This article examines the Chrysler section 363 transaction and the opinions that approved it. Chrysler may be merely another example of good facts and a crisis making what is, perhaps, bad law, which has been a pattern in the evolution of chapter 11 jurisprudence since the Bankruptcy Code was...

This article recommends allowing a lessor and a lessee to decide between themselves which party will be entitled to the tax benefit associated with the ownership of the leased property. It describes why the current linkage of tax benefits to property ownership is economically inefficient and...

This chapter traces the development of environmental law in Zimbabwe, focusing on how recently enacted environmental legislation provides a framework for the balancing of competing interests, interests that often must coexist and reinforce each other, namely, development and the protection of...

Economists often envision commons and anticommons as occurring from either too few or too many rights-claimants over a good. While this perspective has an intuitive appeal, it obfuscates similarities between commons and anticommons, with significant impact on proposed policy solutions. This...

This book offers a detailed account of how the Chinese real estate market actually operates in practice, from both legal and business perspectives. My goals are twofold. First, I seek to establish and describe how the Chinese real estate market, with so few written laws, actually functions. How...

By analyzing a Tennessee bigamy case, a New York same-sex marriage case, and the growing cultural trend toward cohabitation over marriage, this article discusses how and why marriage is the best estate plan to protect vulnerable parties as they age. The article examines how marriage assists...

This paper adresses the debates surrounding the impact of the Internet and cloud computing technology to the activities in music industry, especially at the stage of music distribution and dissemination. Building upon the realistic observations concerning the ‘conventional' as well as...

In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers introduced a draft version of a guidance document that purported to clarify the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act in accordance with recent Supreme Court Cases. Shortly thereafter, it became clear that the Draft Guidance...

This is the Introduction to a book that explains how law and economics works with civil law concepts. Lawyers and students in Quebec, in Scotland, in continental Europe, in Latin America, in China or living elsewhere under civil law systems who can cope with English do not have to face the...