In dit artikel argumenteer ik tegen de oneerlijke en onrechtvaardige gevolgen van een huwelijksvermogensrecht systeem van zuivere en eenvoudige scheiding van goederen, met name in geval van echtscheiding. Ik pleit voor een wettelijk verbod op een dergelijk systeem als huwelijkscontract. Er moet...

This article states the fundamental legal and practical aspects of a power of attorney, particularly with reference to a power of attorney for selling or purchasing immovable property, and for operating bank accounts and making investments. It states the law applicable in India

Starting in 2013, authors of copyrighted work and their successors will be able to terminate every assignment and license 35 years after execution. These termination rights are inalienable and are expected to have a substantial impact on some industries, and in particular, the music...

This article was prepared as a contribution to the Chapman Law Review's symposium on “Libertarian Legal Theory.” While libertarian legal theory and law and economics share many affinities there are places in which both the method of the common law and the substantive rules of the common law...

Fiduciary remedies are notoriously potent. Fiduciaries who profit from their disloyalty are liable to be ordered to disgorge all of their gains. It is widely understood that disgorgement deters disloyalty by threatening removal of gains, the prospect of which might incentivize wrongdoing....

Students around the world submit their essays to an online anti-plagiarism service known as Turnitin.com. Four students sued the service for copyright infringement because Turnitin added their papers to its database for use in future anti-plagiarism detection. The students lost their case, in...

As businesses move their confidential information onto computers, sensitive data gains the protection not only of state trade secret law, but also potentially of federal computer misuse statutes. The interaction between those two bodies of law, however, is more problematic than any commentator...

Contract and property law are traditionally seen as rather distinct parts of a legal system. However, there is growing awareness that contract and property are not so separate at all. We can observe more and more fuzzy boundaries. Four examples (case studies) are discussed: reclaiming money, the...