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Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds
(Matthew Bender, 2008)This chapter provides an accessible overview of our previous work on the impact of the abolition of the Rule Against Perpetuities (RAP) on trust fund situs. The implementation of the Generation Skipping Transfer (GST) Tax ... -
The Persuader: What Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrought
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Philosophical Underpinnings of the First Amendment
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Piercing China's Corporate Veil
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The Place of Reliance in Fraud
(The University of Arizona, 2006)To prevail on a claim of common law fraud, the plaintiff must prove reliance on the defendant's misrepresentation. This requirement is puzzling, given that, under many modern formulations of the tort, the plaintiff must ... -
Placing Election Bylaws on the Corporate Ballot
(2005)This piece provides our amicus curiae brief in the case of American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Pension Plan v. American International Group, which is now under consideration by the Second Circuit ... -
A Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2008)This paper critiques the proposed emergency legislation for spending $700 billion on purchasing financial firms’ troubled assets to address the 2008 financial crisis. It also puts forward a superior alternative for ... -
Plato as Statesman
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The Polarization of Extremes
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Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
(SAGE Publications, 2010)We analyze the interaction between electoral accountability and separation-of-powers by comparing three regimes: ‘Unilateral Authority’ (the President has exclusive decision-making power); ‘Mandatory Checks’ (the President ... -
Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing
(John Hopkins University Press, 2010)We conclude that policymakers and scholars that have been most optimistic about the impact of digital tools have over-emphasized the role of information, specifically access to alternative and independent sources of ... -
The Political Economy of Commons
(UPGRADE is published on behalf of CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, <http://www.cepis.org/>) by NOVÁTICA <http://www.ati.es/novatica/>, journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática <http://www.ati.es/>)., 2003)In this article the author defines the structure of the information commons, its sustainability, and its importance for democracy and for individual freedom. -
Political Elements in the Creation of a Mutual Fund Industry
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Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality
(Academic Press, 2011)We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be ...