20 Years of Trade Secrets Scholarship

Professor Sharon Sandeen, at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, has posted an ongoing bibliography of trade secrets scholarship. It is pretty amazing. It includes books, book chapters, law review articles, and non-law review articles such as blog posts.  It contains links for many of the documents and complete citations. The bibliography looks only at relatively modern sources, from 2002-2022. Other major sources for trade secret law and scholarship include statutes and legislative history (e.g. UTSA Commentary, DTSA Senate and House Reports) as well as many excellent treatises available through Westlaw or Lexis, including Milgrim & Bensen, Jager, and Quinto et al.  (There's also a Pooley treatise, though the author has other publications that are more easily accessible.)

Professor Sandeen produced this  bibliography with the help of Mitchell Hamline students Arneda Perkins and Amy Gustafson, and Mitchell Hamline research librarian Alisha Hennen. 

What does ending the COVID-19 pandemic mean from a legal perspective?

By Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Nicholson Price, Rachel Sachs, and Jacob S. Sherkow

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. The United States is averaging around 100,000 new cases per day and recently marked 1 million total deaths, and global deaths associated with the pandemic are estimated at nearly 15 million. But the U.S. legal response to the pandemic appears to be winding down, with mask mandates disappearing, an uncertain congressional response, COVID relief money running out, the end of most emergency orders at the state level, and calls for an end to federal emergency declarations. In this post, we examine COVID-related public health emergency declarations, what ending those would mean from a legal perspective, and what impact that would have on pandemic innovation policy, including access to existing COVID innovations and incentives to develop new ones.

What are the major COVID-19 emergency declarations?

Broadly speaking, public health emergency declarations give governments the power to “activate funds, personnel, and material and change the legal landscape to aid in the response to a public health threat,” generally in a manner legally different from typical law- or rule-making processes. Because public health measures often are (and need to be) wide-ranging, federal, state, tribal, and local governments all have the power to issue such declarations. And even within a given government authority, individual agencies often possess complementary but different powers to issue their own public health emergency declarations. COVID-19 has consequently prompted a large number of distinct emergency declarations, each with different legal effects.