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Personalized Enfranchisement
H. Javier Kordi
H. Javier Kordi received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2020. After graduating, he clerked for Judge Diane Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and now clerks for Senior Judge Susan Illston on the Northern District of California. In law school, his writing focused on distributive justice in tort law. His works received recognition as the most creative legal paper during his 2L year and the Ephraim Prize in Law and Economics.

Javier thanks Omri Ben-Shahar for his endless mentorship, Niki Sabetfakhri for her tireless support, and the participants of the University of Chicago Law School’s 2021 Symposium on Personalized Law for their insightful comments and discussions during our time in Hyde Park.

Should people be allowed to vote before the age of eighteen?

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The Ancient Alien: Good Faith as the Facilitator of Personalized Law
Catalina Goanta
Catalina Goanta is the Associate Professor in Private Law and Technology at Utrecht University and the Principal Investigator of HUMANads, a Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council. She also is one of the editors of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law and the main legal expert for the consortium organizing the activities of the European Commission’s E-Enforcement Academy.

Catalina would like to thank the participants of the book-launching event hosted by the University of Chicago for their valuable comments.

As society becomes more measurable, our reliance on unmeasurable legal rules has been brought into question.

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Moving Toward Personalized Law
Cary Coglianese
Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania.

Part 121 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations provides rules for operating commercial air transportation services.

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Why Personalized Law?
Horst Eidenmüller
Horst Eidenmüller is a Statutory Professor for Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is also a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

In 1980, the Hofstra Law Review ran a symposium on “Efficiency as a Legal Concern.”

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Race and the History of International Investment Law
Felipe Ford Cole
Felipe Ford Cole is a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

He thanks Jay Butler, Melissa Murray, Guy Charles, Gina-Gail Fletcher, Craig Konnoth, and The University of Chicago Law Review Online editors for their helpful comments and feedback.

Over the last decade, new contributions to the history of international investment law (IIL) have begun to redefine the field’s origins.

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Standing Aside for Animals: Disentangling the Strategy and Goals of Animal Welfare Litigation
Tony Leyh
Tony Leyh is an Articles Editor 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 Eckerd College in 2013 and his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2020.

In Naruto v. Slater (9th Cir. 2018), Naruto, a Celebes crested macaque from Sulawesi, Indonesia, snapped several “selfies” on wildlife photographer David Slater’s unattended camera.

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Ninth Circuit Renames Copyright Estoppel the Asserted Truths Doctrine
Yiwei Jiang
Yiwei Jiang 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.S. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2018.

A copyright ruling on the Broadway hit “Jersey Boys” paves the way for creators to make projects that are based on a true story.

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La Liberte v. Reid and the Anti-SLAPP Split
Lina Dayem
Lina Dayem is an Articles Editor 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. in 2013 and M.A. in 2017, both from the University of Chicago.

A picture is worth a thousand words—but only in certain federal circuits.

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Does Chiafalo v. Washington Bolster the Case for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact? Not So Fast.
Zachary Reger
Zachary Reger 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.J. and B.A. in 2017 from the University of Missouri, where he majored in Journalism, Philosophy, and Film Studies.

In the summer of 2020, the Supreme Court unanimously held that a state may, pursuant to state law, punish or remove its faithless presidential electors.

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A Demographic Moral Panic: Fears of a Majority-Minority Future and the Depreciating Value of Whiteness
Brittany Farr
Brittany Farr is a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

She thanks Allison Page, Melissa Murray, Gina-Gail Fletcher, Guy Charles, Craig Konnoth, Colleen Campbell, along with The University of Chicago Law Review Online editors for their thoughtful feedback on this piece.

In 2008, the U.S. Census Bureau released a new population projection based on Census 2000.

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There’s Something Fishy About McGirt: The Decision’s Hidden Effects on Indian Treaty-Based Fishing Rights in the Pacific Northwest
Alec F. Mouser
Alec F. Mouser is a Comments Editor for The University of Chicago Law Review and is a J.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. He received his B.A. in 2019 from William & Mary, where he studied History and Government.

He is grateful to Jim Westwood and Brad Grenham for their helpful comments and support, and to Tamara Skinner, Alex Meade, and Candice Yandam Riviere for their edits.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) sent a shockwave across the country as commentators began to consider what consequences could result from effectively declaring half of Oklahoma to be within an Indian reservation.

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Let’s Talk About Sex Ed, Baby: Sexual Education Programs and Curricular Exclusions Under Title IX
Danny Moreno
Danny Moreno is a Topic Access & Recruitment Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. They received their B.A. from the University of Chicago.
The legal landscape of reproductive rights confronts a wave of uncertainty with a divided court, the recent appointment of a Supreme Court justice, and a new administration.