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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 11

#ICYMI: "The New Homelessness" by Mila Versteeg, Kevin L. Cope, and Gaurav Mukherjee for CLR

Read it at californialawreview.org/print/new-homelessness

A description of a California Law Review article, The New Homelessness, accompanied by a photo of a tent encampment in Seattle, Washington

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

CG Mahajan argues that the federal judiciary should adopt ADA protections to provide equal access to the federal court system and ensure that the federal judiciary reflects the diverse public it serves.

californialawreview.org/print/judiciary-ada

Access Without the ADA: The Implications of the Federal Judiciary’s Exemption from Following the Disability Rights Statute It Upholds

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ben Pearce argues that the California Supreme Court should make a change to a legal test that determines when local initiatives and referenda are preempted by state law.

californialawreview.org/print/morgan-democracy

Revisiting City of Morgan Hill: Fixing California’s Direct Democracy Preemption Test

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Natalie Jacewicz offers a range of possible agency approaches to incorporate individual animals’ inherent worth into wildlife management.

californialawreview.org/print/new-conservationism

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Christopher S. Havasy provides avenues for Congress, the President, and agencies to explicitly and consistently institutionalize mid-level justice principles.

californialawreview.org/print/social-justice-conflicts

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Joshua C. Macey & Brian M. Richardson describe four tectonic shifts in separation-of-powers doctrine, and suggest that no one theory of separation of powers has been liquidated in our constitutional tradition.

californialawreview.org/print/indeterminacy-separation

Structural Indeterminacy and the Separation of Powers

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Jeanne C. Fromer & Mark P. McKenna explore how Amazon’s practices affect competition, harm the trademark system, and reshape how we think about trademark law at its foundation.

californialawreview.org/print/amazon-trademark

Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Faiza W. Sayed argues that the Asylum Office has failed policymakers’ original vision for the asylum system, and that any expansion of the office, in its current form, is unwise.

californialawreview.org/print/affirmative-asylum

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Volume 113.4 of the California Law Review is live! Thank you to our editors and authors for their hard work.

Read it at californialawreview.org/print

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣 The fall deadline for submitting your student note to CLR is September 1 at 5 p.m.

Email Senior Notes Editor Karina Sanchez ([email protected]) with questions and check out californialawreview.org/submit/notes for more information!

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 20

A new episode of California Law Review's official podcast, Source Collect, is live! 🎙️

Professor Scott Dodson of UC Law San Francisco joins us to discuss his CLR article, "The Complexities of Consent to Personal Jurisdiction."

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 19

CLR Online is back with a new piece from Seth Frotman and Brad Lipton! Frotman and Lipton propose that we must rethink the federal court structure and grow capacity at the state level to ensure our system works for everyone.

californialawreview.org/online/rigged-courts

A photo of John Roberts next to text describing a new CLR Online piece.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 13

Let us imagine that you are faced with extortion, threats of violence, or something similar. What, if anything, ought you do in response? Cass R. Sunstein discusses this question and others in the context of the Trump administration for CLR Online.
californialawreview.org/online/trump-extortion

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 11

Big law firms have been forced to make a choice: appease the Trump administration or fight back. In a new CLR Online piece, Christopher D. Hampson & Elise Bernlohr Maizel consider the choice that the majority of firms have made to stay silent. californialawreview.org/online/trump-biglaw

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 10

In “What Harvard's Lawsuit Should Have Said,” Michael Banerjee argues that Harvard’s lawsuit against the federal government should have invoked its corporate-constitutional rights.

Read more from California Law Review Online at californialawreview.org/online/trump...

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Muñoz, the Court shrank Due Process Clause protections and attacked the equality principle undergirding cases like Loving v. Virginia. Jennifer M. Chacón explains that the Court is intentionally weakening antidiscrimination protections. californialawreview.org/print/loving-borders

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 5

Russell K. Robinson reveals the Students for Fair Admissions opinion's fundamental incoherence, revealing the chasm between colorblind rhetoric and the inescapability of racially forged realities. californialawreview.org/print/incoherence-colorblind-constitution

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 5

Jerry Kang connects SFFA to two prior moments in equal protection history: Japanese American internment during World War II and the affirmative action wars of the '80s and '90s. In all three moments, Asian Americans were exploited. californialawreview.org/print/asians-strict-scrutiny

Jerry Kang connects Students for Fair Admissions to two prior moments in equal protection history: Japanese American internment during World War II and the affirmative action wars of the '80s and '90s. In all three moments, Asian Americans were exploited.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 5

Devon W. Carbado & Russell K. Robinson explain that Regents v. Bakke contained many losses for proponents of affirmative action, which set the stage for the outcome Students for Fair Admissions instantiates. californialawreview.org/print/sffa-bakke

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 5

Vinay Harpalani argues that progressive supporters of racial diversity and equity in education have particularly neglected to address hostility towards Asian American achievement. californialawreview.org/print/school-asian-animus

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 5

Kathryn Abrams examines the challenges lawyers face in the post-Dobbs landscape and considers a promising strategy for protecting abortion rights in conservative states: the initiative petition to amend a state's constitution. californialawreview.org/print/post-dobbs-ballot-initiative

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Aug 5

#ICYMI: Articles from the "Equality Besieged: A Critical Analysis of Supreme Court Jurisprudence" Symposium are up. Read more at californialawreview.org/print

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Jun 28

You can read the full article (Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security, written by Robert M. Chesney and Danielle K. Citron) on CLR's website:
californialawreview.org/print/deep-fakes-a-looming-challenge-for-privacy-democracy-and-national-security

Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security — California Law Review

Harmful lies are nothing new. But the ability to distort reality has taken an exponential leap forward with “deep fake” technology. This capability makes it possible to create audio and video of real ...

www.californialawreview.org

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Jun 28

In the episode, he cited a prescient 2019 California Law Review article that described deep fake technology as a “liars dividend,” explaining that this technology empowers “liar’s to avoid accountability for things that are in fact true.”

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Jun 28

✨️CLR mentioned!✨️ In the most recent episode of @lastweektonight.com (“AI Content”), John Oliver discussed the challenges and dangers presented by mass-produced AI-generated content.

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