This Article examines the scope of Sorrell v. IMS Health, its potential impact on legislative efforts to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation, and its implications for targeted Internet advertising. Part I provides a general overview of ad-targeting technology, emphasizing the...

What accounts for the rise in income inequality since the 1970s? According to most economists, the answer lies in structural changes in the economy - in particular, technological changes that have raised the demand for highly skilled workers and thereby boosted their pay. Opposing this...

In Professor Wexler’s “bottle-liquid” metaphor, the legal landscapes or legal structures are “bottles,” and the roles, behaviors, practices and techniques used by legal actors (judges, lawyers, probation officers, police, therapists etc) are “liquid”. Within this framework...

The Handbook is an important document which is made available by the Sindh Judicial Academy and Group Development Pakistan for the judges, lawyers, prosecutors, probation, reclamation and police officers working in the Province of Sindh. However, keeping in view its contents and the fact that...

The book in hand is autobiography of Hon'ble Mr. Justice Irshad Hasan Khan, former Chief Justice of Pakistan. It is a good addition to the existing literature produced by legal luminaries generally and former Chief Justices particularly. Personal perspectives of a public figure provide readers...

The book is on a very important constitutional value and topic of great interest to the society as a whole. Rule of law is abstract term at one side, while it is to provide procedural fairness to all who interact with the justice system, on the other. It is to ensure that everyone is treated in...

This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...

Investors have different preferences for portfolio skewness and kurtosis, i.e. return asymmetry and tail fatness. We build up a new equilibrium model with three types of investors whose preferences can be characterized by "MV", "MVS" and "MVSK". (M: Mean V: Variance S: Skewness K: Kurtosis) and...

China's fast growth is perceived as a major determinant of its savings glut that contributes to global imbalances, but China's income inequality has been largely overlooked as the economy moves rapidly toward the Kuznets curve peak. This paper provides a new explanation for the complex issue of...

This paper offers an alternative way, based on the logistic population growth hypothesis, to yield transitional dynamics in the standard AK model with exogenous savings rate. Within this framework, we show that the dynamics of the capital stock per person and its growth rate can be non-monotonic...