The Smooth Value of Lumpy Goods by Matthew D. Adler
Lumpiness and the Standard Picture Economists often employ a convenient set of assumptions regarding the goods that individuals care about and the form of individuals’ preferences for these goods. For...
View ArticleSlicing Defamation by Contract by Yonathan Arbel
Slices and Lumps is a recipe book for thinking. Using a deceptively simple analytical framework, the book showcases the power of conceptualizing the world through the prism of “slices” and “lumps.” As...
View ArticlePaying with Lumps by Brian Galle
Introduction Slices and Lumps, the remarkable new book by Professor Lee Fennell, begins from the title itself to tell a story about the instability of how the world is organized. Lumps can be natural...
View ArticleGo Configure by Lee Anne Fennell
In Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life, I argue that the future depends on configuration. Putting together resources and cooperation in the right combinations is essential to...
View ArticleCorporate Behavior and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by Nicholas H. Cohen and...
While other studies have considered the TCJA’s effect on specific corporate attributes, this Essay is the first to assess the TCJA’s effect on a range of corporate behaviors by using recently filed,...
View ArticleClarifying and Reframing the “Ministerial Exception” by Tyler B. Lindley
The First Amendment’s Religion Clauses requires an exemption to certain anti-discrimination laws, like the ADA, for certain employees of religious employers. But lower courts disagree about which...
View Article3.14 – The SEC Whistleblower Program
This is Briefly, a production of the University of Chicago Law Review. Today we’re discussing the SEC whistleblower program. Here to help us understand this topic is Jordan Thomas, who was one of the...
View ArticleReexamining the Government’s Interest in Border Searches of Digital Devices...
The Fourth Amendment requires that searches be reasonable. Courts effectuate this requirement through a balancing analysis, weighing a search’s harm to privacy against the governmental interest it...
View ArticleThe Worrisome Ghost of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Second Section by Eden...
Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment could provide a powerful protection to voting rights. But its risks outweigh its rewards.
View ArticleShareholder-Driven Stakeholderism by Cathy Hwang & Yaron Nili
It turns out that shareholders, not management, have been the driving force behind the environmental, social, and governance principles that many associate with stakeholder governance.
View ArticleThe Federal Government Probably Can’t Order Statewide Quarantines by Maryam...
President Trump has floated the possibility of issuing a quarantine order for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. But is this even legal?
View ArticleBriefly 3.15 – Suing State Sponsors of Terrorism
This is Briefly, a production of the University of Chicago Law Review. Today we’re discussing suing state sponsors of terrorism with Stuart Newberger, a partner at Crowell Moring. This is the last...
View ArticleLegislative Hurdles and Unintended Consequences: Potential Pitfalls of Vice...
Vice President Biden is considering elevating some White House offices to the Cabinet. But this change comes with complications.
View ArticleBriefly 4.1 – COVID in the Courts
To kick off our fourth season, we dig deep into COVID-19's effect on the courts. Guests: Chief Judge Diane Wood and Judge Michael Scudder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
View ArticleBriefly 4.2 – COVID in the Markets
Matt Levine of Money Stuff fame joins Briefly to discuss insider trading, stock buybacks, the Fed's extraordinary market interventions, and how everything is securities fraud.
View ArticleDeadly Discretion: The Failure of Police Use of Force Policies to Meet...
The University of Chicago Law School's International Human Rights Clinic unveils a groundbreaking study on police use of force.
View ArticlePandemic Elections
Miriam George and the University of Chicago Law Review Online present this series on protecting democratic elections and voting rights during pandemic times.
View ArticleBriefly 4.3 – The Future of Affirmative Action
Amid a national conversation about race, affirmative action in universities has become a key issue of contention, with California set to revisit its affirmative action ban this November. Host Taiyee...
View ArticleBriefly 4.4 – Of Consent and Butt-Dials
Do you enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy for pocket dials? The answer might surprise you. Host Deb Malamud chats with several privacy law experts to explore this complex legal question and its...
View ArticleSeila Law and the Roberts Court
Deborah Malamud presents a timely series on the Roberts Court, judicial interpretation, and the future of the administrative state.
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