Tag Archives: Law-Review Articles

Robin Feldman on the Role of Trade Secrets in Shielding Pharmaceutical Pricing

Published on: Author: Jaime King

In “Naked Price and Trade Secret Overreach,” 22 Yale Journal of Law & Technology 61 (2020), Professor Robin Feldman and her co-author, Charles Tait Graves, draw critical attention to the ever-broadening assertion of trade secret protection as a device to obscure the price of healthcare goods and services. The article explores the danger of trade… Continue reading

David Levine and Budd Shenkin on Presidential Pardons

Published on: Author: Zach Price

The President’s pardon power has received renewed attention and controversy during the Trump Administration. Those interested in a useful survey of controversial presidential pardons from this administration and others, as well as an interesting proposal for reform, should check out a new article in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, “Should the Power of Presidential Pardon… Continue reading

Mark Aaronson on Judgment Based Lawyering

Published on: Author: Richard Boswell

Accessibility, responsiveness and judgment are critical attributes of good lawyering. These are topics which Professor Mark Aaronson explores in a recent article titled Judgment Based Lawyering: Working in Coalition appearing in the peer-edited Journal of Affordable Housing. More than just a discussion of these critical attributes, Professor Aaronson describes how the teaching of these valuable… Continue reading

Dave Owen on Consultants, the Environment, and the Law

Published on: Author: David Takacs

The first three words of the abstract of Professor Dave Owen’s new article read, “Conventional wisdom assumes…” Professor Owen specializes in analyzing to what extent what everyone knows about a given subject in Environmental Law finds any basis in reality. In the article, titled “Consultants, the Environment, and the Law” and recently published in Arizona… Continue reading

Richard Boswell on Advancing a Broader View of Clinical Scholarship

Published on: Author: Mark Aaronson

Richard Boswell’s thoughtful insights regarding clinical scholarship reflect the pivotal position he has had in the development of such scholarship institutionally and as a role model. In “Advancing a Broader View of Clinical Scholarship,” 26 Clinical Law Review 117 (2019), Professor Boswell begins with a quotation that appeared in the CLR’s first edition: “The heart… Continue reading

Zach Price on Symmetric Constitutionalism

Published on: Author: Rory Little

Professor Zach Price, my UC Hastings Law colleague and a recognized star of U.S. constitutional theory, has recently published an essay entitled “Symmetric Constitutionalism: An Essay on Masterpiece Cakeshop and the post-Kennedy Supreme Court.” This essay proposes “symmetric constitutionalism” as a method for judges to use when deciding hard cases. His idea has drawn attention,… Continue reading

Abe Cable on the Effects of Trados in Silicon Valley

Published on: Author: Jared Ellias

In recent times, corporate-finance scholars have embraced a methodological approach that looks for “shocks” to evaluate a policy change. These “shocks” are often new laws or court rulings that change some existing rule on a certain day. The researcher then makes predictions about how the world will change with the new rule and examines evidence… Continue reading

Dorit Reiss and John Diamond on Liability for Anti-Vaccine Misinformation

Published on: Author: Scott Dodson

Vaccine laws and debates are spreading like a contagion. Measles, once thought nearly eradicated in the United States, has experienced outbreaks in Minnesota, New York, California, and other states. These outbreaks have been caused primarily by undervaccinated communities. The resurgency of measles and other vaccinable diseases has flamed the already virulent vaccination debates between public-health… Continue reading

Rory Little on Justice Kennedy’s Criminal Jurisprudence

Published on: Author: Zach Price

Last February, UC Hastings Law hosted the first post-retirement symposium on Justice Kennedy’s jurisprudence, with the justice himself attending. In the Hastings Law Journal’s symposium following the event, my colleague Rory Little has published a valuable survey of Justice Kennedy’s criminal cases during his thirteen years as a federal appellate judge and three decades on… Continue reading

Jared Ellias on How Chapter 11 Really Works

Published on: Author: Abe Cable

In Bankruptcy Hardball, Professor Jared Ellias teams up with attorney Robert Stark to expose increasingly aggressive tactics by corporate managers in bankruptcy proceedings. The article, which draws on detailed case studies, is a methodological departure from Professor Ellias’s usual empirical quantitative work. But the insights are incisive as usual. The article details maneuvers by corporate… Continue reading