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By Katharine Greer. Chrystul Kizer entered Gary, Indiana’s junior high performing arts academy with a dream of becoming a violinist.  She practiced all hours of the day trying to master music by composers like Beethoven. She was a “burgeoning artist” and…

By William Harren. The relationship between natural law and positive law represents one of the oldest unresolved questions in American jurisprudence. When Thomas Jefferson wrote, “[w]e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” he invoked natural…

By Hadar Y. Jabotinsky & Roee Sarel. Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is rapidly advancing, particularly in the area of generative AI—a technology capable of producing new and rich content in response to human prompts. Generative AI systems have been causing quite a…

By Heidi H. Liu. Recent legislation and caselaw have imposed an affirmative obligation on employers to provide employees with workplace accommodations. Whether someone receives an accommodation, however, often first depends on whether they ask. And asking for accommodations can be fraught.…

By Lucy Williams.In 2014, a nonprofit group called Students for Fair Admissions (“SFFA”) filed two lawsuits challenging the use of race in university admissions. In one suit, against Harvard College, SFFA alleged that Harvard’s admission policies violate Title VI of…

By Andrea Olson.It is an open secret that equity has an Erie problem. In 1945, the Supreme Court insisted that federal courts sitting in diversity must apply certain general equitable principles when faced with suits seeking equitable relief, even for…

By Mackenzie Holden. In 2003, relatives of a deceased elephant were seen pushing and pulling her body for nearly a week following her death. In 2016, footage captured a group of elephants standing over the dead body of an elephant they…

By Alex S. Li. In light of the renewed global interest in Earth’s sole natural satellite, this Article ventures into the intricate legal dynamics shaping the development of a lunar mining industry.It starts by illuminating how various models of Outer Space…

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…