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Masthead

UC Law Business Journal

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Foreword, Emily Montalvo, Natalie Tantisirirat

UC Law Business Journal

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How European Human Rights Law Will Reshape U.S. Business, Rachel Chambers, David Birchall

UC Law Business Journal

In recent years several European states have enacted human rights due diligence laws, culminating in the imminent EU-wide Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of these laws and explores their potential impact on U.S. businesses. Human rights due diligence emerges from the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011) and was originally conceived as a voluntary means by which corporations could demonstrate that they proactively monitor and manage potential human rights abuses within their corporate group and supply chains. Since 2017, European states have begun enacting binding human rights due diligence laws. …

The Professional Employer Organization Regulatory Regime, Ursula Ramsey

UC Law Business Journal

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Protecting Worker Health Data Privacy From The Inside Out, Elizabeth A. Brown

UC Law Business Journal

This article investigates three new opportunities for complementary public, private, and design-centric protections of worker health data, an overlooked yet critical area of data privacy regulation. The expansion of biometric monitoring, of the $50 billion femtech industry, and the commercial value of health data also underscore the need for greater protection of worker health data. Now that states are developing more comprehensive data privacy laws, it is critical to consider innovative solutions that build on the best of these laws nationwide. Especially after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, the health data of women workers has become especially prone to misuse. …

What's The Beef With Tax Credits? Feeding California’S Animal Production Industry, Stephanie Don

UC Law Business Journal

California’s animal production industry is a powerhouse in the United States food supply chain. In 2021, California generated $12.8 billion in gross cash income from animal production alone, ranking California’s animal production industry as #7 among the states. However, most small farms reported net losses. This paper identifies two financial issues plaguing California’s small farms in the animal production industry: monopolization, and the cost of complying with California’s heightened standard for ethical animal production.

First, the monopolization of small farms is a nationwide issue. In 2022, only four companies controlled 85% of meat packing in the United States. Large companies …

Masthead

UC Law Business Journal

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Foreword, Nicholas Keenan, Senya Merchant, Clara Lane

UC Law Business Journal

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Breaking Up Mergers After The Fact: Opportunities And Problems, Stanley M. Besen, Philip L. Verveer

UC Law Business Journal

Antitrust authorities in both the United States and Europe have recently shown an increased interest in reviewing past mergers with the objective of possibly requiring mergers to be undone if they turned out to be anticompetitive. In this Article, we reach five main conclusions. First, analyzing the effects of past mergers is unlikely to be straightforward because it will be difficult to disentangle the competitive effects of a merger from other factors in the markets served by the merged firms. Second, even divestitures that were required before mergers had been consummated were complicated to bring about and there is evidence …

Google, I Mean Big Brother, Is Always Listening, Justin Silverberg

UC Law Business Journal

Between the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, nearly 1 billion people around the world use personal assistant devices daily. These devices are able to store information from our private conversations in order to make the devices more user friendly by targeting advertisements that relate to our interests. But what happens if our private conversations are stored for more than the above-mentioned purposes? This paper will examine a series of hypotheticals which involve devices, such as the Google Assistant, specifically relating to the devices’ audio recording capabilities. Not only will this paper point out the gaps in our current insider trading …

You Gotta Serve Somebody - Shareholders Vs Stakeholders And The Corporate Enterprise View Of Corporate Governance, Neil Taylor

UC Law Business Journal

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(Private) Market Mania: Assessing The Impact Of Private Market Booms On Venture Capital-Backed Startup Governance, Mitchell Carlson

UC Law Business Journal

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Masthead

UC Law Business Journal

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Foreword, Nicholas Keenan, Senya Merchant, Clara Lane

UC Law Business Journal

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The Security-Shaped Hole In Global Anti-Corruption: Closing The Loop On The Fcpa, Tarun Krishnakumar

UC Law Business Journal

Despite the significant interplays between national security and corruption, discourse around the national security dimensions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) – the most prominent global anticorruption framework – has been limited. With the deepening of global economic dependencies and data flows in critical areas such as telecommunications and ICT, there is ample reason to suggest that the use of private sector entities by governments for national security (e.g., intelligence-gathering) purposes is only likely to become more common. Recent controversies around the activities of Crypto AG and Huawei only serve to support this trend.

Within this broad context, this …

Don’T Let The Green Grass Fool You: Green Contingent Convertible Bonds And Their Role In The Pursuit Of A Sustainable Economy, Eyolf Aaro

UC Law Business Journal

This paper exposes some prominent issues that arise when banks label their contingent convertible bonds (CoCos) as “green,” and proposes a mechanism to improve green CoCos as climate change mitigation instruments. The green label is weakly protected due to regulatory requirements for capital instruments issued by banks. Current and proposed green bond frameworks, when applied to standard green bonds are insufficient in ensuring real environmental impacts from the bonds, are not prepared for the novelty of labeling CoCos as green. The result is a financial instrument through which issuing banks unsuccessfully try to achieve both regulatory and environmental aims. The …

Attack On Antitrust: Preventing A Grim Future For Anime Streaming, Michael L. Cederblom

UC Law Business Journal

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The Collapse Of The Turnover-Proof Business Model: Combatting A Labor Crisis, Simran Thiara

UC Law Business Journal

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Masthead

UC Law Business Journal

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Foreword, Gina Ahmar, Rebecca Siegel

UC Law Business Journal

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Intellectual Property Licenses In Cross-Border Insolvency: Lessons From In Re Qimonda, M P Ram Mohan, Aditya Gupta

UC Law Business Journal

Introduced in 2016, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code overhauled the Indian insolvency regime. Five years young, the Code is now in the process of adopting the Cross-Border insolvency, which was omitted from its original mandate. In 2018, a legislatively appointed committee suggested that the Code should adopt the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency. However, the Committee overlooked a crucial jurisprudential guideline, which colored the interpretation of the Model Law. It was a crossborder insolvency dispute between American and German regimes. An American bankruptcy court subjected to the German administration of American Intellectual Property assets to protection exclusively available …

Private Meetings Between Firm Managers And Outside Investors: The European Paradigm, Giovanni Strampelli

UC Law Business Journal

Institutional ownership of listed companies has grown significantly, leading to an increase in ownership concentration in the European Union. Under the current context of re-concentrated ownership, institutional shareholders are expected, also in Europe, to play a more active role in corporate governance and to exert influence on the company’s strategies. Within such a corporate governance landscape institutional investor engagement is becoming a distinctive feature of corporate governance of European listed companies. In particular, board-shareholder dialogue is a key engagement tool and is essential in order to enable institutional investors to fulfil their stewardship functions. Board-shareholder dialogue is also core to …

The Ethics Of Cryptocurrency, Gordon Goodman Justice

UC Law Business Journal

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The Balancing Of Executive Emergency Powers As They Relate To The Pandemic And Eviction Control, Marialexa Natsis

UC Law Business Journal

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Masthead

UC Law Business Journal

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Litigating California Contracts, Curtis E.A. Karnow

UC Law Business Journal

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Financial Benchmark Control As Monopoly Power, Sharon E. Foster

UC Law Business Journal

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Cinderella’S Slipper: A Better Approach To Regulating Cryptoassets As Securities, Carol R. Goforth

UC Law Business Journal

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeks both to protect investors and to promote efficient capital formation, but in the context of cryptoassets these goals sometimes collide. The SEC vigorously reacts to fraudulent offerings of cryptoassets but has had to do so by forcing crypto into an antiquated framework designed with very different interests in mind. Even worse than the convoluted and complex arguments needed to force crypto into the existing category of “investment contracts,” once crypto is treated as a security, a host of onerous and inapt disclosure requirements and regulations follows. Developers, promoters, exchanges, and others who might …

Bart: The Enron Of Public Transit The Need For Csr In U.S. Public Transportation, Nicole Mirkazemi

UC Law Business Journal

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How The “Exception” Becomes The Standard, Margeaux Bergman

UC Law Business Journal

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