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Distributing the Corporation’s Brain: Principal Place of Business Without Physical Presence
Nicholas Hallock
Nicholas Hallock is a staff member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. candidate in the University of Chicago Law School class of 2022. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2017.

Thanks to the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for their help with this piece.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses transitioned to remote work for some or all of their employees, relying on videoconference platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams for communication.

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Willfully Blind to the Machinery of Death: The State of Execution Challenges After Barr v. Lee
Jay Clayton
Jay Clayton is a staff member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2016.

He would like to thank Miriam George for her terrific comments on this piece, and Daniel Loehr for his input and guidance.

The Supreme Court “has never invalidated a [ ] chosen procedure for carrying out a sentence of death as the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment.”

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Federal Grand Juries’ Supremacy Over Foreign Data Privacy Laws
Alexander C. Meade
Alexander C. Meade is a Member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016.

He would like to thank Meghan Holloway, Matthew D. Reade, Nathan T. Tschepik, and Chloe M. Zagrodzky for their invaluable feedback.

Data privacy has been at the forefront of recent foreign-policy conversations.

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Judge Diane P. Wood: A True Friend
Zachary D. Clopton
Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

My deepest gratitude to Judge Wood for her boundless mentorship and support. Thank you to Katherine Kinzler, Tejas Narechania, and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for their help with this piece.

Bodum USA, Inc. v. La Cafetiere, Inc. is a case about French press, trade dress, and a twenty-year-old contract.

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What Judge Wood Taught Me About Glass Cages
Elizabeth A. Reese
Elizabeth Reese (Yunpoví) is a Bigelow Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

When I began my clerkship year with Judge Diane Wood, I was keenly aware that I would be getting to know one of the most powerful people I would ever encounter in my life.

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Judge Wood and the Human Side of Judging
Tejas N. Narechania
Tejas N. Narechania is the Robert and Nanci Corson Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

I am immensely grateful to Judge Wood for giving me the chance to clerk for her, to Khushali Narechania for being willing to uproot our nascent family so that I could seize that opportunity, and to Scott Hemphill for urging me to apply to Judge Wood’s chambers in the first instance. I also thank Matthew Reade and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for the invitation to offer my personal recollections, and for their edits and suggestions on this short piece.

It is often said that one should always choose a great boss over a great role.

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Oboe Judging
David Freeman Engstrom
Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, and the Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School.

Judge Diane Wood took a different approach.  She played the oboe.

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Zoom Trials as the New Normal: A Cautionary Tale
Angela Chang
Angela Chang is a staff member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. She received her B.A. from Williams College in 2017.

She would like to thank Deb Malamud for her invaluable input and guidance.

As of November 9, 2020, the United States has had over 10 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and at least 240,000 deaths.

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COVID-19 and Criminal Justice
Valena E. Beety
Valena E. Beety is Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Deputy Director of Academy for Justice.
Brandon L. Garrett
Brandon L. Garrett is L. Neil Williams Professor of Law and Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke University School of Law.

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the boundaries of our criminal legal system, testing the entrenchment of patterns in incarceration, policing, and surveillance.

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Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19
Sharon Dolovich
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Director, UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project.

I thank Sasha Natapoff and Brendan Saloner for helpful comments; John Boston, David Fathi, Aaron Littman, and Alan Mills for their generous willingness to field my many questions; Liz DeWolf for her editorial advice; and Kaitlyn Fryzek for excellent research assistance. I also thank the entire UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project team—staff, leadership team, and volunteers—who have worked tirelessly since the start of the pandemic to collect and analyze data of all kinds bearing on the impact of COVID on people in custody. Your commitment to the enterprise has been inspiring beyond measure. Thanks are due as well to the Vital Projects Fund, Arnold Ventures, and the United States Centers for Disease Control, for their generous support of our work. All views presented in this Essay are solely my own.

From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was clear that the novel coronavirus posed an outsized danger to the more than two million people locked inside America’s prisons and jails.

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Law Enforcement as Disease Vector
Maybell Romero
Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University College of Law.

Thanks to Marissa Jackson Sow, Kim Ricardo, Michael S. Sinha, and commentators at the 2020 Northern Illinois University College of Law Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference.

The people have judged the cops to be a greater risk to health than covid and frankly that’s on cops.

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Pretrial Dismissal in the Interest of Justice: A Response to COVID-19 and Protest Arrests
Valena E. Beety
Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; Deputy Director, Academy for Justice.

Thank you for excellent feedback from Darryl Brown and Anna Roberts, both of whom have written valuable scholarship on dismissals in the interest of justice.  My gratitude as well to ASU law students Zach Stern, Priyal Thakkar, and Alejandra Curiel Molina for their research assistance. Finally, thank you to University of Chicago Law Review editor Matthew Reade for his insightful edits on this piece, and for his tremendous work and partnership in organizing this symposium.

The most dangerous place to be in America is prison or jail.