Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology
Symposia
The Right to Share: Affording Americans Meaningful Control Over Their Data
Americans today face unprecedented opportunities to leverage their personal data for health, education, and economic benefit; yet state and federal privacy laws increasingly restrict their ability to do so. This...
From Data to Decisions: Why AI Inferences Should Count as ‘Effects’ Under the Fourth Amendment
This Article argues that AI-driven microtargeting, enabled by large-scale data brokerage and increasingly acquired by government actors, creates a dual constitutional problem. First, it undermines Fourth Amendment protections through what...
Articles
Trends in Pharmaceutical Patent Settlements Since Actavis and Private Plaintiffs' Causation Requirement
In January 2025, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported that a new form of “possible compensation” from brand drug manufacturers to generic (or biosimilar) manufacturers, specifically “quantity restrictions,” have...
You'll Loan Nothing and Be Happy
Digital lending of eBooks offers flexibility to patrons, but it also exacerbates the existential threats libraries face. Libraries cannot own eBooks—they can only license and lend them on publishers’ terms—which...