by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Teneille R. Brown, James Tabery, and Lisa G. Aspinwall Volume 67, Issue 4, 1067-86 What makes a study valid or invalid? In 2013, the Hastings Law Journal published a law review article by law professor Deborah Denno entitled What Real-World Cases Tell Us About Genetic...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Taryn Jones Volume 67, Issue 4, 1087-118 In Williams v. Illinois, the division of the U.S. Supreme Court created substantial confusion as to the proper application of the Confrontation Clause to forensic witnesses. In the decision, the Court affirmed the conviction of...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Michael J. Montgomery Volume 67, Issue 4, 1119-52 The U.S. health care system is expensive, fragmented, poorly organized, and fails too often to deliver high quality care that is both accessible and cost efficient. In 2014, Americans spent an estimated $3.1 trillion...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Sarah M. Winfield Volume 67, Issue 4, 1153-80 After over a decade of advocacy on behalf of women fleeing their home countries because of horrific domestic violence, practitioners and legal scholars obtained a precedential legal victory in August 2014. In In re...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Mar 22, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 3
Ryan B. Stoa Volume 67, Issue 3, 565-622 Marijuana is nearing the end of its prohibition in the United States. Arguably the country’s largest cash crop, marijuana is already legal for recreational use in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C....
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Mar 22, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 3
Josh Blackman Volume 67, Issue 3, 623-86 The story of our Constitution is a tale of two liberties: individual freedom and collective freedom. The inherent tension between these two is well known. Judicial protection of individual liberty inhibits the collective from...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Mar 22, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 3
Eliav Lieblich Volume 67, Issue 3, 687-748 In 1945, the United Nations Charter famously set out “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” Having in mind traditional interstate wars, the Charter’s Article 2(4) outlawed, for the first time, interstate...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Mar 22, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 3
Evelyn Keyes Volume 67, Issue 3, 749-806 With the epigram, “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one great thing,” Ronald Dworkin, America’s foremost contemporary legal philosopher, summarized his lifelong quest for the objectively true laws necessary to...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Mar 22, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 3
Laura Lee Gildengorin Volume 67, Issue 3, 807-48 In 2011, two-thirds of murdered women died at the hands of a current or former intimate partner who used a firearm. Thus, it is imperative to remove guns from the control of domestic violence offenders. With increased...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Mar 22, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 3
Samantha Nolan Volume 67, Issue 3, 849-80 Large technology corporations are purchasing smaller companies at an increasing rate with one goal in mind—engineers. This practice has recently been given its own name—acqui-hiring. The buying corporation purchases the...