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Volume 49

ISSUE 1

Refusing Work To Avoid Serious Injury or Death: An Empirical Study of Legal Protections Before and During COVID-19
Michael H. LeRoy

The “Unfairness” Proof: Exposing the Fatal Flaw Hidden in the Rule Governing the Use of Criminal Convictions To Impeach Character for Truthfulness
Robert Steinbuch

Impartial Justice: Restoring Integrity to Impeachment Trials
Justin D. Rattey

Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Reimagining Affirmative Action Jurisprudence in Law School Admissions Through a Filipino-American Paradigm
Joseph D. G. Castro

Justice for All? Impeding the Villainization of Human Trafficking Victims via the Expansion of Vacatur Laws
Sarah Devaney

ISSUE 2

Whither the Lofty Goals of the Environmental Laws?: Can Statutory Directives Restore Purposivism When We Are All Textualists Now?
Stephen M. Johnson

Jury Nullification as a Spectrum
Richard Lorren Jolly

A Twisted Fate: How California’s Premier Environmental Law Has Worsened the State’s Housing Crisis, and How To Fix It
Noah DeWitt 

The United States of California: Ninth Circuit Tips the Dormant Commerce Clause Scales in Favor of the Golden State’s Animal Welfare Legislation
Tanner Hendershot 

ISSUE 3

Reflections on Music Copyright Justice
Peter S. Menell

Thieves in the Temple: The Scandal of Copyright Registration and AfricanAmerican Artists
Kevin J. Greene

De-Gentrified Black Genius: Blockchain, Copyright, and the Disintermediation of Creativity
Tonya M. Evans

The Long and Winding Road to Effective Copyright Protection in China
Peter K. Yu

The Chinese Copyright Dream
Sean A. Pager & Eric Priest

ISSUE 4

Fighting Words Today
R. George Wright

Legalization Without Disruption: Why Congress Should Let States Restrict Interstate Commerce in Marijuana
Scott Bloomberg & Robert A. Mikos

Presumptively Awful: How the Federal Government Is Failing To Protect the Constitutional Rights of Those Adjudicated as Mentally Ill, as Illustrated by the 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4) Circuit Split 
Kaitlyn M. Rubcich

Hair on Fire: Why Companies Are Less Likely To Feel the Burn Under the DOJ’s Newest Change to Antitrust Enforcement
Caroline M. Whitener