University of Pennsylvania Law Review articles from April 1999

University of Pennsylvania Law Review archives from April 1999

Commercial speech, professional speech, and the constitutional status of social institutions.
April 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Current First Amendment analysis lacks a coherent view of speech in the professions. Classic cases address the street-corner orator, lone pamphleteer, newspaper editor, broadcaster, cable operator, public employee, grant...

Privately legislated intellectual property rights: reconciling freedom of contract with public good uses of information.
April 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION In an age of omnipresent clickwrap licenses,(1) we acknowledge the need for a uniform set of default rules that would validate non-negotiable licenses as a mechanism for minimizing transaction costs likely to hinder economic...

The darker side of nonprofits: when charities and social welfare groups become political slush funds.
April 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION: CLINTON'S BILTMORE BONANZA The 1996 general election was only two weeks away.(1) Many of Florida's Democratic faithful had gathered at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables for a prominent fundraiser.(2) This was their mission:...

Opportunity lost: why and how to improve the HHS-proposed legislation governing law enforcement access to medical records.(Health and Human Services Department)
April 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Imagine a "not-too-distant" time when "genetic screening is the norm and the upper strata of society are closed to people who haven't been created through science. In-Valids, they're called...."(1) Genetic science has...