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The Evolution Of Modern Sovereign Debt Litigation: Vultures, Alter Egos, And Other Legal Fauna, Jonathan I. Blackman, Rahul Mukhi
The Evolution Of Modern Sovereign Debt Litigation: Vultures, Alter Egos, And Other Legal Fauna, Jonathan I. Blackman, Rahul Mukhi
Law and Contemporary Problems
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Responsible Sovereign Lending And Borrowing, Lee C. Buchheit, G. Mitu Gulati
Responsible Sovereign Lending And Borrowing, Lee C. Buchheit, G. Mitu Gulati
Law and Contemporary Problems
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Exchange Stabilization Fund Loans To Sovereign Borrowers: 1982-2010, Russell Munk
Exchange Stabilization Fund Loans To Sovereign Borrowers: 1982-2010, Russell Munk
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
How The Post-Framing Adoption Of The Bare-Probable-Cause Standard Drastically Expanded Government Arrest And Search Power, Thomas Y. Davies
How The Post-Framing Adoption Of The Bare-Probable-Cause Standard Drastically Expanded Government Arrest And Search Power, Thomas Y. Davies
Law and Contemporary Problems
Davies exposes a story that has been almost entirely overlooked: that the now-accepted doctrine that probable cause alone can justify a criminal arrest or search did not emerge until well after the framing of the Bill of Rights in 1789 and constituted a significant departure from the criminal-procedure standards that the Framers of the Bill thought they had preserved.
Foreword, Lawrence A. Zelenak
The Fiscal Revolution And Taxation: The Rise Of Compensatory Taxation, 1929-1938, Joseph J. Thorndike
The Fiscal Revolution And Taxation: The Rise Of Compensatory Taxation, 1929-1938, Joseph J. Thorndike
Law and Contemporary Problems
Thorndike explores the Keynesian conversion of Treasury Department tax-policy experts during the 1930s. At the beginning of the Great Depression, he narrates that there was no political interest in using tax cuts to promote economic recovery. In fact, in 1932 Congress responded to the economic emergency by enacting a tax increase in the name of fiscal responsibility. By 1937, however, Treasury experts had become persuaded of the merits of countercyclical taxation. Ironically, the first legislative experiment in Keynesian taxation took the form of a tax increase--the short-lived 1937 tax on undistributed corporate profits, intended to stimulate the economy by discouraging …
Why The Eitc Doesn’T Make Work Pay, Anne L. Alstott
Why The Eitc Doesn’T Make Work Pay, Anne L. Alstott
Law and Contemporary Problems
Alstott offers an evaluation of the significance of the credit and, in a historical spirit, hark back to an earlier, critical perspective on the earned income tax credit (EITC)--a perspective rarely heard in recent years. She argues that these concerns remain apt, despite the expansion of the EITC and oft-repeated praise for its importance as an antipoverty program. Moreover, she highlights three features of U.S. law that constrain the effectiveness of the EITC in improving the wellbeing of low-income workers and their children: labor and employment laws that structure markets that produce low wages and harsh working conditions, laws that …