Articles, notes, and symposia pieces published in CLR’s print volumes.

Print Edition

Article, Volume 109, August 2021, Andrew Elmore, Kati L. Griffith California Law Review Article, Volume 109, August 2021, Andrew Elmore, Kati L. Griffith California Law Review

Franchisor Power as Employment Control

Labor and employment laws are systematically underenforced in low-wage, franchised workplaces. Union contracts, and the benefits and protections they provide, are nonexistent. The Fight for Fifteen movement has brought attention to the low wages, systemic violations of workers’ rights, and lack of collective representation in fast-food franchises. Given that franchisees can be judgment…

Read More
Article, Volume 109, August 2021, Barbara A. Fedders California Law Review Article, Volume 109, August 2021, Barbara A. Fedders California Law Review

The End of School Policing

Police officers have become permanent fixtures in public schools. The sharp increase in the number of school police officers over the last twenty years has generated a substantial body of critical legal scholarship. Critics question whether police make students safer. They argue that any safety benefits must be weighed against the significant role the police…

Read More
Article, Volume 109, August 2021, Trevor G. Reed California Law Review Article, Volume 109, August 2021, Trevor G. Reed California Law Review

Fair Use as Cultural Appropriation

Over the last four decades, scholars from diverse disciplines have documented a wide variety of cultural appropriations from Indigenous peoples and the harms these have inflicted. Copyright law provides at least some protection against appropriations of Indigenous culture—particularly for copyrightable songs, dances, oral histories, and other forms of Indigenous cultural creativity…

Read More
Note, Volume 109, August 2021, Chelsea Hanlock California Law Review Note, Volume 109, August 2021, Chelsea Hanlock California Law Review

Settling for Silence: How Police Exploit Protective Orders

The national outcry and months of Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality that followed the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are a resounding demonstration of the public’s interest in combatting police violence, particularly excess force used on Black Americans. While media attention on police killings increased after Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson…

Read More
Note, Volume 109, August 2021, Anirudh (Raja) Krishna California Law Review Note, Volume 109, August 2021, Anirudh (Raja) Krishna California Law Review

Internet.gov: Tech Companies as Government Agents and the Future of the Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse

The online proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), commonly referred to as child pornography, is a problem of massive scale. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a private nonprofit specially authorized by Congress to serve as the nation’s clearinghouse for reports of CSAM imagery, works with law enforcement to locate perpetrators…

Read More