Harvard Law Review‘s April 2018 Issue Includes Developments in the Law on Big Data, Big Problems

The April 2018 issue, Number 6, is the annual Developments in the Law special issue. The topic of this extensive contribution is “More Data, More Problems,” including specific focus on the role of technology companies in government surveillance; standing, surveillance, and tech companies; the Video Privacy Protection Act as a model intellectual privacy statute; and the dilemma of the “electronic will.” In addition, the issue features these contents:

• Article, “Apparent Fault,” by Aziz Z. Huq & Genevieve Lakier

• Article, “The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech,” by Kate Klonick

• Book Review, “Reconstructing the Administrative State in an Era of Economic and Democratic Crisis,” by K. Sabeel Rahman

Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases or other recent legal actions and decisions on: agency policy and ordering the HHS to allow an undocumented minor to have an abortion; the lack of malicious motive in disloyal labor organizing; severability of claims under Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; reproductive rights and a new Illinois anti-abortion trigger law; use of criminal history in rental decisions in Seattle; and a regulation by the CFPB against payday lending without determining ability to repay. Finally, the issue includes two brief comments on Recent Publications.

The Harvard Law Review is offered in a quality digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, active URLs, legible tables, and proper ebook and Bluebook formatting. The Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. It comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2500 pages per volume. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions. This is the sixth issue of academic year 2017-2018.

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