By Jonathon W. Penney. Full Text. With digital surveillance and censorship on the rise, the amount of data available unprecedented, and corporate and governmental actors increasingly employing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology for surveillance and data analytics, concerns about “chilling effects,” that is, the capacity for these activities to “chill” or…

By Paul R. Gugliuzza. Full Text.  Courts frequently defer to the decisions of administrative agencies, particularly when the decision is thoroughly deliberated and within the agency’s realm of technical and legal expertise. Conversely, when an agency gives little thought to a matter or brings no special knowledge to bear, the agency gets little or no…

By Leo E. Strine, Jr., Aneil Kovvali & Oluwatomi O. Williams. Full Text. In view of the decline in gainsharing by corporations with American workers over the last forty years, advocates for American workers have expressed growing interest in allowing workers to elect representatives to corporate boards. Board level representation rights have gained appeal because…

By Cathy Hwang & Matthew Jennejohn. Full Text. Who is the intended audience of a contract? A court, who may be called upon to resolve a dispute, is one audience. Another is commercial communities, who punish breach with reputational sanctions, per the longstanding literature on informal enforcement. This Article shows how modern contracts have more…

By Talia B. Gillis. Full Text. Algorithmic credit pricing threatens to discriminate against protected groups. Traditionally, fair lending law has addressed such threats by scrutinizing inputs. But input scrutiny has become a fallacy in the world of algorithms. Using a rich dataset of mortgages, I simulate algorithmic credit pricing and demonstrate that input scrutiny fails…