College of Law: Recent submissions
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Tangled Up in Blue: Adapting Securities Laws to Initial Coin Offerings
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-07)Issuers of blockchain-based projects have increasingly turned to Initial Coin Offerings to raise capital. Many of these offerings have similar characteristics to securities offerings, yet are often not registered or exempt ... -
Gig-Dependence: Finding the Real Independent Contractors of Platform Work
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-07)Platforms such as Uber and TaskRabbit avoid employment obligations by categorizing their workers as “independent contractors.” Declining to follow overtime, antidiscrimination, and other workplace mandates, these platforms ... -
The Gig Economy: An Annotated Bibliography
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-07)Companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Airbnb, and others have become established within society, to the point that Uber has become a regularly used verb. While the consumer benefits of these companies has been immediate, ... -
Vol. 39, no. 3, Summer 2019: Table of Contents and Masthead
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Implications of Adopting Blockchain Technology on International Sales Transactions
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-07)While technologies evolve, international laws with ancient roots must be updated, in order to better suit the needs of a modern world. One new technology, which has sent shockwaves into international and domestic law, is ... -
Legislative and Regulatory Obligations on Corporate Attorneys: Production Data in the World of Sarbanes Oxley and General Data Protections
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-07)Sarbanes Oxley, General Data Protection Regulation, and the American Bar Association’s Model Rules place significant professional and personal obligations on attorneys who represent organizations in regard to their ... -
Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask for Help
(The Learning Curve (AALS Sec. on Acad. Support, Washington, D.C.), 2019-05)I got an email the other day from a student who was having some difficulty writing his arguments. The student wrote that he kept rewriting his arguments in response to my comments but that he still had not been able to get ... -
A Step Toward Normalizing End-of-Life Care: Implications of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA)
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-05)Despite their rapid development in recent decades, hospice and palliative care continue to face challenges to universal acceptance and access throughout American society, as the American population and medical professions ... -
Mooove Over Cow’s Milk: Why the FDA Should Amend Their Guidelines to Include for Plant-Based Alternatives
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-05)Along with the rise in plant-based alternatives to conventional animal-based foods has been a concern over the use of terms established by the FDA that are specific to animal-based products. Can companies use terms such ... -
Police and Community Relations: Will “To Serve and Protect” be Words the Public Can Ever Trust?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-05)In today's society police officers are constantly being criticized as having too much power over the citizens they are sworn to "serve and protect". Unlike before current technological advances, citizens can now see when ... -
Thomas Cromwell’s Influence on the Laws of England: A Basic Review of the English System and Reforms in the Early 16th Century and the Rise of the Act of Attainder
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-05)Thomas Cromwell left his mark on the English legal system with the introduction of various courts and legal reforms. In the 1530s, Cromwell took full advantage of his position at Henry VIII’s court and used his legal mind ... -
The Inexorable Expansion of Medicaid Expansion
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-05)Medicaid expansion to non-elderly adults under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has come a long way since the U.S. Supreme Court made it optional in its landmark 2012 NFIB vs. Sebelius ruling, and 2018, in particular, was a ... -
Method Matters: Statutory Construction Principles and the Illinois Trade Secrets Act Preemption Puzzle in the Northern District of Illinois
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-05)Appellate methodology makes a difference when it comes to the interplay between statutes and judge-made law. The Illinois Trade Secrets Act (ITSA) through its preemption provisions abolishes some non-statutory claims and ... -
Foreward: Remembering Stacia Hollinshed
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Vol. 39, no. 2, Spring 2019: Table of Contents and Masthead
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Title IX After 45 Years: Overlooked Disparities in the National Junior College Athletic Association and California Community College Athletic Association
(2019-05)Junior colleges, unlike colleges in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, have been neglected in the Title IX discussion on disparities in female athletics. Newly compiled data in this article reveals that women ... -
The Constitutional Guarantee of Freedom to Surcharge: Brandishing the First Amendment to Strike Down Surcharge Bans
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2018-11)In what might be described as a modern-day David and Goliath, merchants in the United States find themselves pitted against both credit card companies and state legislatures in a battle over the ability to impose surcharges ... -
What Will It Take? Examining the Use of Preliminary Hearing Testimony Where Victims are Unavailable Due to Mental Illness Stemming from Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2018-11)A particular problem exists that domestic violence and sexual assault victims face when bringing their abusers to court. This is whether the use of preliminary hearing testimony can be utilized where a victim is unavailable ... -
The Stringent Takings Test for Impact Fees in Illinois: Its Origins and Implications for Home Rule Units and Legislation
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2018-11)Many Illinois municipalities impose exactions, or impact fees, on new housing developments. Appropriate impact fees offset the anticipated financial burdens on government created by a resulting increase in population, such ...
