Diana Cao‘s wonderful reporting in The [F]law traces the rise and fall of the video rental industry and how it affects access to TV/movie content today. Her story centers around the last video rental store in Boston, the Video Underground
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Reem Hussein‘s powerful article on The [F]law reveals how, today, slavery in America is alive and well, but it comes in a new, more temporary form: “The Modern American Slavery: Temporary Worker Exploitation and the Human Supply Chain.” Related Systemic
This year’s Grand Torty — the “best picture” prize awarded to one of this year’s 16 Tort Reports, each produced by 5-person teams of students in Jon Hanson’s Torts class — went to “An Act of God.” The mini documentary
Underpaid? And overpaying for everything from food and health care to beer and concert tickets? Luke Hinrichs reports on the costs of market concentration — and how antitrust needs to be reinvigorated to help dampen corporate power. Read the article
Shao Chan’s excellent new article on The [F]law examines how Uber and Lyft are racing to the bottom to redefine work. Read the article here. Related article on The [F]law: Julio Colby, Brave New Work: The Resurgence of Organized Labor
See Julio Colby’s important article on the possible resurgence of American labor. Although private-sector union membership sits at a historic low of 6 percent, the number of strikes and union elections have significantly increased since the pandemic, with successful unionization