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Rethinking Appeals, Uri Weiss 2021 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Rethinking Appeals, Uri Weiss

Touro Law Review

This paper makes the point that a court decision that is open to an appeal is akin to a take-it-or-leave-it settlement proposal for both parties. For the case to not be appealed, both parties need to “take,” i.e., accept, this proposal. Thus, on one hand, if both parties cannot achieve a settlement by themselves, they usually benefit from the right to appeal. On the other hand, a right to appeal activates the regressive effects that characterize settlements, which also applies to lower-court decisions. For example, legal uncertainty has a regressive effect on lower-court decisions: if the judge wishes to block …


Bursting The Auto Loan Bubble In The Wake Of Covid-19, Pamela Foohey 2021 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Bursting The Auto Loan Bubble In The Wake Of Covid-19, Pamela Foohey

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, auto loans outstanding in the United States had soared to record highs. The boom in lending spanned new and used cars and traditional and subprime loans. With loan delinquencies also hitting new highs almost every quarter, predictions that the auto lending market could burst soon abounded. When the economy came to a grinding halt and unemployment skyrocketed in the wake of the pandemic, auto lenders knew they were facing a crisis. Throughout 2020, auto lenders granted more payment forbearances to consumers, while slashing interest rates on new loans. Auto manufacturers similarly made promises to buyers, such …


Esg And Climate Change Blind Spots: Turning The Corner On Sec Disclosure, Cynthia A. Williams, Donna M. Nagy 2021 Osgoode Hall Law School

Esg And Climate Change Blind Spots: Turning The Corner On Sec Disclosure, Cynthia A. Williams, Donna M. Nagy

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article examines four areas in which the SEC, for more than a decade, resisted reform or impeded shareholders’ access to sought-after environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. These areas are: (1) the SEC’s refusal to act on several rulemaking petitions submitted during the years 2009 to 2018, which called for expanded ESG disclosure; (2) the SEC’s grudging promulgation of rules concerning social disclosures as required by Congress in the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010; (3) the SEC’s 2020 revisions to SEC Rule 14a-8, which make the submission of shareholder proposals more difficult, thereby thwarting investor efforts to raise ESG concerns; …


Aligned: Sex Workers’ Lessons For The Gig Economy, Yvette Butler 2021 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Aligned: Sex Workers’ Lessons For The Gig Economy, Yvette Butler

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Society’s perception of a type of work and the people who engage in money-generating activities has an impact on whether and how the law protects (or does not protect) the people who perform those activities. Work can be legitimized or delegitimized. Workers are protected or left out to dry depending upon their particular “hustle.” This Article argues that gig workers and sex workers face similar challenges within the legal system and that these groups can and should collaborate to their collective advantage when seeking reforms. Gig workers have been gaining legitimacy while sex workers still primarily operate in the shadow …


Happiness And Economic Justice, John Bronsteen 2021 Loyola University Chicago, School of Law

Happiness And Economic Justice, John Bronsteen

Faculty Publications & Other Works

This paper addresses the question, “What would economic justice look like within the framework of Gross National Happiness (GNH)?” The paper begins by discussing the underlying philosophical justification behind GNH and how it differs from the justification underlying Gross National Product (GNP). It explains why, as a historical and theoretical matter, so many economists (especially in the West) believe in wealth-based measures and why happiness-based measures are better choices on both theoretical and practical grounds. Then it goes on to discuss methodologies for collecting happiness data and converting that data into prescriptions for law and public policy. In particular, the …


The Carbon Price Equivalent: A Metric For Comparing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts Across Jurisdictions, Gabriel Weil 2021 Climate Leadership Council & Georgetown University Law Center

The Carbon Price Equivalent: A Metric For Comparing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts Across Jurisdictions, Gabriel Weil

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

Climate change presents a global commons problem: Emissions reductions on the scale needed to meet global targets do not pass a domestic cost-benefit test in most countries. To give national governments ample incentive to pursue deep decarbonization, mutual interstate coercion will be necessary. Many proposed tools of coercive climate diplomacy would require a onedimensional metric for comparing the stringency of climate change mitigation policy packages across jurisdictions. This article proposes and defends such a metric: the carbon price equivalent. There is substantial variation in the set of climate change mitigation policy instruments implemented by different countries. Nonetheless, the consequences of …


Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review 2021 Seattle University School of Law

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

Table of Contents


Building A Better Future In International Development: Why The Dfc Should Be Considered An Agency To Comply With Development Finance Standards And Maintain Influence Abroad, Rebecca M. Dresner 2021 American University Washington College of Law

Building A Better Future In International Development: Why The Dfc Should Be Considered An Agency To Comply With Development Finance Standards And Maintain Influence Abroad, Rebecca M. Dresner

American University Law Review

The world is facing increasingly global challenges like climate change, growing income inequality, financial crises, and the COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges disproportionately impact economically developing countries. Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and International Finance Institutions (IFIs) are tools that the international community deploys to mobilize private capital to support development projects around the world. The International Development Finance Corporation is a newly formed U.S. DFI that consolidated the United States’ development finance initiatives into one government entity.

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is a bilateral entity that receives funding from the U.S. government to further economic advancement in developing …


Patents As Signal Of Quality In Crowdfunding, Christopher A. Cotropia 2021 University of Richmond - School of Law

Patents As Signal Of Quality In Crowdfunding, Christopher A. Cotropia

Law Faculty Publications

Patents and crowdfunding both attempt to foster early stage innovations. In theory, patents signal quality and value to attract investment and buyers and ultimately facilitate commercialization. Crowdfunding allows multiple individuals to make small contributions to finance start-up ventures. This Article reports on two related studies investigating the interaction between these two innovation tools by determining the impact of a crowdfunding campaign’s patent status on the campaign’s success and delivery. The first study examines 9,184 Kickstarter campaigns in patent-eligible categories to determine whether patented or patent-pending labeled projects are more likely to reach their funding goal and in turn achieve actual, …


Vertical Mergers In A Model Of Upstream Monopoly And Incomplete Information, Serge Moresi, David Reitman, Steven C. Salop, Yianis Sarafidis 2021 Charles River Associates (CRA)

Vertical Mergers In A Model Of Upstream Monopoly And Incomplete Information, Serge Moresi, David Reitman, Steven C. Salop, Yianis Sarafidis

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

We examine the role of private information on the impact of vertical mergers. A vertical merger can improve the information that is available to an upstream monopolist because, after the merger, the monopolist can observe the cost of its downstream merger partner. In the pre-merger world, because the costs of the downstream firms are private information, the monopolist has incomplete information and cannot implement the monopoly outcome: The expected pre-merger equilibrium price of the downstream product is lower than the monopoly price. After a vertical merger, the equilibrium input price that is charged to the downstream rival can either increase …


Deep Cuts: Four Critiques Of Legal Ideology, Justin Deystone, Akbar Rasulov 2021 University of Colorado Law School

Deep Cuts: Four Critiques Of Legal Ideology, Justin Deystone, Akbar Rasulov

Publications

This Article begins an effort to rekindle the intellectual tradition of critical legal theory. The context for the project is significant. On the one hand is the grip of a social crisis, the contours of which continue to confound the commentariat. Racism, xenophobia, gendered violence, migration and nation, climate change, health pandemics, political corruption. The parade is as intimidating as it is spectacular. On the other hand, the very tools of criticism we depend upon in identifying these characters in the parade, much less the spectacle of the parade itself, are themselves in crisis. There is, in a word, a …


Choice Of Law And The Preponderantly Multistate Rule: The Example Of Successor Corporation Products Liability, Diana Sclar 2021 Penn State Dickinson Law

Choice Of Law And The Preponderantly Multistate Rule: The Example Of Successor Corporation Products Liability, Diana Sclar

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

Most state rules of substantive law, whether legislative or judicial, ordinarily adjust rights and obligations among local parties with respect to local events. Conventional choice of law methodologies for adjudicating disputes with multistate connections all start from an explicit or implicit assumption of a choice between such locally oriented substantive rules. This article reveals, for the first time, that some state rules of substantive law ordinarily adjust rights and obligations with respect to parties and events connected to more than one state and only occasionally apply to wholly local matters. For these rules I use the term “nominally domestic rules …


ระบบประกันสังคมพื้นฐานสำหรับการเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงานเสรีในกลุ่มประเทศสมาชิกอาเซียน, เอก มั่นเกษวิทย์ 2021 คณะนิติศาสตร์

ระบบประกันสังคมพื้นฐานสำหรับการเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงานเสรีในกลุ่มประเทศสมาชิกอาเซียน, เอก มั่นเกษวิทย์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

แรงงานถือเป็นปัจจัยสําคัญในการขับเคลื่อนการพัฒนาประเทศ หากแรงงานมีความรู้ มี ทักษะสูงย่อมส่งผลให้มีประสิทธิภาพในการทํางาน ซึ่งจะส่งผลต่อการพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจของประเทศใน ภาพรวม ทั้งนี้มีบางประเทศที่มีความต้องการแรงงานจากประเทศต่างๆเข้ามาทํางานในประเทศตน เพื่อทําให้เศรษฐกิจในประเทศเจริญเติบโตก้าวหน้าต่อไป ทําให้แรงงานในบางประเทศมีความประสงค์ จะย้ายถิ่นในการทํามาหากิน โดยปัจจัยต่างๆนั้นมาจากการที่ประเทศต้นทางไม่ตอบสนองต่อความ ต้องการเท่ากับประเทศปลายทางที่แรงงานย้ายถิ่นจะไปประกอบอาชีพ ในการเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงานนั้น จะต้องมีบริบทที่เป็นมาตรฐานที่ทําให้เกิดการเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงานเป็นไปตามหลักการรวมกลุ่มทาง ภูมิภาค ซึ่งตามหลักการทางการรวมกลุ่มทางภูมิภาคนั้น ประสิทธิภาพในการเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงานจะ เกิดขึ้นได้จริงก็ต่อเมื่อมีการกําหนดหลักประกันที่สําคัญและนํามาใช้ได้จริง เช่น การมีหลักประกันทาง สังคมและความมั่นคง เป็นต้น การรวมกลุ่มทางภูมิภาคนั้นไม่ใช่แค่เป็นการรวมกลุ่มแค่ในประเทศที่ พัฒนาแล้ว ในฝั่งเอเชียก็มีการรวมกลุ่มทางภูมิภาคขึ้นนั้นคือ การเกิดประชาคมเศรษฐกิจอาเซียน ซึ่ง เป็นการรวมกลุ่มของสิบประเทศสมาชิก เพื่อเป็นการพัฒนา เสริมสร้างการค้า การเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงาน ได้อย่างเสรี ในการเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงานของกลุ่มประเทศสมาชิกอาเซียนจากประเทศต้นทางไปยังประเทศ ปลายทาง เมื่อแรงงานมีการย้ายถิ่นไปทํางานที่ประเทศปลายทาง แรงงานย้ายถิ่นย่อมต้องเผชิญกับ ความไม่มั่นคงทางสังคม ต้องเผชิญกับความเสี่ยงทางด้านวัฒนธรรมและความเสี่ยงภัยต่าง ๆ ใน ระหว่างทํางาน การคุ้มครองทางสังคมจึงเป็นสิ่งจําเป็นสําหรับการย้ายถิ่น เพื่อให้แรงงานย้ายถิ่นมี ความคุ้มครอง เป็นการสร้างความมั่นคงทางสังคมให้แก่แรงงานเมื่อต้องย้ายไปทํางานในต่างประเทศ การคุ้มครองทางสังคมที่สําคัญแก่แรงงาน คือ เรื่องของการประกันสังคม จากการศึกษาพบว่าระบบประกันสังคมของสมาชิกในกลุ่มประเทศอาเซียนให้สิทธิแรงงาน ข้ามชาติไม่เท่าเทียมกับแรงงานในประเทศของตน หรือบางประเทศไม่ให้สิทธิประโยชน์กับแรงงาน ข้ามชาติเลย ซึ่งไม่สอดคล้องกับข้อกําหนดขององค์การแรงงานระหว่างประเทศ (ILO) ตามอนุสัญญา ฉบับที่ 102 ซึ่งเป็นมาตรฐานขั้นต่ําที่แรงงานควรได้รับ และตามอนุสัญญาฉบับที่ 118 ว่าด้วยการ ปฏิบัติที่เท่าเทียม (ประกันสังคม) และอนุสัญญาฉบับที่ 157 ว่าด้วยสิทธิประโยชน์ประกันสังคม ดังนั้นการที่จะทําให้การเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงานเสรีในกลุ่มประเทศสมาชิกอาเซียนมีประสิทธิภาพ มากขึ้น จําเป็นต้องมีการร่วมกันพัฒนา ทบทวน ปรับปรุงระบบความมั่นคงให้มีความชัดเจน


Robust Unionism As A Compelling Interest: Evaluating The Exacting Policies Of Janus, Seth Santini 2021 University of San Francisco School of Law

Robust Unionism As A Compelling Interest: Evaluating The Exacting Policies Of Janus, Seth Santini

University of San Francisco Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fictitiously Overstating Taxable Income, Stanley Veliotis 2021 University of Connecticut

Fictitiously Overstating Taxable Income, Stanley Veliotis

University of San Francisco Law Review

No abstract provided.


Economic Success In The United States, Jason Render Jr. 2021 The University of Akron

Economic Success In The United States, Jason Render Jr.

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

In this research project, I examine the factors that impact the economic success of an individual within the United States. In particular, I investigate the impact of inherent privilege and the impact which socioeconomic upbringing has on the economic success of an individual within American society. This investigation into economic success and the impact of inherent privilege will examine both poor and affluent U.S. citizen populations to find common factors present within both groups. The research will then examine how these factors impact an individual’s overall economic success as a result of the barriers which are inherent based on an …


A Rising Tide Lifts All Consumers: Penumbras Of Foreign Data Protection Laws In The United States, Michael Goodyear 2021 New York Law School

A Rising Tide Lifts All Consumers: Penumbras Of Foreign Data Protection Laws In The United States, Michael Goodyear

Articles & Chapters

With the growth of collecting, processing, and transferring personal information to third parties, consumers’ data is increasingly exposed to a myriad of risks. Perhaps chief among these are the data protection practices of data collectors themselves. Yet despite the risk to consumers, U.S. data protection law has remained fragmented, focused on individual industries at the federal law and only made comprehensive, occasionally, at the state level. This lack of a comprehensive data protection law in the United States is a significant detriment to the security of U.S. consumers. International law also offers no such path that could comprehensively protect U.S. …


Religious Roots Of Corporate Organization, Amanda Porterfield 2021 Seattle University School of Law

Religious Roots Of Corporate Organization, Amanda Porterfield

Seattle University Law Review

Religion and corporate organization have developed side-by-side in Western culture, from antiquity to the present day. This Essay begins with the realignment of religion and secularity in seventeenth-century America, then looks to the religious antecedents of corporate organization in ancient Rome and medieval Europe, and then looks forward to the modern history of corporate organization. This Essay describes the long history behind the entanglement of business and religion in the United States today. It also shows how an understanding of both religion and business can be expanded by looking at the economic aspects of religion and the religious aspects of …


Providing Relief After A Natural Disaster Through Credit Reports, Katherine Wecker 2021 Seattle University School of Law

Providing Relief After A Natural Disaster Through Credit Reports, Katherine Wecker

Seattle University Law Review

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to re-think systems that have been in place for decades, quickly adapting—at least temporarily— to the new normal. Among those systems was the credit reporting system. In response to the pandemic, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act; an act that, among other things, amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act in regard to how credit reporting agencies should respond to delinquencies resulting from the pandemic.

This Note argues that to adapt to the increasing occurrence of natural disasters, the U.S. government must implement a system in which a consumer can …


Incentivized Torts: An Empirical Analysis, John Shahar Dillbary, Cherie Metcalf, Brock Stoddard 2021 University of Alabama School of Law

Incentivized Torts: An Empirical Analysis, John Shahar Dillbary, Cherie Metcalf, Brock Stoddard

Articles

Courts and scholars assume that group causation theories deter wrongdoers. This Article empirically tests, and rejects, this assumption, using a series of incentivized laboratory experiments. Contrary to common belief and theory, data from over 200 subjects show that group liability can encourage tortious behavior and incentivize individuals to act with as many tortfeasors as possible. We find that subjects can be just as likely to commit a tort under a liability regime as they would be when facing no tort liability. Group liability can also incentivize a tort by making subjects perceive it as fairer to victims and society. These …


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