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Empowering Black Wealth in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre

Kohm, Lynne Marie; Sumner, Katrina; Farley, Peyton - 2021

The Tulsa Race Massacre was and remains a dark and tragic disgrace for Oklahoma and the entire United States. Black citizens were killed, thousands were left homeless, and 35 blocks of the wealthy community known as Black Wall Street were burned to the ground during the attack. The accumulation...

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'So How Should I Presume' : Loan, Resulting Trust, or Discharge of a Prior Obligation?

Mee, John - 2020

What does the law presume when it is proven simply that one person has made a payment of money to another? Surprisingly, there are three candidate answers to this question. First, a number of nineteenth-century authorities hold that ‘when money is paid by one man to another the legal...

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Trusts of the Family Home : The Irish Experience

Mee, John - 2021

The problem of the beneficial ownership of the family home has troubled courts throughout the common law world. It has proved extremely difficult "to unravel the tangled skein of human association, and apply to it considerations of legal principle." The Irish courts have had an unusually rich...

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Reconciling Environmental Justice and Development in Transition Economies : The Central and Eastern European Reality

Costi, Alberto - 2019

The aim of this chapter is to evaluate the importance of the environment in Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEE) in the general context of current social, economic and political reforms since the early 1990s and, more precisely, to examine the extent to which these emerging democracies...

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Half-Secret Trusts in Ireland and England

Mee, John - 2019

This note considers the decision of the Irish High Court in Re Prendiville (1992) which dealt with the enforcement of half-secret trusts. It confirms, in a case where the point arose for decision, that Irish law rejects “the prior acceptance rule” favoured in the English cases. The judgment...

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The International Trade Commission, Though Designed to Protect Domestic Industry, Frequently Threatens it

Galvin, Joe - 2022

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has power under Section 337 of the Tariff Act to investigate goods that are being imported unfairly and are affecting a domestic industry. One type of unfair import is a good that violates U.S. intellectual property rights, including patents. Section 337...

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Populism : A Crisis of Trust? [Le populisme : une crise de confiance?]

Girard, Raphaël - 2022

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Election Subversion and the Writ of Mandamus

Muller, Derek T. - 2023

Election subversion threatens democratic self-governance. Recently, we have seen election officials try to manipulate the rules after an election, defy accepted legal procedures for dispute resolution, and try to delay results or hand an election to a losing candidate. Such actions, if...

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Parent to Child Transfers : Gift or Resulting Trust?

Barkehall-Thomas, Susan - 2011

This article considers the question of how the law should treat voluntary transfers of property from aging parents to …

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Creating Synergy Between Athletics Compliance and Academic Programs - Student Workers in the Compliance Office

Pierce, David A. - 2012

students can be a valuable asset to the compliance office. The overarching purpose of this study was to explore the most … effective use of students within the compliance office and how to best structure the compliance office to create synergy between … that law and sport management students were the best workers. Compliance directors identified six key NCAA Bylaws most …

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