Boston University Law Review Online
Boston University Law Review Online, formerly known as the Boston University Law Review Annex, is Boston University Law Review’s online publication featuring symposia and essays, including invited responses, perspectives and student notes.
For Online Symposia only, please visit this page.
For Online Essays (non-symposia) only, please visit this page.
All Online Articles
From the Devine Gift to the Devil’s Bargains: Asian Americans in the Ideology of White Supremacy
Vinay Harpalani
Online Symposium: Vinay Harpalani’s Asian Americans, Racial Stereotypes, and Elite University Admissions (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 151 (2023).
A Black Man May Eliminate Race-Conscious Admissions in the United States
Shakira D. Pleasant
Online Symposium: Vinay Harpalani’s Asian Americans, Racial Stereotypes, and Elite University Admissions (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 147 (2023).
The Perils of Asian-American Erasure
Matthew Patrick Shaw
Online Symposium: Vinay Harpalani’s Asian Americans, Racial Stereotypes, and Elite University Admissions (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 140 (2023).
Asian Americans, Dog Whistles, and the Psychological Wages of “Honorary” Whiteness
Robert S. Chang
Online Symposium: Vinay Harpalani’s Asian Americans, Racial Stereotypes, and Elite University Admissions (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 136 (2023).
Finding Common Ground
Stacy L. Hawkins
Online Symposium: Vinay Harpalani’s Asian Americans, Racial Stereotypes, and Elite University Admissions (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 131 (2023).
Forging a Future Title IX
Naomi Mann
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 121 (2023).
The Irony of Title IX: Exploring How Colleges Implement Credibility Discounts Against Student Victims of Gender-Based Violence in Campus Misconduct Cases
Kelly Alison Behre
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 109 (2023).
The Neglect of Alternative Resolution Processes in Title IX and the Need for Change
Lexi Weyrick
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 103 (2023).
The Biden Administration’s Proposed Title IX Rule: An Intersectional Examination
Kelsey Scarlett
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 96 (2023).
NIL Compliance
Josh Lens
103 B.U. Law Review Online 69 (2023).
Reasonable, Yet Suspicious: The Maryland Supreme Court Wrestles with the Paradox of Flight from Police
Aliza Hochman Bloom
103 B.U. Law Review Online 59 (2023).
Title IX’s Future: An Expansive Statute’s Breadth Continues to Grow
Nancy Chi Cantalupo
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 53 (2023).
Shifting Scapegoats: Learning from the Past to Navigate Today’s Battles for Transgender-Inclusive Policies
Kyle Velte
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 44 (2023).
A Brief Overview of the Mechanics and Civil Rights Challenges of Title IX in Athletics
Phil Catanzano
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 35 (2023).
Fulfilling Title IX’s Promise Through the SAFER Act
Shiwali Patel
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 25 (2023).
The Case Against and for “Abolishing Title IX”
Alexandra Brodsky
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 19 (2023).
Title IX’s Unrealized Potential to Prevent Sexual Violence
Katharine Silbaugh
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 12 (2023).
Title IX and the Challenges of Educating for Equality
Linda C. McClain
Online Symposium: Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future (2023).
103 B.U. Law Review Online 1 (2023).
Building a New Constitutional Jerusalem: A Review of The Antiracist Constitution
Aderson B. Francois
Invited Response: Aderson B. Francois, Building a New Constitutional Jerusalem: A Review of The Antiracist Constitution
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 98 (2022).
Can the Fourth Amendment Keep People “Secure in their Persons”?
Bruce A. Green
Invited Response: Bruce A. Green, Can the Fourth Amendment Keep People “Secure in their Persons”? (2022).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 92 (2022).
Equality Through the Photographer’s Lens
Mark P. McKenna
Online Symposium: Jessica Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 87 (2022).
Progress Is Less Intellectual Property
Orly Lobel
Online Symposium: Jessica Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 82 (2022).
Whose Progress?
Laura A. Heymann
Online Symposium: Jessica Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 78 (2022).
Against Progress: The Value of Distributive Justice in Intellectual Property
Leah Chan Grinvald
Online Symposium: Jessica Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 74 (2022).
A More Progressive Progress
Jorge L. Contreras
Online Symposium: Jessica Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 69 (2022).
Precarity and Progress
Margaret Chon
Online Symposium: Jessica Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 65 (2022).
Less as More in Intellectual Property Law
Barton Beebe
Online Symposium: Jessica Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 61 (2022).
In the words of British Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher: “There is no such thing as society.” Beebe critiques the “progress is more” theory of intellectual property law, and supports Silbey’s idea of progress as concerned with the well-being of creative workers and the intrinsic human rewards of creative labor.
The Law, Science, and Policy of Genome Editing
Paul Enríquez
Online Symposium: Paul Enríquez, Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science (2021).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 42 (2022).
One of Enríquez’s goals in writing the book Rewriting Nature was to help spur robust dialogue and debate about the future of genome editing and the synergistic roles that law, science and public policy can play in promoting or hindering specific uses of the technology. Enríquez continues the conversation.
Will the Past Be Prologue? Race, Equality, and Human Genetics
Allison M. Whelan & Michele Goodwin
Online Symposium: Paul Enríquez, Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science (2021).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 37 (2022).
Historically, presumptions about human genetics fueled racial stereotypes and weaponized law and medicine to inflict harm on vulnerable populations. To what extent does contemporary discourse on genetics reify the old or chart new and different pathways forward?
Regulating Technology as We Rewrite Nature
Sonia M. Suter & Naomi R. Cahn
Online Symposium: Paul Enríquez, Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science (2021).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 29 (2022).
In this contribution, Suter and Cahn challenge Enríquez’s articulation of a constitutional right to use germline gene editing and question the appropriate means of regulation.
Writing Definitions in Rewriting Nature: Lessons from FDA Law
Jacob S. Sherkow
Online Symposium: Paul Enríquez, Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science (2021).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 22 (2022).
Sherkow pushes back on Enríquez’s call for the “adoption of a (more) uniform definition of genome editing” using examples and lessons learned from FDA Law.
Rewriting (Non-Human) Nature
Henry T. Greely
Online Symposium: Paul Enríquez, Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science (2021).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 16 (2022).
Walter Savage Landor once said, “There is nothing on earth divine besides humanity.” Greely, on the other hand, is tempted to consider humanity a metastatic tumor on the Earth’s biosphere. In this contribution, Greely discusses non-human genome editing in more depth.
Framing Germline Modifications of Human Embryos
Katherine Drabiak
Online Symposium: Paul Enríquez, Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science (2021).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 7 (2022).
This commentary focuses on the section of the Rewriting Nature that sets forth a framework describing how the law should classify germline modification of human embryos and offers an alternative analysis.
Rewriting Nature: The Case of Heritable Human Genome Editing
Dana Carroll
Online Symposium: Paul Enríquez, Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science (2021).
102 B.U. L. Rev. Online 1 (2022).
Genome editing is a powerful technology that allows the modification of individual DNA sequences in essentially any organism. The advent of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (“CRISPR”) has simplified the procedures of genome editing, extending its range in research, medicine, and agriculture. While scientists are busy modifying genomes, discussions of how societies can find a path to derive the benefits of the technology and avoid its misuses are welcome and timely.