As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues and the amount of destruction to lives and property grows exponentially, a question that has come up is whether Russian assets overseas should be confiscated and made available to those who the Russian invasion has harmed. The list of those is growing larger minute by minute: refugees, families of those who have died, people whose homes and livelihoods have been blown apart and on and on and on.
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In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past...
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A defining feature of the past two and a half centuries has been the extraordinary and unprecedented velocity of technological change. The rush of new...
This chapter studies political corruption and its many relationships to the law of democracy. It begins with bribery laws, which forbid officials from...
There is concern that present-biased agents incur too much debt because of its deferred costs – concern that has influenced regulation of consumer...
Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...
False information causes harm, threatening individuals, groups, and society. Many people struggle to judge the veracity of the information around them...
Many analyses of law take an unsentimental, perhaps even cynical view of regulated actors. On this view, law is a necessity borne of people’s selfish...
This article examines the impact of Greece retroactively, via legislation, changing the terms in hundreds of billions of euros worth of Greek...
Income inequality is a national preoccupation, and the public’s imagination is captured by the astronomical incomes of Valley tech billionaires and...
There is a live debate going on over whether antitrust should take a broader view of the economics of market concentration. When antitrust reformers...
The SEC mandates that public companies assess new information that changes the risks that they face and disclose these if there has been a “material”...
This paper describes the response of George Washington's administration to a plea for emergency war financing from French colonists who were trying to...
The conventional view is that standardized boilerplate terms represent an optimal contractual solution to the contracting problems facing parties in...