Recent Developments
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Recent Articles
Character Copyrightability in Chaos: How Unclear Character Copyright Tests Lead to Improper Results
71 Am. U. L. Rev. 1145 (2022)
Copyright law for fictional characters has been inconsistent since the first character copyright case in 1930. The lack of explicit statutory protecti ...
When a Second Chance Gets a Second Chance: Reasonableness Review Reigns for Motions Under Section 404(B) of The First Step Act on Appeal
71 Am. U. L. Rev. 1183 (2022).
The First Step Act of 2018 was an historic criminal justice reform bill that, among its many provisions, retroactively reduced the disparity in senten ...
Faulty Pipeline and the Holey Shale: The Fundamental Trespass of Fracking
71 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 95 (2022).
Anglo-American courts, perhaps more than any others, hold property rights in extremely high regard. Of those rights, the right to exclude others is th ...
Harnessing the Wind: A Framework for PISC Accountability
71 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 71 (2021).
* Associate Professor of Law and Ethics, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. J.D., University of Maryland School of Law; B.B.A., Loyola University. ...
Ordinary Clients, Overreaching Lawyers, and the Failure to Implement Adequate Client Protection Measures
71 Am. U. L. Rev. 447 (2021).
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The Pocketbook Next Time: From Civil Rights to Market Power in the Latinx Community
71 Am. U. L. Rev. 579 (2021).
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An Apple a Day Keeps Educational Malpractice Lawsuits at Bay: Applying Principles of Medical Malpractice’s “Locality Rule” to Deconstruct the Academic Abstention Doctrine
71 Am. U. L. Rev. 1105 (2022)