Printed Media
What Do Bloody Rubber, Pigeons, and Newport Cigs Have in Common? Nike’s Trademark Infringement Claims February, 2023 Printed, Volume 20 - PDF Link - What Do Bloody Rubber, Pigeons, and Newport Cigs Have in Common? Nike's Trademark Infringement Claims {read more...}
The Path to Name, Image, and Likeness Rights for College Athletes and its Potential Effects on Student Athletes, the NCAA, and Athletic Programs February, 2023 Printed, Volume 20 - PDF Link - The Path to Name, Image, and Likeness Rights for College Athletes and its Potential Effects on Student Athletes, the NCAA, and Athletic Programs {read more...}
Whose Interpretation is it Anyway? An Analysis of Current Judicial Interpretation of §230’s Good Faith Clause and a Path Forward February, 2023 Printed, Volume 20 - PDF Link - Whose Interpretation is it Anyway? An Analysis of Current Judicial Interpretation of §230's Good Faith Clause and a Path Forward {read more...}
We Can Work It Out – The False Connection Between Data Protection and Innovation February, 2023 Printed, Volume 20 - PDF Link - We Can Work It Out - The False Connection Between Data Protection and Innovation {read more...}
Fast or Accurate? Governing Conflicting Goals in Highly Autonomous Vehicles February, 2023 Printed, Volume 20 - PDF Link - Fast or Accurate? Governing Conflicting Goals in Highly Autonomous Vehicles {read more...}
Lavender Labor: The Development of Queer Work and Entrepreneurism February, 2023 Printed, Volume 20 - PDF Link - Lavender Labor: The Development of Queer Work and Entrepreneurism {read more...}
Wanted: Spectrum Bounty Hunters June, 2022 Printed, Volume 20 - Wanted: Spectrum Bounty Hunters Wilson Scarbeary[1]† Print Version: Wanted- Spectrum Bounty Hunters Politicians on both sides of the aisle love to promote market solutions to regulatory problems, especially when it comes to telecommunications policy. Despite this preference, bounties, and similar financial incentives—historically, popular market solutions to regulatory problems—have yet to be widely used in wireless policy. In response, this paper considers three hypothetical kinds of bounty programs that could be used to regulate harmful interference or address critical vulnerabilities in wireless systems. A number of… {read more...}
Closing the Cybersecurity Gap In Medical Devices – Proposing a Safe Harbor System June, 2022 Printed, Volume 20 - Closing the Cybersecurity Gap In Medical Devices – Proposing a Safe Harbor System Allee Johnson[1]† Print Version: Safe Harbor for Medical Devices Over the last decade, the number of medical devices on the market have skyrocketed. While these devices allow for a better quality of life for their recipients, they come with their own host of concerns. Patients have been consistently victimized by data breaches, which expose their personal health information for the world to see. Unfortunately for these patients, the adequate compliance and litigation… {read more...}
The Misguided Activism of the Cryptocurrency Industry: Reckoning With The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 June, 2022 Printed, Volume 20 - The Misguided Activism of the Cryptocurrency Industry: Reckoning With The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 Grant Hespeler[1]† Print Version: Cryptocurrency & Bank Secrecy Act Introduction 161 I. Background: Privacy Rights from Olmstead to Katz 163 A. The Olmstead Era 163 B. Katz Balances the Scales 165 II. FinCEN’s Proposed Rule and Cryptocurrency Activism 167 III. The Bank Secrecy Act and Miller 171 A. The Bank Secrecy Act 171 B. Miller Upholds the Bank Secrecy Act 172 C. Cryptocurrency Activism Precluded by the Bank Secrecy Act… {read more...}
Systems Theory, Surveillance Capitalism, and Law: Native Wisdom and Feedback Loops to Boost the Constructive Use of Big Data June, 2022 Printed, Volume 20 - Systems Theory, Surveillance Capitalism, and Law: Native Wisdom and Feedback Loops to Boost the Constructive Use of Big Data Adam J. Sulkowski, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Caren Beth Goldberg, Amy K. Verbos, Maoliang Bu, and Remy Michael Balarezo Nuñez[1]† Print Version: Native Wisdom & Big Data Introduction 136 I. Data Collection-and-Use: Evolution and Application 137 A. Surveillance Capitalism 137 B. Abuses of Our Online Presence in the Context of Employment 138 C. The Implications of Expanded Data Collection-and-Use in Healthcare 140 II. A Cautiously Offered Counter-Narrative: Why… {read more...}
Digital Media
Healthcare Access and Equity Amidst the Rise of Telehealth October, 2021 Digital - Healthcare Access and Equity Amidst the Rise of Telehealth Discussions about healthcare--what services should be provided, who should receive them, and who should pay for them--have been brought to the social and political forefront of the American zeitgeist. Regardless of viewpoint, the crux of the conversation is if and how best to achieve equity in access and quality of care in the U.S. healthcare system. First Things First: What is Health Equity? Health Equity is an ideal to which many healthcare reform advocates aspire; It… {read more...}
In Need of A New Way Forward: The Old and New Ways Science and Technology Have Been Abused in Criminal Trials and the Need for it to Change October, 2021 Digital - In Need of A New Way Forward: The Old and New Ways Science and Technology Have Been Abused in Criminal Trials and the Need for it to Change If nothing else, Americans deserve a fair court system. A judicial system with a faithless population loses credibility; throughout history, loss of credibility in judicial systems has caused grave issues. As technology has become more sophisticated, its use in criminal trials has become more pervasive. Many people, myself included, trust science, technology, and those who dedicate their… {read more...}
Should the game stop with Gamestop? February, 2021 Digital - RobinHood, Reddit, Retail Investors, and the Role of Regulation In the course of a week, the share price of GameStop increased by almost 1000%, from $39 per share to around $350 at its peak. The gaming retailer did not suddenly and dramatically change its business model, nor did prospects for the chain of brick-and-mortar stores markedly improve. The run appears to be driven almost entirely by a community of investors who found each other through the Reddit page, /r/WallStreetBets (“WSB”). The WSB community seized on… {read more...}
Broadband: The Lifeline of Innovation October, 2020 Digital - Lifeline is what the name says, it is an assistance program that creates a line to the outside world necessary to live. Today, that takes the form of broadband, when it began in the 1980’s it was the landline phone. What is Lifeline? Since its inception, Lifeline has been trying to help the part of our society that is left behind when innovative technologies emerge. One of the public policy concerns that comes with emerging technologies is the group of citizens that are left behind… {read more...}
Law School Memes for Edgy T14s March, 2020 Digital - "Who is intellectual property? I don't know her." The exact date of the internet’s advent continues to be debated by scholars, but the origin of one of the internet’s most popular content mediums can be traced directly back to 1976, and the publication of Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. It was in this book that Dawkins first proposed the concept of a “meme,” which he defined as “a unit of cultural transmission.” Dawkins offered nursery rhymes, catchphrases, and fashion trends as examples of such transmissions.… {read more...}
Zero Sum War Games March, 2020 Digital - How separating soldiers from the theatre of war creates new human costs U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Robert Shepherd On January 3rd, 2020 the United States killed Qasem Suleimani with an MQ-9 Reaper. This drone is manufactured by General Atomics and operated by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Royal Air Force (England), and the Italian Air Force. The Reaper serves as a powerful mobile aerial weapons platform, often carrying out strikes with the effective and expensive… {read more...}