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

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Volume 112, August 2024, Maria I. Oliveira, Note California Law Review Volume 112, August 2024, Maria I. Oliveira, Note California Law Review

The Prosecutorial Ethics of Investigating Police Shootings While Accepting Campaign Contributions from Police Unions

This Note is concerned with the unique conflict of interest presented when a prosecutor who accepts campaign contributions from a police union is responsible for investigating police shootings or other officer misconduct.

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Volume 112, August 2024, Sara A. Colangelo, Article California Law Review Volume 112, August 2024, Sara A. Colangelo, Article California Law Review

Bridging Silos: Environmental and Reproductive Justice in the Climate Crisis

This Article makes two interventions into existing legal scholarship. First, the Article identifies an intersectional nexus of hazard between environmental and reproductive justice, which is especially acute for women of color living in under-resourced communities. Second, the Article argues for a ground-up approach based on community power-building and interdisciplinary cooperation, which can inform legal and policy solutions at scale.

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Volume 112, August 2024, Aliza H. Bloom, Article California Law Review Volume 112, August 2024, Aliza H. Bloom, Article California Law Review

Whack-A-Mole Reasonable Suspicion

This Article examines police officers’ and deferential courts’ emerging reliance on the term “blading” or “blading away,” as a behavior supporting the reasonable suspicion constitutionally required for a stop and search. After conducting a comprehensive analysis of the term’s usage in state and federal courts over the past five years, the Article groups three contradictory categories of meaning and argues for the abolition of "blading" as a justification.

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Volume 112, August 2024, Edward Oh, Note California Law Review Volume 112, August 2024, Edward Oh, Note California Law Review

Admitting AI Art as Demonstrative Evidence

This Note explains both how artificial intelligence companies could institute initiatives for better quality assurance at the front end, and how courts can encourage such measures through new applications of existing evidentiary and procedural rules. The Note ultimately argues that the emerging use of GAI imagery may necessitate stricter standards in demonstrative evidence law.

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