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Can Section 11 Be Saved?: "Tracing" A Path To Its Survival, John C. Coffee Jr., Joshua Mitts

Faculty Scholarship

Last term, a unanimous Supreme Court held in Slack Techs. v Pirani that purchasers of securities must “trace” their shares to the registration statement that contains the alleged misstatement or omission in order to be able to assert a claim under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933. Lawyers and law firms on both sides of the case agreed (with differing emotions) that the decision eclipsed Section 11, which had been the federal securities laws’ strongest litigation remedy for investors. We disagree with this conclusion that Section 11 is doomed, but we recognize the danger. Both in an amicus …

"Price Discrimination" Discrimination, Talia B. Gillis

Faculty Scholarship

Credit price personalization, where lenders set prices based on individual borrower and loan characteristics, is a common practice across many loan types, with conventional accounts of its harms focusing on the ways in which risk-based pricing, or setting prices based on borrowers’ credit risk, can lead to disparities for protected groups like racial minorities and women. This Article examines an often-overlooked yet potentially harmful form of price personalization — charging borrowers different rates based on their willingness-to-pay, known as price discrimination — and argues that this practice can exploit vulnerable borrowers, including protected groups like racial minorities and women, by …

Law And Historical Materialism, Jeremy K. Kessler

Faculty Scholarship

Since the financial crisis of 2008, left-leaning legal thought has experienced a renaissance within the American academy. From law and political economy to critical race theory to feminist legal studies to Marxist legal theory, new perspectives have flourished, and marginalized traditions have been revived and revised. These new perspectives and revisionist projects all share an intellectual debt to the critical legal studies (“CLS”) movement of the late 1970s and 1980s. That movement’s critique was focused on functional accounts of law: accounts that understood legal change as primarily responsive to the demands of extralegal social and economic forces. Some of those …

The End Of The U.S.-Backed International Order And The Future Of International Law, Monica Hakimi, Jacob Katz Cogan

Faculty Scholarship

The international order that the United States has for decades led and maintained is undergoing dramatic change. In this Essay, we explain that international law during this period was constituted with, and dependent on, U.S. power; that the two became (in odd-couple fashion) entwined together; and that, as the international order changes, the international legal system, its content and its architecture, will also inevitably change.

Time For States To Flex Their Legal Muscles, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

In these dark several years ahead, with all three branches of the federal government moving backwards on environmental protection, the states can do much to stem the retreat.

Understanding Processes That Produce Racial Disparities In California Death Sentences: A Review Of The Literature, Catherine M. Grosso, Michael Laurence, Jeffrey A. Fagan

Faculty Scholarship

A robust and extensive body of empirical research, and a rich historical record, documents a recurring and pervasive influence of race in the application of California’s death penalty. This article reviews the legal and social science research to document multiple paths through which institutions and processes produce these racial disparities over many decisions in many cases across four decades. The article reviews relevant literature by decision, institution, or actor and presents key findings. This includes documenting the history of the broad statutory design of the California capital punishment statue. The review also considers research on policing, including the influence of …

Humanist Copyright, Jane C. Ginsburg

Faculty Scholarship

This exploration of the role of authorship in copyright law proceeds in three parts: historical, doctrinal, and predictive. First, I will review the development of author-focused property rights in the pre-copyright regimes of printing privileges and in early Anglo-American copyright law through the 1909 U.S. Copyright Act. Second, I will analyze the extent to which the present U.S. copyright law does (and does not) honor human authorship. Finally, I will consider the potential responses of copyright law to the claims of proprietary rights in AI-generated outputs. I will explain why the humanist orientation of U.S. copyright law validates the position …

Disqualification, Immunity, And The Presidency, Gillian E. Metzger

Faculty Scholarship

Trump v. Anderson and Trump v. United States were two momentous decisions in a momentous Supreme Court term. Sharing then former — and now current — President Trump as a party, the decisions hold important implications for presidential power and accountability.

Anderson arose from a suit brought by Colorado voters to challenge Trump’s inclusion on the Republican primary ballot in that state. They argued that Trump organized and incited the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and disrupted the Electoral College vote count and certification. In their view, this disqualified him from serving as President under section …

Sex & Startups, Jens Frankenreiter, Talia B. Gillis, Eric L. Talley

Faculty Scholarship

Private law offers a unique solution to the problem of long-term fiscal commitment. When Congress enacts a spending program that will take many years to reach fruition, there is a risk of a subsequent Congress or President cutting off funding in the interim. There is no escape from the problem within appropriations law itself. One solution, however, is to entrust private sector allies as vessels of long-term commitment. As a matter of political economy, that solution draws on policy-feedback theory. As a matter of law, the solution rests on a mechanism that Congress already uses but has not recognized its …

Analyzing Stability Of Estimates At Completion For Long Duration Development Efforts, Bradley Vuu, Jonathan D. Ritschel, Brandon M. Lucas, Edward D. White

Faculty Publications

Defense program managers utilize Earned Value Management (EVM) methodologies to measure, report, and predict the cost and schedule performance of their programs. Previous research conducted by Christensen (1996) and Kim et al. (2019) has shown varied results in the stability of EVM Estimates at Completion (EACs). Stability is defined as a 10% or less deviation from the final EAC at a specified percent completion point of the program. The Christensen (1996) and Kim et al. (2019) studies also noted that program-specific factors, such as phase, can impact the accuracy of EVM metrics. This study builds upon those works by assessing …

Distribution Comparisons Of Eac Cost Growth For Aircraft Work Breakdown Structure Elements, Kyle P. Marquis, Edward D. White, Brandon M. Lucas, Robert D. Fass, Jonathan D. Ritschel, Shawn M. Valentine

Faculty Publications

This article analyzes and investigates the distribution of cost growth of the Estimate at Completion (EAC) for the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements of approximately 60 historical United States Acquisition Category I Research, Development, Test and Evaluation aircraft programs. Using the method of maximum likelihood in conjunction with the Akaike Information Criterion, the authors suggest that both the lognormal and Weibull distributions provide relatively good fit to EAC cost growth, with the lognormal slightly edging out the Weibull. As a summarized finding, the authors present their empirical results for the mean, coefficient of variation (CV), the 15th and 85th percentiles …

The Role Of Affordable Housing In Enhancing Tenants' Economic Stability In Connecticut: A Focus On Income, Employment, And Housing Stability, Osaid Zubi

Dissertations

This study examined the role of affordable housing in promoting economic stability among low- and moderate-income households in Connecticut. Focusing on income security, employment opportunities, and housing retention, this research highlighted the significance of affordable housing as a means to alleviate financial strain, support job retention, and foster community resilience. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, the study gathered insights from tenants, policymakers, and developers through conducting interviews and a focus group. Connecticut was chosen as the study site due to its high cost of living and affordable housing shortage, exacerbated by its proximity to New York City. Findings underscore the economic …

Study Of Laws And Regulations Related To The Management Of Florfenicol Detection Cases In Swine, Shinnawat Saengungsumalee

The Thai Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Background: Florfenicol, an antibiotic permitted in veterinary medicine, currently lacks an established maximum residue limit (MRL) in meat products in Thailand, effectively mandating undetectable residue levels. In May 2024, Thailand Pesticide Alert Network reported florfenicol residues in swine, raising concerns about consumer safety, rational veterinary drug use, and the potential for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Addressing these issues involves multiple laws, decrees, and regulations across various agencies. Objectives: To analyze laws and regulations managing florfenicol residue detection in swine. Materials and Methods: This documentary research examines relevant laws, regulations, and measures for florfenicol in livestock and compares Thailand’s regulations with those …

Do You Know Where Your Trademark Is? How The Fourth Circuit’S Interpretation Of The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act Correctly Protects Trademark Owners Online, Alexa Blandeburgo

St. John's Law Review

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This Note argues that the Fourth Circuit correctly held that “registration” encompasses both the initial and subsequent registration of a domain name under the ACPA. The Ninth Circuit’s narrow interpretation oversimplified the complexity of domain name ownership and thereby created a narrow loophole for cybersquatters to evade liability. Part I of this Note provides an overview of cybersquatting and the statutory framework that practitioners used prior to the enactment of the ACPA. Part II of this Note compares the ACPA and the UDRP and why a trademark owner would choose one avenue for relief as opposed to the other. …

Lie-Ability: A Technical Analysis Of The Application Of Section 230 Immunity To Chatbot Outputs, Abigail Drummond

St. John's Law Review

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This Note argues that under the material contribution test for determining service provider liability under Section 230(c), software developers are likely covered under the CDA for civil and criminal liability for chatbot and other generative AI outputs. Part I will review the legislative purpose and subsequent case law of Section 230(c) of the CDA. Part I will also discuss the material contribution test, the prevailing standard for determining service provider liability developed by the Ninth Circuit and generally adopted across federal courts. Part II will provide an overview of how chatbots work and present the state of chatbot regulation …

The Missing Caselaw Of Reverse-Payment Settlements, Michael A. Carrier, Edward Bank

St. John's Law Review

In 2013, the Supreme Court issued one of the most important antitrust rulings in the past generation. In FTC v. Actavis, the Court held that agreements by which brand drug firms pay generics to delay entering the market could violate antitrust law.

Some have criticized the Court for not providing sufficient guidance on the type of analysis courts should apply to settlements involving “reverse payments” (in which patentees pay infringers to delay entry in contrast to more typical agreements by which alleged infringers pay patentees to enter). For example, in his dissent in Actavis, Chief Justice Roberts wrote: …

Guaranteeing The Press, Jacob M. Schriner-Briggs

St. John's Law Review

A vibrant press is vital to meaningful self-government. Indeed, the indispensability of investigative journalism to democracy raises the stakes of the news industry’s ongoing collapse. Many of the country’s most prominent outlets are shedding jobs as local operations shutter entirely. The downstream effects of this market contraction frustrate the informed exercise of popular sovereignty.

Because journalism is a public good in the economic sense, the state must intervene to provision it. To this end, scholars have generally endorsed one of two legal bases for government action. The first argues that the First Amendment can constitutionalize press-favoring market interventions. The second …

Gender Sidelining In Schools And The Scourge Of Single Sex School Leadership, Kelley King, Jessica Fink

St. John's Law Review

Concerns about unequal gender representation have plagued virtually every workplace in recent decades. In countless professions, even those in which women comprise a majority of the workforce, leadership positions are dominated by men. Often, the inability of women to rise within the professional hierarchy stems not only from overt acts of sex discrimination, but also from more subtle and nuanced bias in the workplace—bias referred to in other research as “gender sidelining.” This sidelining seems particularly paradoxical when it arises in professions in which women already have been funneled due to their gender—including the education sphere. In this way, the …

Benchmarked For Arbitration: Work Avoidance As An Explanation For Why Judges Have Become Increasingly Favorable Toward Compelled Arbitration, Michael Conklin

Pepperdine Law Review

The clear trajectory over the last 100 years has been for judges to become increasingly more favorable toward sending disputes to compelled arbitration and enforcing arbitration awards. This results in a modern widespread proliferation of compelled arbitration that has become increasingly controversial. Some have alleged that the steady trend toward courts favoring compelled arbitration is the result of a corresponding building up of trust among judges in the arbitration process. This Article posits an alternative theory: Namely, judges face immense incentives to clear their dockets, and compelled arbitration is a highly efficient tool to that end. Exploring the historical trajectory …

Arbitration Fees, Expenses And Determination Controls, Muhanned Al-Taani, Tawfiq Al-Majali, Rageh Mosabeh, Yousef Mayah

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

The Jordanian Arbitration Law No. 31 of 2001, along with its amendment No. 16 of 2018, addresses arbitration fees and expenses. Article 41/D (1, 2, 3) outlines how to determine the arbitrators' fees, their distribution, and how to handle situations when one party fails to pay its share, assigning the second party to pay on their behalf. Once the final arbitration decision is issued, the arbitration fees and expenses are determined. Decisions regarding these fees are subject to appeal before the relevant appeals court within fifteen days. However, the law does not comprehensively regulate this matter. Unless a written agreement …

Making Their Mark: Women Judges On The U.S. Courts Of Appeals, Laura P. Moyer, John Szmer, Susan Haire, Robert Christensen

ConLawNOW

Women who reach the bench in the U.S. Courts of Appeals have endured the gauntlet of law school, legal practice, and Senate confirmation to secure their prestigious place in the federal judiciary. How do these exceptional individuals approach their role in shaping judicial policy—and how do their colleagues receive their work? In this paper, we will draw on findings from an original dataset of published decisions from 2009-2016 that suggests that women judges invest more time and effort in crafting majority opinions than their male counterparts, but that this investment has a comparatively lower yield in influencing the development of …

Navigating The Paths To Justice: A Study On The Role Of Social Supports In Responding To Justiciable Events, Andrew Pilliar

Journal of Law and Social Policy

This article reports the results of an in-depth qualitative study of advice-seeking behaviours in a large Canadian city. Nine participants were recruited from neighbourhood houses in the Vancouver area to discuss their experiences in responding to one of two kinds of justiciable event: a personal injury or a government benefits problem. The paper offers a detailed discussion of nuances in how individuals experienced, characterized, and took action in response to their justiciable problem. Notably, many of the research participants spoke about the importance of social supports and the contingent nature of those supports, both in understanding what they had experienced …

The Case For Expanding The Right To An Interpreter Beyond The Courtroom, Ivy Tengge Xu

Journal of Law and Social Policy

For an accused who is not proficient in an official language, interpreter assistance is critical to ensure a basic level of understanding and participation in the criminal process. Section 14 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms constitutionalizes the protection against linguistic prejudice in legal proceedings. The Supreme Court of Canada has given section 14 a generous interpretation in the criminal context, but the availability and quality of courtroom interpretation is often compromised in practice due to a shortage of qualified interpreters and concerns about delays. Outside the courtroom, however, neither the Charter nor any statutory right in Canada …

Upaya Hukum Bagi Pembeli Akibat Penerbitan Sertipikat Pengganti Dalam Pengikatan Jual Beli (Studi Putusan Nomor 646/Pid.B/2023/Pn. Mtr.), Alda Anabela Adelina

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini meneliti tentang penerbitan sertipikat pengganti setelah akta Pengikatan Jual Beli dibuat oleh Notaris. Penerbitan sertipikat pengganti tersebut dilakukan dengan alasan hilang dengan menyerahkan surat keterangan dari kepolisian. Hal tersebut mengakibatkan terdapat 2 (dua) dokumen fisik yakni sertipikat tanah dengan nomor yang sama. Hal tersebut berakibat kerugian terhadap pihak pembeli yang menguasai fisik sertipikat pertama karena dengan penerbitan sertipikat pengganti membatalkan sertipikat terdahulu. Kasus tersebut yang terjadi dalam Putusan Nomor 646/Pid.B/2023/PN.Mtr. Penelitian ini menganalisis kedudukan akta Pengikatan Jual Beli yang kemudian terdapat penerbitan sertipikat pengganti berdasarkan Putusan Nomor 646/Pid.B/2023/PN.Mtr. dan menganalisis upaya hukum yang bisa dilakukan pembeli untuk memperjuangkan …

Keabsahan Perjanjian Perkawinan Yang Dicatatkan Debitor Setelah Dinyatakan Pailit Pasca Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia Nomor 69/Puu-Xiii/2015 (Studi Putusan-Putusan Pengadilan), Nadira Ratunanda Wirjono

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini mengkaji keabsahan perjanjian perkawinan yang dicatatkan debitor setelah dinyatakan pailit berdasarkan analisis dari beberapa putusan-putusan pengadilan. Fokus utama penelitian ini adalah analisis perubahan regulasi pencatatan perjanjian perkawinan pasca berlakunya Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 69 Tahun 2015, serta kekuatan mengikatnya perjanjian perkawinan yang dibuat sebelum debitor dinyatakan pailit namun belum dicatatkan terhadap kreditur yang mengajukan permohonan pailit. Untuk itu, penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan doktrinal, dimana analisis dilakukan terhadap putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 894 K/Pdt.Sus-Pailit/2019, putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 461 K/Pdt.Sus-Pailit/2019, dan putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 562 K/Pdt.Sus-Pailit/2021 dalam bentuk penelitian studi pustaka yang menggunakan data-data sekunder, yakni dari berbagai …

Kedudukan Hukum Anak Bawaan Dalam Perkara Kepemilikan Hak Atas Tanah Dalam Perkawinan Campuran (Studi Putusan Nomor 280/Pdt.G/2021/Pn Btm), Rana Mahirah

Indonesian Notary

Pengurusan harta warisan yang melibatkan anak kandung dan pasangan kedua menimbulkan berbagai macam celah hukum jika tidak dilaksanakan sesuai dengan ketentuan yang berlaku, terutama jika perkawinan kedua tersebut merupakan perkawinan campuran yang harus lebih diperhatikan lagi ketentuan ketentuannya terkait harta dan bendanya yang dapat menimbulkan sengketa di kemudian hari. Penelitian ini membahas tentang kedudukan anak bawaan dalam perkawinan kedua orang tuanya dan peran dan tanggung jawab terhadap notaris dalam melakukan pengurusan harta waris, dengan mengangkat kasus dalam Putusan Nomor 280/Pdt.G/2021/PN Btm. Penelitian ini menerapkan metode penelitian doktrinal dengan tipe penelitian eksplanatoris. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa anak bawaan dari perkawinan sebelumnya …

Keabsahan Surat Pernyataan Talak Pada Poligami Siri Menurut Hukum Perkawinan Islam Dalam Perspektif Al-Ahkam Al-Khams Dan Maqashid Al-Syariah, Aisyah Fildzah Khairunnisa

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini menganalisis keabsahan surat pernyataan talak pada poligami siri berdasarkan Hukum Perkawinan Islam. Fokus pembahasan penelitian ini didapati sebab dalam masyarakat, perkawinan tidak selalu dilaksanakan sesuai dengan hukum yang berlaku, sehingga masalah mengenai perkawinan berkembang cukup luas. Salah satu masalah perkawinan yang pratiknya masih dilakukan dalam masyarakat yaitu perkawinan poligami siri. Berdasarkan SEMA Nomor 3 Tahun 2018, perkawinan poligami siri tidak dapat melakukan mekanisme itsbat nikah, sehingga pemutusan hubungan perkawinan dapat terjadi di luar Pengadilan. Untuk mengkaji apakah pemutusan hubungan perkawinan yang terjadi di luar Pengadilan adalah penyelesaian yang tepat, maka dilakukan kajian dalam perspektif Al-Ahkam Al-Khams dan Maqashid …

Perbuatan Melawan Hukum Dalam Penyelenggaraan Musyawarah Sebagai Dasar Penetapan Ganti Kerugian Pengadaan Tanah Untuk Pembangunan Bendungan Bener (Studi Putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 1382 Pk/Pdt/2022), Eileen Gani Setiawan

Indonesian Notary

Musyawarah antara pemilik tanah dengan pihak yang membutuhkan tanah merupakan suatu kewajiban dalam pelaksanaan pengadaan tanah berdasarkan Pasal 37 UU Pengadaan Tanah. Namun pada putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 1382 PK/Pdt/2022, proses musyawarah untuk pembangunan Bendungan Bener tidak dilakukan sesuai ketentuan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian doktrinal dengan analisis kualitatif. Terdapat 2 (dua) rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini, pertama, kedudukan dan kekuatan hukum hasil musyawarah sebagai dasar penetapan ganti kerugian pada kasus pengadaan tanah dalam putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 1382 PK/Pdt/2022; kedua, tentang pertimbangan majelis hakim terhadap gugatan perbuatan melawan hukum yang dilakukan oleh para warga dalam putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor …

Pengalihan Hak Atas Tagih Piutang Secara Sepihak Yang Menyebabkan Perbuatan Melawan Hukum Berdasarkan Akta Perjanjian Kredit (Studi Putusan Nomor 50/Pdt.G/2020/Pn.Bks), Lidya Dwi Putri

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas Perbuatan Melawan Hukum terkait pengalihan Hak Atas Tagihan Piutang secara sepihak berdasarkan akta perjanjian kredit antara kreditur dan debitur. Untuk mendalami topik ini, penelitian ini merujuk pada Putusan Nomor 50/PDT.G/2020/PN.Bks. Fokus utama penelitian ini adalah akibat hukum dari pengalihan hak atas tagihan piutang yang berhubungan dengan Akta Perjanjian Kredit. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga menganalisis Perbuatan Melawan Hukum dalam konteks pengalihan hak atas tagihan (cessie) secara sepihak berdasarkan Akta tersebut. Teori yang dibahas mencakup Kredit, Hukum Perjanjian, Pengalihan Piutang (Cessie), Wanprestasi, dan Perbuatan Melawan Hukum. Penulis juga mengkaji dasar hukum yang relevan untuk Akta Perjanjian Kredit serta …

Urgensi Pengaturan Sanksi Bagi Notaris Pengganti Terhadap Kesalahan Dalam Pembuatan Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli (Ppjb) (Studi Putusan Majelis Pengawas Wilayah Notaris Provinsi Dki Jakarta Nomor: 13/Pts/Mj.Pwn.Prov.Dkijakarta/V/2024), Regina Triana Kamila

Indonesian Notary

Dalam pelaksanaan tugas dan jabatan notaris pengganti, kemungkinan terdapat kesalahan berupa pelanggaran dalam pembuatan akta sebagaimana yang terdapat dalam Putusan Majelis Pengawas Wilayah (MPW) Notaris Provinsi DKI Jakarta Nomor 13/PTS/Mj.PWN.Prov.DKIJakarta/V/2024 dimana terlapor sebagai notaris pengganti dalam membuat Akta PPJB tidak mematuhi ketentuan UUJN dan menjadikan akta tersebut sebagai dasar penjaminan objek tanah jual beli didalamnya melalui pembuatan SKMHT dalam perpanjangan kredit oleh pembeli di Bank. MPW menyatakan terlapor terbukti bersalah melanggar UUJN namun tidak memberikan sanksi apapun karena telah berakhir masa jabatannya. Permasalahan yang diteliti adalah kedudukan hukum Akta PPJB sebagai dasar penjaminan hak atas tanah pada pengajuan kredit di …