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Political Advertising on Free Streaming Sites: Conflicts with First Amendment and Exploring Viability of Regulation

Pilar Gonzalez Navarrine

J.D., Cornell Law School, 2024; B.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 2018.

When broadcast TV first became a staple in the American household, it probably seemed unlikely that fifty years later, its hold on the American public would lessen in favor of other types of media. However, for years now, users have relied on online news—whether websites, social media sites, or streaming sites—instead of cable and broadcast…

Jan 2024

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Waging War: Exercising the Right to Selfdefense in Disputed Territories

Merrick Black

B.A., Yale University, 2019; J.D., Cornell Law School, 2024; Publishing Editor, Cornell Law Review, Vol. 109.

This Note will focus on whether a state may invoke the right to self-defense in order to protect citizens living in a different territory. In my Note, I will examine the separatist regions of Abkhazia, Transnistria, and Donbas. First, I will argue that Russia’s efforts to foster sovereignty in separatist regions by creating treaties with…

Jan 2024

Article

Arbitration Secrecy

E. Gary Spitko

Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good and Professor of Law, Santa Clara University.

Parties to an arbitration contract may agree to a secrecy clause that will govern their arbitration process to protect the confdentiality of their proprietary or personal information. Of great concern, however, is that they also may use such an arbitration secrecy clause to hide their improper or discriminatory practices or defects in their products, and…

Jan 2024

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Federal Rules of Private Enforcement

David L. Noll & Luke P. Norris

Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, Rutgers Law School & Associate Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law.

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were made for a different world. Fast approaching their hundredth anniversary, the Rules reflect the state of litigation in the first few decades of the twentieth century and the then-prevailing distinction between “substantive” rights and the “procedure” used to adjudicate them. The role of procedure, the rulemakers believed, was…

Jan 2024

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The Sea Corporation

Robert Anderson

Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law.

Over the past two centuries the corporation has emerged from obscurity to become the dominant form of business organization in the United States, accounting for more productive assets than all other business forms combined. Yet the corporation is relatively young for a legal institution of such economic importance. As late as the middle of the…

Jan 2024