Category: Notes

Introduction The legal battles in the telecommunications industry are fierce. The fact that no single industrial player is the single global leader in 5G technologies stimulates a sweeping wave of patent cross-licensing throughout the industry.[1] Standard-setting organizations and standard development organizations play important roles in developing 5G technical standards, which provide technical specifications for equipment…

Introduction Henry Ford’s early twentieth-century breakthroughs in automotive mass production merged the United States into the fast lane toward motor vehicles becoming a dominant mode of personal travel.[1] Today, for an hour a day, ninety percent of Americans over the age of sixteen will buckle into motorized, multi-ton projectiles and propel themselves along a vast…

Abstract Most Americans can open their personal device using only their finger, not to type the password, but as the password itself. Using features like Touch ID or Face ID—forms of biometric decryption—to unlock a personal device provides several benefits, including heightened information security. Yet biometric decryption has also created a modern loophole for law…

Introduction Over its half-century-long struggle[1] with how to determine whether a particu­lar application of the death penalty is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishments,”[2] the Supreme Court has arrived at a two-part approach for how to answer these questions. The first part of this approach requires the Court to assess…

Introduction In 2021, Road Runner, a documentary about late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, became embroiled in controversy for using AI-generated voice technology to create a voiceover of Bourdain reading an email which he wrote but never spoke aloud.[1] In response to the director’s claim of having received a blessing from Bourdain’s loved ones to do…

Abstract Military uniforms serve a multitude of purposes in the twenty-first century. In the United States, they are a ubiquitous symbol of patriotism and military might. Individual military service branches use military uniforms to distinguish each from the other. In its quest for distinctiveness, the Marine Corps initiated a power struggle for unique uniform designs…

Abstract A recent Pew Research poll indicated only 20% of Americans trust the federal government to “do the right thing.”[1] Although falling trust in government began in the mid-1960s and must be attributed to many factors,[2] a belief that members of Congress (“Members”) exploit their access to confidential information in order to enrich themselves certainly…