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The Securities Globalization Disclosure Debate, Merritt B. Fox
The Securities Globalization Disclosure Debate, Merritt B. Fox
Faculty Scholarship
A global market is developing for the shares of an increasing portion of the world’s 41,000 publicly-traded issuers. This trend has given rise to an active debate concerning what United States policy should be toward regulation of their disclosure practices. This Article is a comment on this debate through the eyes of an active participant
Berne Without Borders: Geographic Indiscretion And Digital Communications, Jane C. Ginsburg
Berne Without Borders: Geographic Indiscretion And Digital Communications, Jane C. Ginsburg
Faculty Scholarship
This lecture examines the role of borders in the Berne Convention at the time of the treaty's first passage in 1886, and today. The later 19th century was an era of increasing commerce and communication among countries whose domestic production and reproduction of works of authorship had vastly increased, thanks in part to new technologies, such as photography, lithography, and high-speed printing. But at that time, the frontiers between nations often frustrated authors' hopes for control over, or at least compensation for, the international exploitation of their works. Authors' rights ceased at their national boundaries; the world beyond foreboded not …
Crosby And The "One-Voice" Myth In U.S. Foreign Relations, Sarah H. Cleveland
Crosby And The "One-Voice" Myth In U.S. Foreign Relations, Sarah H. Cleveland
Faculty Scholarship
In Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council, the Supreme Court invalidated a Massachusetts government procurement statute that barred state entities from doing business with companies that did business in Burma. The plaintiffs, an organization of private companies with foreign operations, challenged the law on constitutional and statutory preemption grounds, arguing that it improperly conflicted with federal foreign relations authority. The Supreme Court limited its holding to implied statutory preemption, finding that the Massachusetts provision improperly compromised the President's ability "to speak for the Nation with one voice." Crosby thus joined a long line of decisions in which the Supreme …