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Ed Bank

I'm a law student at Rutgers Camden and this is my forum to talk things related to legal issues, the law school lifestyle, and general areas of interest cause, aye, it's my show, ya know?

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Regulating the Wild West of NIL

Regulating the Wild West of NIL

Last month, U.S. Senators Booker, Moran, and Blumenthal published a discussion of draft of legislation that would create a regime to govern name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals college athletes enter with third parties.But there is so much more to it. Colleges and its athletic departments will serve a key role in facilitating awareness among its student athletes of their rights under what's now titled the College Athletes Protection and Compensation Act (CAPCA).Here, I analyze the draft and try to offer what this means for colleges, athletic departments, student athletes, agents, and third parties.Links to other coverage and the draft:Student Athletes Get Scammed in NIL Deals, Bloomberg Law Podcast (for context giving rise to this discussion)Press release from Sen. Booker’s OfficeSteve Henson, Senators release draft of bill addressing NIL reform in college sports, Los Angeles Times (July 20, 2023)Olafimihan Oshin, Senators announce push to reform college athletics, The Hill (July 20, 2023)CAPCA Discussion Draft (as of July 2023)The 1-page summary from Senators Blumenthal, Moran, and BookerNicole Auerbach, Draft of new bipartisan NIL bill calls for central oversight entity to enforce rules, The Athletic (July 20, 2023)

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Regulating the Wild West of NIL

Regulating the Wild West of NIL

Last month, U.S. Senators Booker, Moran, and Blumenthal published a discussion of draft of legislation that would create a regime to govern name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals college athletes enter with third parties.But there is so much more to it. Colleges and its athletic departments will serve a key role in facilitating awareness among its student athletes of their rights under what's now titled the College Athletes Protection and Compensation Act (CAPCA).Here, I analyze the draft and try to offer what this means for colleges, athletic departments, student athletes, agents, and third parties.Links to other coverage and the draft:Student Athletes Get Scammed in NIL Deals, Bloomberg Law Podcast (for context giving rise to this discussion)Press release from Sen. Booker’s OfficeSteve Henson, Senators release draft of bill addressing NIL reform in college sports, Los Angeles Times (July 20, 2023)Olafimihan Oshin, Senators announce push to reform college athletics, The Hill (July 20, 2023)CAPCA Discussion Draft (as of July 2023)The 1-page summary from Senators Blumenthal, Moran, and BookerNicole Auerbach, Draft of new bipartisan NIL bill calls for central oversight entity to enforce rules, The Athletic (July 20, 2023)

Tales From Law School to Not Tell in the Dark Pt. 3

Tales From Law School to Not Tell in the Dark Pt. 3

I live to say I finished my second year of law school! Here I'll go into the triumphs and tragedies of this year and the lessons I learned along the way.I also share what I'm up to this summer as well as what I may be looking forward to next year.Finally, I share some reflections on my law school experience for those heading into their 1L years soon.

Sustainable Deception: Greenwashing in the Fashion Industry

Sustainable Deception: Greenwashing in the Fashion Industry

Greenwashing has become the focus of many legal complaints in the last few years and a concern among executives as they try to go about E.S.G. initiatives.Here, I describe what greenwashing is and why it's a problem. Then I explore its prevalence particularly in the fashion industry before offering what some governments and regulatory agencies are doing to cut back on greenwashing cases. I conclude with my own suggestions on how the U.S. should address the issue here and offer to consumers resources to better inform themselves as we await reform and clarity.Links to resources:RemakeGood on YouEcolabel Index CFDA Materials Index

Biden Says "C'Mon Man, Just Let 'Em Use Those E.S.G.s"

Biden Says "C'Mon Man, Just Let 'Em Use Those E.S.G.s"

Earlier this week, President Joe Biden issued his first veto on legislation that passed Congress that would nullify a rule adopted by the Department of Labor to permit retirement fiduciaries to consider environmental, social, governance (E.S.G.) factors in investment decisions.Here, I explain what that rule is but more so what E.S.G.s are and why investors are using them.I then survey the pushback on E.S.G. use to show that conservatives are not only skeptical but so are more progressive members of Biden's administration and agency leadership.Though it remains to be determined if E.S.G. initiatives are the way of the future, I conclude with some brief insight into how the conversation should not be whether to allow such considerations but how to make them more efficient and reliable.

Half a Lawyer with All of the Pain and None of the Pay

Half a Lawyer with All of the Pain and None of the Pay

I'm through my 2L fall semester which marks the halfway point through law school. It was challenging and tested my endurance but I live to tell the tale.Here I talk through how I prepared for finals, my thoughts on the courses I took this past semester, how finals season pretty much just sucker punched me, and a little side plot involving GrubHub and my dinner delivery.As always, enjoy, you're welcome.

Tales From Law School in Time for Spooky Season

Tales From Law School in Time for Spooky Season

The 2L year is still ... yes. But here I indicate a sign of life to say things are well and how I've been balancing the load from school with my personal life and interests.

The Terrible Twos

The Terrible Twos

I'm about a month into my 2L year at Rutgers Law Camden and the dynamic is certainly a bit different from the 1L year but it has its perks. Here's a little unsolicited life update on how we're chugging along.

Tales From a 1L to Not Tell in the Dark Pt. 2

Tales From a 1L to Not Tell in the Dark Pt. 2

Well it happened, my first year as a law student came and went and came and went it did. Here, I just share whatever thoughts come across my mind in trying to answer exactly what is was like and what I can take away from it.

Can a 1L Breakdown the Alec Baldwin Negligence Claim?

Can a 1L Breakdown the Alec Baldwin Negligence Claim?

Fresh off my torts final, the facts and allegations facing Alec Baldwin, the studio of "Rust," and the multiple other defendants named are all too similar a textbook survey of torts fact pattern.Here, to the best of my knowledge coming from someone who is almost 1/6th of a lawyer, I'll go through the general negligence elements and the specials that apply to the emotional harm alleged by the plaintiffs in addition to considering whether they fall into a particular class of cases whose classification is detrimental to whether or not they can even seek recovery.

Rewiring my Brain to Think Everything is a Tort

Rewiring my Brain to Think Everything is a Tort

Roughly three months into law school it's starting now to hit me just how much my way of thinking, analyzing, and understanding information has changed.It seems almost as if the world operates in rules, and rules do not show emotion, accordingly I've found myself thinking somewhat in similar ways. It's like this law school stuff is brain washing me but who knows?On this show I'll get into how I've changed in this respect over the last three months and what, in particular, presented me with this realization that law school is essentially a world of its own.

Tales From a 1L to Not Tell in the Dark Pt. 1

Tales From a 1L to Not Tell in the Dark Pt. 1

Now that I'm halfway through my first semester of my first year in law school, I'll share some of the differences between law school and college as well as the strategies I've adopted into not only completing my assignments on time and preparing for class while not going absolutely concerning berserk.

You're in Law School Now, Kid

You're in Law School Now, Kid

We're here... we're finally here... law school is real and it's happening but how and why I ended up here is the topic for the first show of this rebranded podcast

The Unique History of Labor in Alabama You Probably Didn't Know About

The Unique History of Labor in Alabama You Probably Didn't Know About

This March, Amazon workers at the warehouse in Bessemer, AL will vote by mail whether or not to organize a union.But Alabama is not a unique setting in the American Labor story.For over a century, the Yellowhammer State has hosted its fair share of turning points in American Labor History and we'll survey a few of them here.

Bruce Springsteen, Jeep, and the Hegelian Dialectic

Bruce Springsteen, Jeep, and the Hegelian Dialectic

Did you notice the Bruce Springsteen-Jeep commercial from the Super Bowl? Well, there is perhaps a deeper, more philosophical meaning behind it that we're going discuss and how it stems to one German philosopher from the late to early 17 and 1800s.

Wall Street hedge funds were hoping to make another profit off failing companies ... until millions of users on Reddit and their Robinhood account put a stop to that.I'll share thoughts on what transpired and why and what it may mean for the future outlook on how we view the stock market.

A Review of Barack Obama's A Promised Land

A Review of Barack Obama's A Promised Land

Right before Thanksgiving, Barack Obama's first installment of his memoir A Promised Land hit the shelves in bookstores everywhere.Here, Obama covers his upbringing, personal life, hardships, early organizing career, political aspirations, and the first two years of his presidency in roughly 700 pages.I'll summarize briefly the timelines of each part before going into a critique of the book focusing on audience, structure, and composition and then closing with my top 10 takeaways that I got out of this glimpse into President Obama's life during his early tenure.