Law journal articles, and other scholarship by the faculty of California Western School of Law

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Publications from 2020

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Disgorging Harvey Weinstein's Salary, Jessica K. Fink

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Schrodinger's Corporation: The Paradox of Religious Sincerity in Heterogeneous Corporations, Catherine A. Hardee

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Yearning to Breathe Free: Migration Related Confinement in America, Danielle C. Jefferis

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Presumptions of Incompetence, Gender Sidelining, and Women Law Deans, Laura M. Padilla

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Women Law Deans, Gender Sidelining, and Presumptions of Incompetence, Laura M. Padilla

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The Problems With Decision-Making, Joanna K. Sax

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Contractual Incapacity and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Sean M. Scott

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Criminalizing Coercive Control Within the Limits of Due Process, Erin L. Sheley

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Victim Impact Statements and Corporate Sex Crimes, Erin L. Sheley

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Victim Impact Statements at Canadian Corporate Sentencing, Erin L. Sheley

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Patents, Information, and Innovation, Brenda M. Simon

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Blue Lives & The Permanence of Racism, I. India Thusi

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On Beauty and Policing, I. India Thusi

Publications from 2019

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A Distinction with a Difference: Rights, Privileges, and the Fourteenth Amendment, William J. Aceves

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Law's Trials: The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US "War on Terror" by Richard L. Abel (review), William J. Aceves

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Suing Russia: How Americans Can Fight Back Against Russian Intervention in American Politics, William J. Aceves

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Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States, William J. Aceves

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Direct-To-Consumer Ads are Misleading: Concise Statements of Effectiveness Should Be Required, Robert A. Bohrer

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Drug Prices, Dying Patients, and the Pharmaceutical Marketplace: A New Conditional Approval Pathway for Critical Unmet Medical Needs, Robert A. Bohrer

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The Value of Deviance: Understanding Contextual Privacy, Timothy Casey

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Automation and Predictive Analytics in Patent Prosecution: USPTO Implications and Policy, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim

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Computational Experimentation, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim

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Data-Centric Technologies: Patent and Copyright Doctrinal Disruptions, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim

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Veil Piercing and the Untapped Power of State Courts, Catherine A. Hardee

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Consentability: Consent and Its Limits (Introduction), Nancy Kim

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The Faulty Foundation of the Draft Restatement of Consumer Contracts, Adam J. Levitin, Nancy Kim, Christina L. Kunz, Peter Linzer, Patricia A. McCoy, Juliet M. Moringiello, Elizabeth A. Renuart, and Lauren E. Willis

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Ambiguity and Consumer Perceptions of Risk in Various Areas of Biotechnology, Joanna K. Sax and Neal Doran

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Legal Considerations in Pediatric and Adolescent Obstetrics and Gynecology, Steven R. Smith

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Harm, Sex, and Consequences, I. India Thusi

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The Temptations of Scapegoating, Daniel B. Yeager

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Towards a New California Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, Michael T. Yu

Publications from 2018

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Correcting an Evident Error: A Plea to Revise Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC, William J. Aceves

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Human Rights, William J. Aceves

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Interrogation or Experimentation? Assessing Non-Consensual Human Experimentation During the War on Terror, William J. Aceves

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Valuing Life: A Human Rights Perspective on the Calculus of Regulation, William J. Aceves

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When Death Becomes Murder: A Primer on Extrajudicial Killing, William J. Aceves

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Forty Years on, Practitioners, Parties, and Scholars Look Ahead, Thomas D. Barton and James P. Groton

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Sex Harassment Training Must Change: The Case for Legal Incentives for Transformative Education and Prevention, Susan Bisom-Rapp

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A Title IX Conundrum: Are Campus Visitors Protected from Sexual Assault?, Hannah Brenner

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Legal Pluralism and the Threat to Human Rights in the New Plurinational State of Bolivia, James M. Cooper

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The United States, Mexico, and the War on Drugs in the Trump Administration, James M. Cooper

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The Rise of Self Sidelining, Leslie Culver

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Conscious Identity Performance, Leslie P. Culver

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Deporting Undesirable Women, Pooja R. Dadhania

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Gender Sidelining and the Problem of Unactionable Discrimination, Jessica K. Fink

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Who's Causing the Harm?, Catherine A. Hardee

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In Re Marriage of Witten: Subordinating Contract to "Public Policy", Nancy S. Kim

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Minding the Protection Gap: Resolving Unintended, Pervasive, Profound Homeowner Underinsurance, Kenneth S. Klein

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Weighing Democracy and Judicial Legitimacy in Judicial Selection, Kenneth S. Klein

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Administrative Guidance and Genetically Modified Food, Edward L. Rubin and Joanna K. Sax

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Lessons from a Daunting Malpractice Event, Joseph S. Sanfilippo and Steven R. Smith

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Supreme Court Decisions in 2017 That Affected Your Practice, Steven R. Smith and Joseph S. Sanfilippo

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The Power to Exclude and the Power to Expel, Donald J. Smythe

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Radical Feminist Harms on Sex Workers, I. India Thusi

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Veterinary Lien Laws: Hypocrisy in a Healing Profession, Mark I. Weinstein

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Decoding the Impossibility Defense, Daniel B. Yeager

Publications from 2017

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The Civil Redress and Historical Memory Acts of 2029: A Legislative Proposal, William J. Aceves

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From Visualization to Legal Design: A Collaborative and Creative Process, Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Thomas D. Barton, and Helena Haapio

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The Role of the State towards the Grey Zone of Employment: Eyes on Canada and the United States, Susan Bisom-Rapp and Urwana Coiquaud

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Sexual Violence as an Occupational Hazard and Condition of Confinement in the Closed Institutional Systems of the Military and Detention, Hannah Brenner, Kathleen Darcy, and Sheryl Kubiak

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Shortlisted, Hannah Brenner and Renee Knake

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Time for a Change: 20 Years after the "Working Group" Principles, Barbara Cox

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White Doors, Black Footsteps: Leveraging "White Privilege" to Benefit Law Students of Color, Leslie Culver

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3D Bioprinting Patentable Subject Matter Boundaries, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim

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Using Prior Consistent Statements to Rehabilitate Credibility or to Prove Substantive Assertions Before and After the 2014 Amendment of Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B), Floralynn Einesman

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Relative Consent and Contract Law, Nancy Kim

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Whoosh - Declining Law School Applications and Entering Credentials: Responding with Pivot Pedagogy, Laura M. Padilla

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Sexual Misconduct in Prison: What Factors Affect Whether Incarcerated Women Will Report Abuses Committed by Prison Staff?, Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak, Hannah Brenner, Deborah Bybee, Rebecca Campbell, Cristy E. Cummings, Kathleen M. Darcy, Gina Fedock, and Rachael Goodman-Williams

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Pregnancy Test Missed Before IUD Placement? Your Liability, Joseph S. Sanfilippo and Steven R. Smith

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The GMO/GE Debate, Joanna K. Sax

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Biotechnology and Consumer Decision-Making, Joanna K. Sax

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Business Law Critical to Your Practice: Preventive Law, Like Preventive Medicine, Can Make All the Difference, Steven R. Smith

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Supreme Court 2016-2017: A New Justice and a Term of Surprising Importance, Steven R. Smith

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Informed Consent: The More You Know, the More You and Your Patient Are Protected, Steven R. Smith and Joseph S. Sanfilippo

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Illiberty of Contract, Donald J. Smythe

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Certain Certiorari: The Digital Privacy Rights of Probationers, Daniel Yeager

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Stuffed Deer and the Grammar of Mistakes, Daniel B. Yeager

Publications from 2016

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Re-Designing Law and Lawyering for the Information Age, Thomas D. Barton

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Harmonizing the Law to Protect Cultural Diplomacy: The Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunities Clarification Act, Emily T. Behzadi

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Lifetime Disadvantage, Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant

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Toward a Civilized System of Justice: Reconceptualizing the Response to Sexual Violence in Higher Education, Hannah Brenner and Kathleen Darcy

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Bars to Justice: The Impact of Rape Myths on Women in Prison, Hannah Brenner, Kathleen Darcy, Gina Fedock, and Sheryl Kubiak

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Wrongfully Convicted in California: Are There Connections Between Exonerations, Prosecutorial and Police Procedures, and Justice Reforms?, Justin P. Brooks and Zachary Brooks

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If Hindsight is 20/20, Our Justice System Should Not Be Blind to New Evidence of Innocence: A Survey of Post-Conviction New Evidence Statutes and a Proposed Model, Justin P. Brooks, Alexander Simpson, and Paige Kaneb

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The Rise of Private Actors Along the United States-Mexico Border, James M. Cooper

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3D Printing: Digital Infringement and Digital Regulation, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim

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Trademarks and Brands in 3D Printing, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim

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Madonnas and Whores in the Workplace, Jessica K. Fink

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Considering Consequences: Autonomy’s Missing Half, Catherine A. Hardee

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Online Contracting, Nancy Kim

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Truth and Legitimacy (in Courts), Kenneth S. Klein

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Reporting Sexual Victimization During Incarceration: Using Ecological Theory as a Framework to Inform and Guide Future Research, Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak, Hannah Brenner, Deborah Bybee, Rebecca Campbell, and Gina Fedock

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Patent "Trolls" and Claim Construction, Greg Reilly

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Contours of GMO Regulation and Labeling, Joanna K. Sax

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Food Labeling and Consumer Associations with Health, Safety, and Environment, Joanna K. Sax and Neal Doran

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Clearing the Clouds on the CISG's Warranty of Title, Donald J. Smythe

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Liberty at the Borders of Private Law, Donald J. Smythe

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Reasonable Standards for Contract Interpretations under the CISG, Donald J. Smythe

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Fiduciary-isms: A Study of Academic Influence on the Expansion of the Law, Daniel B. Yeager

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Cross-Deductions in the Net Investment Income Tax Imposed on a Trust or Estate with Separate Shares, Michael T. Yu