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Infrastructural Regulation And The New Utilities, K. Sabeel Rahman Jan 2018

Infrastructural Regulation And The New Utilities, K. Sabeel Rahman

Faculty Scholarship

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Exploiting Latin American Microfinance Deregulation: One Borrower At A Time, Karlamaria Cabral Dec 2017

Exploiting Latin American Microfinance Deregulation: One Borrower At A Time, Karlamaria Cabral

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

Microfinance seeks to eradicate poverty through the economic growth and development that results when seed capital is given to microenterprises. In 2015, Latin America’s microfinance loan portfolio totaled $40 billion USD and included more than twenty-two million borrowers. Due to the current state of microfinance in the region—abusive lending practices and betraying the original goal and purpose of eradicating poverty—this Note advocates for a regional regulatory body, such as the Latin American Microfinance Association, that would develop and assist Latin American countries to implement model legal frameworks that increase client protection, create licensing requirements, establish interest rate caps, and recognize …


Private Prisons And The Need For Greater Transparency: Private Prison Information Act, Libbi L. Vilher Dec 2017

Private Prisons And The Need For Greater Transparency: Private Prison Information Act, Libbi L. Vilher

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

Private prisons are not subject to the same regulations as government prisons. Particularly, private prisons are exempt from the requirements set forth in the Freedom of Information Act and its state equivalents, which provide that the public has an enforceable right to request certain records from government agencies. Numerous efforts made by members of Congress to enact the Private Prison Information Act, a bill that would subject private prisons to disclosure laws found in the Freedom of Information Act, have been unsuccessful. Such efforts to strip the veil of secrecy that shades private prisons from public scrutiny are especially important …


Rape Is Trespass, Anita Bernstein Oct 2017

Rape Is Trespass, Anita Bernstein

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Money, Speech, And Chutzpah, Joel Gora Jul 2017

Money, Speech, And Chutzpah, Joel Gora

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Empowering Individual Plaintiffs, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky Jul 2017

Empowering Individual Plaintiffs, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky

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The Migingo Island Dispute Between Kenya And Uganda, Christopher R. Rossi May 2017

The Migingo Island Dispute Between Kenya And Uganda, Christopher R. Rossi

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

Migingo is an islet in Lake Victoria, half the size of a football field. For most of its history, it had no significance. Recent adulterations to the lake’s water table in an age of climate change and to its biology in the Anthropocene age have altered the utility of the islet. It now sits atop the lake’s most fertile fishing ground and serves as a strategic off shore port straddling the water border between Uganda and Kenya. Uganda and Kenya dispute its sovereignty. Ownership of this microdot threatens bilateral peace and impacts regional security and economic development discussions. This article …


Financing The Benefit Corporation, Steven A. Dean, Dana Brakman Reiser Jan 2017

Financing The Benefit Corporation, Steven A. Dean, Dana Brakman Reiser

Faculty Scholarship

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Insider Trading's Legality Problem, Miriam Baer Jan 2017

Insider Trading's Legality Problem, Miriam Baer

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Samuel Alito: Populist, William Araiza Jan 2017

Samuel Alito: Populist, William Araiza

Faculty Scholarship

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Reforming Modern Appraisal Litigation, Minor Myers, Charles R. Korsmo Jan 2017

Reforming Modern Appraisal Litigation, Minor Myers, Charles R. Korsmo

Faculty Scholarship

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Rape, Truth, And Hearsay, Bennett Capers Jan 2017

Rape, Truth, And Hearsay, Bennett Capers

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Recasting Vagueness: The Case Of Teen Sex Statutes, Cynthia Godsoe Jan 2017

Recasting Vagueness: The Case Of Teen Sex Statutes, Cynthia Godsoe

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Corpus Linguistics As A Tool In Legal Interpretation, Lawrence Solan, Tammy Gales Dec 2016

Corpus Linguistics As A Tool In Legal Interpretation, Lawrence Solan, Tammy Gales

Faculty Scholarship

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Where's The Fire?, Burt Neuborne Dec 2016

Where's The Fire?, Burt Neuborne

Journal of Law and Policy

Freedom of speech is priceless, but distressingly fragile. Life, and law, would be much simpler if we could react to free speech's importance and fragility by granting it absolute legal protection. Since, however, absolute protection of speech is not—and should not be—a serious option, we face the legal realist challenge of erecting a First Amendment legal structure capable of providing real-world protection to highly controversial speech, often by weak speakers, without closing the door to government regulation. Given the uncertainty inherent in applying fact-dependent complex rules in protean factual settings, many potential speakers would avoid being drawn into unpredictable and …


Protecting Hatred Preserves Freedom: Why Offensive Expressions Command Constitutional Protection, Andrew P. Napolitano Dec 2016

Protecting Hatred Preserves Freedom: Why Offensive Expressions Command Constitutional Protection, Andrew P. Napolitano

Journal of Law and Policy

The First Amendment is not the guardian of taste. Instead, the U.S. Constitution wholeheartedly protects freedom of thought and expression, even if generated and defined by hatred, as long as that expression does not produce immediate lawless violence. Although free speech may lead to tenuous relationships or uncomfortable debates, it must be defended unconditionally. Too many politicians and lawmakers believe that the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment attaches only to those ideas and expressions that they approve of; this is not so. This article argues that the Founders intended the First Amendment's free speech principle as a …


Freedom Of Speech And Equality: Do We Have To Choose?, Nadine Strossen Dec 2016

Freedom Of Speech And Equality: Do We Have To Choose?, Nadine Strossen

Journal of Law and Policy

As a lifelong activist on behalf of both equality and free speech, I am convinced, based on actual experience, that these core values are mutually reinforcing, and not, as some have argued, in tension with each other. Moreover, I am convinced that this is true even for offensive or hateful speech that affronts our most cherished beliefs. However, defining hateful or offensive speech is inherently arbitrary and subjective, which raises concerns about what speech should be restricted, and how. Empowering government to punish hateful or offensive expresson necessarily vests officials with enormous discretionary power, which will inevitably lead to arbitrary …


The Academy, Campaign Finance, And Free Speech Under Fire, Bradley A. Smith Dec 2016

The Academy, Campaign Finance, And Free Speech Under Fire, Bradley A. Smith

Journal of Law and Policy

This article discusses the issue of campaign finance and the impact money has on the political process in the country. The author suggests campaign finance regulations that curb the current threat it poses to the system, as well as the First Amendment itself. Lastly, the author discusses the impact academics have had on the debate and this decline in support of free speech that has resulted from the debate.


Producing Democratic Vibrancy, K. Sabeel Rahman Dec 2016

Producing Democratic Vibrancy, K. Sabeel Rahman

Journal of Law and Policy

Professor Rahman gives his thoughts and opinions on the impact of Citizens' United v. FEC and the growth of the First Amendment debate since. The comment analyzes the normative udnerstanding of democracy and the ongoing debate campaifgn finance have. Professor Rahman concludes by suggesting that the debate is wrongly focused on the indivudals being consumers of politcal speech rather than the producers of it.


No Drop Prosecution & Domestic Violence: Screening For Cooperation In The City That Never Speaks, Allessandra Decarlo Dec 2016

No Drop Prosecution & Domestic Violence: Screening For Cooperation In The City That Never Speaks, Allessandra Decarlo

Journal of Law and Policy

Throughout history, domestic violence has been infamously kept behind closed doors and outside of our legislature. It was not until the 1960s, due to the efforts of the battered women’s movement, that the U.S. government began to address domestic violence as a social ill and offered protection to victims through statutes and policies in both State and Federal capacities. This note elaborates on one such policy, known as a “No-Drop” policy, which has been implemented by prosecutor’s offices throughout New York City’s five boroughs, as a mechanism to aggressively combat domestic violence. “No- Drop” policies allow prosecutors to vigorously prosecute …


A Balancing Act For American Universities: Anti-Harassment Policy V. Freedom Of Speech, Bridget Hart Dec 2016

A Balancing Act For American Universities: Anti-Harassment Policy V. Freedom Of Speech, Bridget Hart

Journal of Law and Policy

Legal scholars, educational administrators, journalists, and students have all witnessed a rise in students being disciplined by university officials for speech and conduct deemed inappropriate for college campuses. In endeavoring to explain this trend, some academics point to the disconnect between the Department of Education and university administrators regarding the legal standards for campus anti-harassment policies. The lack of clarity regarding what constitutes harassment on college campuses has resulted in the punishment of students by universities for speech and conduct that is normally considered to be protected speech under the First Amendment. This note first provides an overview of the …


When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It: Unifying The Split In New York's Analysis Of In-House Attorney-Client Privilege, Thomas O'Connor Dec 2016

When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It: Unifying The Split In New York's Analysis Of In-House Attorney-Client Privilege, Thomas O'Connor

Journal of Law and Policy

As one surveys the vast and ever-changing landscape of law and litigation, few things stand out as so unanimously exalted and carefully guarded as the privilege protecting attorney-client communications. Yet there is today a surprising lack of uniformity and predictability in the reasoning by which New York courts determine whether a communication made by in-house counsel to its corporate client will – or will not – enjoy the protection of that privilege. Rather than follow a single and predictable analysis to resolve the question, New York courts have oscillated between one line of decisions focusing primarily on the purpose of …


Interest In Appraisal, Minor Myers, Charles R. Korsmo Oct 2016

Interest In Appraisal, Minor Myers, Charles R. Korsmo

Faculty Scholarship

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Extending Comparative Fault To Apparent And Implied Consent Cases, Aaron Twerski, Nina Farber Oct 2016

Extending Comparative Fault To Apparent And Implied Consent Cases, Aaron Twerski, Nina Farber

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Personal Property Servitudes On The Internet Of Things, Christina Mulligan Jul 2016

Personal Property Servitudes On The Internet Of Things, Christina Mulligan

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


"Free My Agent": Legal Implications Of Professional Athletes' Self-Representation, Jodi Balsam Jul 2016

"Free My Agent": Legal Implications Of Professional Athletes' Self-Representation, Jodi Balsam

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Do Community Benefits Agreements Benefit Communities?, Edward W. De Barbieri Jun 2016

Do Community Benefits Agreements Benefit Communities?, Edward W. De Barbieri

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Aggregation By Acquisition: Replacing Class Actions With A Market For Legal Claims, Minor Myers, C. Korsmo May 2016

Aggregation By Acquisition: Replacing Class Actions With A Market For Legal Claims, Minor Myers, C. Korsmo

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Demand-Driven Acquisitions On Law Library Collection Development, Janet Sinder Apr 2016

The Effects Of Demand-Driven Acquisitions On Law Library Collection Development, Janet Sinder

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Just Jobs, Anita Bernstein Apr 2016

Just Jobs, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.