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I am a juvenile sex trafficking survivor. I was sold here in New Hampshire and other states as well. This is happening now too. Even with a law against prostitution, the more egregious elements are prevalent. Trafficking is not separate from prostitution, it is just the darker side of the very same coin. 

There is an organized effort in New Hampshire to fully decriminalize prostitution. What that means is that all laws controlling the buying and selling of sex will be removed from the law books, making prostitution legal. Law enforcement and public officials will then have no control over if, when, and where prostitution occurs, whether it’s in massage parlors (often called spas), hotels, apartments, residences, or strip clubs. Because commercial sex will be legal, pimps and “sex workers” will be able to freely advertise prostitution services. Pimps will be able to openly recruit women and girls into prostitution, without fear of …

Law undergirds the capitalist system and is “at the interface” of business and social relationships

but remains largely walled off from many traditional approaches to management education,

scholarship, and practice. Although a simple definition of law is “enforceable rules between

individuals and individuals and society,” law is also amedium bywhich relationships among and

obligations between management and internal and external stakeholders are negotiated and

formalized. Law can also drive (or impede) innovation by creating new rights (or burdening new

business models with undue regulation) and promote (or prevent) social change by setting the

boundaries for acceptable corporate actions. Legal rules …

This article examines the divergent ways player conduct is governed within the NFL and Major League Baseball and presents a hypothesis that might explain the differences.  It surveys the governing principles of participant comportment within both sports and asserts that while Major League Baseball is, and has been since the game’s inception, ruled largely in this regard by informal custom, the NFL eschews such an approach in favor of the formation, application and regular updating of formal, positive law.  As for why these different governing approaches exist, this article posits that the answer can be found within the origins of …