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La Competencia Territorial Para La Ejecución De Pagarés De Consumo En La Capital Federal., Gabriel Martinez Medrano

Gabriel Martinez Medrano

Comentario al Plenario de la Cámara Nacional en lo Comercial que sienta la siguiente doctrina: “En las ejecuciones de títulos cambiarios dirigidas contra deudores residentes fuera de la jurisdicción del tribunal: 1. Cabe inferir de la sola calidad de las partes que subyace una relación de consumo en los términos previstos en la ley N° 24.240 de Defensa del Consumidor, prescindiendo de la naturaleza cambiaria del título en ejecución. 2. Corresponde declarar de oficio la incompetencia territorial del tribunal con fundamento en lo dispuesto en el art. 36 de la Ley de Defensa del Consumidor”.

Ownership Unbundling In European Energy Market & Legal Problems Under Eu Law, Michael Diathesopoulos

Michael Diathesopoulos

In this paper we will examine the issue of ownership unbundling and forced divestiture remedies imposed in a series of recent competition law cases of the energy market - examined in other papers - in relation to the possible existence of a series of legal obstacles. These energy market decisions belong to a group of antitrust cases in which a structural divestiture remedy has been imposed under the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003. This divestiture refers to transmission networks and to generation capacity and is meant to lead to severe structural changes, which are compatible with the findings …

La Rebelion De Las Franquicias, Rodolfo C. Rivas Rea Esq., Marco A. Vargas Esq.

Rodolfo C. Rivas

The authors briefly explore the differences between multi-unit franchising (several units of the same franchise) and pluri-franchising (different franchises that may or may not be in direct competition) and look at its pros and cons as well as the legal risks through a few selected case studies./////////////////////////////Los autores exploran brevemente las diferencias entre multifranquicias (varias unidades de la misma franquicia) y plurifranquicias (unidades de diferentes franquicias que pueden o no estar en competencia directa) a través de sus pros y sus contras, así como sus riesgos legales.

La Jurisprudencia En México, Bruno L. Costantini García

Bruno L. Costantini García

Breve presentación de la jurisprudencia en México, su aplicación, objetivos y fines para el Derecho Mexicano. ¿Por qué es util para el derecho? ¿Quién la emite?

Notariado Y Correduria Y Su Registro En México, Bruno L. Costantini García

Bruno L. Costantini García

Introducción al Derecho Notarial y Registral en México, cuyo objeto es conocer los elementos de las figuras del notario y del corredor público, la formalización de sus actos y su registro.

The Trouble With Investment Banking: Cluelessness, Not Greed, Will Bunting

San Diego Law Review

We assume that the set of marketable financial instruments can be divided into two distinct categories: (1) easy to price and (2) difficult to price, and then isolate two behavioral effects as most important with respect to securities trading in difficult-to-price securities; specifically, the "house money effect" and the "earned money effect." It is shown that these behavioral effects discourage profitable investment in research effort.

We then argue that the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) safe harbor should not apply to investment banks that issue/underwrite difficult-to-price securities. We also advocate for the return of the private investment banking partnership …

Fraud Is Fun Or How A Foreclosure Rescue Scam Changed My Life, Peter A. Holland

Peter A. Holland

No abstract provided.

Risky Business: Liability Of Product Sellers Who Offer Safety Devices As Optional Equipment, Richard C. Ausness

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This Article examines the question of whether (or when) product sellers should be allowed to offer optional safety equipment without fear of being held strictly liable for selling a defectively designed product. Part II of this Article examines several approaches to risk-bearing. At one end of the spectrum, the principle of personal autonomy dictates that consumers should decide how much risk they wish to accept. On the other hand, products liability law assumes that if consumers are allowed to subject themselves to greater risk, producers will be quick to take advantage of their inability to make rational decisions about what …

Judicial Review Of Public Utility Commissions, Jonathan Armiger

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Whistle While You Work: The Fairytale-Like Whistleblower Provisions Of The Dodd-Frank Act And The Emergence Of "Greedy," The Eighth Dwarf, Lucienne M. Hartmann

Mercer Law Review

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) is arguably the most sweeping and significant expansion of financial regulatory reform since the Great Depression. The Act, stimulated by Congress's perceived failures of government banking regulations, is intended to promote financial stability in the United States. Amidst the Act's thousands of pages are a handful of sections that significantly enhance the awards and protections available to whistleblowers. Among other things, the Dodd-Frank Act's whistle-blower bounty provisions and protections gives a hefty award to whistleblowers, strengthens and expands the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley), creates …

Marca Corporal, Derecho De Propiedad Intelectual (Derecho De Tatuajes), Rodolfo C. Rivas Rea Esq., Marco A. Vargas Esq.

Rodolfo C. Rivas

The authors go back to the origins of tattoos and trace its way into mainstream pop culture. In doing so, they analyze the legal implications of tattoos relating to IP through various brief case studies.////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Los autores se remontan a los orígenes de los tatuajes y trazan su camino dentro de la cultura pop. Paralelamente, analizan las implicaciones jurídicas de los tatuajes a través de diversos casos.

Putting "Duty" In Its Place: A Reply To Professors Goldberg And Zipursky, Dilan Esper, Gregory C. Keating

Gregory C. Keating

Black-letter law has it that “duty”—the first element of a prima facie case of negligence in tort—is a nonissue in most cases. “Duty” fixes the legal standard applicable to the conduct in question and that standard is generally the tort obligation to exercise reasonable care for the protection of those who might foreseeably be endangered by one’s actions. Commentators from Oliver Wendell Holmes to the drafters of the pending Restatement Third of Torts have recognized a general duty not to subject others to unreasonable risk of physical harm as the very foundation of modern negligence law. From the time of …

Rawlsian Fairness And Regime Choice In The Law Of Accidents, Gregory Keating

Gregory C. Keating

Early in the 1970's George Fletcher wrote a remarkable article Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory—connecting distinctively Rawlsian ideas of fairness with reciprocity of risk imposition. Fletcher argued that nonreciprocity of risk both characterized realms of strict liability in tort and justified those realms, whereas reciprocity of risk characterized realms of tort law which were governed by negligence liability, and appropriately so. This article argues (1) against Fletcher’s identification of fairness in the choice of an accident law regime with the presence or absence of reciprocity of risk, and (2) in favor of focusing on the fair distribution of the …

Is Negligent Infliction Of Emotional Distress A Freestanding Tort?, Gregory C. Keating

Gregory C. Keating

Liability for negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED) is often taken to be a freestanding tort, which guards our interest in emotional tranquility against careless injury. Scope of duty determinations− settling who owes a legal obligation to exercise reasonable care and to whom they owe that obligation− are paramount on this account. Gruesome accidents may traumatize hundreds and even thousands of people. Unless the duty to exercise reasonable care not to inflict emotional harm is carefully controlled, liability will be excessive. In this paper, prepared for a conference on the Restatement 3rd of Torts, I argue that courts have come …

The Heroic Enterprise Of The Asbestos Cases, Gregory C. Keating

Gregory C. Keating

The asbestos crisis pushed our adjudicative institutions to the brink of failure, and exposed the extraordinary difficulty of managing mass tort litigation on a scale so vast. Even so, there is much to praise in the efforts of courts to come to grips with this, the greatest of all mass accidents. The asbestos cases are an heroic judicial effort to construct a form of enterprise liability, one tailored to the distinctive features of a mass disaster of unprecedented scope and duration. Asbestos is the greatest of modern mass accidents. It is the expression of a nightmarishly well-organized world of systematically …

Attention All Internet Users: How Proposed Amendments To The Communications Decency Act Could Save Your Reputation, Niki Blumentritt

Legislation and Policy Brief

Imagine a beautiful fall day on a Southern college campus. The leaves are changing, and the sound of the band practicing for this weekend’s big game echoes throughout campus. Jane, a college freshman, is walking through campus on the way back to her dorm from her Biology 101 class. Usually, Jane’s walk is uneventful, aside from the occasional run-in with a friend or sorority sister; however, today is much different. Jane notices that many people are staring, pointing, and snickering at her. Is there something on her face? She quickly pulls out her compact and realizes that all makeup is …

El Requisito De “Tipicidad” Para La Habilitación De Una Acción Colectiva De Consumidores., Gabriel Martinez Medrano

Gabriel Martinez Medrano

Comentario al fallo de la Sala A en autos Consumidores Financieros c/ Banco de San Juan s/ acción colectiva de consumidores.

Liquidación Y Ejecución Colectiva De Sentencias En Acciones De Clase De Consumidores, Gabriel Martinez Medrano

Gabriel Martinez Medrano

No abstract provided.

Personal Data Protection In The Era Of Cloud Computing. New Challenges For European Regulators., Panagiotis Kitsos, Paraskevi Pappas

Panagiotis Kitsos

It is widely aknowledged that we are entering in an era of revolutionary changes in the field of Information and Communication Technologies . The spread of broadband internet connections has led internet to function not only as a communications network but also as a platform for new computing applications. The most recent application is the so called "cloud computing", which permits the running of software applications or the storage of data to be performed at remote servers which are connected to our computers through the Internet. Examples of these applications are the web-based email services, online computer back up, data …

Crédito Para El Consumo, Competencia - Contratos Bancarios Y De Tarjeta De Credito, Gabriel Martinez Medrano

Gabriel Martinez Medrano

Ppt de la presentacion en el Curso de Derecho del Consumidor en el Colegio Publico de Abogados de la Capital Federal brindado el 18 de mayo 2011.