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Innovation, Investment, And Unbundling, Thomas Jorde, J. Sidak, David Teece
Innovation, Investment, And Unbundling, Thomas Jorde, J. Sidak, David Teece
Thomas Jorde
Examines the tradeoff between innovation and mandatory unbundling of telecommunications networks in the United States. Release of the Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the Federal Communications Commission; Subjection of telecommunication networks to compulsory sharing among competitors at regulated cost-based rates; Effect of the mandatory unbundling on the incumbent local exchange carrier.
Market-Oriented Regulation Of Environmental Problems In The Netherlands, Gjalt Huppes, Robert Kagan
Market-Oriented Regulation Of Environmental Problems In The Netherlands, Gjalt Huppes, Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan
No abstract provided.
Regulating Pot To Save The Polar Bear: Energy And Climate Impacts Of The Marijuana Industry, Gina Warren
Regulating Pot To Save The Polar Bear: Energy And Climate Impacts Of The Marijuana Industry, Gina Warren
Gina Warren
No abstract provided.
The Greening Of Canadian Cyber Laws: What Environmental Law Can Teach And Cyber Law Can Learn, Sara Smyth
The Greening Of Canadian Cyber Laws: What Environmental Law Can Teach And Cyber Law Can Learn, Sara Smyth
Sara Smyth
This article examines whether Canadian environmental law and policy could serve as a model for cyber crime regulation. A wide variety of offences are now committed through digital technologies, including thievery, identity theft, fraud, the misdirection of communications, intellectual property theft, espionage, system disruption, the destruction of data, money laundering, hacktivism, and terrorism, among others. The focus of this Article is on the problem of data security breaches, which target businesses and consumers. Following the Introduction, Part I provides an overview of the parallels that can be drawn between threats in the natural environment and on the Internet. Both disciplines …
Dirty Debts Sold Dirt Cheap, Dalie Jimenez
Dirty Debts Sold Dirt Cheap, Dalie Jimenez
Dalie Jimenez
More than 77 million Americans have a debt in collections. Many of these debts will be sold to debt buyers for pennies, or fractions of pennies, on the dollar. This Article details the perilous path that debts travel as they move through the collection ecosystem. Using a unique dataset of 84 consumer debt purchase and sale agreement, it examines the manner in which debts are sold, oftentimes as simple data on a spreadsheet, devoid of any documentary evidence. It finds that in many contracts, sellers disclaim all warranties about the underlying debts sold or the information transferred. Sellers also sometimes …