Monthly Archives: June, 2025
Tzanou and Siapka, ‘Re-imagining Data Protection: Femtech and Gendered Risks in the GDPR’
ABSTRACT The chapter investigates the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from a gender perspective to question whether the Regulation does/ should explicitly recognise gender and, if so, how. It makes three distinct contributions: First, it argues that gender matters within the GDPR. Using femtech as a case study at the intersection of data protection […]
D Dangaran, ‘Developments in the Law – Unjust Enrichment. Aloha ‘Āina: Native Hawaiian Land Restitution’
ABSTRACT In 2018, the Hawai‘i Supreme Court approved a permit granting the construction of a Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) on top of Mauna Kea, a sacred mountain on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. Native Hawaiians raised various legal claims to defend their rights to the mountain and to block the issuance of the sublease. Unjust enrichment […]
Matthew Bodie, ‘The Lawless Workplace’
ABSTRACT In their remarkable book Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy, Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit tell the stories of individual women who have seen their careers smashed and shattered at some of the most important US companies of the last fifty years. These stories – from employees […]
Micah Musser, ‘Software Torts and Software Contracts: Reframing the Developer’s Duty’
ABSTRACT Flawed software costs businesses and consumers millions of dollars every year, but existing tort law does not generally require developers to compensate others for economic injuries caused by bad code. Discontented scholars and policy advocates have produced an array of proposals that would force developers to pay for harms flowing from vulnerabilities that hackers […]
‘“Basic Interests” Proposal Does Justice to Unconscionability Doctrine’
Sabine Tsuruda, ‘Race, Unconscionability, and Contractual Equality’, 60 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 159 (2025). Sabine Tsuruda’s article ‘Race, Unconscionability, and Contractual Equality’ illustrates shortcomings of current unconscionability doctrine in contract law and proposes an alternative to enable the contract law to avoid complicity with beneficiaries of race discrimination in credit markets. Her proposed […]
‘Of fridge magnets, peppercorns, and consideration’
In a popular South African cozy crime tv series, one character transfers her interest in a house to another in exchange a fridge magnet (memories associated with the magnet feature here; the exchange is in this episode, available here; and we shall pass over the legal plot holes in the series). This is a nice […]
Eldar, Nili and Xu, ‘Common Ownership Directors’
ABSTRACT We develop a model in which common owners of firms in the same industry may appoint a common director to benefit from information-sharing between firms with similar products. Information sharing through common directors increases the likelihood of product success but also reduces profits due to heightened competition. Empirically, we find that active, long-term common […]
Grace Quigley, ‘Comparison Kills Creativity? Beyond Borders in Contemporary Labor Law’
ABSTRACT The domain of workplace law has expanded in the United States, from traditional labor and employment law to contracts, to consumer protection and even family law. Even so, American labor lawyers maintain that the statutes protecting workers are crumbling after almost a century without supportive reform. This Essay proposes that labor law practitioners and […]
Anjali Vats, ‘(White) Racial Arithmetic as Intellectual Property Architecture’
INTRODUCTION In The Signal and the Noise, a manifesto for our cognitively dissonant post-fact, pro-statistics era, Nate Silver writes: ‘Data-driven predictions can succeed – and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand […]
‘Covid-19: Causation in the Spotlight’
In the recent Judgment of Edwards and others v 2 Sisters Food Group Limited [2025] EWHC 1312 (KB), Sir Peter Lane considered causation in work-related COVID-19 claims and the courts’ approach to a summary judgment application where further evidence may yet be adduced by the respondent. This Judgment is of significance for anyone dealing with […]