Author Archives: Marianne Adams

Fall Issue

Prefatory Pages Masthead Acknowledgments ArticlesBruen‘s “Nuanced Approach”: Second Amendment Adjudication on Unprecedented Social Issues and New Technologiesby Kevin K. Wang The Future of Criminal Statutory Interpretationby Lauren O’Neil Hamilton

The Return of the Appraisal Arbitrage Trade

MARCUS LECKY—Top Wall Street hedge funds are contesting Silver Lake’s buyout of Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. (Endeavor) with one of the largest appraisal demands in the history of Delaware, bringing back a trade strategy that lay dormant for years. Appraisal arbitrage consists of buying a company’s shares after a deal is announced and then suing […]

TikTok on the Clock: National Security, Forced Divestiture, and the Limits of the First Amendment

MEGAN SCHUTZEN—When Congress passed the “divest-or-ban” law in 2024, TikTok’s future in the United States was suddenly thrown into question. Lawmakers argued that the platform’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, posed national security risks because China’s intelligence and cybersecurity laws could compel data access or content manipulation. In turn, TikTok pushed back with strong First Amendment […]

Florida Supreme Court Abandons Requirement of ABA-Accredited J.D. for Its Bar Membership

NICOLE KIDD—Who gets to be a lawyer in Florida? Effectively since 1955, but technically since 1992, only graduates of law schools accredited by the American Bar Association (“ABA”) could become members of The Florida Bar, with a few narrow exceptions. That is no longer the case. In a per curiam opinion dated January 15, 2026, […]