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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.
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All Roads Lead to Guo: The Case for In Re Guo’s (2d Cir. 2020) Resolution of the § 1782 Circuit Split
Reagan W. Kapp
Reagan Kapp is an Online 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. from Rice University in 2018.

Over the past few decades, commercial arbitration—including private international arbitration—has steadily increased as a means of dispute resolution.

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Waivers of Compassionate Release in Plea Bargains: The Need for Administrative Action to Prevent Unfair Sentencing
Ellen A. Wiencek
Ellen A. Wiencek 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. from Washington and Lee University in 2015. Ellen worked in the Federal Public Defenders Office for the Southern District of Illinois in the summer of 2020, where she drafted many motions for compassionate release.

Ellen thanks the Online Editors for their helpful comments on this piece.

Judge Charles Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California made headlines in May of 2020 with his decision to reject a plea agreement in United States v. Osorto (2020).

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Against Immunizing Nursing Homes
Betsy J. Grey
Jack E. Brown Chair in Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

I thank Bob Dauber, Zachary Kramer, and Joel Nomkin for their valuable comments on earlier drafts and Sean Krieg for his outstanding research assistance. 

Although Congress has so far declined to enact any immunity protection specifically targeted at COVID-19 claims, that has not stopped the Executive Branch from responding to the pandemic with immunity measures.