The Yale Law Journal

VOLUME
127
2017-2018
Collection

YLJ Essay Competition

11 Jan 2018

In 2017, the Yale Law Journal held an essay competition focused on emerging legal problems and challenges in law and technology, broadly conceived. This year’s winners are Alicia Solow-Niederman (Beyond the Privacy Torts: Reinvigorating a Common Law Approach for Data Breaches) and Opeyemi Akanbi (Policing Work Boundaries on the Cloud).

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Beyond the Privacy Torts: Reinvigorating a Common Law Approach for Data Breaches

Alicia Solow-Niederman

While data breaches continue to roil the headlines, regulation and legislation are unlikely to provide a timely solution to protect consumers. Rather than rely on statutory claims or the privacy torts to protect consumer data, this Essay suggests that courts should recognize how contemporary transac…

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Policing Work Boundaries on the Cloud

Opeyemi Akanbi

The widespread use of SaaS applications like Slack has shifted how work is performed in the digital age, with attendant implications for labor law applicability. This Essay shows how SaaS applications deviate from the existing regime and proposes a regulatory scheme that better accords with the mode…