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How Government Guarantees In Housing Finance Promote Stability, David Min Aug 2012

How Government Guarantees In Housing Finance Promote Stability, David Min

David Min

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, major reforms of the U.S. housing finance system are likely. One of the key issues facing policy makers in this area is whether and to what extent the federal government should maintain its current role in the residential mortgage markets. Since the New Deal, the federal government has guaranteed the primary sources of housing finance in the United States—bank and thrift deposits, and the obligations of the mortgage securitization conduits Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae.

The prevailing view of government guarantees is that they increase financial instability because they encourage excessive …


A Turbulent Adolescence Ahead: The Icc’S Insistence On Disclosure In The Lubanga Trial, Christodoulos Kaoutzanis Jul 2012

A Turbulent Adolescence Ahead: The Icc’S Insistence On Disclosure In The Lubanga Trial, Christodoulos Kaoutzanis

Christodoulos Kaoutzanis

The completion of the first trial at the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’), against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, was a great milestone for international criminal justice. Despite this obvious accomplishment, this paper argues that the Trial Chamber’s solutions to two evidentiary problems will restrict the ICC’s potential to effectively hear future cases. First, this paper presents the details behind the two evidentiary problems of disclosure, that of exculpatory confidential information and that of the identities of the Prosecutor’s intermediaries. This analysis is undertaken in an exhaustive manner, in order to highlight the challenges that the Prosecutor faced and the manner in which …