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Volume 56-1
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Featuring Clark M. Neily III; Jonathan Simon; Wendy Murphy; Samantha Cremin; Anna Hagg; Kevin Shanahan
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Spring 2021 – The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans Professor Anjali Vats
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In The Color of Creatorship, Vats argues that intellectual property formation in the United States reflects and shapes racial formation. The Color of Creatorship explores copyright, trademark, and patent discourses and argues that it is interwoven together, operating to form American ideals about race.
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The Dangers of Malingering as the Basis for a Two-Level Sentence Enhancement Under U.S.S.G § 3C1.1.
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Introduction Efficient case resolution is necessary to effectuate the accused’s right to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment, but it is also necessary to ensure the effective utilization of judicial resources more broadly. Yet, balancing judicial efficiency with quality case processing and ensuring just outcomes remains a challenge. Additionally, there are constant reminders throughout…
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Fall 2020 – Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System by Attorney Alex Karakatsanis
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Through a series of three powerful essays, Karakatsanis explores the criminal justice system through the lens of a former public defender and current radical movement lawyer, urging law students and practicing attorneys alike to examine their complicity in perpetuating what he refers to as “the punishment bureaucracy.” In Usual Cruelty, Karakatsanis asks us to critically…
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Volume 55-1
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Featuring Lauryn P. Gouldin; Michael Meltsner; Cambrea Beller; Jenna DeAngelo; Melanie Falzone
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Spring 2020 – Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It)Professor Kent Greenfield
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Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It) dives into the complexity of corporations within the United States judicial system. Greenfield argues corporations should have personhood, identifying the Constitution as support that corporations have partial rights. Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It) focuses on the problem of who corporations…
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Massachusetts Wants the Juice: Analyzing What Is Holding Back Sports Gambling From Becoming Legal in the Commonwealth
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Note: Nochilas Luise wrote Massachusetts Wants the Juice: Analyzing What Is Holding Back Sports Gambling From Becoming Legal in the Commonwealth during the development of this issue in the Spring of 2020. Introduction Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of the public has strongly opposed the concept of gambling on sports. These…
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Unscrupulous But Zealous Advocacy: Ethics Lessons From David E. Kelley’s Tv Lawyers
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Abstract Throughout the history of the legal profession, lawyers have been subjected to high ethical and professional standards. Following the Watergate scandal, the legal profession renewed its focus on ensuring that lawyers behave ethically. Unfortunately, in spite of the promulgation of new ethical rules and requirements that law schools teach classes on legal ethics, public…
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NO PLACE FOR STRICT KATZ IN NEW HAMPSHIRE’S RIGHT OF PRIVACY
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One of the ways in which individual liberty is protected under the federal constitutional scheme is the extent to which it contemplates that states may develop new safeguards under their own constitutions that go beyond what the Bill of Rights contains. In November 2018, the citizens of New Hampshire endorsed just such a protection, voting…
