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This is Not a Game: Blockchain Regulation and Its Application to Video Games
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-05)
The use of blockchain technology as a financial instrument is often viewed with the same skepticism as emails from a foreign prince promising a portion of his inheritance for a “small” fee the recipient must pay for banking ...
Similar Interpretations, Different Conclusions: The Criminalization of Hate Speech in the West
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-05)
The United States is unique internationally in that hate speech is not considered a criminal offense. Drawing from a sample of Western countries and their respective statutes, the analysis will look at different nations’ ...
Illinois Supreme Court Rule 352(a): An Attempted Revival of the Appellate Oral Argument
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-05)
Though long considered a bedrock of the American legal system, oral argument has steadily lost popularity in appellate courts across the country. Due in large part to ever-increasing caseloads and limited judicial resources, ...
Our English Legal Forebearers and Their Contributions to the Practice of Law and American Jurisprudence: Sir Thomas More, Sir Edward Coke, and Sir William Blackstone
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-05)
This Article seeks to remind lawyers of the important duty to uphold the law, and how that was shown through the actions of several English and British attorneys from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Beginning ...
Vol. 40, no. 2, Spring 2020: Table of Contents
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-05)
America’s Pastime: Human Trafficking, Cuba, and the Road to the Show
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-06)
Cuban athletes face a treacherous journey in venturing from Cuba to the United States in order to pursue their dreams of becoming professional athletes. The MLB-FCB Agreement of 2018 sought to ease this journey by alleviating ...
Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions on Speech
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-06)
The category of time, place, and manner restrictions on speech, as supposedly distinct from absolute bans, appears to be central to free speech law. Even a modest examination of the case law, however, suggests the arbitrariness ...
Vol. 40, no. 3, Summer 2020: Table of Contents
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-06)
Voting Like a Duck: Reflecting on a Year of Legal Writing Voting Rights
(Legal Writing Institute, 2020-03)
Over the years, in various legal writing forums, I have heard that legal writing professors should try to “look like ducks.” This means we should publish, teach doctrinal courses, and otherwise do everything we can to ...
Burnout Doesn't Frighten Me
(Legal Writing Institute, 2021-03)
This past semester we all taught during an unprecedented worst-case scenario, moving our courses online at the literal drop of a hat. Although I know my experience is not unique, from March to the end of the semester in ...