Author: Abbie Conrad (JD 2024-2025 student)

By Ashley Liu. Suppose that Aaron is an ophthalmologist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. In his flourishing private practice, Aaron mostly performs routine cataract surgeries. This is perhaps unsurprising, as cataract extractions are some of the…

By Sarah Paterson & Adrian Walters. This Article rests on four premises: (i) that modern market participant frequently seek legal tools to compromise selected liabilities and not all the liabilities of the firm; (ii) that it is difficult to achieve a…

By Nicole Buonocore Porter. Our jobs are not only about the work we do—they are also about when and where we do that work. For a variety of reasons, employees with disabilities often seek modifications of their employers’ policies regarding when…

By Peter R. Reilly. Two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft crashes, occurring less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019, resulted in 346 deaths—possibly the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history. The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) used an alternative…

By Shai Stern.  The development of environmental law starting in the mid-20th century involved constant tension with private property. Attempts to protect the dwindling natural resources, extinct species of animals, and ecosystems at risk have often encountered obstacles when they…

By Jennifer N. Rosen Valverde.  In special education disputes, post-hoc evidence—i.e., evidence that was not available to a school district at the time it acted, failed to act, or made the decision at issue—matters. For many families of children with…

By Justin Weinstein-Tull.  How do we experience constitutional structure? We understand structure—federalism and the separation of powers—as the ordering of governmental bodies. Rarely, however, do we ask how those structures affect our daily lives. Courts treat this question abstractly, if…