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Ethereum 2.0 and the Prospect of Reverse Mutation

Dustin Hartuv

January 18, 2024

When the SEC approved an ethereum futures fund in October 2023, it did not object to the Commodity Future Trading Commission (CFTC)’s characterization of ethereum as a commodity on the CFTC’s fund application. This Essay will demonstrate that this industry assumption is likely correct, at least from a purely legal perspective.

A Myriad of Loose Ends

Jimmy Zhuang

Hot Off the Presses: YJoLT Volume 14, Winter Issue

We are so pleased to announce the publication of the Winter Issue of Volume 14 of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. Please click on over to “Current Issue” to view articles on neuroimaging and Daubert from J.R.H. Law, MDY and its complications for open source software licensing from Professor Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, computer games and legal narrative from Professor Lucille A. Jewel, and a new experimental look at liability versus property rules in patent law from Professors Andrew W. Torrance and Bill Tomlinson.

People Like You

Omer Tene, Vice President of Research and Education, IAPP

November 28, 2015

For more than a decade, the policy debates around informational privacy have focused on the fickle notion of identifiability. Companies and government agencies sought to collect and use personal information to deliver services, improve products and conduct research, while at the same time protecting individuals’ privacy by de-identifying (anonymizing) their data. Surely, by reliably unlinking personal information from individual identities, organizations could reduce the privacy impact of their actions.

Hate the Game: Government Surveillance and the Market for Privacy

Amanda Lynch

Even before Edward Snowden called a press conference using a Lavabit email address, the FBI was interested in the secure email service. Lavabit founder Ladar Levison tried to cater to the savvy consumer: providing private communication in a market where participants are increasingly aware of the government’s access to their data. However, Levison shuttered his email service in August, after receiving a