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By Ashutosh Bhagwat. Full text here. This paper is an invited response to Deven Desai’s article, Speech, Citizenry, and the Market: A Corporate Public Figure Doctrine. Professor Bhagwat’s response piece was scheduled to be published in Volume 98, Issue 3 of the print journal. Due to an editorial oversight, the piece did not go to print…

By Rebecca Tushnet. Full text here. Derek Bambauer’s provocative paper argues that, because the remedies available to people who suffer unconsented distribution of intimate images of themselves are insufficient, we should amend copyright law to fill the gap. Bambauer’s proposal requires significant changes to every part of copyright—what copyright seeks to encourage, who counts as an…

By Ameet Sarpatwari, Christopher T. Robertson, David V. Yokum & Keith Joiner. Full text here. We are pleased to have this opportunity to respond to Jonathan Darrow’s article, Crowdsourcing Clinical Trials (CCT). We seek to highlight its important contributions and to commence debate over some of its arguments. In particular, we qualify the ethical arguments that…

By Robert Weber. Full text here. This Article presents a theory for how policymakers should use stress testing as a tool of financial regulation. In finance, a stress test is an exercise gauging how an institution or system will respond to severe, yet plausible, stressed conditions such as stock market crashes, high unemployment rates, liquidity shortages,…

By Seth W. Stoughton. Full text here. What do the laws governing municipal annexation, collective bargaining, and race-conscious employment decisions have in common? Each plays a significant and underappreciated role in shaping local law enforcement practices even though each, on its face, has nothing to do with policing. This Article explores the incidental regulation of policing,…

By Monu Bedi. Full text here. “I was just following orders,” and, “The government made me do it,” are phrases from two different criminal law defenses: obedience to orders and entrapment. A military defense, obedience to orders allows a soldier to escape liability by arguing that she was obeying orders when she committed the supposed crime.…

By Derek E. Bambauer. Full text here. The production of intimate media—amateur, sexually explicit photos and videos—by consenting partners creates social value that warrants increased copyright protection. The unauthorized distribution of these media, such as via revenge porn, threatens to chill their output. To date, scholarly attention to this problem has focused overwhelmingly on privacy and…

By Walter F. Mondale, Robert A. Stein, & Monica C. Fahnhorst. Full text here. Professor Robert A. Stein, Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School for fifteen years and former Chief Operating Officer of the American Bar Association, endowed this lecture series to enrich the program of the University of Minnesota Law School by inviting…

By Julius G. Getman. Full text here. In April 2011, the National Labor Relations Board’s Acting General Counsel, Lafe Solomon, issued a complaint against The Boeing Company. The complaint alleged that Boeing violated the National Labor Relations Act by shifting assembly work on its 787 Dreamliner from Everett, Washington, to North Charleston, South Carolina. According to…