UC Law Journal

Category: Volume 73, Issue 5

  • Symposium, The Internet and the Law: Legal Challenges in the New Digital Age

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    Symposium Cosponsored with the Center for Litigation and Courts and the National Civil Justice Institute “The Internet and the Law: Legal Challenges in the New Digital Age” UC Hastings Law, November 6–7, 2021

  • Preface

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  • Foreword

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  • Of Robolawyers and Robojudges

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Joshua P. Davis Volume 73, Issue 5, 1173-1202 Artificial intelligence (AI) may someday play various roles in litigation, particularly complex litigation. It may be able to provide strategic advice, advocate through legal briefs and in court, help judges assess class action settlements, and propose or…

  • The Constitutionality of Mandating Editorial Transparency

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Eric Goldman Volume 73, Issue 5, 1203-1232 This Article explores the underappreciated constitutional problems that arise when regulators compel Internet services to disclose information about their editorial operations and decisions (what the Article calls “mandatory editorial transparency”). In particular, this Article highlights the inevitable problems…

  • Cutting-Edge Evidence: Strengths and Weaknesses of New Digital Investigation Methods in Litigation

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Alexa Koenig and Lindsay Freeman Volume 73, Issue 5, 1233-1254 The increased use of digital technologies in daily life has led to a steep rise in the introduction of highly technical evidence and expert witness testimony in criminal and civil litigation. The growing use of…

  • Protecting Free Speech and Due Process Values on Dominant Social Media Platforms

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Dawn Carla Nunziato Volume 73, Issue 5, 1255-1304 Dominant social media platforms have been increasingly perceived as engaging in discrimination against conservative and right-wing viewpoints. Trump’s deplatforming, coupled with the platforms’ recent removal of Covid- and election-related misinformation, led to cries of censorship by conservatives…

  • The Coming Connected-Products Liability Revolution

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Robert S. Peck Volume 73, Issue 5, 1305-1326 Technological innovation begets legal revolution. And tort law, as a creature of the common law, makes the most profound doctrinal leaps and does so more rapidly than any other area of law when technology changes our everyday…

  • Products Liability in the Digital Age: Online Platforms as “Cheapest Cost Avoiders”

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ content_last_edited=”on|desktop” sticky_enabled=”0″] Catherine M. Sharkey Volume 73, Issue 5, 1327-1352 Products liability in the digital age entails reckoning with the transformative shift away from in-person purchases at brick-and-mortar stores to digital purchases from e-commerce platforms. The epochal rise of the online storefront has vastly expanded the…

  • The Law of Pseudonymous Litigation

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Eugene Volokh Volume 73, Issue 5, 1353-1460 When may parties in American civil cases proceed pseudonymously? The answer turns out to be deeply unsettled. This Article aims to lay out the legal rules (such as they are) and the key policy arguments, in a way…

  • Institutional Choice for Software Safety Standards

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Bryan H. Choi Volume 73, Issue 5, 1461-1480 The pursuit of software safety standards has stalled. In response, commentators and policymakers have looked increasingly to federal agencies to deliver new hope. Some place their faith in existing agencies while others propose a new super agency…

  • Regulating Social Media in the Free-Speech Ecosystem

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Anuj C. Desai Volume 73, Issue 5, 1481-1510 Social media is just one part of the broader free-speech ecosystem. Social media regulation thus only regulates one part of that ecosystem. To evaluate social media regulation thus requires an understanding of the role social media itself…

  • The GDPR as Privacy Pretext and the Problem of Co-Opting Privacy

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Neil Richards Volume 73, Issue 5, 1511-1538 Privacy and data protection law’s expansion brings with it opportunities for mischief as privacy rules are used pretextually to serve other ends. This Essay examines the problem of such co-option of privacy using a case study of lawsuits…

  • A Parallel Infodemic: Multifaceted Approaches to Online Public Health Mis- and Disinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″] Erin Hutchins Volume 73, Issue 5, 1539-1562 During the COVID-19 pandemic, communities congregated in online spaces more than ever before. While some people found solidarity online, many others found snippets of false information regarding COVID-19’s origin, transmission, and preventative measures. Inaccurate public health information originated long before…

  • It’s Time for California to Enact Employment Protections for Medical Cannabis Patients

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Kevin Murphy Volume 73, Issue 5, 1563-1592 California law allows an employer to refuse to hire an applicant or discharge an employee for consuming medical cannabis in order to treat a serious medical condition, even if an individual consumes cannabis at home during non-working hours.…

  • From Schoolhouse Gate to Locker Room Door: The Student Athlete’s Constitutional Right to Protest at a Public University Does Not Stop at the Hardwood

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    [et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Katharine Waters Volume 73, Issue 5, 1593-1620 The Supreme Court has not faced a case involving the public university student athlete’s right to protest during game day events, such as during the pre-game warm up, the national anthem, and game play itself. Protests stemming from…