Fair Users or Content Abusers? The Automatic Flagging of Non-Infringing...
When was the last time you watched a video on YouTube? How about the last time you uploaded one onto the site? Now, when was the last time you thought about the copyright implications of any of those...
View ArticleExpunging Statelessness From Terrorist Expatriation Statutes
Concerns over national security and terrorism are escalating as the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as other nations, face the growing threat in the Middle East from the Islamic State of...
View ArticleI Got 99 Problems and a Warrant is One: How Current Interpretations of the...
As of 2012, there were 3.3 billion email accounts in the world and that number is expected to increase by six percent each year, amounting to approximately 4.3 billion accounts in 2016. In 2013, there...
View ArticleThe Lost Ones of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
Nine-year-old Samantha and her younger brother were removed from their parents’ home by child welfare officials of the State of Washington. Already having gone through the trauma of being torn from...
View ArticleLending Loot: The Cost of Cultural Exchange Under the Immunity from Seizure Act
[I]f you believe in art, you like art, you think people should see art, and you like your museums, you ought to be for this bill. – Representative Steve Cohen The Nazis stole roughly 600,000 pieces of...
View ArticleGo Fund Me, Please: Crowdsourcing for Bail as an Insufficient Surety
A “modern day bake sale with . . . fewer brownies.” This was an analogy used to describe the newfound use of crowdsourcing websites like GoFundMe.com (“Go Fund Me”) to obtain money for bail. While a...
View ArticleHe Who Comes into Court Must Not Come with Green Hands: The Marijuana...
Imagine a hardworking marijuana dispensary owner, Mary Jane. Mary operates her marijuana business legally under the laws of her state. Mary contracts with James Chong for ten pounds of marijuana and...
View ArticleVulnerable and Inadequately Protected: Solitary Confinement, Individuals with...
“About seven hundred, eight hundred”—that is the number of days Kalief Browder remembered being in solitary confinement. For three years, Browder was incarcerated at New York City’s Rikers Island jail...
View ArticleStopping Doctor Evil: How to Prevent the Prevalence of Health Care Providers...
Susan Hyman went to her dentist, Dr. Marvin Teicher, for a wisdom tooth extraction. Ms. Hyman was skeptical that the Novocaine would alleviate her pain from the procedure, so Dr. Teicher graciously...
View ArticleIs a “Hit-and-Wait” Really Any Better Than a “Hit-and-Run”?
Imagine a driver making his way home after a long day’s work with his mind on a myriad things. Perhaps he is thinking about the football score, the lottery drawing, the weekend, or any number of...
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