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2021

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Removing Interpretative Barnacles: Counterclaims and Civil Forfeiture
Nicholas Hallock
B.A. 2017, Columbia University; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School

Thanks to Professor William Hubbard and Ramon Feldbrin for thoughtful feedback.

The Pueblo of Pojoaque is a Native American tribe in northern New Mexico. Its reservation has a population of 2,712, and, like many tribes, the Pueblo of Pojoaque operates multiple casinos and resorts.

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Vindicating the Right to Be Heard: Due Process Safeguards Against Government Interference in the Clemency Process
Jay Clayton
B.A. 2016, Swarthmore College; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School

Many thanks to The University of Chicago Law Review editors and Professor John Rappaport for their help and advice.

In 2020, the U.S. federal government carried out ten exe-cutions, more than in any year since 1896. In a single week in January 2021, it carried out three more.

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Federal Rules of Platform Procedure
Rory Van Loo
Associate Professor of Law, Boston University; Affiliated Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project

For valuable input, I am grateful to Hannah Bloch-Wehba, Kiel Brennan-Marquez, Danielle Citron, Julie Cohen, Christina Koningisor, Megan Ericson, Nikolas Guggenberger, Thomas Kadri, Daphne Keller, Louis Kaplow, Mark Lemley, Ngozi Okidegbe, Przemysław Pałka, Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell, David Walker, editors at The University of Chicago Law Review, and participants at Boston University School of Law faculty workshop, Brooklyn Law School faculty workshop, Harvard Law and Economics Seminar, Junior Tech Law Scholars workshop, and Stanford Law and Economics Seminar. Brianne Allan, Jacob Axelrod, Samuel Burgess, Leah Dowd, Derek Farquhar, Shecharya Flatte, Chris Hamilton, Jack Langa, Kathleen Pierre, Tyler Stites, and Gavin Tullis provided excellent research assistance.

In the fall of 2017, the world’s largest social network put hundreds of women in “Facebook jail,” indefinitely suspending their accounts for posting “men are scum.”

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Deal Protection Devices
Albert H. Choi
Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

I would like to thank workshop participants at the law schools of Columbia University, University of Michigan, and University of Southern California; conference participants at the 2018 Trans-Pacific Business Law Conference and the 2020 Winter Deals Conference; and particularly Dhruv Aggarwal, Adam Badawi, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Joel Friedlander, Jeff Gordon, Michael Knoll, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster, Brian Quinn, and Bob Scott for many helpful comments and suggestions. Comments are welcome to alchoi@umich.edu.

On April 12, 2018, two wholesale office supply companies, Genuine Parts Corporation (GPC) and Essendant, Inc., agreed to combine their office supply businesses in order to better compete against e-commerce sellers, such as Amazon.com, Inc.