This written statement addresses several of the questions raised regarding the potential legalization of betting and gambling in India. Of the five questions posed in the Appeal, dated May 30, 2017, I address only the first two: 1) “Will legalizing betting and gambling help in curbing the...

Directors owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to their corporations, and by extension to their shareholders. When a corporation approaches or enters insolvency, however, courts have recently found that the fiduciary duty calculus may change. Recognizing that creditors have financial...

In Mac's Shell Serv., Inc. v. Shell Oil Prods. Co., 559 U.S. 175 (2010), the Supreme Court held that a service station franchisee pursuing a claim of constructive termination against the franchisor must, under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 2801-2841 (1978), abandon the...

This Article synthesizes two decades of research on the progression of sexual harassment claims through the legal system and adds a new, original, empirical study on the resolution of sexual harassment lawsuits filed in federal district court. It examines the prevalence of sexual harassment in...

The role of entrepreneurship to promote the economic development of countries has been recognized in recent decades, mainly because of the transformations that countries have experienced the level of their economic, political, social and cultural environment.This article has as objective to...

Russian Abstract: В данной статье рассматриваются особенности применения электронного голосования в России. Исследованы основные закономерности и тенденции...

Russian Abstract: В данной статье рассматриваются основные понятия, дается классификация проектам и практикам электронной демократии в международной сфере....

On May 14, 2018, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal prohibition on sports gambling. The sweeping opinion, authored by Justice Alito, ended more than a quarter-century old policy that kept states from offering sports gambling and therefore, sports betting was confined almost...

This article addresses the phenomenon of Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments (OPCA) through a retrospective investigation of Meads v. Meads. The author begins by discussing whether Meads has met its objectives, and then proceeds with an analysis of the response to the Meads decision by...

Since the 1979 Revolution, the clerical regime in Iran has been limiting the legal profession's autonomy by preventing members of the Iranian Bar Association (IBA) from freely electing their Board of Directors and by establishing a new body of lawyers — legal advisors of the judiciary — to...