Briefly 5.5 – Protests, a Pandemic, and the Right to Assemble
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the “right of the people peaceably to assemble.” Host Kyra Cooper speaks with Professor John Inazu (WashU School of Law) about the right to...
View ArticleBriefly 5.6 – When Are Vaccine Mandates Constitutional?
Host Reagan Kapp and Professor Nathan Chapman (U. of Georgia School of Law) discuss the interplay between the First Amendment's freedom of religion and state and federal vaccine mandates.
View ArticleThe Ancient Alien: Good Faith as the Facilitator of Personalized Law
Catalina Goanta argues that personalized law is the modern application of the centuries-old, open-ended norm of good faith.
View ArticlePersonalized Law: Different Rules for Different People
Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat examine the challenges and opportunities of a new legal paradigm—one where rules vary person by person—in light of their recent book, Personalized Law.
View ArticleAn 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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