Articles
The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugees, and Citizens in an Anxious Age
Once every generation or so, entire fields of law require a full reset. We need to rethink basic premises, ask new questions, and even recast the role of law itself. This moment has come for the law governing migration. Seasoned observers of immigration and refugee law have developed answers to core questions that emerged a generation ago. But their answers often fail to engage coherently with the daunting…
Mar 2020
The Six-Month List and the Unintended Consequences of Judicial Accountability
A little-known mechanism instituted to improve judicial accountability and speed up the work of the federal judiciary has led to unintended consequences, many of them unfortunate. Federal district court judges are subject to a soft deadline known as the Six-Month List (the List). By law, every judge’s backlog (cases older than three years and motions…
Mar 2020
You Might Be a Robot
As robots and artificial intelligence (AI) increase their influence over society, policymakers are increasingly regulating them. But to regulate these technologies, we first need to know what they are. And here we come to a problem. No one has been able to offer a decent definition of robots and AI—not even experts. What’s more, technological…
Mar 2020
Notes
Queer Eyes Don’t Sympathize: An Empirical Investigation of LGB Identity and Judicial Decision Making
Jared Ham & Chan Tov McNamarah
This Note’s objectives are twofold. First, this Note presents the findings of the first ever empirical analysis of the voting patterns of LGB judges, as compared to heterosexual judges in the United States. Second, this Note considers what role a judge’s LGB identity may play in his or her decision making. Using social science research curated in the context of race and gender, this Note summarizes previous debates concerning other minority statuses and introduces them to the environment of sexual orientation. Informed by prior scholarship on race and gender in judicial decision making, this Note extends the conclusions and principles to consider whether LGB identity should affect decision making and how it may do so.
Mar 2020
Domesticating Comity: Territorial U.S. Discovery in Violation of Foreign Privacy Laws
Corby F. Burger
This Note aims to make two contributions. First, this Note addresses a series of threshold descriptive and normative questions that are mostly unaddressed by scholars, the Restatements of Foreign Relations Law, and the courts: Is the doctrine of foreign-state compulsion available to defend against a territorial discovery order or is the foreign-state compulsion defense limited to extraterritorial acts? How have courts applied the doctrine to territorial discovery, if at all? Should the foreign-state compulsion defense be territorially limited? Second, if the foreign-state compulsion defense is available to defend against a territorial discovery order, how do courts account for the fact that the information is presently located in the United States when applying the doctrine? Should courts account for the present location of ESI, and, if so, how much weight should the present location of data be given in a court’s analysis?
Mar 2020
Professor Katyal’s Cornell Article is judged as best 2019 intellectual property law review article
Professor Sonia Katyal’s Article The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy was selected for inclusion in the 2020 edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review, an anthology published annually by Thomson Reuters (West). This article was originally published in 104 Cornell L. Rev. 1183 (2019). Abstract In Lear v. Adkins, the Supreme Court precipitously wrote, “federal…
Jul 2020
Two Cornell articles are selected as among the best 2019 corporate and securities articles in legal journals
Scholars in corporate and securities law were asked to select the best corporate and securities articles from a list of articles published in legal journals during 2019. The following Cornell Law Review articles will be included in the Corporate Practice Comment: Professors Asaf Eckstein and Gideon Parchomovsk’s Article Toward a Horizontal Fiduciary Duty in Corporate…
Jul 2020
Professor Michele Goodwin receives the John Hope Franklin Prize, Honorable Mention
Professor Michele Goodwin is honored to receive the John Hope Franklin Prize, Honorable Mention for her Article The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration, which was published in Cornell Law Review‘s Volume 104. This Article exposes how the institution of slavery persists in the American penal system. The article provides a robust historical…
Jul 2020
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