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Inter-American Court Recognizes Elevated Status Of Trade Unions, Rejects Standing Of Corporations, Angela B. Cornell
Inter-American Court Recognizes Elevated Status Of Trade Unions, Rejects Standing Of Corporations, Angela B. Cornell
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The Inter-American Court was unanimous in concluding that legal entities do not have the standing to directly access the Inter-American system in a contentious process as presumptive victims. Corporations therefore will not be permitted to access the Court as victims of human rights transgressions, which the Court determined is limited to human beings, with two exceptions: trade unions and indigenous communities. Trade unions have standing as victims of human rights violations on their behalf and that of their members, but under certain limitations. This commentary focuses on the Court’s decision with regard to trade unions, but begins with a description …
Forces Of Federalism, Safety Nets, And Waivers, Edward H. Stiglitz
Forces Of Federalism, Safety Nets, And Waivers, Edward H. Stiglitz
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Inequality is the defining feature of our times. Many argue it calls for a policy response, yet the most obvious policy responses require legislative action. And if inequality is the defining feature of our times, partisan acrimony and gridlock are the defining features of the legislature. So being, it is worth considering what role administrative agencies, and administrative law, might play in ameliorating or exacerbating economic inequality. Here, I focus on American safety net programs, many of which are joint operations between federal administrative agencies and state governments. In this context, a central mode of bureaucratic policy innovation comes in …
Are Bank Fiduciaries Special?, Robert C. Hockett
Are Bank Fiduciaries Special?, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
A growing body of post-crisis legal and economic literature suggests that future financial crises might be averted by tinkering with the internal governance structures of banks and other financial institutions. In particular, contributors to this literature propose tightening the fiduciary duties under which officers and directors of the relevant financial institutions labor. I argue in this symposium article that such proposals are doomed to failure under all circumstances save one - namely, that under which the relevant financial institutions are in whole or in part treated as publicly owned.
The argument proceeds in two parts. I first show that the …
The Finance Franchise, Robert C. Hockett, Saule T. Omarova
The Finance Franchise, Robert C. Hockett, Saule T. Omarova
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The dominant view of banks and other financial institutions is that they function primarily as intermediaries, managing flows of scarce funds from those who have accumulated them to those who have need of them and can pay for their use. This understanding pervades textbooks, scholarly writings, and policy discussions – yet it is fundamentally false as a description of how a modern financial system works. Finance today is no more primarily “intermediated” than it is pre-accumulated or scarce.
This Article challenges the outdated narrative of finance as intermediated scarce private capital and maps the basic structure and dynamics of the …
Consumer Internet Standard Form Contracts In India: A Proposal, Robert A. Hillman
Consumer Internet Standard Form Contracts In India: A Proposal, Robert A. Hillman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
India's burgeoning Internet commerce sector has made consumers susceptible to standard-form contracts. Due to the slim likelihood of consumers reading the terms, vendors may often draft heavy-handed terms in the contracts, thereby adversely impacting consumer interests. The Indian legal framework in this regard is inadequate. This article evaluates the existing suggestions on standard-form contracts and argues that none of them safeguard consumer interests sufficiently. Instead, based on the American Law Institutes' Principles of the Law of Software Contracts, the article proposes a disclosure approach that would benefit the interests of Indian consumers engaged in commerce on the Internet.
Donald Trump And Other Agents Of Constitutional Change, Michael C. Dorf
Donald Trump And Other Agents Of Constitutional Change, Michael C. Dorf
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Backlash is just one of the mechanisms by which constitutions change over time, but it is arguably the most important, because constitution writers and amenders react to past evils; they institutionalize backlash. The German Constitution- especially its protection for human dignity-institutionalizes backlash against Nazism. The Fourth Amendment reflects Revolutionary-era backlash against general warrants and writs of assistance. The Reconstruction Amendments embody backlash against slavery and caste.
Even without formal text, backlash can become embedded in our constitutional understanding. For example, eventual backlash against internment of persons of Japanese ancestry inscribes at least a minimally antiracist principle in our constitutional order. …
Brother, Can You Spare A Dollar? Designing An Effective Framework For Foreign Currency Liquidity Assistance, Dan Awrey
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The core principles of financial crisis management call upon central banks to lend freely, against good quality collateral, and at a penalty rate of interest, to solvent but illiquid banks and other financial institutions during periods of widespread panic and instability. While often taken for granted, these principles were designed for a world in which central banks have the capacity to create money denominated in the same currency as the one in which domestic banks and other financial institutions issue deposits and other short-term liabilities.
Unfortunately, this is not the world in which we live. The application of these principles …