Twice in thirty years, the “mad scramble to the U.S. Courts for immediate attachments …” seemingly characteristic of cross-border cases prompted a legislative fix to this nation’s federal restructuring system, with territorialism giving way to progressively more pronounced...

משטר הנאמנות הישראלי שלפי חוק הנאמנות היה, בעת שנחקק, חריג בקרב משטרי הנאמנות בעולם. בניגוד לרובם המכריע של משטרים אלה, החוק התיר יצירתה של נאמנות ללא העברת הבעלות...

A person subject to guardianship has been judicially determined to lack legal capacity. Stripped of legal personhood, the individual becomes a ward of the state and his or her decisions are delegated to a guardian. If the guardian abuses that power or the guardianship has been wrongly imposed...

This paper consists in the “Lens of London” documentary which is created by Queen Mary students of Intellectual Property Law under the US jurisdiction. The focus of this paper are the issues such as: what is a performer, who owns the copyright of the work, credit and pre-existing work...

Harvard Business School requires MBA students to take a leadership course based on a practical framework for decision making that combines economics, law, and ethics. By broadening economics to strategy, this triadic framework can enable law students in Contracts and Torts courses to move beyond...

Although federally- and state- chartered corporations function similarly, federal law privileges the former in at least one significant respect: their access to this nation’s federal courts. Pursuant to the language now codified in Section 1332 of the twenty-eighth title of the United States...

Could North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) actually become Northeast Asia’s next big free market economy? At first blush, economic optimism about the Hermit Kingdom seems incredibly misplaced. North Korea is one of the most repressive countries in the world;...

Distilled to its most basic sense, § 363(k) has always given secured creditor the right “credit bid,” or to use, up to the full amount of the debt owed to the secured creditor by the debtor, as currency in any sale of the collateral securing the debt owed to that claimant under § 363(b)...

As of the a bankruptcy petition’s filing date (the “petition date”), § 362(a)(1) stays “the commencement or continuation ... of a judicial, administrative, or other action or proceeding against the debtor that was or could have been commenced before the commencement of the case under...

Our study compiled the largest research sample on the gender gap in compensation at the 200 largest law firms by combining two large databases to examine why women partners are compensated less: because they are less productive than men partners or because they are women. The AmLaw 100 and 200...