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Knowledge At Work: Disputes Over The Ownership Of Human Capital In The Changing Workplace, Katherine V.W. Stone Apr 2002

Knowledge At Work: Disputes Over The Ownership Of Human Capital In The Changing Workplace, Katherine V.W. Stone

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Venture Capital On The Downside: Preferred Stock And Corporate Control, William W. Bratton Mar 2002

Venture Capital On The Downside: Preferred Stock And Corporate Control, William W. Bratton

Michigan Law Review

When stock indices drop precipitously, when the startup companies fizzle out, and when it stops raining money on places like Wall Street and Silicon Valley, attention turns to downside contracting. Law and business lawyers, sitting in the back seat as mere facilitators on the upside, move up to the front and sometimes even take the wheel. The job is the same on both the upside and downside: to maximize the value of going concern assets. But what comes easily on the upside can be dirty work on the down, where assets need to be separated from dysfunctional teams of business …


The Purge Of Mortgage In Japanese Civil Law, Wei Zhang Jan 2002

The Purge Of Mortgage In Japanese Civil Law, Wei Zhang

Wei Zhang

The purge of mortgage is believed to be one of the few French remnants in the otherwise largely German style Japanese Civil Code. Since the breakdown of Japanese asset price bubble in early 1990s, it has been blamed as one major obstacle to clearing up nonperforming loans held by Japanese banks, and a central target subject to abolishment. In this paper, I analyzed the structural problems existing in the Japanese purge system and also probed the history and social background behind the debates about its abolishment. I proposed that, instead of total abolition, a restructured purge system, in particular getting …


La Contratación Privada Y La Emergencia Económica: Una Perspectiva Económica Y Jurídica, Martin Paolantonio Jan 2002

La Contratación Privada Y La Emergencia Económica: Una Perspectiva Económica Y Jurídica, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

A propósito de la legislación de emergencia económica luego de la crisis de 2001, un enfoque crítico de las soluciones adoptadas desde una perspectiva constitucional, contractual y económica


Los Fondos Comunes De Inversión Y La Emergencia Económica, Martin Paolantonio Jan 2002

Los Fondos Comunes De Inversión Y La Emergencia Económica, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Análisis del impacto de la normativa de emergencia económica en la actuación de los fondos comunes de inversión, cubriendo aspectos sustanciales y procesales


Responsabilidad Del Administrador Y Sujeto Pagador En El Sistema De Tarjetas De Crédito, Martin Paolantonio Jan 2002

Responsabilidad Del Administrador Y Sujeto Pagador En El Sistema De Tarjetas De Crédito, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Cuestiones sobre la responsabilidad contractual y extracontractual del administrador y sujeto pagador del sistema de tarjetas de crédito (nota a fallo)


Responsabilidad Civil Y El Prospecto De Oferta Pública De Valores Negociables (Decreto 677/01), Martin Paolantonio Jan 2002

Responsabilidad Civil Y El Prospecto De Oferta Pública De Valores Negociables (Decreto 677/01), Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Primer análisis en doctrina del art. 35 del decreto 677/01 y el régimen especial de responsabilidad civil por falencias informativas en el prospecto de emisión de valores negociables


Teoría General De La Prueba Judicial, Edward Ivan Cueva Jan 2002

Teoría General De La Prueba Judicial, Edward Ivan Cueva

Edward Ivan Cueva

No abstract provided.


Reciprocal Fairness, Strategic Behavior & Venture Survival: A Theory Of Venture Capital-Financed Firms, Manuel A. Utset Jan 2002

Reciprocal Fairness, Strategic Behavior & Venture Survival: A Theory Of Venture Capital-Financed Firms, Manuel A. Utset

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.


Venture Capital On The Downside: Preferred Stock And Corporate Control, William W. Bratton Jan 2002

Venture Capital On The Downside: Preferred Stock And Corporate Control, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Consenting To Form Contracts, Randy E. Barnett Jan 2002

Consenting To Form Contracts, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this essay, I will identify one theoretical source of the common antipathy towards form contracts and why it is misguided. I contend that the hostility towards form contracts stems in important part from an implicit adoption of a promise-based conception of contractual obligation. I shall maintain that, when one adopts (a) a consent theory of contract based not on promise but on the manifested intention to be legally bound and (b) a properly objective interpretation of this consent, form contracts can be seen as entirely legitimate-though some form terms may properly be subject to judicial scrutiny that would be …


Discretion In Long-Term Open Quantity Contracts: Reining In Good Faith, Victor P. Goldberg Jan 2002

Discretion In Long-Term Open Quantity Contracts: Reining In Good Faith, Victor P. Goldberg

Faculty Scholarship

Long-term contracts often promise to deliver the seller's full output, the buyer's requirements, or some variation on these. For example, an electric utility might enter into a thirty year contract with a coal mine promising that it will take all the coal needed to supply a particular generating plant. These open quantity contracts have raised two issues. The first is whether the promise was illusory. If the utility had no duty to take any coal, a court could have found that there was no consideration and, therefore, no contract. While there was a time when full output and requirements contracts …


"Money Can't Buy Me Love": A Contrast Between Damages In Family Law And Contract, Margaret F. Brinig Jan 2002

"Money Can't Buy Me Love": A Contrast Between Damages In Family Law And Contract, Margaret F. Brinig

Journal Articles

As my contribution to this symposium in David's honor, I submit the law and economics section of the damages chapter of our joint enterprise, Understanding Contracts. Because of David's failing health, my own involvement with the publisher never reached contract stage. The chapter concludes with a problem that illustrates some of the intricacies of mixing family law and contract. David and I grappled for some time with the answer to the problem, coming at it from our different points of view. On one occasion, David, with a twinkle, told me there was only one place where I was "absolutely wrong." …


La Emergencia Económica Y El Derecho Del Consumidor, Martin Paolantonio Dec 2001

La Emergencia Económica Y El Derecho Del Consumidor, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Análisis de los efectos negativos de la legislación de emergencia económica y su separación conceptual de la normativa de tutela del consumidor