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Keep Your Eyes On Eyes In The Sky, Hillary B. Farber Jan 2014

Keep Your Eyes On Eyes In The Sky, Hillary B. Farber

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To date, eight states have passed bills regulating domestic drone use by government and private individuals. This leaves us with a question: If a city of more than 60,000 residents and a global company with a customer base in the hundreds of millions are racing to the sky, how are we as a commonwealth of 6.6 million to truly launch ourselves into the debate and protect what little privacy we have left?


A Scandalous Perversion Of Trust: Modern Lessons From The Early History Of Congressional Insider Trading, Michael A. Perino Jan 2014

A Scandalous Perversion Of Trust: Modern Lessons From The Early History Of Congressional Insider Trading, Michael A. Perino

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The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 (the “STOCK Act”) affirms that members of Congress are not exempt from insider trading prohibitions. Legal scholars, however, continue to debate whether the legislation was necessary. Leveraging recent scholarship on fiduciary political theory, some commentators contend that because members owe fiduciary-like duties to citizens, to their fellow members, and to Congress as an institution, existing insider trading theories already prohibited them from using material nonpublic information for personal gain. These arguments, while plausible, are incomplete. They rely on broad conceptions of legislators as fiduciaries, but provide scant evidence that members violate …