Scholars across disciplines such as sociology, economics, and urban planning are writing about gentrification. The literature and beliefs surrounding gentrification are very diverse, but what often connects the various views is a negative perception that gentrification always disadvantages and displaces low-income minority residents, physically or culturally. But the connotations of race and class associated with […]

By Carol Brown

Since the United States first began thinking about international law and cyberspace in the 1990s, it has been clear to us that international law applies to what States do in cyberspace, just as it does to what they do in other domains. When I say international law, I mean all of it treaties, of course, […]

By Richard Visek

If given the opportunity, how many years would you sentence Sam Bankman-Fried to prison? The Presentence Report (PSR) recommended that the judge impose a sentence of one hundred years. Describing the recommendation as “grotesque” and “barbaric,” attorneys for Bankman-Fried argued that five to six years would be a more “just sentence.” Despite the large discrepancy […]

By Nicole Shammo

On January 29, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided Martinez v. UPMC Susquehanna, sending a series of holdings into the world with little fanfare. The organizations and law firms that did report on the decision discussed the narrowest holding that the appellant/plaintiff, Dr. Zeferino Martinez, did not need to […]

By Sarah Shaiman

Patents are pragmatic public policy tools, used in different places and times to encourage the creation, disclosure, and diffusion of technologies. Positioned as both the gatekeeper and inspirer of technological change, patent law’s hyperstitional power commodifies chemical structures, computer codes, and genetic sequences. This positioning has also made patent law susceptible to a particular kind […]

By Celia Karpatkin