This article undertakes a critical examination of the state laws of the United States requiring public pension funds to divest from companies that do business with Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan, countries that are currently listed as ‘state sponsors of terrorism' by the federal government. The...

Completion is the sine qua non of gift taxation. A grantor's retained control over transferred property (intentionally or unintentionally) may cause a gift to be incomplete for gift tax purposes. This is true even if the grantor has no beneficial interest in transferred property. Powers that...

In order to demonstrate the significance of Article 16 (1)(c) Women's Convention on gender equality and divorce for Muslim women, this article first highlights the importance of the ‘persuasive power' of the Convention strengthened by - although it is a soft law mechanism - its reporting...

Discusses the US Federal Court decisions in Northern Maine Transport LLC v OneBeacon America Insurance Company, GSL of Illinois v Kroskob Farms and Davis v National Council of Negro Women Inc where mediation were alleged to be settled by phone, audio recording and by the cashing of a check...

Australian law has no concept of absolute ownership of land. Instead, it recognizes a limited number of interests, public and private, in land. Many of these interests, or titles, are statutory in origin. During the colonial era, state legislatures won control of public land from the British...

A Housing Blitzkrieg Which Failed surveys the consequences of a series of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decisions recognizing a warranty of habitability for residential tenancies, and thereby expanding the scope of responsibilities landlords have in residential property leases. In case...

On July 29, 1998, Justice Clarence Thomas spoke to the National Bar Association, the nation's largest organization of black lawyers. No, he did not wander in off the street; he slipped in through the side door of competing interests, just as he slipped onto the Supreme Court seven years...

This article looks at the American Accounting Association (AAA) from a forensic accountant's viewpoint. One of the primary functions of a forensic accountant is to investigate, gather evidence, and reach conclusions. While forensic accounting is much more than auditing, like an auditor, forensic...

This article explores the forces contributing to very high professional fees in large chapter 11 cases and suggests that lawyers might want to consider valuing their services in ways other than the traditional billable hour approach