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Down The Rabbit-Hole And Into The Nineties: Issues Of Accountability In The Wake Of Eighties-Style Transactions In Control, Deborah A. Demott Jan 1992

Down The Rabbit-Hole And Into The Nineties: Issues Of Accountability In The Wake Of Eighties-Style Transactions In Control, Deborah A. Demott

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Rollups Of Limited Partnerships: Questions Of Regulation And Fairness, Deborah A. Demott Jan 1992

Rollups Of Limited Partnerships: Questions Of Regulation And Fairness, Deborah A. Demott

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Electronic Information Tools - The Outer Edge Of World Intellectual Property Law, Jerome H. Reichman Jan 1992

Electronic Information Tools - The Outer Edge Of World Intellectual Property Law, Jerome H. Reichman

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The Political Grammar Of Early Constitutional Law, H. Jefferson Powell Jan 1992

The Political Grammar Of Early Constitutional Law, H. Jefferson Powell

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In this Article, Professor H. Jefferson Powell discusses the United States Constitution and the historical era during which it was written and adopted. He analyzes the Constitution not as a set of rules creating and organizing the federal government, but as a document that inspired political debate and the culture out of which our notions and understandings of constitutionalism grew. Professor Powell asserts that the "creation of a shared political and legal language" is perhaps one of the greatest achievements of founding-era Americans. Because deep political disagreement existed at the time, Professor Powell suggests that when we look to the …


Law And Chivalry: An Exhortion From The Spirit Of The Hon. Hugh Henry Brackenridge Of Pittsburgh (1748-1816), Paul D. Carrington Jan 1992

Law And Chivalry: An Exhortion From The Spirit Of The Hon. Hugh Henry Brackenridge Of Pittsburgh (1748-1816), Paul D. Carrington

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Sensing The Constitution In ‘Feist’, David L. Lange Jan 1992

Sensing The Constitution In ‘Feist’, David L. Lange

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The United States Supreme Court's decision in 'Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.' has invited analysis along many lines of inquiry. In most instances, the practitioners and scholars who have considered the case have brought to their work an admirable pragmatism and focus for which one can be grateful. Taking a non-pragmatic approach Professor Lange asks, Is Feist just another in a long series of false starts, missed opportunities, and wrong turns on the road to constitutional harmonization in the field of intellectual property in America? Or is it possible that what makes Feist worthy of the close …


Does Treasury Have Authority To Index Basis For Inflation?, Lawrence A. Zelenak Jan 1992

Does Treasury Have Authority To Index Basis For Inflation?, Lawrence A. Zelenak

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In this article he examines the claim, which has been publicized in recent months, that the Treasury Department could unilaterally index the capital gains tax for inflation by a new regulation interpreting code section 1012. He concludes, in light of more than seven decades of administrative, judicial and legislative history, that such unilateral action would be invalid.