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Islamic Commercial Law And Social Justice: Shari'ah-Compliant Companies, Workers' Rights, And The Living Wage, Susan C. Hascall
Islamic Commercial Law And Social Justice: Shari'ah-Compliant Companies, Workers' Rights, And The Living Wage, Susan C. Hascall
St. John's Law Review
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The purpose of this Article is to examine workers' rights under Islamic law. Companies claiming to be in compliance with the Islamic Shari'ah must look beyond the forms of the transactions and the content of the products they sell. The companies and their Shari'ah advisors must also examine the treatment of the workers employed by the companies. If the workers are not being treated fairly, in accordance with Islamic law, the owners of these companies and their Shari'ah advisors should not claim that the companies and their products are Shari'ah-compliant. As this Article shows, the fair treatment of …
Business And Commercial Litigation In Federal Courts (3d Ed.), Edited By Robert L. Haig, James M. Wicks
Business And Commercial Litigation In Federal Courts (3d Ed.), Edited By Robert L. Haig, James M. Wicks
St. John's Law Review
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The BCL is comprehensive, up-to-date, and very user-friendly. The practice aids, strategic considerations, checklists, and forms all make this set of books a "must-have" for every business litigator who is or will be going to federal court. Even as law libraries seem to be moving toward cutting book subscriptions, if one were to subscribe to only a single set of practice-based books, this should be it.
Payment Systems, Consumer Tragedy, And Ineffective Remedies, Marc L. Roark
Payment Systems, Consumer Tragedy, And Ineffective Remedies, Marc L. Roark
St. John's Law Review
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This Article engages how those social considerations interact with commercial contracting principles and payments policies to recommend an over-arching narrative of fairness. At the core is the desire to create balance amongst the competing interests, while recognizing the role that risk and access should play in defining the legal remedies available to consumers. To do so, the Article attempts to understand the competing interests represented by different constituents of SVPs, including consumers and merchants. In particular, the Article attempts to tell a story of two different types of consumers. The first is one whom we might not care much …
Are Government Creditors Exempt From U.C.C. Article 9 Filing And Perfection Requirements?, Thomas Sica
Are Government Creditors Exempt From U.C.C. Article 9 Filing And Perfection Requirements?, Thomas Sica
Bankruptcy Research Library
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Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (the “UCC”) requires a creditor to perfect its security interests against its collateral in order to recover the creditor’s priority in such collateral. Former versions of the UCC that predate 2001 provided that the Article 9’s perfection requirements did not apply “[t]o a transfer by a government or a governmental unit of the state.” This exception was eliminated from the UCC in 2001. Thirty-two states, however, still have versions of the UCC that contain some version of this exception. Within the states that still enforce this exception for governmental units, there are …