Avatar and Derivative Works: Harmonizing the Interests of Creators and Consumers

by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Mar 31, 2022 | Volume 73, Issue 3

Reina Shinohara Volume 73, Issue 3, 919-946 As we spend more of our days online, we are seeing a shift in content moving towards a progressively simulated reality. The virtual worlds of video games and other online communities have become a norm for many, with an...

When Hospitals Sue Patients

by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Feb 16, 2022 | Volume 73, Issue 2

Isaac D. Buck Volume 73, Issue 2, 191-232 “The biggest crime you can commit in America is being sick.” Grimly demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals serve as the central hub of American health care. Increasingly exercising market power, setting clinical...

Weaponizing Culture to Undermine International Women’s Rights

by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Feb 16, 2022 | Volume 73, Issue 2

Lan Cao Volume 73, Issue 2, 233-300 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”) remains an emblem of hope and change in a world filled with continuing human rights violations. Its promise, enshrined in 1948, is as relevant then as it is now—that the...

A New Prescription for the Opioid Epidemic: 360-Degree Accountability for Pharmaceutical Companies and Their Executives

by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Feb 16, 2022 | Volume 73, Issue 2

Rebecca A. Delfino Volume 73, Issue 2, 301-370 We can no longer ignore this—a national crisis resulting in almost one million American deaths, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, ravaging the health care system, and devastating state and local communities. This...

Liberty and Democracy Through the Administrative State: A Critique of the Roberts Court’s Political Theory

by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Feb 16, 2022 | Volume 73, Issue 2

Blake Emerson Volume 73, Issue 2, 371-436 The values of liberty and democracy repeatedly arise in recent Supreme Court opinions on administrative law. The conservative Justices have argued that the power vested in government agencies threatens individual freedom and...