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The Boundary Of Futures Regulation: From U.K. And U.S. Judgments Regarding Commodity Forward Contracts, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen

Christopher Chao-hung CHEN

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Forward Contracts Preference Exception Broadly Construed, Brian King

Bankruptcy Research Library

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Derivative transactions and financial contracts are a critical component of the United States economy. There are three main types of derivative contracts executed in our markets: futures, options and forward contracts. Each of these instruments derives value from an underlying security or resource with focus on a possible change in its future value. These instruments can be used as speculative investments, as hedges on securities already owned, or as a means of mitigating risk on volatility within a specific industry. An essential attribute of trading in these derivatives is “the ability of the parties to value their transaction on …

The Fibreculture Journal: Networked Utopias And Speculative Futures, Su Ballard, Zita Joyce, Lizzie Muller

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The future began somewhere. The impulse behind this issue of The Fibreculture Journal was a crisis of imagination with regards to how the future might look and behave. Our starting point was the notion of post-millennial tension – the idea that in the decades following the year 2000 we find ourselves living in an era that was meant to be the future, but where many of our futuristic hopes and fantasies remain unfulfilled. Worse, our historical visions of hyper-technological futures seem to have propelled us into a perilous position where humankind may not have any kind of future at all. …

Taking Stock Of Phenomenology Futures, Shaun Gallagher

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

I review recent contributions of phenomenology to a variety of disciplines, including the cognitive sciences and psychiatry, and explore (1) controversies about phenomenological methods and naturalization; (2) relations between phenomenology and the enactive and extended mind approaches; and (3) the promise of phenomenology for addressing a number of controversial philosophical issues.

Editorial Essay: Networked Utopias And Speculative Futures, Su Ballard, Zita Joyce, Lizzie Muller

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The future began somewhere. The impulse behind this issue of The Fibreculture Journal was a crisis of imagination with regards to how the future might look and behave. Our starting point was the notion of post-millennial tension – the idea that in the decades following the year 2000 we find ourselves living in an era that was meant to be the future, but where many of our futuristic hopes and fantasies remain unfulfilled. Worse, our historical visions of hyper-technological futures seem to have propelled us into a perilous position where humankind may not have any kind of future at all. …