Essay: The SAFE, the KISS, and the Note: A Survey of Startup Seed Financing Contracts
By John F. Coyle & Joseph M. Green Available here. Excerpt: “This Essay aspires to bring light to the darkness. Drawing upon original lawyer survey data collected in the spring and summer of 2018, it offers a snapshot of the current landscape for startup seed financing contracts. This snapshot will be of interest to legal scholars…
Continue ReadingArticle: Aesthetic Play and Bad Intent
By Andrew Jensen Kerr Available here. Abstract: “Threatening words or images are assumed by American courts to be non-art. But this threshold question of art status is complicated by the evolution of rap and performance art. There is no articulable way to discern art from non-art for these nontextual media, a problem compounded in the…
Continue ReadingEssay: Preventing Sexual Harassment and Misconduct in Higher Education: How Lawyers Should Assist Universities in Fortifying Ethical Infrastructure
By Susan S. Fortney Available here. Excerpt: “In order to change the culture and climate in higher education and to improve policies and procedures, university administrators should use the analytical framework of ethical infrastructure to evaluate the organization’s formal and informal systems, as well as the climate that supports those systems. Using such a framework,…
Continue ReadingEssay: Les Bleus and Black: A Football Elegy to French Colorblindness
By Khaled A. Beydoun. Available here Excerpt: “The turbulent ballad that is French Football reveals that colorblindness—for French footballers of color and the millions living in France that share their race, ethnicity or religion—is contingent upon excellence. This myth is fleeting, and demystified by racial realities on the ground, including the emergent white supremacist populism rising…
Continue ReadingEssay: The Other Trade War
By Kathleen Claussen. Available here. Excerpt: “The trade war is on: beginning in the first half of 2018, the United States has employed half-century-old domestic law to impose tariffs on select products affecting U.S. industries, and other countries have struck back with tariffs of their own on U.S. products coming from battleground U.S. states. It is…
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