCLA filed a lawsuit against Under Armour in a California federal court for attempting to end its 15-year, record-setting sponsorship deal valued at $280 million after only 3 years.

This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on October 19, 2020. The …

Golden Passports In The Eu: Is The End Near?, Stjepan Klinar

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review (CICLR) Blog

Immigration has been a much-debated topic across the European Union (“EU”) member states and institutions for a large part of the 2010’s. Debates surrounding immigration to the EU have not subsided entering the new decade, not withstanding the current COVID-19pandemic. In her recent State of the Union speech, Ursula von der Leyen, the newly-appointed EU Commissioner, addressed a controversial, albeit overlooked, facet of the immigration regime of several EU member-states: the issue of so-called “golden passports.” Countries such as Malta, Cyprus, and Bulgaria all run investment-for-passport regimes that have raised concerns, and in some cases, have led to high-profile criminal …

What Constitution Says About Peaceful Transfer Of Power, John M. Greabe

Law Faculty Scholarship

[excerpt] I recently was asked whether the Constitution requires a peaceful transfer of power following an election. Sadly, the questions is not merely theoretical. President Trump has stated that, if he loses the upcoming election, it will be through fraud. And he has made it clear that he will be unrestrained in his response to any efforts to oust him from office through an election he pronounces fraudulent.

The question of whether the Constitution requires a peaceful transfer of power prompts consideration of how we should conceptualize our Constitution. Is the Constitution merely the document that was written in 1787, …

October 18, 2020: Anti-Racism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Anti-Racism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

63rd University Of San Diego School Of Law Commencement Program, 2020, University Of San Diego School Of Law

Commencement Programs

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On The Basis Of Sex: Personal Status Law Reforms And Economic Growth, Kylie Bring

Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how law reform toward gender equity has an impact on economic growth in Arab countries in the Middle East. Personal status law reform granting women economic, social, and personal freedoms is spreading across the region and showing substantial change. Using case studies of major PSL reforms in Tunisia and Morocco, this thesis outlines qualitative and quantitative evidence to support the case that gender equity benefits the economic growth of the given country.

Recent Case Decisions

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Sovereign Lands, Brent D. Chicken, Amanda J. Dick

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Wyoming, John R. Chadd

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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West Virginia, Andrew Graham

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Virginia, Zachary H. Barrett

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Utah, Jim Tartaglia

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Texas, Don Hueske

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Tennessee, Westley A. Ketron

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Pennsylvania, Nathaniel I. Holland, Jon C. Beckman

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Oklahoma, Matt Schlensker, Sandy Fraley

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Ohio, Tim Mckeen, Melissa Grimes

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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North Dakota, William J. Black

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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New York, Nathaniel I. Holland, Benedict J. Kirchner

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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New Mexico, Kacie Bevers, Blake Jones

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Nevada, Diana S. Prulhiere

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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