Monthly Archives: August, 2025
Kadri and West, ‘Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in US Deepfake Regulation’
ABSTRACT As deepfake technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and accessible, American lawmakers are responding with a flurry of urgent legislative action to addresses its potential harms. Our 50-state survey of proposed and enacted deepfake legislation reveals a complex regulatory landscape in which jurisdictions are adopting a range of legal approaches, including criminal punishments, civil remedies, or […]
Gregory Dickinson, ‘Law Proofing the Future’
ABSTRACT Lawmakers today face continuous calls to ‘future proof’ the legal system against generative artificial intelligence, algorithmic decision-making, targeted advertising, and all manner of emerging technologies. This Article takes a contrarian stance: It is not the law that needs bolstering for the future, but the future that needs protection from the law. From the printing […]
Odinet and Tosato, ‘Tokenized Real Estate: The Law and Tech of Digital Deeds’
ABSTRACT The advent of blockchain technology has generated bold claims that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) can fundamentally transform real estate. Proponents assert that digital assets can tokenize real property interests: the concept of using digital tokens to represent ownership rights in physical property. Their goal is to allow buyers and sellers to transfer real estate through […]
Conor Hay, ‘Rescinding a mistaken declaration of trust: Sullivan v Sullivan [2025] EWHC 1072 (Ch)’
ABSTRACT When voluntarily disposing of property, a donor may make a mistake of so serious a character that equity permits the rescission of that disposition. This equitable jurisdiction to rescind a mistaken disposition was recently considered by the High Court in Sullivan v Sullivan [2025] EWHC 1072 (Ch), a case concerning the mistaken settlement of […]
Zuloaga Ríos and Vial Undurraga, ‘Sustainability as a general principle of transnational commercial contract law’
ABSTRACT This article seeks to explore whether sustainability can be considered as a general principle of transnational commercial contract law since there is international consensus that sustainability is a fundamental legal value that should be protected by contract law. The article is structured in two main parts. The first deals with the notion of a […]
Navin Kumar, ‘The Bhopal Gas Tragedy: A Case Study in Industrial Disaster and Corporate Accountability’
ABSTRACT Purpose – To explore the actual condition of the city after the gas emission and the effects of the tragedy on the community nearby industry. Examine the roles and responsibilities of Union Carbide Corporation, its parent company and the Indian government in the disaster, highlighting failures in industrial safety, crisis management and post-tragedy justice. […]
Magaña and González-Ricoy, ‘Intergenerational Subjection’
ABSTRACT Can the dead subject later generations to their will? Legal and political philosophers have long worried about this question. But some have recently argued that subjection between generations that do not overlap is impossible. Against these views, we offer an account of this kind of subjection and the conditions under which it may occur […]
Prince Sarpong, ‘A Theory of Juristic Transcendence: Reimagining Corporate Personhood in the Age of Asymmetric Sacrifice’
ABSTRACT We propose Juristic Transcendence as a normative and structural framework for reimagining corporate personhood in the age of systemic asymmetry. At the heart of liberal democratic governance lies an implicit social contract built on shared sacrifice: citizens are called upon to bleed, serve, and absorb risk to preserve the polity. Yet corporations, while legally […]
Hansen, Xu and Samberg, ‘Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It’
ABSTRACT A wide variety of scholarly and academic uses of copyrighted materials are governed not by copyright law itself but by licenses, terms of service, and other privately crafted contractual terms. In many cases, those terms purport to override exceptions and limitations granted by Congress in the Copyright Act for the benefit of users. As […]
Meghan Finn, ‘Substantive Equality in the Private Sphere: Developments in South African Law on Testamentary Discrimination’
ABSTRACT The right to equality in South African law gives rise to duties borne by both the state and private actors. In the law of succession, this constrains private testators’ powers to discriminate. Doctrinal developments bear this out: in King v De Jager and Wilkinson v Crawford, a majority of the Constitutional Court extended the […]