In the fall of 2013, New York State's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, announced a “revolutionary” statewide initiative to create and implement Human Trafficking Intervention Courts (HTICs). The initiative occurred amidst a burgeoning consensus that prostitution is human trafficking and women...

Gambling, in particular sports gambling, is one of the most pervasive illicit activities in the United States. In contrast to Europe and parts of Asia that have vast legal networks of both online and brick and mortar betting parlors, the United States has largely confined sports betting to the...

Practical advice on what to do in a competition / antitrust dawn raid, inspection or surprise visit by competition or regulation agencies such as the European Commission or EU Member State competition agencies

This article estimates the impact of weather on crime in the Czech Republic. Using detailed crime data during the years 2005-2015, I show that temperature has a significant positive effect on the total number of assaults, thefts, robberies and sexual crimes recorded. Furthermore, precipitation...

This is a working draft of some legal research on the question of whether political acts of expression done via computers or computer networks (often referred to as hacktivism) could have any viable First Amendment defenses. It analyzes (1) the open access movement and the case of Aaron Swartz;...

A severe prejudice to the criminally accused persists today in some trial courts' analyses under the helpfulness prong, the often overlooked part of the test to admit expert testimony. Removing the reliability prong from the discussion, this article focuses instead on courts' treatment of...

Post 9/11, much disagreement and uncertainty remains about one of the seminal issues in counter-terrorism: where to try terrorists. While much discussed, this issue is not resolved. This article will analyze the issue from a comparative perspective by examining American, Israeli, Russian, Indian...

The so called war on terror provides the Bush administration with a unique opportunity to both establish clear guidelines for the interrogation of detainees and to make a forceful statement about American values. How the government chooses to act can promote either an ethical commitment to the...

This article develops what I call the quot;hybrid paradigm,quot; which establishes the legal regime for the trials of those detained post-9/11. Incorporating elements of the American criminal law and procedure paradigm and drawing on the Israeli two-tiered system for the trying of terrorists,...