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An Equity-Based, Multilateral Approach For Sourcing Income Among Nations, Fred B. Brown

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The source of income rules used in the United States and elsewhere in large part establish the contours of tax jurisdiction exercised by countries. The source rules play a vital role in the foreign tax credit system applicable to U.S. persons with foreign investment or business activities. The source rules also play a central role in the United States’ exercise of source taxation over foreign persons with U.S. businesses or investments. Other countries likewise use source rules or their equivalent in applying foreign tax credit or territorial systems to their residents and exercising source taxation over nonresidents.

The current approach …

Comparative Deterrence From Private Enforcement And Criminal Enforcement Of The U.S. Antitrust Laws, Robert H. Lande, Joshua P. Davis

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This article shows that private enforcement of the U. S. antitrust laws-which usually is derided as essentially worthless-serves as a more important deterrent of anticompetitive behavior than the most esteemed antitrust program in the world, criminal enforcement by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The debate over the value of private antitrust enforcement long has been heavy with self-serving assertions by powerful economic interests, but light on factual evidence. To help fill this void we have been conducting research for several years on a variety of empirical topics. This article develops and then explores the implications of …

Civilizing American Civil Justice: International Insights, James Maxeiner, Gyooho Lee, Armin Weber

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In 1776, when Americans declared independence from Britain, they also declared their rights. Their declarations of rights count “open courts” as among the best means for constitutional development. Open courts should secure to every man, without regard to wealth, a just remedy for every wrong suffered, according to the law of the land, by fair and speedy procedure.

Since 1776 Americans have invested heavily in creating open courts. They have been disappointed by returns that fall “far short of perfection” (Maurice Rosenberg). They have found reform to be an “unending effort to perfect the imperfect” (Jay Tidmarsh).

That Americans have …

Cybertrash, Max Stul Oppenheimer

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Information stored in a physical object receives the same Fourth

Amendment protection as the physical object in which it is stored.

As information moves online, it becomes independent of physical

objects, and therefore traditional rules must be reexamined. Others

have argued persuasively/ and courts appear receptive to the

argument, that online communications and data should receive the

same protection as their analogs embodied in the physical world.

Even assuming that this conclusion will be universally accepted, a

troubling consequence remains: the clear weight of authority holds

that Fourth Amendment protection does not apply to information

embodied in discarded physical trash. …

Selective Bibliography Relating To Law Students And Lawyers With Disabilities, Adeen Postar

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Book Review (Reviewing Leonard Orland's A Final Accounting), Adeen Postar

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Leonard Orland is the Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. He has written a fine, if a bit unwieldy, book that traces the sad history of money and other assets deposited in supposedly sacrosanct Swiss banks by European Jews during the Nazi era to its long overdue resolution by the American justice system. The book provides background and perspective on how and why the $12.1 billion in pre-war dollars (about $250 trillion today) of financial assets of Holocaust victims disappeared into thin air in the years following World War II. These assets were given over to …

Some Thoughts On The Evolution Of Executive Equity Compensation, Herwig Schlunk

Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc

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Free Speech, Privacy, And The Web That Never Forgets, Jeffrey Rosen

Colorado Technology Law Journal

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The First Amendment - Determining Whether A Total Ban On Newspaper Racks In A Public Airport's Terminals Raises A Genuine Issue Of Material Fact Concerning Its Constitutionality, Laura Mckenery

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Why Civil-Military Integration Of Yokota Air Force Base Makes Sense For Purposes Of Promoting Mutual Cooperation Between The United States And Japan, Allan I. Mendelsohn

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Successor Employer's Obligations Under A Preexisting Collective Bargaining Agreement: The Second Circuit Misinterprets Supreme Court Decisions And Sets A Harmful Precedent, Kevin A. Teters

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Pilots Denied Relief - By Narrowly Construing Prevailing Parties Under The Eaja, The D.C. Circuit Allows The Faa To Run Amok, Scott Lars Rogers

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Recent Developments In Aviation Law: General, William V. O'Connor, William C. Dalton

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Faith Or Flight: A Religious Dilemma, Colleen Deal

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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The Temporary Presence Defense To Patent Infringement And Its Applicability To Airline Security Patents, Scott Poteet

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Standard Of Care Preemption In Aviation Litigation: Halting Steps To A Coherent Analysis, John C. Nettels, Jerrick L. Irby

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Bilateral Investment Treaties And International Air Transportation: A New Tool For Global Airlines To Redress Market Barriers, Andrew B. Steinberg, Charles T. Kotuby Jr.

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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New Tarmac Delay Rule And The Volcanic Ash Cloud Over European Airspace: One Year Later, Jennifer Henry, Mary Gardner

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Balancing Airport Capacity Requirements With Environmental Concerns: Legal Challenges To Airport Expansion, Timothy R. Wyatt

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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[Introduction To] American Indian Politics And The American Political System, Third Edition, David E. Wilkins, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

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Now in its third edition, American Indian Politics is the most comprehensive study written from a political science perspective that analyzes the structures and functions of indigenous governments (including Alaskan Native communities and Hawaiian Natives) and the distinctive legal and political rights these nations exercise internally, while also examining the fascinating intergovernmental relationship that exists between native nations, the states, and the federal government. The third edition contains a number of important modifications. First, it is now co-authored by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, who brings a spirited new voice to the study. Second, it contains ample discussion of how President Obama's …

When An Offense Is Not An Offense: Rethinking The Supreme Court's Reasonable Doubt Jurisprudence, Luis E. Chiesa

Journal Articles

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The Prisoners' Dilemma Posed By Free Trade Agreements: Can Open Access Provisions Provide An Escape?, Meredith Kolsky Lewis

Journal Articles

This article explains why free trade agreements (FTAs) that are not compliant with the spirit of GATT Article XXIV’s requirement that such agreements cover “substantially all the trade” between the parties pose serious challenges for the multilateral trading system. It notes the paradoxical behavior of WTO members in continuing to negotiate such free trade agreements to the detriment of the WTO. It characterizes this paradox as a form of Prisoners’ Dilemma, in that although members would be better off pursuing trade liberalization via the WTO, their dominant strategy is to pursue FTAs. The article goes on to propose a pragmatic …

From The Welfare State To The Militarized Market: Losing Choices, Controlling Losers, Martha T. Mccluskey

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 1 in Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life, Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler & Gayatri A. Menon, eds.

Beneath a libertarian surface, free market economic ideas and policies have helped rationalize the strengthening of anti-democratic moral and political fundamentalism. The triumph of market freedom has been accompanied by increasing authoritarian government control in many spheres.

This chapter explains how a two-step rhetorical move in prevailing economic ideology turns authoritarianism and austerity into the route to freedom and growth. First, free market ideology constructs the increasingly limited and bad economic choices of a declining …

Distributed Graduate Seminars: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Studying Land Conservation, Jessica Owley, Adena R. Rissman

Journal Articles

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The Enforceability Of Exacted Conservation Easements, Jessica Owley

Journal Articles

The use of exacted conservation easements is widespread. Yet, the study of the implications of their use has been minimal. Conservation easements are nonpossessory interests in land restricting a landowner’s ability to use her land in an otherwise permissible way, with the goal of yielding a conservation benefit. Exacted conservation easements arise in permitting contexts where, in exchange for a government benefit, landowners either create conservation easements on their own property or arrange for conservation easements on other land.

To explore the concern associated with the enforceability of exacted conservation easements in a concrete way, this article examines exacted conservation …

A Critique Of Rights In Transitional Justice: The African Experience, Makau Wa Mutua

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Published in Rethinking Transitions: Equality and Social Justice in Societies Emerging from Conflict, Gaby Oré Aguilar & Felipe Gómez Isa, eds.

This chapter interrogates the concept and application of transitional justice as a medium for the reclamation of post-conflict states in Africa. While it argues that transitional justice is an important – often indispensable – process in reconstructing post-despotic and battered societies, it nevertheless casts a jaundiced eye at traditionalist human rights approaches. It contends that individualist, non-collective, or non-community, approaches to transitional justice have serious limitations. It posits that the Nuremberg model, on which the ICTR and ICTY were …

Legitimate Absenteeism: The Unconstitutionality Of The Caucus Attendance Requirement, Heather R. Abraham

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If Not A Commercial Republic? Political Economy In The United States After Citizens United, David A. Westbrook

Journal Articles

In

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , a majority of the Supreme Court conceived the United States to be an oligarchy and ruled accordingly. What this decision might come to mean for political economy in the United States is explored through three interrelated responses to the decision. In the first,

Citizens United is a turning point for constitutional law scholarship, and by extension, for what is expected from our legal system. After

Citizens United , legal scholars may abandon the idea that the Court takes legal argument seriously, and that law thereby constrains, as well as expresses, social privilege. …

American Legal Theory And American Legal Education: A Snake Swallowing Its Tail?, John Henry Schlegel

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Police Discretion And Local Immigration Policymaking, Rick Su

Journal Articles

Immigration responsibilities in the United States are formally charged to a broad range of federal agencies, from the overseas screening of the State Department to the border patrols of the Department of Homeland Security. Yet in recent years, no department seems to have received more attention than that of the local police. For some, local police departments are frustrating our nation’s immigration laws by failing to fully participate in federal enforcement efforts. For others, it is precisely their participation that is a cause for concern. In response to these competing interests, a proliferation of competing state and federal laws have …