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Volume 111, Issue 5
Other People’s Poverty
Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud & Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Puerto Ricans have a relationship with the United States that is historically unparalleled. They have been citizens of the United States since 1917, served in every major conflict since World War I, and have been influential members of American culture, politics, and society. . . .
Export Controls as Intellectual Property Regulation
Doni Bloomfield
Export-control laws have long regulated information created outside of the U.S. government. Legal scholars have paid little attention to these national-security laws, and have not recognized that the government uses them specifically to assert a right to suppress information held in patent applications and trade secrets. . . .
Toward a Private Law of Intimates’ Obligations
Emily J. Stolzenberg
When former cohabitants ask courts to distribute property at the end of a nonmarital relationship, they usually lose—even when the partners were as economically intertwined as spouses. Family law scholars have traditionally criticized these cases in terms of longstanding gendered ideas about family relationships. . . .
Cultivating Motherwork: Gender, Race, and Rights in Special Education Advocacy
LaToya Baldwin Clark
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a landmark civil rights statute, bestows extensive rights to parents to protect their children against educational discrimination based on disability. Interpretations of the federal statute by lawmakers and courts suggest that all parents can use those rights to protect children living with disabilities equally. . . .
The Power of Local Governments to Invalidate Private Deed Restrictions
Kenneth A. Stahl
Many cities and states facing a severe housing crisis have taken steps to reform restrictive land use regulations that block the production of new housing. These efforts have been hindered, however, by the prevalence of homeowners associations (“HOAs”) that impose overlapping restraints on housing production through private deed restrictions. . . .
Too Scared to Use: Living Wills and Orderly Liquidation of Too-Big-to-Fail Financial Institutions
Jeffery Y. Zhang
The term “too big to fail” became ubiquitous following the 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis. Lawmakers, regulators, and scholars wondered if there was a better way forward than issuing an array of ad hoc bailout packages to large financial institutions. Congress, in enacting the Dodd–Frank Act, sought to address the concern by creating a new regulatory framework to resolve large financial institutions in an orderly manner. . . .
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Student Notes
Volume 111, Issue 5
A Poor Craftsman Blames His Tools: Resolving the Potential Post- Carpenter Problem in Using the Stored Communications Act to Issue Extraterritorial Warrants
Jordan E. Carlson
The privacy pendulum is swinging in favor of greater Fourth Amendment protections after a string of recent Supreme Court cases culminating in the 2018 ruling in Carpenter v. United States. This precedent-shifting case places the Fourth Amendment in a digital privacy landscape long occupied by one player: the Stored Communications Act. . . .
Reconciling Iowa’s Contradictory Interest in Life: A Solution to Iowa’s Maternal Coverage Gap
Lauren E. Stubbs
Senate File 2251 (“SF 2251”) crucially reformed Iowa Medicaid by extending Medicaid coverage for pregnant women from sixty days postpartum to twelve months postpartum. However, the bill simultaneously reduced the qualifying income threshold for pregnant women, cutting approximately 1,700 pregnant and postpartum women and children per month out of Medicaid coverage. . . .
What Are You Doing in My Swamp? Reconciling Swampbuster, Civil Society, and Sustainability
Nathan M. Spindler-Krage
Wetlands should be worried. Changing jurisprudential norms against land use regulation threaten Congress’s ability to refine the realm of appropriate property use. This comes as adaptation of property and the law becomes increasingly important—as properties everywhere change with the climate. . . .
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Essays & Responses
Volume 111
Where Does Iowa Nuisance Law Stand After Garrison v. New Fashion Pork LLP?
N. William Hines
111 Iowa L. Rev. Online 102 (2026)
This Essay examines almost forty years of interaction between the Iowa General Assembly and the Iowa Supreme Court regarding the constitutional application of Iowa’s Freedom to Farm laws to large-scale agricultural activities conducted by concentrated animal feeding operations (“CAFOs”) sued for causing nuisance harms to their neighbors. Prior to Iowa’s enactment of its so-called “Freedom to Farm” laws, aggrieved neighbors of these CAFOs successfully sued them as private nuisances for failing to properly dispose of animal wastes produced by hogs or poultry raised in tightly confined indoor facilities. . . .
The Bulletin
You Can’t Learn A Lot from a Dummy: The Problems with Dummies in U.S. Vehicle Crash Testing
Kelsey R. Vogel
111 Iowa L. Rev. Online 149 (2026)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) is responsible for ensuring vehicle safety. It investigates safety defects in motor vehicles, prescribes national standards for improving safety in the operation and performance of motor vehicles and equipment, and performs vehicle crash tests through its New Car Assessment Program (“NCAP”) to rate vehicles, which is arguably the most relied-upon informer of vehicle safety on cars being sold in the United States. . . .