Jotwell

Jotwell is a legal blog published by Jotwell that features scholarly commentary and reviews on recent legal scholarship across diverse areas of law. It covers topics including copyright law and its application to natural objects and AI-generated works, legal issues in healthcare such as primary care access and liability, historical and contemporary family law focusing on parental rights and family regulation, the intersection of law and food policy addressing food waste and structural inequalities, and empirical studies on constitutional law matters like Fourth Amendment search and seizure practices. The blog highlights emerging legal debates and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding law's role in society.

In one dimension, the law of charity is oversimplified.  A transfer either meets or fails to meet the definition of charitability.  Lawmakers acknowledge no gradations of charity, and a gift to a food bank sustaining indigent citizens is treated in…

When does a difference in degree become a difference in kind? Answers to this perennial techlaw question inevitably include mentions of “scale”—but what exactly does “scale” mean?In Taking Scale Seriously in Technology Law, Mark McKenna and Woodrow Hartzog clarify and…