More Meaningful Ethics by Veronica Root Martinez
Introduction Creating systems to create, promote, and encourage ethical behavior within firms is a maddeningly difficult endeavor. Whether one focuses on the purposeful decision to attempt to cheat...
View ArticleIs Business and Human Rights Suitable for the Compliance Function? by Michael...
Introduction The links between business, human rights, and compliance are often nonobvious. Firstly, these are disciplines and discourses that have evolved separately. Secondly, in the few incidental...
View ArticleForeign Corruption as Market Manipulation by Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
Introduction On March 6, 2019, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it would be taking an active role in prosecuting violations of the Commodities Exchange Act (CEA) that...
View ArticleRegulating Cryptocurrency Secondary Market Trading Platforms by Kristin N....
Introduction A new class of assets has revolutionized capital raising, redefining antiquated notions of the terms “coins” and “tokens,” and capturing an increasingly significant role in financial...
View ArticleThe Making of a Mismarker: The Case of the Only Banker Jailed in the U.S. for...
Introduction In 2013, Kareem Serageldin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to falsify books and records of a financial institution. He was mismarking the value of securities at Credit Suisse in order to make...
View ArticleThe Role of Corporate Governance in a Macroprudential Framework by Katrien...
Introduction The compliance units in financial institutions have experienced explosive growth since the financial crisis. This is not surprising given the equally rapid growth in regulations governing...
View ArticleA Novel Idea: Televising the Announcement of Supreme Court Opinions by Floyd...
Some thirty-five years ago, Chief Justice Warren Burger said that, save for its private conferences, the Supreme Court operates “in a goldfish bowl.” Perhaps. Then again, it is impossible to see the...
View ArticleBriefly 3.10 – Is Half of Oklahoma Tribal Land?
This is Briefly, a production of the University of Chicago Law Review. Today we are discussing two cases pending before the Supreme Court, which will determine whether roughly half of the land in...
View ArticleTaking a Second Look at (In)Justice by Michael Serota
Should we reevaluate the sentences of individuals we incarcerate for long periods of time for crimes committed in their youth after they’ve served a decade or more in prison? That’s the question at the...
View ArticleBriefly 3.11 – Social Media and Market Manipulation
This is Briefly, a production of the University of Chicago Law Review. Today we are discussing social media influencers and their ability to manipulate markets. We also discuss the legal regime that...
View ArticleThe Unreasonableness of the Citizenship Distinction: Section 412 of the USA...
The Case of Adham Hassoun and Section 412 of the USA Patriot Act When it was enacted—a mere seven weeks after the attacks of September 11th—the USA PATRIOT Act provided the government with the...
View ArticleBriefly 3.12 – Experimental Jurisprudence
This is Briefly, a production of the University of Chicago Law Review. Today we’re discussing Experimental Jurisprudence, which is an emerging field that uses empirical methods, particularly from the...
View ArticleThe Law of Clarity and the Clarity of Law by Michael A. Francus
Professor Richard Re’s Clarity Doctrines sheds light on a neglected and growing legal phenomenon, legal rules that turn on clarity. He is correct to note that these clarity doctrines can serve...
View Article3.13 – Interpreting the Law through Corpus Linguistics
This is Briefly, a production of the University of Chicago Law Review. Today we’re discussing Corpus Linguistics, which is a sub-field of linguistics that employs database searches to study language...
View ArticleGetting People to Lump or Split Themselves: Pooling vs Separation by Peter...
I. Lumping & Splitting vs Pooling & Separating My goal in this short Essay is to show how an analytic vocabulary first developed to analyze insurance markets by Michael Rothschild and Joseph...
View ArticleSlicing (and Transferring) Development by John Infranca
Introduction: Lumpy Depth Spend too long within the pages of Lee Fennell’s Slices and Lumps and you begin to see slices and lumps everywhere. The deadline for this Essay fast approaches and I fear I...
View ArticleFrom Slices to Lumps and Back Again: Aggregation and Division in US Federal...
Introduction As Lee Anne Fennell writes in Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life, “law must determine the proper unit of analysis—how widely or narrowly to set its viewfinder—in...
View ArticleIndivisibilities in Technology Regulation by Lauren Henry Scholz
Lee Fennell’s Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life reveals the benefits of isolating configurations in legal analysis. A key characteristic of configurations, or “lumps” whether...
View ArticleLumps in Antitrust Law by Sean P. Sullivan
The framework of aggregation and division that Lee Fennell develops in Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life is both elegant and encompassing. Through the simple device of...
View ArticleCo-Location Covenants by Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Mom and Dad are aging. They have more house than they need, and at their ages maintaining it has become an unmanageable burden. Their friends have begun to die off, they are close to giving up their...
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