This chapter considers the landmark family property decisions of the House of Lords in Pettitt v. Pettitt [1970] AC 777 and Gissing v. Gissing [1971] AC 886 through the prism of imputed common intention, an idea advanced by Lord Diplock in Pettitt and (on one view) implemented in a different...

This report offers proposals in the hope they may inform development of a more systematic and integrated approach to the creation, definition and recording of statutory rights, restrictions and obligations (‘RRR') affecting land parcels. While much progress has been made by Australia's land...

The United States has long been a country of prohibitions, with the most memorable prohibition in American history being the ban on alcohol sales in 1920, which lasted until the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. While the federal ban on alcohol has long since been...

This article uses the context of daily fantasy sports (DFS) to analyze how companies use strategic categorization in regulatory arbitrage. DFS is an ideal context to study this issue for three reasons. First, DraftKings and FanDuel were able to categorize themselves differently to different...

Balancing the protection of private business interests against governmental regulation is one of the most significant legal frictions of the modern era. Over the course of the past twenty-eight months, this conflict has manifested itself through a federal sports gambling lawsuit involving New...

This paper presents a multi-stakeholder approach for developing an appropriate privacy regulation in the age of big data. We develop our argument in five steps, starting (1) with a review of the current academic debate on privacy regulation. We analyze a dysfunctional mutual excludability...

Although patents are the prototypical type of protection that most people consider applicable to protecting drugs, patents are just the most-established and well-known method available to protect drugs from competition. However, there are other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide...

Financial Derivatives have established themselves as a major driving force in the international monetary sphere in the recent past. While derivatives were originally used as an effective monetary instrument to multiply the wealth through ripple effect, of late these instruments are also used by...

In contrast to the whirlwind pace and the efficiency with which the science and commercialization of modern biotechnology have developed in the past few decades, the creation of an adequate and comprehensive regulatory regime for agricultural biotechnology has proven to be a lengthy and arduous...