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Forget About It? Harmonizing European And American Protections For Privacy, Free Speech, And Due Process, Dawn C. Nunziato Jan 2015

Forget About It? Harmonizing European And American Protections For Privacy, Free Speech, And Due Process, Dawn C. Nunziato

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Parsing The Visual Rhetoric Of Office Dress Codes: A Two-Step Process To Increase Inclusivity And Professionalism In Legal-Workplace Fashion, Karen Thornton Jan 2015

Parsing The Visual Rhetoric Of Office Dress Codes: A Two-Step Process To Increase Inclusivity And Professionalism In Legal-Workplace Fashion, Karen Thornton

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Legal employers expect attorneys in their offices to use the ethos of personal appearance to project an image of competence to clients. This expectation is largely unspoken, however, and polling and anecdotal evidence alike show that in today’s workplace, employers are frustrated with the level of professionalism demonstrated by new employees. The goal of this article is to encourage open conversations about workplace fashion as it relates to an attorney’s professional identity. It is in both the employer’s and employee’s interests to clarify employer expectations and empower new members of the legal profession to adopt a personal sense of style …


Cryptoinsurance, Michael B. Abramowicz Jan 2015

Cryptoinsurance, Michael B. Abramowicz

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The sharing economy has begun to make inroads in finance. Peer-to-peer lending is growing substantially in volume and in academic attention, though it remains less than a rounding error in comparison to more traditional sources of loans. Meanwhile, Congress passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups ("JOBS") Act, which directed the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to create regulations allowing crowdfunding in at least some circumstances. The SEC, as of yet, has published only proposed rules, ignoring a congressional deadline, but state regulators have begun to create their own rules for intrastate crowdfunding. Yet, one area of finance has resisted even …