Requiring Majority Winners for Congressional Elections: Harnessing Federalism to Combat Extremism
This paper was presented on May 7, 2021, at the AALS Conference on Rebuilding Democracy and the Rule of Law.
ELI Annual Meeting: Principles for a Data Economy
The ELI is scheduled to vote on this project next month.
Tribal Pardons: A Comparative Survey
This paper surveys American Indian tribal justice systems to assess whether collateral consequences attach to convictions and whether a pardon or expungement process exists to remove tribal convictions.
UCI Law’s New Fair Elections and Free Speech Center
The University of California, Irvine School of Law has launched the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center, dedicated to “advancing an understanding of, and offering means to counter, threats to the stability and legitimacy of democratic governments exacerbated by the unregulated growth of digital media and other technological changes in mass communication.”
The Mysterious Market for Post-Settlement Litigant Finance
This Article is the first to present systematic, large-scale data on post-settlement litigant funding—the type of funding most NFL players reportedly received.
Automating Repossession
Automating Repossession addresses a question that has no clear answer in commercial law – does a creditor have the right to remotely disable collateral upon its debtor’s default? As physical goods are increasingly connected to online networks in ways that allow their sellers to control their use, it is possible for secured lenders to deploy a remote and automated repossessor to disable tangible collateral in the event of a borrower’s default. Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, which allows a secured creditor to repossess collateral upon its debtor’s default without resorting to the courts only if it can do so without a breach of the peace, does not address this practice.