by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 4
Stephen D. Sugarman Volume 71, Issue 4, 975-1018 California Supreme Court Justice Roger J Traynor entered the debated between pragmatists and formalists, siding with the former in both his scholarly writings and in his judicial opinions, especially in torts. In this...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 4
Frazer A. Tessema, Aaron S. Kesselheim, Michael S. Sinha Volume 71, Issue 4, 1019-1052 Brand-name prescription drugs are sold at extremely high prices in the US because patents and other market exclusivities provided by the government allow manufacturers to exclude...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 4
Michael R. Ulrich Volume 71, Issue 4, 1053-1100 The two landmark gun rights cases, District of Columbia v. Hellerand McDonald v. City of Chicago, came down in 2008 and 2010, respectively. In the decade that has followed, two things have become abundantly clear. First,...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 4
Edmund Ursin Volume 71, Issue 4, 1101-1052 Roger Traynor, who served on the California Supreme Court from 1940 to 1970, the last five years as Chief Justice, was one of America’s great judges. This Article compares Traynor’s view of the lawmaking role of courts with...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 4
Kevin Costello Volume 71, Issue 4, 1053-1080 While the process of nominating and confirming justices to the U.S. Supreme Court has always been political in nature, the three most recent nominations of Merrick Garland, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh illustrate the...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Volume 71, Issue 4
Gian Gualco-Nelson Volume 71, Issue 4, 1181-1206 Elections create an opportunity for voters to get to know the candidates, but elections also give voters the opportunity to get to know their fellow voters. Campaigns are obligated to disclose the identity of their...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Apr 8, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 3
Teri Dobbins Baxter Volume 71, Issue 3, 535-588 When health policy experts noticed that health outcomes for African Americans were consistently worse than those of their White counterparts, many in the health care community assumed that the poor outcomes could be...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Apr 8, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 3
Amnon Reichman, Yair Sagy, & Shlomi Balaban Volume 71, Issue 3, 589-636 This Article reveals the untold story of Legal-Net, Israel’s cloud-based judicial management system. While scholarly attention has thus far focused on the narrow question of the impact...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Apr 8, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 3
Lois A. Weithorn Volume 71, Issue 3, 637-698 This Article examines concepts of treatment decisionmaking capacity relevant to medical aid in dying as it is currently authorized in the United States. In order to be eligible for medical aid in dying in one of the ten...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Apr 8, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 3
Emily Winston Volume 71, Issue 3, 699-748 BlackRock’s recent public letters to the CEOs of the companies in which it invests have drawn substantial attention from stock market actors and observers for their conspicuous call on corporate CEOs to focus on sustainability...