An Argument to Permit Greater Disclosure of Grand Jury Legal Instructions
Danielle Tyukody "presents an argument to permit greater disclosure of grand jury legal instructions by lowering the standard defendants must meet for the court to authorize disclosure of the...
View ArticleCan Stealthing Qualify? Navigating Rape Exceptions in States’ Abortion Bans
Erin Yonchak, writing on stealthing and on rape exceptions to state abortion bans, concludes that, first, "[c]urrent rape law does not capture a swath of sexual violence, like stealthing—and rape...
View ArticleReligious Coercion and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
Jason T. Hanselman analyzes Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, concluding that "[s]chool districts, which must assess indirect coercion to make termination decisions, will struggle to decide whether...
View ArticlePrivacy Peg, Trade Hole: Why We (Still) Shouldn’t Put Data Privacy in Trade Law
Responding to Profs. Chander & Schwartz’s Privacy and/or Trade, Profs. Kristina Irion, Margot E. Kaminski & Svetlana Yakovleva argue that "international trade as a regime is fundamentally the...
View ArticleA Sea Change in Class Action Jurisprudence? Olean v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC and...
Katherine Weaver discusses the Ninth Circuit's refusal in Olean v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC "to adopt a per se rule prohibiting class certification when the putative class contains more than a de minimis...
View ArticleAggregating Values: Mutual Funds and the Problem of ESG
Profs. Adriana Z. Robertson and Sarath Sanga argue "that an ESG fund must establish a consistent link among the fund’s stated ESG purpose, its ESG investing strategy, and—crucially—the portfolio-level...
View ArticleRevisiting the Fairness of the Fair Housing Act: Whose Consideration is Enough?
Tahnee Thantrong Monnin analyzes a textual difference between §§ 3604(a) and (f) of the Fair Housing Act and concludes, based on a line of cases extending the Fair Housing Act's protections to...
View ArticleJohn Doe Defendants: Portents of Mystery, but Perhaps Not Diversity Jurisdiction
Tyler Mikulis proposes that courts allow cases with anonymous John Doe defendants "to continue under diversity jurisdiction" but that "plaintiffs ought to be required to make a good faith effort to...
View ArticleCatching Wizard Spider: How a New U.N. Cybercrime Treaty Can Address...
Katherine M. Koza "argues that a new U.N. cybercrime treaty should build on the strengths of the Budapest Convention by including a clearer 'extradite-or-prosecute' requirement for its signatories and...
View ArticleUCLR Online Transitions to a New Website
In Summer 2023, The University of Chicago Law Review Online transitioned to an updated website. Please visit our new page to read the latest Online publications alongside pieces from our recent Print...
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