Category: Volume 76, Issue 1
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Debt End: The “Texas Two-Step” and the Constitution
[et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”] Kirk Rider Volume 76, Issue 1, 243-274 The “Texas Two-Step” is a novel means of forcing a settlement agreement on mass-tort claimants. Corporations utilize the Two-Step bankruptcy strategy using a state law merger statute to split itself in two. One half of the corporation…
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Patent Infringement, Private Law, and Liability Standards
[et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”] Robert P. Merges Volume 76, Issue 1, 161-242 Private law governs interactions among private parties. A large body of private law theory holds that private law is aimed at corrective justice: doing justice as between the two parties to a private interaction (the…
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Free the Market: How We Can Save Capitalism from the Capitalists
[et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”] Mark A. Lemley Volume 76, Issue 1, 115-160 The free market works because no one person or company is making the decisions. In a competitive market, businesspeople make the wrong decisions all the time, just as central planners do. But the consequences of those…
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Artificial Intelligence and Cracks in the Foundation of Intellectual Property
[et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”] Robin Feldman Volume 76, Issue 1, 47-114 Our implicit image of progress and the standards we use to calibrate human contribution to progress are quietly at risk from the onslaught of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has the potential to significantly shrink the pool…
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The Federal Rules of Constitutional Procedure
[et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] Ramon Feldbrin Volume 76, Issue 1, 1-46 Judicial review has distinct purposes, difficulties, and modalities, but there are no guideposts as to how these features ought to be addressed in procedural terms. The reason is a deep-seated, but largely unarticulated,…