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By Shabrina Defi Khansa, LL.M. 2023 Taylor Swift’s fans, affectionately called Swifties, closed out 2022 with an antitrust complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Ticketmaster, the online ticketing giant. In late November, after waiting in endless e-queues for tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, Swifties were hit ...

By Shreya Kapoor, LL.M. 2023 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (hereinafter referred to as ‘HIPAA’) was enacted on August 2, 1996 with the aim of protecting sensitive patient health information from non-consensual disclosure. In more recent years, the technologization of healthcare has increased convenience for providers and patients ...

BTLJ is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Writing Competition. Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to all participants for your submissions! 1st Prize: $1,000 Daniel Levin Fordham Law School Are You Out of Your Mind?: Neurotechnologies and the Making of Disembodied Agency 2nd Prize: $500 Vincent ...

By Vasundhara Majithia, LL.M. 2022 On January 18, 2022, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Congresswomen Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act of 2022 (BSAA) to Congress. The bill seeks to prohibit targeted advertising based on users’ personal information, such as their contact details or ...

By Caio Nunes, LL.M. 2022 What does “unfair competition” mean from an American legal standpoint? The answer should be simple, but it most definitely is not. The first usage of this term in Anglo-Saxon common law referred to “attempts by one merchant to palm off inferior goods as those of ...

By Raphael Dionis, LL.M. 2022 On January 18, 2022, Microsoft sent shockwaves through the video game industry by announcing its acquisition of video game developer Activision for $68.7 billion. By Microsoft’s own account, this acquisition will turn Microsoft into the third largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. ...

Complete and attach this cover sheet when submitting: 2022 Writing Competition Sheet  

By Ali Ebshara, LL.M. 2021 On September 2, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Thaler v. Hirshfeld ruled in favor of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), stating that an artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent. ...

By Maya Prasad, J.D. Candidate, 2024 The Capitol attack on January 6, 2021 was a rude awakening for America, particularly for social media companies. Platforms such as Facebook and Twitter decided to revoke former President Trump’s online forums, a policy still in effect today, to stop the spread of misinformation ...

By Dylan Moses, J.D. Candidate, 2024 At their core, social networking companies sell products and services. So why don’t we regulate them that way? There is no doubt that social media companies like Facebook (now Meta) and Twitter have been boons for the internet. These platforms offer immeasurable opportunities to ...