Law's Remarkable Failure to Protect Mistakenly Overpaid Employees
By Jim Hawkins. Full text here. Employers frequently make mistakes and overpay their employees. For instance, the federal government alone, which makes up only around 2% of the U.S. workforce, will likely overpay its employees by $2 billion this year. After discovering the error, employers often recoup the mistaken overpayments without the supervision of the courts…
Continue ReadingA Corporate Right to Privacy
By Elizabeth Pollman. Full text here. The debate over the scope of constitutional protections for corporations has exploded with commentary on recent or pending Supreme Court cases, but scholars have left unexplored some of the hardest questions for the future, and the ones that offer the greatest potential for better understanding the nature of corporate rights.…
Continue ReadingA Conversation Between Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Professor Robert A. Stein
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Continue ReadingTruthiness: Corporate Public Figures and the Problem of Harmful Truths
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…
Continue ReadingHow Many Wrongs Make a Copyright?
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…
Continue ReadingNote: Maneuvering the Headwinds Facing Offshore Wind Development in the Great Lakes: Amending the Coastal Zone Management Act
By Sarah Schenck. Full text here. The first United States offshore wind turbine was launched in 2013 off of the coast of Maine. Offshore wind development in the Great Lakes, however, will differ in key ways from development in non-Great Lakes coastal waters. Planning for development in the Great Lakes now would allow government agencies…
Continue ReadingNote: Legislating Corporate Social Responsibility: Expanding Social Disclosure Through the Resource Extraction Disclosure Rule
By Thea Reilkoff. Full text here. The United States has led a growing international effort to increase corporate transparency in the commercial development of natural resources. In 2010, Congress enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 1504 of this Act requires resource extraction companies to publically disclose, through the Securities and Exchange…
Continue ReadingNote: Confronting Victims: Why the Statements of Young Victims of Heinous Crimes Must Still Be Subject to Cross-Examination
By Joseph Meyer. Full text here. The case of Crawford v. Washington has turned upside down the traditional Confrontation Clause jurisprudence under Ohio v. Roberts. Now, prosecutors must produce for cross-examination the declarants of all testimonial hearsay that is admitted unless (1) the declarant is shown to be unavailable and (2) there has been a previous…
Continue ReadingNote: HIPAA-Cratic or HIPAA-Critical: U.S. Privacy Protections Should Be Guaranteed By Covered Entities Working Abroad
By Grace Fleming. Full text here. Clinical research has increasingly moved outside of U.S. borders sparking debate over the legal and ethical requirements for clinical researchers and research sponsors conducting studies overseas. Parallel to overseas research expansion, privacy and privacy rights in healthcare are being recognized as fundamental rights. The strength of privacy protections is being…
Continue ReadingCrowdsourcing Public Health Experiments: A Response to Jonathan Darrow's Crowdsourcing Clinical Trials
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…
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