Dozens of judicial opinions have held that shareholders own corporations, that directors are agents of shareholders, and even that directors are trustees of shareholders' property. Yet, until now, it has never been proven. These doctrines rest on unsubstantiated assumptions. In this book the...

The process of learning to think like a lawyer is dynamic and evolutionary. First-year students must acquire a set of highly complex and interdependent cognitive skills in a stressful environment. In an attempt to define what it means to think like a lawyer, we began a course of research to be...

This Article recounts my unique adventures in higher education, including being a Princeton University freshman mathematics major at age 14, Harvard University applied mathematics graduate student at age 17, economics or finance faculty at multiple schools, first-year law student at the...

Taking into account the importance for the Court of Justice in the European Union's institutional system, especially the fact that by the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon there has been a reform in the functioning of the European Union as a whole, this study attempts to highlight the...

Justice Scalia defends textualism as the only form of interpretation that should govern judicial interpretation of statutes and the Constitution. The book begins with an essay by Justice Scalia establishing the framework of his interpretive model and arguing that his model is mandated to achieve...

This article explores various methods of grade normalization used by law schools. Based on a survey of 116 responding ABA accredited law schools, 84% have some form of grade normalization policy, and the trend is toward adoption of grade normalization. The survey assessed the types of...

Nowadays, state reform is a fundamental theme for public authorities and the civil society and its major goals are to reduce bureaucracy, to increase transparency in decision-making (democratisation) and to transfer competence toward local communities. All these political-economic targets come...

DNA became a valuable forensic tool in identifying the source of physical evidence left at a crime scene. The use of restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis in the mid-1980s was replaced by polymerase chain reaction methods, which required less high-molecular-weight DNA, were more...

The theory of imprevision represents the answer given by the doctrine and the case-law concerning the fate of the performance of the contract, therefore of having its essential effect desired by both parties in the context of the appearance of such situations, the theory being approached by...

European policy in research, technological development and space and European economic and social cohesion policy, governed by the Treaty of Lisbon, are of a great importance for European law and, consequently, for the standard of living of European citizens, because of the basic ideas it...