Addressing Post‐Atrocity Conflict: The Tension Between Peace and Justice

International tribunals, due to time and resource constraints, are often ill‐equipped to prosecute the hundreds or thousands of perpetrators who have committed heinous crimes in the wake of mass atrocities. As a result, the international criminal justice system often falls short of achieving long‐term justice. This Article argues that it is imperative for leaders of post‐atrocity societies to implement responsive, local justice solutions based on the needs of their particular community—without sole reliance on international criminal prosecutions—to effectively resolve conflict and engender peace. The Author discusses the Restorative Justice and Transitional Justice models as alternatives to prosecution. Due to the competing aims of reckoning with heinous crimes that have been committed, while simultaneously laying a stable foundation for new democratic institutions, post‐atrocity societies must strike a balance between justice and peace.

Word Is Worth A Thousand Words: Legal Implications of Relying on Machine Translation Technology

The number of people in the United States who speak a language other than English has dramatically increased in recent years. Practitioners in America are likely to feel the effects of this growing linguistic diversity during discovery when they encounter documents in a language other than English. The modern‐day practitioner faces a curious ethical dilemma: given the advances in neural machine translation (NMT) technology, is it in their client’s best interest to forego hiring a costly—yet accurate—human translator and instead rely on a faster, cheaper software program that will produce an imperfect—but in most cases sufficient—English translation? When an automated program incorrectly translates a key phrase in a document and the client’s case is negatively impacted, can the practitioner who relied on machine translation technology be held liable in a subsequent malpractice suit?

There is a paucity of legal guidance in the field of written translation. A startling lack of both state and federal regulations leaves the practitioner without much guidance about how to best protect both their clients’ interests and their own. This article explores the history of and recent advances in machine translation as well as potential liability issues which may arise when a lawyer uses machine translation technology to translate client documents into English. This article argues in favor of regulating written translation in a similar manner as oral interpretation and encourages practitioners to employ a hybrid method of document translation which consists of an initial machine translation and subsequent review by a human translator.

Quantifying Damages in Cases of Advantageous Breach: The Curious Case of the McDonald’s Milkshakes

When a party breaches a contract, their counterpart typically suffers loss. Contract law redresses this wrong by awarding compensation to return the innocent party to the position they would have been in had the contract been performed correctly. In some anomalous cases, however, the innocent party may instead benefit from the breach, as the founders of McDonald’s did during the famous franchising saga of the 1950s and early 1960s. Contract law is unclear as to how to deal with such cases of “advantageous breach.” This Article examines current approaches to doing so under contract law in both Australia and the United States, and provides practitioners and parties with guidance as to the remedial consequences that may flow from advantageous breaches.

Failure Begets Failure: An Examination of the Psychology of Failure and How Law Schools Ought to Respond

This Article offers possible solutions to the complex question of how to treat failing students in law school, when those students have failed to earn a passing grade in an individual class but still deserve a chance at success. Using information gathered from the Author’s independent survey of 113 law schools countrywide, she breaks down how faculty can use educational psychology to assess the best way to support law students and encourage future success. The Author notes that differing philosophies shape remedial systems at each law school, and suggests that perhaps even institutional pressures from the ABA contribute to how law schools approach student failure. The Author outlines the wide range of approaches law schools might follow and discusses sources of motivation for law schools to choose which approach works best for them, then illustrates current examples of these approaches currently in action.  Lastly, this Article analyzes the cause of student failure and how failure can affect students’ future performance. This provides a basis of understanding for which approach will work best for each law school in light of their values and goals.

Speech and Discrimination in Consumer Contexts

This Article addresses the increasingly important problem of conflicts between free speech and antidiscrimination claims in commercial or consumer contexts. Based on considerations of freedom and autonomy; marginalization and equality; and of dignity, humiliation, and persecution, this Article draws an important—but not exceptionless—judicial boundary line. On one side of the line are cases in which the speech, whether freely uttered or compelled, occurs either on‐premises or in any other essentially individualized person‐to‐person commercial interactive context. On the other side of the line are cases in any other context, such as when the speech, again either freely uttered or compelled, occurs in typical company mission statements, widely available company advertising and social media posts and tweets, or in company comments in the public square on the issues of the day. On the latter side of the line, otherwise valid free speech claims should, presumptively but not exceptionlessly, prevail.