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Testing for Multisided Platform Effects in Antitrust Market Definition
Patrick R. Ward
JD/PhD (Economics) Candidate, The University of Chicago

The author wishes to thank Professor Randal Picker as well as Mila Rusafova, Emily Samra, and the members of The University of Chicago Law Review for their helpful thoughts and suggestions.

Given myriad business practices and conditions, establishing certain antitrust harms requires context.

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Mrs. Orville Isn’t Trying to Steal Tips: An FLSA Story
Benjamin Meyer
BA 2013, Wheaton College (IL); JD Candidate 2018, The University of Chicago Law School

A debate over tips and tipped employees, centered on a few provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), has arisen among the circuits. Despite turning on only a few phrases in the FLSA, this judicial divide has massive implications for the restaurant and hospitality industries.

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Making Mistakes about the Law: Police Mistakes of Law between Qualified Immunity and Lenity
Lael Weinberger
BA 2009, Thomas Edison State University; MA 2013, Northern Illinois University; JD Candidate 2018, The University of Chicago Law School; PhD Candidate, Department of History, The University of Chicago

While patrolling one night in 2014, police officer Jeff Packard noticed a car with a hole in one of its red taillights.

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Associational Standing under the Copyright Act
Andreas M. Petasis
BA 2013, University of Southern California; JD Candidate 2018, The University of Chicago Law School

Imagine an author. One day, she sees a website that allows users to annotate short stories in an innovative way, providing a variety of short stories with which to experiment. As she peruses the site, she finds that some of the stories are actually hers.

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Schrödinger’s Cell: Pretrial Detention, Supervised Release, and Uncertainty
Eric J. Maier
BFA 2011, University of Michigan; JD Candidate 2018, The University of Chicago Law School

As quantum theory developed, Erwin Schrödinger began to explore the strange results the theory seemed to predict. Oversimplifying, quantum theory proposed that a single atom could be in two places at once but that observing the atom at one point would cause it to exist at only that point.

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Between Here and There: Buffer Zones in International Law
Eian Katz
BA 2013, Yale University; JD Candidate 2018, The University of Chicago Law School

On a December morning in 2015, H.A. left early from his home in central Gaza to tend to his fields of wheat, barley, peas, and fava beans a couple hundred meters from the Israeli border fence. He arrived to find a low-flying Israeli aircraft spewing a thick, white substance over his farmland as it traveled south along the Palestinian side of the divide.