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The COVID-19 pandemic forced students to abruptly shift from the classroom environment to an online mode of learning, and teachers scrambled to find creative solutions to deliver their course content in a virtual format. Months of school lockdowns sparked an explosion in the use of educational technologies, and many of the cloud-based tools, mobile applications, and online platforms that were initially viewed as temporary solutions are now firmly embedded in the student learning experience. The privacy implications of the widespread use …

Last year, General Nakasone, Commanding General of U.S. Cyber Command, testified to Congress that the foreign adversaries who conducted the SolarWinds hack utilized U.S. domestic cyberspace (consisting of leased Amazon Web Services cloud servers). Due to legal restrictions on U.S. Cyber Command operations in U.S. cyberspace, these foreign adversaries were able to avoid U.S. Cyber Command detection. ln the words of General …

Law reform in the United States often reflects a structural bias that advances narrow business interests without addressing broader public interest concerns. This bias may appear by omitting protective language in laws or regulations which address a subject matter area, such as permitting the testing of highly automated vehicles (“HAVs”) on public roads, while omitting …

The role of scientific experts in making public policy has rarely been as controversial as it has been during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the first public health containment strategies to the development and rollout of the vaccines, governmental authorities have claimed to rely on the “science,” citing an array of scientists and physicians, most of …

The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) continues to balance two seemingly competing goals: protecting the public from unsafe treatments and increasing the public’s access to treatments. While tensions between the goals of protection and access have ostensibly skyrocketed since the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic, these tensions have, in fact, been long-standing since the …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, for the first time, a significant minority of states passed laws limiting or outright prohibiting vaccines mandates. The laws varied greatly in what they covered, the way they addressed the issue, and their intended results. This Article provides a detailed overview of these mandate bans. Consequently, this Article demonstrates that most …

This Article explores the intertwined topics of hesitancy and trust towards vaccines. The Article traces the evolution of antivaccine sentiments, their consolidation into organized movements, and their recent evolution, as vaccine misinformation and disinformation circulate with unprecedented ease through digital channels. The Article then examines selected legal and policy interventions that have been used to …

Before 1980, the right to own the patent on any invention researched and developed under a federal funding agreement typically went to the federal agency that provided the funding. The Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act of 1980, or Bayh-Dole Act, reorganized this framework by presumptively granting the ownership rights of any such patents to …