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“A Considerable Surgical Operation”: Article Iii, Equity, And Judge-Made Law In The Federal Courts, Kristin A. Collins
“A Considerable Surgical Operation”: Article Iii, Equity, And Judge-Made Law In The Federal Courts, Kristin A. Collins
Duke Law Journal
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Essay: Sovereign Syndicated Bank Credits In The 1970s, Philip R. Wood
Essay: Sovereign Syndicated Bank Credits In The 1970s, Philip R. Wood
Law and Contemporary Problems
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Sovereign Sukuk: Adaptation And Innovation, A. Roger Wedderburn-Day
Sovereign Sukuk: Adaptation And Innovation, A. Roger Wedderburn-Day
Law and Contemporary Problems
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The Last Bankrupt Hanged: Balancing Incentives In The Development Of Bankruptcy Law, Emily Kadens
The Last Bankrupt Hanged: Balancing Incentives In The Development Of Bankruptcy Law, Emily Kadens
Duke Law Journal
This Article frames the history of the Anglo-American bankruptcy tradition as a search for solutions to the basic problem that has from the first underlain the bankruptcy process: how to obtain the assistance of a debtor in his financial dismantling. The pivotal moment in this story came in the years 1705 and 1706, when the English Parliament drafted a bill making the bankrupt's refusal to cooperate with the commissioners running his bankruptcy a capital crime. Almost as an afterthought, they also introduced discharge of debt. Incentivizing cooperation with discharge would have a fruitful future. Coercing the debtor to be honest, …
Searching For Terrorists: Why Public Safety Is Not A Special Need, Ric Simmons
Searching For Terrorists: Why Public Safety Is Not A Special Need, Ric Simmons
Duke Law Journal
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, local police across the country instituted blanket searches without individualized suspicion at various venues-including political protests, sporting events, subway platforms, and public ferries-all in an attempt to prevent further terrorist attacks. When evaluating these searches, courts rely upon the special needs doctrine, which allows the government to conduct a suspicionless search as long as the search serves a special need distinct from the goals of law enforcement. Over the past eight years, courts have struggled to determine whether and how the special needs doctrine applies to these searches, and …
The Fiscal Revolution And Taxation: The Rise Of Compensatory Taxation, 1929-1938, Joseph J. Thorndike
The Fiscal Revolution And Taxation: The Rise Of Compensatory Taxation, 1929-1938, Joseph J. Thorndike
Law and Contemporary Problems
Thorndike explores the Keynesian conversion of Treasury Department tax-policy experts during the 1930s. At the beginning of the Great Depression, he narrates that there was no political interest in using tax cuts to promote economic recovery. In fact, in 1932 Congress responded to the economic emergency by enacting a tax increase in the name of fiscal responsibility. By 1937, however, Treasury experts had become persuaded of the merits of countercyclical taxation. Ironically, the first legislative experiment in Keynesian taxation took the form of a tax increase--the short-lived 1937 tax on undistributed corporate profits, intended to stimulate the economy by discouraging …