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Proposed Organization And Detailed Table Of Contents - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon

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For many years copyright was a backwater of the law. Perceived as an esoteric and narrow field beset by hypertechnical formalities, the discipline and its practitioners were largely isolated from scholarly and case law developments in other areas. There were exceptions of course. Well before the explosion of intellectual property litigation in the last twenty years, persons such as Zcharia Chaffee Jr. and Judge Learned Hand brought a wealth of learning and a broad perspective to copyright.

Draft Of New Versus Old Authors - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon

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Virtually all the issues canvassed above embody the tension that exists in seeking to honor the interests of two generations of creators. For example, the essay has discussed the need for new adaptive artists to have a copyright in their own productions and the dangers that the "subconscious copying rule" poses to new creators, particularly in an age of ubiquitous media.

Can Ignorance Be Bliss? Imperfect Information As A Positive Influence In Political Insitutions, Michael A. Fitts

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No abstract provided.

The Second Generation Of Notes Indexed For Inflation, Michael S. Knoll

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Land Use Laws And Policies Route 146 Corridor Overlay Districts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

The reason for this report was to draft a bylaw for the town of Millbury, Massachusetts. The bylaw would address a four mile stretch of road that connects Route 146 to the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Impacts Of Land Use Laws And Policies Massachusetts State Superfund Program, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

The reason for this report was to examine the Massachusetts state Superfund law, and the statutory remedies that Massachusetts relies on to recover the cost associated with the cleanup of oil and hazardous materials released into the environment.

Alive And Well: Religious Freedom In The Welfare State, Anita L. Allen

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The First Great Law & Economics Movement, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

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Beginning in the 1880s American economists turned their attention to the law in a way unprecedented in American thought. Some legal academics in turn incorporated economics into their thinking about the law. Whether their output or its impact were great enough to warrant calling their efforts a law and economics "movement" is worth debating. This essay argues that there was such a movement.

Four things account for the increasing interest in law and economics at the turn of the century: (1) the widespread application of evolutionary models to the development of both law and economic theory; (2) the influence of …

Beyond Negotiability: A New Model For Transfer And Pledge Of Interests In Securities Controlled By Intermediaries, Charles W. Mooney Jr.

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The World Trading System: Law And Policy Of International Economic Relations, Lori Fisler Damrosch

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This book serves an important need by providing a clear overview of an increasingly complex subject. The author, a leading figure in international trade law, has distilled his accumulated wisdom into an accessible account of the major features of the world trading system. His intended audience includes not only lawyers, but political scientists, economists, government officials and others as well. While he acknowledges that his own "comparative advantage" is in the legal aspects of the field (p. 6), he places the legal concepts in their political and economic context to write a treatment that will be enlightening to readers from …