Desserts and Bar

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Faking It: A Proposed Solution to Counter Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfakes

2024 Louise A. Halper Award Winner for Best Student Note. Deepfakes have become popular due to their user-friendly nature and accessibility, allowing anyone to create one by installing deepfake software programs on their phones or laptops. Deepfake software programs allow creators to create hyper-realistic multimedia featuring anyone whose image they can find. Some industries have drawn positive uses from deepfakes; however, deepfakes also create harms that can have detrimental effects on people’s mental health, employment, and reputation. Women and children, including those without a large online presence, have become the target for nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes. Congress has yet to pass a federal bill that encourages online service providers to properly regulate its platform and prevent the spread of nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes. Due to the lack of federal law, some states have attempted to address the issue by imposing criminal and civil penalties. But current state laws do not go far enough in protecting women and children because they take a reactive approach in which the harms of the deepfakes have already taken place. This Note discusses federal bills and amendments as possible solutions, but further proposes that a public-private partnership with deepfake software program creators would bring the most effective solution. A public–private partnership with deepfake software companies would serve as a preventative measure while also ensuring clear legal recourse for victims

FTC v. Amazon: A Turning Point for Antitrust Law?

The United States is experiencing crippling economic inequalities that harken back to the Gilded Age. For the first time, legal scholars have turned to antitrust law to reverse this alarming trend. These scholars, including current Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan, are testing this ambitious theory in the E-commerce industry. E-commerce is a market largely dominated by one company: Amazon. With its dominance, Amazon lures small businesses into its third-party seller marketplace, where it controls those business’s prices and punishes those that resist. Lina Kahn’s FTC has formally launched its litigation campaign against Amazon, claiming that the company has violated Section Two of the Sherman Act and Section 5(a) of the FTC Act. After tracing antitrust’s evolution, discussing the parties’ claims and evaluating their theories, this Note will determine the Commission’s odds for success and promote a theoretical middle ground that the Commission can use if it argues the case in October 2026

Autonomy Under Ignorance

The article focuses on Daniel Villiger\u27s examination of how informed consent can remain valid even under conditions of irreducible ignorance, especially when individuals cannot fully anticipate the consequences of transformative treatments. Topics include the concept of transformative experiences, the challenge of epistemic and personal change in consent, and the argument that such ignorance does not necessarily invalidate ethical decision-making

Cosby, Faculty Cards, Tumblers, and Powell Archives Display

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The (Self) Identity of the Child Soldier: International Law and Best Practices, in Children’s Right to Identity, Selfhood and International Family Law (Marilyn Freeman & Nicola Taylor eds., 2025)

This chapter discusses children associated with armed forces or armed groups, colloquially known as ‘child soldiers’. It sets out the legal definition of child soldiers and unpacks international law and policy practices that address children in armed conflict, including Article 38 of the UNCRC, the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, and international criminal law. The law that allocates responsibility for child soldiering and the responsibility of child soldiers for their conduct is reviewed. Return to civilian life is possible through disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration programmes. These must ensure respect for the self-awareness, agency, and identity affirmations of former child soldiers as part of creating durable social reintegration and the cultivation of viable cultures of children\u27s rights to guard against pernicious gerontocracy. The child\u27s perception of self-identity may change during armed conflict, and this ought to be respected rather than ignored or overlooked.https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/fac_books/1208/thumbnail.jp

Criminal Procedure (10th ed. 2025)

The tenth edition of Criminal Procedure focuses on the Fourth Amendment search and seizure provision, the Fifth Amendment protection against unlawful confessions, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and more. It effectively covers all of the foundational constitutional criminal procedure concepts and recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, including those analyzing Miranda\u27s constitutional status and searches of smart phones and historical cell phone records, as well as the use of canine officers to conduct searches. In addition, the book includes a number of notes, questions, and problems exploring state and lower federal court cases interpreting Supreme Court precedent to address existing and developing criminal procedure issues. It also provides several forms and examples to help students fully appreciate and analyze key principles of constitutional criminal procedure.https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/fac_books/1206/thumbnail.jp

\u3cem\u3eNavahine v. Hawai\u27i Dept. of Transportation\u3c/em\u3e: The Keiki Will Lead Us

The author analyzes the landmark case Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, which culminated in the world’s first constitutional climate settlement. Catherine Smith, serving as an expert for the youth plaintiffs, situates the case within Hawaiʻi’s legal tradition of prioritizing children’s rights and intergenerational equity. She explores the evolution of children’s constitutional protections, contrasting Hawaiʻi’s progressive jurisprudence with the dominant adult-centric legal framework on the mainland. She critiques four recurring analytical missteps in U.S. courts that marginalize children’s interests and highlights Hawaiʻi’s public trust doctrine and cultural values, such as the Aloha Spirit, as models for addressing climate-related harms. Ultimately, the author argues for centering children’s rights to ensure meaningful legal responses to climate change

Introductory Remarks - Hasbrouck

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Stanton, Trammell, Smith, Youngman, and Coleman-Jackson

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