What, in the eyes of the law, is cable broadband? The regulation of cable-based platforms for high-speed Internet access has become one of the most controversial subjects in communications law. A trilogy of judicial decisions on the statutory status of cable broadband forced the Federal...

Among drivers of evolution, two forces tower above all others. One of them is food. The other is sex. The seed is both. Information embedded in seed is amenable to various forms of proprietary protection. In the abstract, the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) provides an attractive alternative...

The most significant drivers of biodiversity loss can be described by HIPPO, the Greek word for horse. Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Population, Pollution, and Overkill - in that order - are causing species losses on a magnitude worthy of one of geological history's great extinctions....

Inflation touches many areas of law, and the law's response to inflation constitutes a policymaking opportunity in its own right. Legislators have long realized that the use of specific dollar figures or economic formulas can render statutes obsolete. Yet Congress's response to the most basic...

Telecommunications regulation should be viewed as an attempt to solve the problem of financing large-scale public infrastructure over a sufficiently long period of time to pose significant and perhaps prohibitive amounts of risk. Investors are reluctant to commit capital to infrastructure if...

Neural networks can forecast economic data with accuracy matching that of conventional autoregressive methods such as SARIMA and VAR. This study uses dense, recurrent, convolutional, and convnet/RNN hybrids to conduct time-series analysis of interest rates, consumer and producer prices, and...

Demand forecasting relies heavily on traditional methods with well known limitations. Improved accuracy in predicting demand for mortgages, whether for purposes of purchase or refinance, is critical to profitability in home lending. To overcome obstacles to prediction using nonlinear...

Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), represented a pivotal moment in the Supreme Court's effort to determine the scope of Congress's power quot;[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.quot; Together with NLRB v. Jones amp;...

In his celebrated 1959 lecture, quot;The Two Cultures,quot; C.P. Snow excoriated the conflict between the scientific and literary cultures. That conflict still resonates in a society crippled by cultural divides over a wide range of scientifically sophisticated issues, such as climate change,...

Tales of northern exploitation of biological wealth and ethnobiological knowledge from the global south have become so frequent, so familiar, and so uniform that allegations of biopiracy now follow a predictable script. I come not to praise the biopiracy narrative, but to bury it. Most...