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Technology Review

Developments in contract law are often driven by new technologies of contracting. Early in the twentieth century, for example, businesses began including contract terms on preprinted purchase orders, confirmations, invoices, packing slips, and other forms. That practice generated the so-called battle of the forms, which gave rise to section 2-207 of the Uniform Commercial Code […]

Until recently, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal, and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data and infrastructural capability to enclose users and competitors in relations of dependency. Until recently, the […]

*  Picture this: you are about fourteen years old; you have never known a world without the Internet, and social media is the first thing that comes to your mind when you contemplate putting creative works out into the world. You take dance classes after school and love collaborating with your friends to make choreographic […]

The federal government is expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to perform key human tasks. But the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), enacted in 1946, is ill-equipped to handle the use of AI by administrative agencies. Given its dynamic nature, approval of AI software in the rulemaking process is unlikely. At the same time, the […]

With increasing regulatory attention on digital technologies, it has become clear that the United States, the European Union, and China are all, concurrently and in parallel, developing rules and frameworks on how best to govern emerging technologies and set standards of acceptable technological use. Despite the seemingly borderless nature of technology, all three jurisdictions have […]

A few months ago, I found myself at the counter of La Mallorca, a diner that one TripAdvisor review calls “the last cafetería” in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I ordered a coffee and a quesito, a cheese pastry. The server did not input my order into a computer; he just nodded, poured my coffee from an […]

Developments in contract law are often driven by new technologies of contracting. Early in the twentieth century, for example, businesses began including contract terms on preprinted purchase orders, confirmations, invoices, packing slips, and other forms. That practice generated the so-called battle of the forms, which gave rise to section 2-207 of the Uniform Commercial Code […]

Until recently, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal, and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data and infrastructural capability to enclose users and competitors in relations of dependency. Until recently, the […]