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Intracorporate Plurality In Criminal Conspiracy Law, Sarah N. Welling

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The concept of conspiracy currently plays a significant role in three areas of substantive law: antitrust, civil rights, and criminal law. Although the role of conspiracy in these substantive areas of law differs in many ways, all three require that the conspiracy consist of a plurality of actors. Determining what constitutes a plurality of actors when all the alleged conspirators are agents of a single corporation poses a continuing problem.

This problem raises two distinct questions. The first is whether, when one agent acts alone within the scope of corporate business, the agent and the corporation constitute a plurality. The …

Illegal Corporate Practices And The Disclosure Requirements Of The Federal Securities Laws, Eric D. Roiter

Fordham Law Review

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Transborder Data Flow: Separating The Privacy Interests Of Individuals And Corporations, Garry S. Grossman

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The merger of computer and communications technologies in the past two decades has revolutionized information processing throughout the world. The most recent telecommunications advances possible direct international transfers of sensitive personal data via computer-satellite links. Computerized data bases containing commercial information identifying citizens of one country are now routinely transferred to and stored in another, often without the knowledge of the individuals identified in the data. Numerous European countries have enacted data protection legislation with the avowed intent to protect their citizens from the improper use of personal information that is transferred extranationally. These data protection laws prohibit the export …

Beyond Upjohn: Achieving Certainty By Expanding The Scope Of The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege, Jacqueline A. Weiss

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.