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  • Volume 22  |  2021-2022

    • Issue 1 (2021)

      • Article

        Scrutiny-Determination Avoidance in First Amendment Cases: Laudable Minimalism or Condemnable Evasion?

        by Clay Calvert
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      • Article

        Corporate Governance Gaming: The Collective Power of Retail Investors

        by Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and Christina M. Sautter
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      • Article

        Strength in Numbers (of Words): Empirical Analysis of Preambles and Public Comments

        by Anthony Moffa
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      • Article

        Re-Imagining Risk: The Role of Resilience and Prevention

        by Timothy Malloy
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      • Article

        Constitutional Avoidance and the Federal Common Law of Patent Subject Matter Eligibility

        by Sam F. Halabi
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      • Article

        Due Process on Campus: Where Do Procedural Rights Come from, and What Do They Require?

        by R. George Wright
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      • Article

        States and Systemic Risk: An Analysis of the Dodd-Frank Act’s (Un)Cooperative Federalism

        by Daniel A. Lyons
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      • Article

        Unleashing Pets from Dead-Hand Control

        by Kevin Bennardo and Kaity Y. Emerson
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      • Note

        Tech Platforms Are Essential Facilities

        by Joshua Nelson
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      • Note

        Victims’ Rights Moving Forward After the Epstein Case

        by Jessica Phipps
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    • Issue 2 (2022)

      • Article

        Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Copyright Jurisprudence

        by Ann Bartow and Ryan Vacca
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      • Article

        The Supreme Court’s Chief Justice of Intellectual Property Law

        by Robert W. Gomulkiewicz
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      • Article

        Automating Repossession

        by Juliet M. Moringiello
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      • Article

        More Cowbell: Freeing Insider-Trading Liability for Mere-Thieves from the Supreme Court’s Twentieth-Century Devotion to the Cult of Common-Law Doctrinal Analysis

        by Robert Steinbuch
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      • Article

        The Power of a Good Story: How Narrative Techniques Can Make Transactional Documents More Persuasive

        by Susan M. Chesler and Karen J. Sneddon
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      • Article

        Modeling the Caselaw Access Project: Lessons for Market Power and the Antitrust–Regulation Balance

        by Felix B. Chang, James Lee and Erin McCabe
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      • Article

        Endogenous and Dangerous

        by Brian N. Larson
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      • Article

        Against Political Speech

        by John M. Kang
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      • Note

        Fear, Insanity, and Loathing in Nevada

        by Alexandra Mateo
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    • Issue 3 (2022)

      • Symposium

        Introduction: A Symposium on Enhancing Civil and Constitutional Rights Through State and Local Action

        by Ann C. McGinley
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      • Symposium

        Stopping Anti-Asian Hate: Local Solutions to a National Problem

        by Stewart Chang
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      • Symposium

        Nevada as an Example: State Immigration Reform in a Swing State

        by Michael Kagan, Jorge "Coco" Padilla and Selena Torres
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      • Symposium

        Felony Disenfranchisement and Voting Rights Restoration in the States

        by Manoj Mate
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      • Symposium

        No Path Forward: Nevada’s Death Penalty

        by Randolph M. Fiedler
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      • Symposium

        Tackling the Qualified Immunity Problem with State Law

        by Addie C. Rolnick, Anona Su and Andréa Vieira
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      • Symposium

        Legislating a Pathway to Improved Outcomes for People Living with HIV and LGBTQ+ Nevadans

        by Dallas Harris and André Wade
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      • Symposium

        Health Plan Coverage for Gender-Affirming Care: Continued Shortcomings at the Federal Level and a Role for Progressive States

        by Richard Luedeman
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      • Symposium

        #FREETHEHAIR: How Black Hair is Transforming State and Local Civil Rights Legislation

        by D. Wendy Greene
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      • Symposium

        Pregnant Workers Fairness Acts: Advancing a Progressive Policy in Both Red and Blue America

        by Deborah A. Widiss
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      • Article

        Restorative Justice and Anti-Racism

        by Martha Minow
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      • Note

        The “Fool’s Gold” Standard of Confession Evidence: How Intersecting, Disadvantaged Identities Heighten the Risk of False Confession

        by Nicole Weis
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  • Volume 21  |  2020-2021

    • Issue 1 (2020)

      • Article

        Reversing the Decriminalization of Sexual Violence

        by Lisa Avalos
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      • Article

        Secret Algorithms, IP Rights, and the Public Interest

        by Meghan J. Ryan
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      • Article

        Pardoning Dogs

        by Sarah Schindler
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      • Article

        Implicit Disability Bias Disinterred by Zombie Factors in Social Security Disability Determinations

        by Frank Griffin
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      • Article

        A Contemporary Approach to Ride-Through, Ipso Facto Clauses, and the Nondefaulting Debtor

        by Lawrence Ponoroff
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      • Article

        Calming Down and Waking Up: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Mindfulness Training on Law Students

        by Charity Scott and Paul Verhaeghen
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      • Article

        Digging into Algorithms: Legal Ethics and Legal Access

        by Carla L. Reyes and Jeff Ward
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      • Note

        Convenience or Confidentiality: Nevada’s Digital Data Laws in the Age of Always-Listening Devices

        by E. Sebastian Cate-Cribari
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      • Note

        A (Cruel and) Unusual Decision: Questions Raised for the Fifth Circuit Moving Forward from Gibson v. Collier

        by J. Gregory Cloward
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    • Issue 2 (2021)

      • Article

        Autonomous Business Reality

        by Carla L. Reyes
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      • Article

        Tax Incentives for Green Burial

        by Victoria J. Haneman
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      • Article

        The Vanishing Core of Judicial Independence

        by Evan C. Zoldan
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      • Article

        Cruelty Was the Point: Theories of Recovery for Family Separation andDetention Abuses

        by Sarah Rogerson
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      • Article

        Digital Fidelity and Friction

        by Ellen P. Goodman
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      • Article

        (Un)Wicked Analytical Frameworks and the Cry for Identity

        by Leslie Patrice Culver
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      • Article

        Artificial Intelligence and Access to the Patent System

        by W. Keith Robinson
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      • Article

        Continuous Burdens of Proof

        by Mark Spottswood
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      • Note

        Giving Qualified Immunity Teeth: A Congressional Approach toFixing Qualified Immunity

        by Tayler Bingham
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    • Issue 3 (2021)

      • Symposium

        Race and Gender and Policing

        by Stewart Chang, Frank Rudy Cooper and Addie C. Rolnick
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      • Symposium

        Legal Support for Victim Compensation Funds for Police Violence Victims

        by Valena E. Beety
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      • Symposium

        The Elusiveness of Self-Defense for the Black Transgender Community

        by Shawn E. Fields
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      • Symposium

        Women of Color in Immigration Enforcement

        by Kit Johnson
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      • Symposium

        Sovereignty Threat: Loreal Tsingine, Policing, and the Intersectionality of Indigenous Death

        by Theresa Rocha Beardall
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      • Symposium

        Anomalous Anatomies: How the TSA Should Screen for Transgender People

        by John M. Kang and Karissa J. Kang
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      • Symposium

        Enough! Eliminating Police Abuse of Individuals of Color with Disabilities

        by Ann C. McGinley
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      • Symposium

        Web of Incarceration: School-Based Probation

        by Jyoti Nanda
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      • Symposium

        An Empirical Analysis of the Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences in NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Practices

        by Henry F. Fradella, Weston J. Morrow and Michael D. White
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      • Symposium

        American Punishment and Pandemic

        by Danielle C. Jefferis
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      • Article

        Hiding Sexual Harassment: Myths and Realities

        by Pat K. Chew
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      • Note

        Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven,” and Cognitive Aging: Implications for Laches in the Copyright Context

        by John M. McCormick-Huhn
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