Deepfake is Here. What Should We Do?
Lvxiao Chen is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Seeing used to be believing. Not so much in the era of photoshop and computer-generated imagery (CGI). Even…
Theranos Shows the Need For More Effective Policing of Operability
Jerrit Yang is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, have become infamous in recent years following an expose on their fraudulent…
Basketball, Cryptocurrency and You: How an NBA Player Plans to Connect with Fans Through a Brand-New Medium
Eric Pecci is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Spencer Dinwiddie is a point guard for the Brooklyn Nets in the National Basketball Association.[1] On December 13,…
Juicy Whip v. Orange Bang and the Constitutional Requirement of Utility
Neil Chitrao is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. In 1999, the Federal Circuit was presented with a particularly juicy dilemma. Juicy Whip, Incorporated, a manufacturer of…
Awakening the Dormant Therapies Act
Marcelo Barros is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. The Patent System has a Persistent Drug Problem The U.S.’s current regime of patent laws fails to adequately…
hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp.: Scratching the Surface of Web Scraping
Neha Mehta is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Introduction to Data Scraping It’s hard to imagine how the Internet would function without web scraping. Web scraping,…
The Potential of 5G
Siddra Shah is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. 5G is the “fifth generation” of wireless technology. Each generation has incrementally improved mobile networks and wireless infrastructure.…
Embracing London-Sire, the Second Circuit Weighs in on the Latest Generation of Music Media
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court’s determination that ReDigi and its founders, by operating its e-commerce platform for the lawful resale of legally…
Dark Patterns: We May or May Not Realize We’re Being Tricked
Have you ever received a bunch of annoying promotional e-mails and let them stuck in your inbox because you hardly find the “unsubscribe” button in the e-mail? Or have you…
Science and the Courts
As technology advances and new scientific discoveries are made, more courts are faced with issues of admissibility and reliability as challenges in administering their use. Judges and juries are faced…