Category: Current CLR Online Vol.
Cornell Law Review Online
“Shake the Hand that Feeds You”: Creating Custom Food Safety Certifications for Farm to School Programs
Lauren Tonti, M.P.H Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, J.D. Case Western Reserve University School of Law, B.A. Wellesley College
The United States is home to approximately 14.4 million obese children. Federal government encouragement that schools “purchase unprocessed agricultural products, both locally grown and locally raised, to the maximum extent practicable and appropriate” with federal funds has fallen upon the receptive ears of administrators, whose schools often feed America’s youth two out of three meals…
Aug 2022
Cornell Law Review Online
Scientific Evidence: Grand Theories and Basic Methods
Curtis E.A. Karnow, Judge of The California Superior Court (County of San Francisco)
California law requires judges to admit expert scientific testimony without resolving scientific controversies, which are left to juries. But case law does not provide a definition of “science” verses inadmissible pseudoscience. And typically juries are asked to resolve ‘scientific’ controversies based on studies never provided to them. The Essay discusses three common definitions of science,…
Aug 2022
Cornell Law Review Online
Harming Competition and Consumers Under the Guise of Protecting Privacy: An Analysis of Apple’s iOS 14 Policy Updates
D. Daniel Sokol, Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law and Business, USC Gould School of Law & Feng Zhu, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
This Essay identifies how Apple’s iOS 14 strategy serves to reinforce Apple’s dominance over the mobile ecosystem by significantly reducing—if not effectively precluding—the ability of third-party apps to create value through personalized advertising. This move to stifle competition is consistent with Apple’s established track record of engaging in conduct that protects and extends the dominance…
Jul 2022
Cornell Law Review Online
Countering the Big Lie: The Role of the Courts in the Post Truth World
Edward D. Cavanagh, Professor of Law, St. John’s University School of Law
This Essay analyzes the role of the courts in handling Trump’s election lie. It argues that the courts were certainly correct in giving short shrift to Trump’s lawsuits, but further that the courts should have done more than simply dismiss Trump’s claims. Had the courts aggressively utilized existing tools to identify and punish prosecution of…
Jun 2022
Cornell Law Review Online
Localizing Minimum Wage Laws: A Rural Perspective
Travis S. Andrews, J.D., University of Virginia, 2016
Since launching in 2012, the Fight for 15 movement has successfully lobbied for a $15 per hour minimum wage in many urban localities.[1] Today, more than 50 localities have their own minimum wage laws that set a rate higher than state or national pay floors.[2] Two of the primary justifications for raising the minimum wage…
Jun 2022
Cornell Law Review Online
Racial Reckoning With Economic Inequities
Lisa M. Fairfax, Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law, George Washington University School of Law
In response to the racial reckoning sparked by the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other unarmed Black men and women during the summer of 2020, many corporations publicly expressed their commitment to not only grapple with racial inequities in the economic sphere, but also increase racial diversity on their board, with particular…
Feb 2022
Cornell Law Review Online
Toward a Law and Politics of Racial Solidarity
Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Guy-Uriel Charles, Edward & Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center on Law, Race, and Politics, Duke Law School
The killings of George Floyd, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and others have occurred under different factual circumstances, in different states, at the hands of both state and private actors, and have engendered different levels of outrage on the basis of their perceived egregiousness. Collectively and cumulatively, they have forced Americans to, once again, wrestle with…
Feb 2022
Cornell Law Review Online
Mitigating the PSLF Disaster: Building a Borrower-Friendly Student Loan Forgiveness Program
Michael Slomovics, J.D., Yale Law School, 2021
In 2007, Congress promised student loan forgiveness to our teachers, public defenders, nurses, and other public servants. The bargain was simple: spend ten years in public service and your debt will be eliminated. Unfortunately for borrowers, the program turned out to be a disaster, with loan forgiveness denial rates as high as 99%. Individuals frequently…
Nov 2021
Cornell Law Review Online
Do Reason-Based Abortion Bans Prevent Eugenics?
Sital Kalantry, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
This Essay discusses a lesser‑known case through which Roe v. Wade could be gutted—by declaring reason‑based bans constitutional. If the Court finds that one reason‑based abortion ban is constitutionally permissible, it will open the door for states to destroy the fundamental right to abortion by enacting many more reasons for why abortion is impermissible.
Oct 2021
Cornell Law Review Online
COVID, Sex Discrimination, and Medical Research
Lori Andrews, J.D., is the Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology and Distinguished Professor of Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Bora Ndregjoni, third-year law student at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
This Article analyzes the burgeoning medical research literature about COVID-19 and finds that the historical failure to take women’s symptoms and needs into account continues to this day.
Apr 2021
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