Why Personhood Doesn't Matter: Corporate Criminal Liability and Sanctions

After several years of dramatic growth, ESG investing seems to have entered a period of retrenchment.  While it is impossible to predict the future...

Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...

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...

We examine the legal terms in the market for green bonds, debt instruments in which proceeds are earmarked, directly or indirectly, for projects with...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

Consequential damages have been a cornerstone of contract doctrine since the broken crankshaft in Hadley v. Baxendale. And the Hadley rule is one of...

In this article, we examine the relations between risk, the choice of foreign or local contract terms (parameters), and maturity in the sovereign debt...

Engaging New Cases: The book uses fresh, timely cases in agency and partnership to show how business law is relevant in a variety of practices...

Berryessa et al. (2022) consider how prior experience as a criminal prosecutor may influence judicial behaviour, but their concerns about prior...

For several days, former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants in a Georgia election interference case trickled into the Fulton County Jail...

Over the past quarter century, Congress has enacted several major reforms for retirement plans and individual retirement accounts, usually with large...

Virginia adopted a risk assessment to help determine sentencing for sex offenders. It was incorporated as a one-way ratchet toward higher sentences...

Courts routinely use low cash bail as a financial incentive to ensure that released defendants appear in court and abstain from crime. This can create...

We examined how the presentation of risk assessment results and the race of the person charged affected pretrial court actors’ recommendations to...

In our increasingly polarized society, claims that prosecutions are politically motivated, racially motivated, or just plain arbitrary are more common...

As social scientists seek to communicate research about what works in policing to police executives, they overlook important players in determining...

We examine the legal terms in the market for green bonds, debt instruments in which proceeds are earmarked, directly or indirectly, for projects with...

This law school casebook provides a detailed examination of secured transactions in personal property in both the commercial and consumer context. The...