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Defragging Ownership: How Corporations Sliced, Diced, and Sold the Bundle
Full text linkPersonal property ownership is in a precarious state, facing structural, economic, and legal assaults. As a result, the autonomy, security, and privacy that ownership once protected have been displaced by a tenuous reliance on opaque contractual arrangements and corporate goodwill. Owners no longer enjoy the unfettered right to access, use, and control their personal property. Through a range of seemingly unrelated business practices, companies have leveraged their growing power to disaggregate the property bundle into compartmentalized rights and privileges, which can then be individually licensed, leased, restricted, or even revoked. Purchases no longer mark the end of buyer-seller relationships; instead, they signal the beginning of a manufacturer’s ongoing control—holding purchased goods hostage in exchange for continued payments, data collection, and remote oversight.
Taking inspiration from the IT concept of “defragging” a hard drive—where scattered data fragments are recombined to restore function and efficiency—this Essay argues that we must now defragment ownership: reassembling fractured property rights into coherent bundles to reempower owners and restore legal clarity.
To lay the groundwork for this goal, the Essay develops a taxonomy of structural attacks on personal property ownership by dissecting how market practices and corporate behaviors systematically undermine consumers. In doing so, it highlights the urgent need to address both the economic structures and legal doctrines enabling this erosion. By calling for defragmentation, the Essay reaffirms that property law’s traditional bundles of rights remain essential to private ordering, standardizing expectations, and fostering trust in market transactions
SEC committee approves AI recommendations drafted by Indiana Law faculty member Alvin Velazquez
No full textThe Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee (IAC) Friday (Dec. 5) approved new recommendations urging public companies to provide clearer, more consistent information about how they use artificial intelligence. The recommendations passed with strong support: 14 votes in favor, two abstentions, and two against.
The proposal, drafted by Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Alvin Velazquez, responds to the rapid rise of AI across corporate America and widespread investor concern that current disclosures are confusing, inconsistent, or overly promotional
Lowell Baier: 1940-2025
No full textOver a remarkable 51-year career, Lowell Baier moved with uncommon ease between professions—attorney, entrepreneur, advocate, historian, and author—yet every path he pursued seemed to guide him inevitably toward a life defined by service, scholarship, and conservation. Baier, who passed away on November 21, leaves behind a legacy as vast, varied, and vital as the landscapes he fought to protect.
Baier’s life was a testament to service: to the land, to the law, to institutions that shaped him, and to people who shared his passions. His legacy will endure in protected landscapes, inspired students, strengthened institutions, and the many lives he touched with his kindness, intellect, and unwavering commitment to the public good
Professor Yvette Butler Named 2026 Recipient of Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award
No full textIndiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Yvette Butler has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Minority Groups announced late Friday (Dec. 12).
“Professor Butler’s commitment to advancing racial justice and elevating the voices of marginalized communities embodies the highest ideals of our profession,” said Indiana Law Dean Christiana Ochoa. “Her work reflects the courage, clarity of purpose, and unwavering advocacy that defined Derrick Bell’s legacy. We are immensely proud to see her recognized with this award and look forward to the continued impact she will undoubtedly make.”
Professor Butler’s scholarship explores the ways in which the law, particularly the U.S. Constitution, protects or constrains the survival and resistance strategies of marginalized groups
Dean\u27s Desk: We’re providing encouragement to would-be lawyers
No full textAs dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, I have the privilege of witnessing firsthand how transformative legal education can be—not only for individual students, but also for the communities and institutions they go on to serve.
But there’s a problem: many promising undergraduate students have been told, explicitly or implicitly, that law school isn’t for them. Some don’t have anyone to turn to for advice and guidance.
Some have been discouraged from considering legal education because their backgrounds don’t fit the traditional mold of what society envisions an attorney to be. Maybe they are first-generation students and have never met a lawyer, or their family’s finances are such that the sticker price makes law school feel out of reach.
Whatever the reason, many undergraduates have a hard time seeing a lighted path to law school.
When these students seek guidance, they are traditionally referred to pre-law advising—an important resource, but one that may not fully meet their needs.
Often they’re seeking connection: to see and hear from people who shared their experiences and succeeded in the legal profession. From that recognition, the Maurer Vision Program, or MVP, was born last year.
What began as informal conversations between law students and undergraduates quickly evolved into a robust initiative, now led by Assistant Dean Dr. Gabriel Escobedo
State Responsibility for Negligent Intelligence
No full textThe Research Handbook on Intelligence and International Law brings together expert scholars and practitioners to comprehensively assess how international law applies to the work of the intelligence community.Among other issues, it examines: the role and impact of the intelligence community as a normative actor in the international legal system; the legality of influence operations; the lawfulness of covert operations; the international legal issues raised by intelligence sharing during military operations; the application of international law to political and economic espionage; State responsibility for negligent intelligence; the privileges and immunities of intelligence officials under the laws of peace and war; the collection of intelligence by peacekeeping missions; the protection afforded by international law to submarine cables; the legality of intelligence operations that expose gross human rights abuses; and the extent to which international courts and tribunals have examined the application of international law to intelligence activities.This Research Handbook is an essential resource for students, academics, practitioners, and policymakers working in international law and intelligence studies.
Includes the chapter, State Responsibility for Negligent Intelligence by Maurer Professor Asaf Lubin.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/1349/thumbnail.jp
2025/26 Indiana University Maurer School of Law Faculty
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