Fine-Tuning: Why Extending the Public Performance Right in Sound Recordings Would Require Changes for the Copyright Royalty Board
Samuel E. Meredith 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1518 Imagine yourself getting into your car and tuning in to a local radio... Read More
What Is an ICO? Defining a Security on the Blockchain
Seth Holoweiko 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1472 2017 brought the rise of the initial coin offering (“ICO”), a novel fundraising concept... Read More
Codifying the Agency Class Action
James Hannaway 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1451 Through devices like class actions and other consolidation procedures, agencies have developed several tools... Read More
Early Customs Laws and Delegation
Jennifer Mascott 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1388 This past Term the Supreme Court reexamined the nondelegation doctrine, with several justices concluding... Read More
Tenure of Office and the Treasury: The Constitution and Control over National Financial Policy, 1787 to 1897
Aditya Bamzai 87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1299 The disputed scope of the President’s authority to remove subordinates in the executive branch,... Read More
On the Docket’s Preview of the May Supreme Court Arguments
This month’s oral arguments are truly historic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Court will not be meeting in person, but rather... Read More
RNC v. DNC: Absentee Voters and the Partisan Pandemic
As it happened, the election results, when released April 13, surprised most observers. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s decision in RNC v. DNC is, to put it politely, paradoxical.
Kansas v. Glover: Just Common Sense?
We have no idea why Officer Mehrer decided to check on Glover’s license plate. Might it matter after all? Can a jurisdiction instruct its officers to run the license plate of every automobile they come across and to assume that any owner whose license has been suspended or revoked should be stopped to see if the owner is driving? What is the common-sense answer?
It Could Have Been Worse, But a Statute Designed to “Break Down All Discrimination” Against African Americans Deserves Better than Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media
The year after the Civil War, the federal government made a commitment to Black people in this country. In simple but sweeping language, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 mandates that “[a]ll persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right . . . to make and enforce contracts . . . as is enjoyed by white citizens.”