Feb 27, 2020 | Vol. 51 - Book 2
Legal education is slowly beginning to include not only education in critical thinking and legal knowledge, but also education in complementary qualities of personal conduct and early professional formation. Positive psychology, with its emphasis on the evidence-based...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
If you are unfamiliar with daily fantasy sports (DFS), you nevertheless may be all too familiar with DFS companies DraftKings and FanDuel, thanks to their 2015 blitz of advertisements plastered across train stations, radios, television, and trashcans. Seemingly...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
When state legislatures are unresponsive to their constituents, the ballot initiative provides one of the few forms of relief available to those caught in such a “legislative strait jacket.” The ballot initiative, a process by which citizens of a state vote directly...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
On July 20, 2016, the Attorney General of Massachusetts issued a new interpretation (Enforcement Notice) of the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban of 1998, emphasizing the illegality of “copy” and “duplicate” assault rifles, which effectively banned the sale of all...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
Recently, family members of victims of terror attacks filed a series of lawsuits against social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google. In Fields v. Twitter, the widow of an American killed in Amman, Jordan, sued Twitter for providing “material support”...
