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Public Service Law: Privatization’S Unexpected Offspring, Tony Prosser Oct 2000

Public Service Law: Privatization’S Unexpected Offspring, Tony Prosser

Law and Contemporary Problems

What has occurred in the United Kingdom is a move toward the development of a body of legal doctrine closer to the concept of public service enshrined in other European legal systems. Prosser asserts that it has been largely due to the creation of regulators independent of government and enterprise, thus making some legal framework to structure relations inevitable.


Summary Of Roundtable Discussions Regarding The Future Content Of The U.S. Securities Laws, James D. Cox, Edward F. Greene Jul 2000

Summary Of Roundtable Discussions Regarding The Future Content Of The U.S. Securities Laws, James D. Cox, Edward F. Greene

Law and Contemporary Problems

On Apr 8-9, 1999, more than sixty securities lawyers, regulators and academics participated in a roundtable discussion in Washington DC on what should be the future content of the US securities laws. A summary of the discussions is presented.


Freedom Of Speech, Cyberspace, Harassment Law, And The Clinton Administration, Eugene Volokh Apr 2000

Freedom Of Speech, Cyberspace, Harassment Law, And The Clinton Administration, Eugene Volokh

Law and Contemporary Problems

Volokh presents four cyberspace speech controversies that involve an interesting modern body of speech restrictions: hostile environment harassment law. These examples illustrate three things--in most of the controversies, the result should be driven not by the medium, but by the underlying free speech principles; that the Clinton Administration's role in these areas has been comparatively slight; and that each of the controversies shows that there is considerable truth to the much-maligned concept of the slippery slope.


Student-Edited Law Reviews: Reflections And Responses Of An Inmate, Nathan H. Saunders Apr 2000

Student-Edited Law Reviews: Reflections And Responses Of An Inmate, Nathan H. Saunders

Duke Law Journal

In the classic description, students without law degrees set the standards for publication in the scholarly journals of American law-one of the few reported cases of the inmates truly running the asylum.(1)