Follow

• The Limits of Transparency: China, the United States and the World Trade Organization

  Padideh Ala'i

  with Katayoon Beshkardana

• Protecting and Fostering Online Platform Competition: The Role of Antitrust LawNo Title

  Jonathan Baker

  in David S. Evans, Allan Fels & Catherine Tucker, eds., The Evolution of Antitrust in the Digital Era: Essays on Competition Policy, 2021, vol. 2, pp. 11-19

• Women 'Firsts' in the U.S. Law School Professorate

  Susan D. Carle

• The Way to Barbara Armstrong, First Tenure-Track Law Professor in an Accredited US Law School

  Susan Carle, Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw, Margaret Thornton, and Rosemary Auchmuty

  THIS IS THE third volume in a trilogy on gender issues in legal occupations. An overview of Women in the World ’ s Legal Professions (Schultz and Shaw 2003) was followed by Gender and Judging (Schultz and Shaw 2013), finally to be completed by this study on women teachers of law. All three books have been published by Hart Publishing, to whom we are grateful for their unceasing support over so many years. Our thanks also go to the International Institute for the Sociology of Law for facilitating the inclusion of all three volumes in their O ñ ati Socio-Legal Series.

• A Research Framework on Intellectual Property and Morality

  Christine Farley

• A Research Framework on Intellectual Property and Morality

  Christine Farley, Irene Calboli, and Maria Lillà Montagnani

• Waiting for the Barbarians: Inside the Archives of the European Court of Justice

  Fernanda Nicola

  Book Description: At the beginning of 2015, the Court of Justice opened its archives, which created a new and challenging primary source for those studying the Court of Justice: the dossiers de procédure which contain much more than the contemporary documents published by the Court. This volume includes five chapters which analyse the activities of the Court of Justice from a highly diverse range of non-doctrinal perspectives. However, they also highlight significant new developments at the Court itself which attract attention and deserve analysis. Thus, the idea behind this volume is to make available new tools and approaches through which the activities of the Court of Justice can be studied. It shows a more intense engagement with scholars across disciplines to reflect on law and courts, with the Court of Justice as a central focus, and new methods (such as network citation analysis) and sources (such as the Court's archives) being discovered and developed. It also shows a more intense and deeply knowledgeable engagement with EU law and the Court of Justice by non-legal scholars, such as the new sociologies and histories of the Court of Justice. These and other new approaches have spawned productive and ongoing conversations across disciplines.

• Foreword

  Jonathan Baker

• Protecting and Fostering Online Platform Competition: The Role of Antitrust Law

  Jonathan Baker

  This essay provides a perspective on the role of antitrust law in protecting and fostering competition in the digital economy, with particular attention to online platforms. It highlights the danger of anti-competitive exclusionary conduct by dominant online platforms and describes ways that antitrust law can challenge and deter such conduct. The essay also identifies a number of difficulties that U.S. courts and enforcers face in challenging harmful exclusionary conduct by dominant platforms, and discusses some ways regulation can supplement antitrust law in fostering competition.

• Good Health and Good Privacy Go Hand-in-Hand

  Jennifer Daskal

  I. Health Surveillance: Defining the Categories A. Aggregate Level Analysis B. Individual Level Analysis 1. Contact-Tracing a. Government Monitoring b. Contract Tracing Apps 2. Quarantine Monitoring and Other Enforcement Mechanisms 3. Screenings II. Whether to Compel? A. The Legal Issues 1. The Fourth Amendment—A Limited Constraint 2. Special Needs Searches a. The Tailoring Question b. The Degree of Intrusion 3. Targeted Surveillance 4. Voluntary Data Disclosure Regimes III. The Policy Considerations Conclusion Notes & Questions

• The Overlapping Web of Data, Territoriality and Sovereignty

  Jennifer Daskal

  Provides a framework to better understand Global Legal Pluralism and the current international state of law.

  
  Equips practitioners, theorists, and students with deeper insights and analytical tools to describe the conflict among legal and quasi-legal systems.

  Analyzes global legal pluralism in light of legal theory, constitutionalism, conflict of laws, international law, commercial transactions, and as it affects indigenous polities, religious orders, and citizenship.

• When the Law Won’t Work: The US National Football League’s extra-judicial approach to addressing employment discrimination in coaching

  N. Jeremi Duru

  The Rooney Rule story teaches the importance of the opportunity to get into the proverbial room to make one’s case, but it also teaches the importance of creative approaches to encouraging equal opportunity. While a lawsuit can be a powerful tool in this realm, various circumstances may thwart its use. An employment discrimination claim for a head coach of a professional sports club presents a unique circumstance. The nature of the National Football League (NFL) coaching employment context rendered Title VII, the United States’ bell-weather employment discrimination statute, essentially inapplicable. Like Coca-Cola, the NFL was widely regarded as a conservative organization, and like Coca-Cola, the power positions in the NFL – including head coach – were overwhelmingly white. Mehri believed diverse candidate slates were well suited to the NFL context and anticipated they could assist in diversifying the NFL’s head coaching ranks just as they had diversified Coca-Cola’s executive ranks.

• Public Policy Limitations on Trademark Subject Matter: A U.S. Perspective

  Christine Farley

  What public policy objectives are contained in the subject-matter limitations of US trademark law? This question has recently taken on a renewed interest for US legal scholars. The general public policies that animate trademark law – encouraging fair competition and protecting consumers from deceptive practices – can certainly be found in some of the doctrines that constrain trademark subject matter. Some of the specific constraints found in US law, however, do not align with these traditional trademark policy goals. These instances raise fascinating questions, such as what policy goals are being advanced in these provisions, and are these policy goals appropriate within trademark law. These are the questions that lie behind the currently live question of whether the government’s denial of registration based on justifications outside the heart of trademark law is a valid restriction on speech.

• Pandemia y Derecho Internacional

  Claudio Grossman

  La pandemia actual ha cobrado un tremendo precio a la humanidad. A la fecha, más de un millón de personas han fallecido, varios millones han sido infectadas y no se vislumbra un final para las trágicas consecuencias que la COVID-19 ha infligido a las personas. La pandemia ha afectado a todas las naciones, debido a las interconexiones en numerosos campos, incluido el comercio, las inversiones y el turismo, que, como resultado de la globalización, han multiplicado los contactos entre las personas. No obstante, la pandemia ha demostrado también que las poblaciones más vulnerables son las que más sufren. Los países con sistemas de salud inexistentes o subdesarrollados tienen una capacidad limitada para adoptar medidas preventivas y/o responder con éxito a la pandemia. En general, las poblaciones vulnerables se ven más afectadas, debido a la pobreza, la falta de conocimientos sobre salud, el acceso a la tecnología o prácticas discriminatorias profundamente arraigadas. La pandemia también ha demostrado que las posibilidades internacionales para afrontar con éxito este tremendo desafío son enormemente insuficientes.

• Promoting Social change through Treaties and customary International Law: the Experience of the Inter-American Human Rights System

  Claudio Grossman

  Book Description: Advocating Social Change through International Law, edited by Professors Daniel Bradlow and David Hunter, explores the use of hard and soft international law in advocating for social change. Using case studies rooted in inter aliahuman rights, international crimes, environmental protection, public heath, and financial regulation, the book focuses on both state and non-state actors’ strategic choices regarding the use of hard and soft international law in advocating for social change. Looking through the social change lens provides new insights into the interplay between soft and hard international law, the perceived costs and benefits associated with hard and soft international law in different contexts, and the factors affecting the effectiveness of hard and soft approaches to international law.

• The Changing Landscape of International Law

  Claudio Grossman

• Africa, the Court, and the Council

  Rebecca Hamilton

• Local, Resistances to Global Convergence

  Fernanda Nicola

• Bottoms Up Narratives at the European Court of Justice

  Fernanda Giorgia Nicola Dr.

• Local, Institutional, Decolonizing and Democratic Resistances to Global Convergence

  Fernanda Giorgia Nicola Dr.

• The Tokyo Tribunal’s Legal Origins and Contributions to International Jurisprudence as Illustrated by Its Treatment of Sexual Violence

  Diane Orentlicher

• Chapter 3 Improving NGO and IGO Capacity to Gather Evidence

  Susana Sacouto

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a court of global jurisdiction. Without unlimited resources, the Court cannot be present in every place where crimes within its jurisdiction may be committed. The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) must, therefore, regularly rely on organizations on the ground that have access to witnesses, contacts, and other information that may be crucial to its investigations and/or prosecutions. The OTP's reliance on these organizations is particularly pronounced in the context of situations or cases involving sexual and gender based crimes (SGBC), as these crimes are often under-reported in situations of conflict or mass violence, making evidence collection of such crimes particularly challenging for the Court.

• Interview with Brenda V. Smith, Co-Lead Counsel for the Plaintiffs in Women Prisoners of D.C.

  Brenda V. Smith, Margo Schlanger, Sheila Bedi, David M. Shapiro, and Lynn S. Branham

  In the age of American mass incarceration, a complex legal regime governs prison conditions and presents a host of controversial questions at the intersection of constitutional liberty, statutory interpretation, administrative regulation, and public policy. This is a completely overhauled, re-titled, and much-expanded version of the leading casebook about incarceration. It addresses both pretrial and post-conviction incarceration, presenting Supreme Court and leading lower court case law, statutes, litigation materials, professional standards, academic commentary, and prisoner writing. Topics include conditions of confinement, civil liberties, particular prisoner populations and relevant legal issues (race and national origin discrimination, the particular issues/law governing treatment of incarcerated women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities). Litigated remedies (injunctive litigation, damages, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, and criminal prosecution of prison staff), are also covered in detail, as is non-litigation oversight. The casebook is supplemented by an open-access website that offers additional resources and sources for further reading.

• Empirical Studies of Claim Construction

  Jonas Anderson

  Patent claims define the scope of the patent right and hence are central to the operation of the patent system. Patent prosecutors devote substantial effort to crafting patent claims so as to maximize the scope of their right without “reading on” prior art (and thereby defeating novelty). Businesses seeking to enter a technology marketplace must be careful to avoid encroaching patent claims. Thus, when patentees enforce their rights, the interpretation of claim boundaries guides both validity and infringement analysis.

  Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Markman v. Westview Instruments (517 U.S. 370 (1996)), holding that “the construction of a patent, including terms of art within its claim, is exclusively within the province of the court,” district judges began the practice of construing patent claims in advance of trial following so-called “Markman” hearings. These constructions became subject to appellate review after the trial or summary judgment ruling.

  The Markman decision thus opened a valuable window into an important facet of patent law and the litigation process. This has led to a wide range of empirical studies examining: (1) reversal rates; (2) the sources and methodologies that judges employ in construing patent claims; and (3) appellate behavior generally. This chapter examines the hypotheses underlying these studies, the data used, the empirical methods deployed, and the principal results. It also suggests directions for further research.

• Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg and Antitrust Law's Rule(s) of Reason

  Jonathan Baker and Andrew Gavil

  This essay, written for a volume in honor of Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, explores the evolution of the rule of reason and its development into a common structured, burden shifting approach guiding judicial decisions under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and under Section 7 of the Clayton Act. It highlights the influential role that Judge Ginsburg and the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, on which he served, played in that evolution.