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Permissionless Innovation or Precautionary Principle: the Policy Menu of the Future
October 31, 2016
Ethan Konschuh, MJLST Staffer In their recent paper, Guns, Limbs, and Toys: What Future for 3D Printing?, published in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science...
Haiti, Hurricanes and Holes in Disaster Law
October 31, 2016
Amy Johns, MJLST Staffer The state of national disaster relief is one that depends greatly on the country and that country’s funds. Ryan S. Keller’s...
Dastardly Dementor Dad Dupes Daughter
October 26, 2016
Tim Joyce, Editor-in-Chief, Volume 18 Between last week’s midterm exams and next week’s Halloween shenanigans, the Forum proudly presents some light-hearted and seasonally-appropriate issue spotting...
Industry Giants Praise FDA Draft Guidance on Companion Diagnostics
October 26, 2016
Na An, MJLST Article Editor In July 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft guidance document titled “ Principles for Codevelopment...
EmDrives: The End of Newtonian Physics?
October 25, 2016
Peter Selness, MJLST Staffer The EmDrive has been the center of much controversy over the past decade, and rightfully so. But what exactly is an...
A New Option for Investors Warry of High Frequency Trading
October 24, 2016
Spencer Caldwell-McMillan, MJLST Staffer In his recent paper, The Law and Ethics of High Frequency Trading, which was published in the Minnesota Journal of Law...
Solving the “Patent Troll” Problem
October 21, 2016
Travis Waller, MJLST Managing Editor “Dovre: What’s the distinction between troll and man? Peer: So far as I know, there is none, by my score...
Crossing the Offensive Line
October 18, 2016
Quang Trang, MJLST Managing Editor In my opinion, Autumn is easily one of the top four seasons of the year. It is a season where...
The “Fourth Industrial Revolution”: Queue Chaos and Disarray
October 17, 2016
Rhett Schwichtenberg, MJLST Staffer We are all familiar with Hollywood’s drastic miscalculations when predicting the future. In Timecop, which took place in 2004, time-travel was...
Copycats to Copycows: The Cloned Livestock Industry Emergence
October 16, 2016
Ryan Dowell, MJLST Staffer In the two decades since Dolly, a comically named sheep, animal cloning has remained little more than fiction to the average...