Category: Issue 5
Note
Demanding Trust in the Private Genetic Data Market
Benjamin T. Van Meter
This Note argues that to prevent the most damaging consequences of the trade in genetic data, U.S. law should impose tailored fiduciary duties on private genetic testing companies to ensure that their business practices do not harm their own customers. These testing companies rely on their customers’ genetic information to turn a profit, while all of the risk of this information’s exposure or misuse falls on customers.
Jul 2020
Note
International Cultural Heritage Law: The Link Between Cultural Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Concept of Cultural Genocide
Ashley Mullen
Part I of this Note will explain the theoretical underpinnings of what constitutes “cultural heritage,” why it deserves protection, and what obstacles stand in the way of protection. Part II will discuss the existing international legal framework aimed at protecting cultural heritage, as well as the flaws within that framework. Part III will analyze the…
Jul 2020
Article
Chevron as Construction
Lawrence B. Solum, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University
In 1984, the Supreme Court declared that courts should uphold agency interpretations of ambiguous statutory provisions, so long as those interpretations are reasonable. The Chevron framework, as it is called, is now under serious pressure. Current debates can be both illuminated and softened with reference to an old distinction between interpretation on the one hand…
Jul 2020
Article
Legitimate Interpretation—Or Legitimate Adjudication
Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor, Columbia Law School
Current debate about the legitimacy of lawmaking by courts focuses on what constitutes legitimate interpretation. The debate has reached an impasse in that originalism and textualism appear to have the stronger case as a matter of theory while living constitutionalism and dynamic interpretation provide much better account of actual practice. This Article argues that if…
Jul 2020
Article
MDL as Category
Zachary D. Clopton, Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Multidistrict litigation (MDL) dominates the federal civil docket. MDL has been used to consolidate hundreds of thousands of cases, including with respect to asbestos, the BP oil spill, Johnson & Johnson baby powder, NFL concussions, opioids, and more. In recent years, MDL has attracted the attention of reformers and scholars, who have offered proposals for…
Jul 2020
Article
Why has Antitrust Law Failed Workers?
Ioana Marinescu & Eric A. Posner
Marinescu is Assistant Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Eric Posner is the Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor at University of Chicago
In the last several years, economists have learned about an antitrust problem of vast scope. Far from approximating the conditions of perfect competition as long assumed, most labor markets are characterized by monopsony—meaning that employers pay workers less than their productivity because workers lack a credible threat to quit and find a higherpaying job in…
Jul 2020
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