Closed for Business – Open for Litigation?
Can a business-closure regulation of commercial property in a pandemic be a taking? In the midst of a pandemic, it generally falls to government to enact laws and regulations in an effort to curtail the spread of disease. For example,...
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Undue Computational Experimentation: Can In Silico Experiments Allows Genus Claims to Survive?
U.S. courts have, time and again, struck down genus claims for undue experimentation. The most recent blow came last year in Amgen v. Sanofi, when the Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s ruling that Amgen’s patent on antibodies with a...
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Vanderbilt law students are active, public-minded, and come from a variety of backgrounds - all qualities reflected by a wide variety of thriving student organizations at the law school. Even with little free time, most students find it worthwhile to...
A Great American Gun Myth: Race and the Naming of the “Saturday Night Special” lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By Jennifer L. Behrens and Joseph Blocher. Full Text. At a time when Second Amendment doctrine has taken a strongly historical turn and gun rights advocates have increasingly argued that gun regulation itself is historically racist, it is especially important...
DE-TRUMPING THE 2024 ELECTION? REVIEWING MINNESOTA’S ROLE IN THE MOVEMENT TO BAN DONALD TRUMP FROM THE BALLOT - Minnesota Law Review
By Callan Showers, Volume 108 Staff Member On November 2, 2023, the Minnesota Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether Donald Trump can lawfully appear on Minnesota’s ballots in the 2024 Presidential election due to his participation in efforts to...
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Deterring Viral Pandemics of COVID-19 Misinformation
As the coronavirus spreads across the United States, so does an info-demic of dangerous misinformation threatening public health. UN Secretary-General António Guterres characterized this misinfo-demic as a “secondary disease” that needlessly threatens public health, observing that “[h]armful health advice and...
Artificial intelligence as a medical device in radiology: ethical and regulatory issues in Europe and the United States
Wisconsin Law Review’s 2024 Symposium
The Wisconsin Law Review presents, Sept. 20, 2024: The 2024 Wisconsin Law Review SymposiumThe one-day symposium was hosted by Dean Dan Tokaji, University of Wisconsin Law School, and Professors Miriam Seifter and Rob Yablon of the State Democracy Research Initiative,...
Income Taxation and the Regulation of Supreme Court Justices’ Conduct
In 2023, investigative journalists reported multiple instances where billionaires showered Supreme Court Justices with lavish gifts. Previously undisclosed luxury fishing trips, private jet travel, and yacht cruises ignited popular and scholarly debates about Congress’s role in regulating Justices’ conduct. This...
Wisconsin Law Review’s 2022 Symposium
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The Vanderbilt Law School Public Interest Office prepares students for fulfilling and sustainable public interest careers through robust advising, programming, and community support. It fosters a culture of public service by providing the vision, training, and opportunities to serve the...
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What Sets Vanderbilt's LL.M. Program Apart? At Vanderbilt Law, you can customize your legal education, prepare for a bar exam, and improve your language skills. Course Tracks and Customizable Curriculums At Vanderbilt, students have the power to choose what they...
The Federal General Counsel, Law, and Our Democracy at a Crossroads
This speech, given by the general counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on January 7, 2025, examines how federal government lawyers can help ensure that laws are faithfully administered to address the contemporary…The postThe Federal General Counsel, Law,...
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They still call it “Music City,” but Nashville has earned a few other distinctions. It’s perennially on the list of America’s friendliest cities. It has been named the nation’s No. 1 smartest place to live.Nashville is built upon an ecosystem...
Regulatory Settlement, Stare Decisis, and Loper Bright
In Loper Bright v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court adopted and deployed a particular narrative about agency action in support of overruling Chevron: Agencies reverse their own statutory interpretations “as much as [they] like[],” creating pervasive instability in the law, thereby...
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Vanderbilt University is a globally renowned center for scholarly research, informed and creative teaching, and service to the community and society at large. The Vanderbilt community is committed to the highest academic standards, a spirit of intellectual freedom and a...
WLR Forward
Wisconsin Law Review Forward is an online only publication intended to move conversations in legal academia forward by providing a forum for the quick publication of topical and timely pieces that would otherwise be delayed by our production schedule for...
A Law and Political Economy of Intellectual Property
Introduction Theories of intellectual property (IP) tend to come in two varieties: “normative” theories that concern themselves with evaluating the extent to which IP rights are (or are not) justified, and “positive” theories that focus on explaining the origins or...
Call for Submissions for Second Annual Student Essay Competition
The Virginia Law Review (VLR) Online is excited to announce the topic for our second annual essay competition. This competition is open to all current law students (including LLMs) and recent graduates (from the Classes of 2018–2021) from any ABA-accredited...
READY, AIM, FIRE? EVALUATING THE FUTURE OF LIABILITY FOR THE FIREARMS INDUSTRY DURING NEW-WAVE PLCAA LITIGATION - Minnesota Law Review
By: Will Roberts, Volume 108 Staff Member I. MECHANISMS FOR FIREARMS INDUSTRY LIABILITY In 2005, Congress enacted the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) which significantly shielded members of the firearms industry from civil liability for over a...
2025-26 Symposium - Minnesota Law Review
The Minnesota Law Review invites you to attend the Vol. 110 Symposium, "The Battle Will Not Be Over": 60 Years of the Voting Rights Act. As Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, he warned that...
BETTING ON THE FUTURE: DISCUSSING PATHS FORWARD FOR MINNESOTA TO LEGALIZE SPORTS BETTING - Minnesota Law Review
By Benjamin Albert Halevy, Volume 108 Staff Member From pull-tab vending machines at bars to tribe-owned casinos sporting slot machines and blackjack tables, Minnesota is no stranger to gambling within its borders. Yet, sports gambling, the fastest growing sector of...
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1Interdisciplinary ApproachResearch at Vanderbilt draws on the belief that great breakthroughs happen when different ideas, disciplines and areas of expertise come together. As a result, Vanderbilt is dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations that can expand the framework for what is...