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2014

Common law

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50 Years Of Legal Education In Ethiopia: A Memoir, Stanley Z. Fisher Dec 2014

50 Years Of Legal Education In Ethiopia: A Memoir, Stanley Z. Fisher

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In this paper I describe my experience as one of the early members of the Haile Selassie I University (H.S.I.U.), Law Faculty, and share my reflections on developments in the ensuing years.


Towards Universal Fiduciary Principles, Tamar Frankel Apr 2014

Towards Universal Fiduciary Principles, Tamar Frankel

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Fiduciary relationships play an important role in civil law and common law jurisdictions. While both legal systems offer similar outcomes in upholding fiduciary law principles, the way they achieve these ends is fundamentally different. In common law jurisdictions, fiduciary law is rooted in the law of property. By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions, fiduciary principles find their source in contract law. This article seeks to reconcile these differences, by identifying universal principles that apply to both systems. The author describes the sources of fiduciary law in the common law and the civil law, then highlights underlying differences between the two …


The Ftc And The New Common Law Of Privacy, Daniel J. Solove, Woodrow Hartzog Jan 2014

The Ftc And The New Common Law Of Privacy, Daniel J. Solove, Woodrow Hartzog

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One of the great ironies about information privacy law is that the primary regulation of privacy in the United States has barely been studied in a scholarly way. Since the late 1990s, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been enforcing companies’ privacy policies through its authority to police unfair and deceptive trade practices. Despite over fifteen years of FTC enforcement, there is no meaningful body of judicial decisions to show for it. The cases have nearly all resulted in settlement agreements. Nevertheless, companies look to these agreements to guide their privacy practices. Thus, in practice, FTC privacy jurisprudence has become …