Columbia Law Review -

Vol. 126 No. 1

Healthcare
Note

AI-GENERATED DENIALS: MEDICAL NECESSITY IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE TODAY

Emma Ziegler*

Medicare Advantage insurers hold vast power over access to care for Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in their plans. Among other things, these insurers make the all-important determination as to whether care is “medically necessary” and thus warrants coverage under Medicare. Recently, these insurers have turned to artificial intelligence to help with these determinations. This trend has yielded concerning results, exacerbating both inaccuracy[...]

Title VI
CLR Forum

CAMPUS CRISES AND THE LIMITS OF TITLE VI

Suzanne B. Goldberg* & Olatunde C.A. Johnson**

This Piece examines the deployment of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a mechanism for regulating campus conflict following the 2023 to 2024 campus protests and seeks to reset the discourse in light of the statute’s history, doctrine, and role in higher education. Title VI is an important tool for addressing identity-based harassment, epithets, and violence between students, but it is neither designed nor effective as a tool for negotiating[...]

Energy Law
Book Review

ADMINISTRATION, DISTRUST, AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Sharon Jacobs*

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing the United States. The majority of Americans believe that the federal government should be doing more to confront the climate challenge and prioritize the buildout of infrastructure supporting the energy transition. In spite of this, U.S. climate policy is moving in the opposite direction. In his new book, Climate of Contempt: How to Rescue the U.S. Energy Transition From Voter Partisanship,[...]

Consent
Article

DISCONSENTS

Daryl J. Levinson* & David E. Pozen**

Consent is an indispensable standard and organizing principle in any liberal legal order that prizes self-directed autonomy, self-identified preferences, and collective agreement. Yet consent’s capacity to advance those values has become increasingly uncertain in a society beset by power imbalances, information asymmetries, and multiple forms of polarization. In this Article, we document how the rise of neoliberalism has led to greater reliance[...]

Constitutional Law
Note

JURY TRIALS AND THE TERRITORIAL INCORPORATION GAP

Nicolas Tabio*

In 1901, the Supreme Court held that the United States could control territorial land possessions indefinitely, without plans to eventually grant statehood. Over the next twenty-one years, the Court handed down what are infamously known as the Insular Cases: a series of decisions that reaffirmed the distinctions between “incorporated territories”—those destined for statehood—and “unincorporated territories,” the fates of which[...]