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Adopting The Gay Family, Cynthia Godsoe Dec 2015

Adopting The Gay Family, Cynthia Godsoe

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Drug Design Liability: Farewell To Comment K, Aaron Twerski, James A. Henderson Jr. Oct 2015

Drug Design Liability: Farewell To Comment K, Aaron Twerski, James A. Henderson Jr.

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Harmonizing Third-Party Litigation Funding Regulation, Victoria Sahani Feb 2015

Harmonizing Third-Party Litigation Funding Regulation, Victoria Sahani

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Third-party litigation funding is no longer a new phenomenon, but rather is a mainstay in global commerce and dispute resolution. Yet many observers still consider the third-party litigation funding industry as a “wild west” due to a lack of regulation in many countries. Some of the countries that have regulations suffer from a lack of uniformity and an array of conflicting laws at the sub-national level (i.e., the laws of states, provinces, territories, etc.). For example, the United States has a confusing patchwork of state laws on third-party litigation funding. This Article proposes harmonizing the regulatory framework for third-party litigation …


Incorporating Legal Claims, Maya Steinitz Feb 2015

Incorporating Legal Claims, Maya Steinitz

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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in commercial litigation funding. Whereas the judicial, legislative, and scholarly treatment of litigation finance has regarded litigation finance first and foremost as a form of champerty and sought to regulate it through rules of legal professional responsibility (hereinafter, the "legal ethics paradigm"), this Article suggests that the problems created by litigation finance are all facets of the classic problems created by "the separation of ownership and control" that have been a focus of business law since the advent of the corporate form. Therefore, an "incorporation paradigm," offered here, is more appropriate. "Incorporating …


Appraisal Arbitrage And The Future Of Public Company M&A, Minor Myers, Charles R. Korsmo Jan 2015

Appraisal Arbitrage And The Future Of Public Company M&A, Minor Myers, Charles R. Korsmo

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Cocktails On Campus: Are Libations A Liability?, Susan S. Bendlin Jan 2015

Cocktails On Campus: Are Libations A Liability?, Susan S. Bendlin

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Victim Or Thug? Examining The Relevance Of Stories In Cases Involving Shootings Of Unarmed Black Males, Sherri Keene Jan 2015

Victim Or Thug? Examining The Relevance Of Stories In Cases Involving Shootings Of Unarmed Black Males, Sherri Keene

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Class Counsel As Litigation Funders, Morris A. Ratner Jan 2015

Class Counsel As Litigation Funders, Morris A. Ratner

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Disaggregated Classes, Benjamin P. Edwards Jan 2015

Disaggregated Classes, Benjamin P. Edwards

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Litigation Isolationism, Pamela K. Bookman Jan 2015

Litigation Isolationism, Pamela K. Bookman

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Over the past two decades, U.S. courts have pursued a studied avoidance of transnational litigation. The resulting litigation isolationism appears to be driven by courts’ desire to promote separation of powers, international comity, and the interests of defendants. This Article demonstrates, however, that this new kind of “avoidance” in fact frequently undermines not only these values but also other significant U.S. interests by continuing to interfere with foreign relations and driving plaintiffs to sue in foreign courts.

This Article offers four contributions: First, it focuses the conversation about transnational litigation on those doctrines designed to avoid it—that is, doctrines that …


The Mdl Vortex Revisited, Thomas B. Metzloff Jan 2015

The Mdl Vortex Revisited, Thomas B. Metzloff

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When The Lawyer Screws Up: A Portrait Of Legal Malpractice Claims And Their Resolution, Herbert M. Kritzer, Neil Vidmar Jan 2015

When The Lawyer Screws Up: A Portrait Of Legal Malpractice Claims And Their Resolution, Herbert M. Kritzer, Neil Vidmar

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Does The Quality Of The Plaintiffs' Law Firm Matter In Deal Litigation?, David H. Webber, Adam B. Badawi Jan 2015

Does The Quality Of The Plaintiffs' Law Firm Matter In Deal Litigation?, David H. Webber, Adam B. Badawi

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This Article examines how the stock market reacts to the filing of lawsuits against mergers and acquisitions targets as the quality of the plaintiffs’ law firm varies. Our primary dataset includes all cases of this type filed in the Delaware Chancery Court from November 2003–September 2008. We group the law firms that file these suits into higher and lower quality categories using several quantitative and qualitative measures. We hypothesize that target firm share value should reflect the likelihood that litigation will result in an increase in merger consideration. This effect is likely to depend, at least in part, on law …