This Comment examines the legal challenges a team in the National Hockey League could face stemming from the recruitment and contracting of a player from another country who is already under contract with a team in his home country. Specifically, this Comment focuses on the relevant statutory...

As an industry that thrives on - rather than succumbs to - adversity, the couture corporate world demands innovation and encourages risks. When combined with successful marketing and savvy business practices, these risks can result in large payoffs, which exist, primarily, due to the nature of...

Mandatory restrictions in employment law, designed to promote the welfare of workers, are debated fiercely. Proponents argue that they protect workers. Opponents believe that they spawn inefficiency and harm workers. Yet all agree that their welfare implications depend on their degree of...

In our book, Law, Economics, and Morality (OUP, 2010), we proposed to combine economic methodology and deontological morality through explicit incorporation of moral constraints into economic models. We argued that the normative flaws of economic analysis can be rectified without relinquishing...

We examine how labor mobility restrictions in the form of non-compete clauses in employment contracts affect employee behavior. Using the mutual fund industry as testing laboratory, we show that fund managers respond to higher job termination costs due to increased enforceability of non-compete...

Exploiting reforms of state covenants-not-to-compete laws to capture exogenous variation in barriers to compete for talent, I show that firms increase cash holdings when talent competition intensifies. The effect is concentrated among firms for which talent is more important and in industries...

Fiduciary loyalty is usually understood as implying an exclusive claim held by the beneficiary over the exercise of fiduciary power by a fiduciary. The beneficiary is said to have a right that the fiduciary exercise fiduciary power exclusively in her interest. The fiduciary is said to be subject...

This paper critically reviews the way in which English judicial decisions have developed the labour law concept of ‘mutuality of obligations'. The paper suggests that the primary purpose of this concept, as originally developed by Mark Freedland, was intended to be that of bringing to the fore...

The Article envisions the possibility of a nonprofit university utilizing corporate and agency law principles in order to invoke a breach of fiduciary duty claim (or counterclaim) against a professor who engages in activities that the university deems disloyal — hence seeking termination...