Blog Posts
Game-Changer: Shohei Ohtani’s Dodgers Move Sparks Luxury Tax Reform Talks
Jan. 26, 2024—By Hunter Berry Shohei Ohtani is, without doubt, this generation’s Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson. The 29-year-old has made waves not only throughout the United States, but the world, for a feat few in baseball can achieve at the professional level: serving as a two-way player with the ability to excel as both a pitcher...
Expediting Drug Development of Novel Therapeutics: Regulatory and Commercialization Implications of Digital Twin Technology in Clinical Trials
Jan. 24, 2024—By Colleen Carroll Clinical trials are a major bottleneck for new drug development.[1] No drug will make it to market without first meeting rigorous safety and efficacy standards. This requires extensive testing across multiple phases of clinical trials, which take, on average, ten and a half years.[2] But advances in AI may transform clinical trials...
Google’s Digital Advertising: A Showcase of Challenge to the Sherman Act Section Two from Big Tech Data Aggregation
Jan. 22, 2024—By Maggie Ren Today, the currency we use to pay for the services of these tech companies is not money, but instead it is data. [1] Google, a technology giant, has leveraged its data aggregation capabilities and algorithms driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to become a dominant force in digital marketing.[2] Google provides products and...
Reconsidering the Merits of a Federal Data Privacy Law
Jan. 16, 2024—By Rachel Davis Americans have expressed growing concerns about the extent of data collection, with many feeling that the security of their information has diminished over time.[1] These concerns are well-founded. The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in major sectors of the economy—banking, healthcare, commerce, education—has exacerbated the need for robust data privacy protections...
The Private Health Information You Share with Mental Health Apps is Not So Private
Jan. 16, 2024—By Phoebe Hebson According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, large breaches of health care data exposed the medical information of over eighty-eight million individuals in the first ten months of 2023 alone.[1] Health data can be lucrative for hackers–TechCrunch in December reported on a hacker offering to sell 300 terabytes of...
(Un)fair Use?: Understanding the New York Times’s Lawsuit Against Microsoft and OpenAI
Jan. 8, 2024—By Jay Eischen The nascent generative artificial intelligence (AI) industry—OpenAI in particular—has dominated headlines for more than a year. Boardroom drama, hopes of explosive productivity growth, and cautionary tales of existential risks have intermittently gripped the public consciousness.[1] Most recently, however, the legality of OpenAI’s use of copyrighted materials in training their AI models has...
From Art to Evidence: The Admissibility of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Trials
Dec. 13, 2023—By Sophie Zelony Jeffery Lamar Williams, more famously known as Grammy-award winning, Billboard-chart-topping, Atlanta-born rapper, “Young Thug,” is back in the spotlight, and his rap music has taken center-stage in Fulton County Superior Court as he faces criminal charges for conspiring to violate Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO”) Act, alongside 27 other defendants....
Name, Image, and Likeness: How the NIL Has Rapidly Encroached Upon High School Sports
Nov. 22, 2023—In this new post by Matthew Lybeck ('25), read about how recent changes to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's name, image, and likeliness profitability rules have allowed opportunities to quickly spread from college athletics to high school athletics in many states, and the impact new rules and laws may have on high school athletics.
A Legal Battle Looms Over the Michigan Football Sign-Stealing Saga
Nov. 20, 2023—The University of Michigan, a top-10 D1 football program in the United States, is awaiting word from the Big Ten Conference on whether they will face disciplinary action for an alleged sign-stealing scheme, in which a member of its staff coordinated an operation to record the play call signals of future opponents. Read more about the issue's potential impact on Michigan's football program the the Big Ten Conference as a whole in this new post by Leo Hainline ('25).
“Wi-Fi on Wheels”: Shrinking the Homework Gap
Nov. 17, 2023—In Madeline Strasser's ('25) new blog post, read about the Federal Communications Commission's new plan to close the homework gap and its potential impact. The agency recently announced that it will allow E-Rate funds to be used for providing Wi-Fi on school buses starting in funding year 2024, with the expansion estimated to benefit millions of students, particularly in rural areas, who have long commutes on school buses every day.