This article explores the forces contributing to very high professional fees in large chapter 11 cases and suggests that lawyers might want to consider valuing their services in ways other than the traditional billable hour approach

Currently trademark bullying has become a serious concern for many small businesses that feel as though powerful corporations are abusing aggressive trademark enforcement and litigation techniques to crush genuine competition. No doubt these concerns merit the serious consideration of all...

In December 2012, the Commission on a Bill of Rights, established by the UK Government, issued its final report. The Report advances very limited, inchoate proposals for a UK Bill of Rights that are essentially superficial in nature. The Report fails to grapple with the fundamental questions...

Judge Robert Bork was undeniably one of the towering figures in antitrust history. He advanced the field positively in many respects, articulating a serious critique of excesses of an earlier social-political approach to antitrust. But as one of the conservative movement's intellectual...

Against a backdrop of rapidly evolving crisis management in the European financial and sovereign debt crisis this essay aims both to explore and to re-consider the role of law in the EU integration process: What did law accomplish? Where did it fail? What is law going to endure? What kind of...

This paper is the case comment on the recent judgement (September 29, 2011) of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case No C-82/10 concerning interpretation of life and non-life insurance directives. The importance of this judgment lies in the fact that the ECJ defined the concept...

This comment first defines the concept of e-comrnerce, discussing its development in the international market. The comment next examines the legal questions raised in the use of the Internet to facilitate business. Legally speaking, in order to promote efficiency in the world market this comment...

This report offers proposals in the hope they may inform development of a more systematic and integrated approach to the creation, definition and recording of statutory rights, restrictions and obligations (‘RRR') affecting land parcels. While much progress has been made by Australia's land...

With the explosion in information technology, deploying desktop Internet access for corporations is becoming commonplace. Corporate managers are dealing with issues of protecting their corporations from legal exposure, especially in relation to downloading of pornographic or racist material, and...

Many have argued that thought should constitute per se unpatentable subject matter, and some have even suggested that any patent claim that includes a mental step should lie outside patentability. Many courts have long disagreed with such a draconian rule, and have instead upheld myriad patent...