Author: Amy Metzgar

Leveling the Playing Field: Legal Technology Requires Retooling Legal Skill Sets to Stay in the Game

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By Gonzalo (Sal) Torres on May 6, 2022

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In the 2011 film, Moneyball,[1] new Oakland Athletics’ (“A’s”) baseball manager, Billy Beane (played with brillo by Brad Pitt) shakes up the centuries old business of baseball by proposing and implementing a new technology known as statistical analytics to draft its next group of players. Beane is immediately met with truculent resistance from the curmudgeons around the table who have no faith in this new approach. Eventually, Beane wins out and the A’s go on to have a stellar winning season.

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Free Speech and Technology

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By Joshua P. Davis on January 26, 2022

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Technological advancements have thrown free speech doctrine into disarray. The speed, frequency, distance, and types of our communications have grown extraordinarily. We can send and receive photos and videos around the world more quickly and easily than we can walk down the street and chat with a neighbor. Such transformations put great pressure on aging legal rules designed for a different era.

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Who Lacks Voter ID?: Evidence from Expert Reports

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By Joshua Hochberg on January 26, 2022

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Over the past two decades, voter identification (“ID”) laws have become one of the most hot-button issues in American politics.[1] Recent legislative activity suggests this intensity will not cool soon, as new voter ID laws have been enacted in Arkansas,[2] Florida,[3] Georgia,[4] Montana,[5] and Wyoming.[6] Similar legislation is pending in more than a dozen states,[7] including efforts to enact voter ID laws via statewide ballot measures in Nebraska[8] and Pennsylvania.[9]

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Housing Injustice as a Barrier to Reproductive Justice

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By Norah Cunningham on November 22, 2021

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To me it is pretty clear that whatever serves as an obstacle to the whole of a woman’s freedom and self-determination, like economic injustice, racial and sex discrimination, affects her reproductive freedom. Injustice in housing is a reproductive justice issue . . . . Not only should homelessness be regarded as a reproductive justice issue because of its direct impact on women’s health, but because of its impact on the overall physical, mental, spiritual, political, economic, and social well-being of women.[1]

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