Category: Volume 70, Issue 2

  • Promise, Peril, and Procedure: The Price-Anderson Nuclear Liability Act

    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Jeffrey C. Dobbins – Volume 70, Issue 2, 331-366 [/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.19.13″][et_pb_button button_url=”https://hastingslawjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/70.2-Dobbins-1.pdf” button_text=”Full Article” _builder_version=”3.19.13″][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

  • The Street View of Property

    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Vanessa Casado Perez – Volume 70, Issue 2, 367-408 Parking on public streets is scarce. The current allocation system for parking spots based on the rule of capture coupled with low parking fees creates a tragedy of the commons scenario. The misallocation of parking has consequences for…

  • Explaining Choice-of-Entity Decisions by Silicon Valley Start-Ups

    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Gregg Polsky – Volume 70, Issue 2, 409-454 Perhaps the most fundamental role of a business lawyer is to recommend the optimal entity choice for nascent business enterprises. Nevertheless, even in 2018, the choice-of-entity analysis remains highly muddled. Most business lawyers across the United States consistently recommend…

  • A Tribute to Professor Jonathan Rohr

    [et_pb_row custom_padding=”13.3507px|0px|0|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Volume 70, Issue 2, 455-462 [/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.19.13″][et_pb_button button_url=”https://hastingslawjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/70.2-Rohr-Tribute.pdf” button_text=”Full Article” _builder_version=”3.19.13″][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

  • Blockchain-Based Token Sales, Initial Coin Offerings, and the Democratization of Public Capital Markets

    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Jonathan Rohr and Aaron Wright – Volume 70, Issue 2, 463-524 Best known for their role in the creation of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, blockchains are revolutionizing the way technology entrepreneurs finance their business enterprises. In 2017 alone, tech entrepreneurs raised over $6 billion through the sale of…

  • The Emergence of the Environmental Impact Assessment Duty as a Global Legal Norm and General Principle of Law

    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Tseming Yang – Volume 70, Issue 2, 525-572 More than half a century ago, Rudolf Schlesinger announced a global survey of legal principles in the pages of the American Journal of International Law. The project’s objective was the identification of a “common core” of legal norms among…

  • Payment Is Not Enough: Materiality in Implied False Certifications Under the False Claims Act

    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Mike Chow – Volume 70, Issue 2, 573-594 In Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar, the United States Supreme Court resolved a longstanding circuit split by holding that implied false certifications—transactions involving a failure to disclose noncompliance with material ancillary requirements—can expose government…

  • Contracts for Children: Constitutional Challenges to Surrogacy Contracts and Selective Reduction Clauses

    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Holly Jones – Volume 70, Issue 2, 595-620 Are babies commodities? Are they a proper subject of contract law? Many states say no, holding surrogacy contracts void as against public policy. Others, however, enforce surrogacy contracts. In the rare instances when disputes arise over selective reduction clauses…

  • No Firm Ground: Fifth Amendment Takings and Sea-Level Rise

    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.19.13″ custom_padding=”0|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.19.13″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.13″] Sophie Stocks – Volume 70, Issue 2, 621-638. Rising seas are encroaching on private properties along the California coast at alarming rates and rapidly changing the mean high tide line, which serves as the legal boundary determining the relative rights of the state and private property owners. This Note…