Three law professors from different practice and academic backgrounds meet at the water cooler in the faculty wing of a law school in or about 2010. They get engaged in a conversation about mergers and acquisitions that covers much ground--from what a merger actually is (from the perspective of...

Contemporary American property scholarship is sceptical of Locke's theory of labour. Robert Nozick (in Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974)) and Jeremy Waldron (in The Right to Private Property (1986)) are both assumed to have discredited Locke's conception of labour. Locke's theory seems incoherent...

A comparison of American, French, Russian, and Lithuanian rules regarding the return of property which has been transferred to a bona fide purchaser, with a special focus on Lithuanian law. Lithuanian law turns French law upside down, strengthening the security of acquisitions in relation to...

This article offers a fresh analysis of and solution to problems modern American street gangs present. Common wisdom dictates that, since they commit crimes, gangs should be understood and combatted through criminal sanctions. Popular interventions, like gang injunctions, expand that punitive...

This article analyses local government compulsory acquisition powers in Queensland, New South Wales and the United Kingdom. Its purpose is to generate debate on the merits of amending legislation such as the Acquisition of Land Act 1967 (Qld) (AoL Act) and the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) (LG...

Land is one of the scarce natural resources on earth. It is not possible to either increase or decrease the land. Hence, it must be ensured that it is managed judiciously and in a sustainable manner so that the common good of the people in a long run can be ensured. Creating wealth and looking...

As rising water from climate change causes unprecedented dislocation from flooding and sea-level rise, a new legal regime for climate retreat (i.e., shifting human settlement from severe climate risk zones) is developing. Buyout laws, such as the federal FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant program,...

Several top deals already closed, a still highly fragmented industry and strong pressure for further consolidation following the financial crisis - renewable energy certainly has become a red-hot topic in M&A. Surveying 220 companies in the solar photovoltaic, utility and financial sector as...

Im Oktober 2002 hat die Europäische Kommission einen neuen Vorschlag für eine einheitliche Regelung von grenzüberschreitenden Firmenübernahmen vorgelegt. Für Brigitte Zypries, Bundesjustizministerin, wird dieser Entwurf seinem Anspruch nicht gerecht, ein »einheitliches »level playing...

In this paper, I tackle the question whether "one share - one vote" should become a European law rule. I examine, first of all the economic theory concerning one share - one vote and its optimality, and the law and economics literature on dual class recapitalizations and other deviations from...