The criminal justice system is becoming automated. At every stage, from policing to
evidence to parole, machine learning and other computer systems guide outcomes …

In October of 2017, before a jam-packed hearing at City Hall in New York, Council Member
James Vacca listened to a series of testimonies that outlined two dramatically divergent …

How does government relate to private claims of right in our market society? This is a key
question in a democracy and a topic of perennial struggle in the United States. During the …

A trade secret, according to the conventional understanding," expires" only once it is no
longer kept secret. Keep the secret for decades or even centuries, as with the formula for …

Trade secrets are the most pervasive form of intellectual property in the modern economy. 1
Nearly every enterprise-whether for-profit or not-seeks to protect information about its …

As Congress considers possible federal regulation of facial recognition technology in the
US, it is important to understand the way in which this technology is utilized, especially in the …

One evening in May 2020, sixty-four-year-old Michael Williams was returning home from an
after-dinner trip to his neighborhood convenience store in Chicago's South Side.'He was …

For years, social media companies have sparred with lawmakers over how much
independent access to platform data they should provide researchers. Sharing data with …

The rising cost of prescription drugs in the United States presents a critical challenge in
modern public policy. As prices rise sharply across all medications-from new, life-saving …

Not all unauthorized users of property are considered villains by the law. Take, for example,
the trespasser who invades an owner's parcel of land to take shelter from a natural disaster …