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Commercial Trusts in U.S. Legal Thought : Historical Puzzles and Future Directions
Gallanis, Thomas P. - 2020
of the world calls “competition law”: we call it “antitrust” law. This Essay, prepared for a symposium on the Business …
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Charitable Trusts : A Comparative Study of India, United Kingdom and the United States
Jain, Tarun - 2014
todays world.This paper seeks to examine the position and legal standpoint of a charitable trust across India, United Kingdom …
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The rise of trust decanting in the United States
Sitkoff, Robert H. - 2017 - Draft of September 24, 2017
distribution uses that power to distribute the trust property to a new trust (the second trust) with updated provisions, leaving …
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Lessons in Price Stability from the U.S. Real Estate Market Collapse
Boyack, Andrea J. - 2012
The U.S. residential housing market collapse illustrates the consequences of ignoring risk while funding mortgage borrowing. Collateral over-valuation was a foundational piece of the crisis. Over the past few decades, secondary markets, securitization, policy and psychology increased the flow of...
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Regulating Vice : What the U.S. Marijuana Industry Can Learn From State Governance of Sports Gambling
Holden, John T. - 2020
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...
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Information Overload at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office : Reframing the Duty of Disclosure in Patent Law as a Search and Filter Problem
Kuhn, Jeffrey M. - 2014
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) receives more prior art submissions by patent applicants than its patent examiners have the capacity to process. Although applicant prior art submissions are highly likely to contain references material to prosecution, evidence suggests that...
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Water Law in the United States and Brazil - Climate Change & Two Approaches to Emerging Water Poverty
Cassuto, David N.; Sampaio, Romulo S. R. - 2015
instance, is home to between eight and fifteen percent of the world’s fresh water, and its fast-growing economy and population … strong private property right in water is slowly (in the North-American case) and more abruptly (in the Brazilian case …
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Patentability and Scope of Protection for DNA Sequence-Related Inventions From the Perspective of the United States of America and Europe
Milkov LL.M., Radoslav - 2014
Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone through great controversies. Protection is required for an investor to make an investment but how broad should the given protection be? Whether the invention is a micro-organism...
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Environmental Justice Before U.S. Courts
Colangelo, Sara; Andre, Abigail - 2023
The history of environmental justice litigation in federal, state, and administrative courts illustrates how difficult it is to remedy intersectional harm using a single legal tool. In the United States, there is no federal “environmental justice law” that litigants can wield in court. The...
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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative … patterns, but much smaller magnitudes in response to state-specific shocks. -- trust ; institutions ; confidence ; survey data …
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