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Documents from 2007

Liquidation Expenses and Floating Charges - The Separate Funds Fallacy

Making Main Street Legal Again: The SmartCode Solution to Sprawl

Markets & Democracy: The Illegitimacy of Corporate Law

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Mentally Ill Prisoners in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: Strategies for Improving Treatment and Reducing Recidivism

Necessity, Torture and Existential Politics

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Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment Right

On Fairness and Efficiency

Piracy, Biopiracy and Borrowing: Culture, Cultural Heritage and the Globalization of Intellectual Property

Power or Prudence: Which Is It?

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Predatory Lending and Community Development at Loggerheads

Principles of Fairness for International Economic Treaties: Constructivism and Contractualism

Priority as Pathology: The Pari Passu Myth

Privacy and Access to Public Records in the Information Age

Radicals in Robes: A Review

Redefining the Right to Be Let Alone: Privacy Rights and the Constitutionality of Technical Surveillance Measures in Germany and the United States

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Research and Theory in Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts

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Rethinking Disclosure in a World of Risk-Based Pricing

Reverse Bifurcation

Review Essay: Radicals in Robes

Selective Affinities: On the American Reception of Hans Kelsen's Legal Theory

Selling Your Torts: Creating a Market for Tort Claims and Liability.

Semper Disqualified: The Incongruity between Federal and State Suffrage Protections for Certain Military Voters Seeking to Vote in State and Local Elections, and a Possible Legislative Remedy

Seventeen Famous Economists Weigh in on Copyright: The Role of Theory, Empirics, and Network Effects

Subprime Standardization: How Rating Agencies Allow Predatory Lending to Flourish in the Secondary Mortgage Market

Taking Copyright Seriously: Abridging Rights Is More Serious Than Inflating Rights

The Authentic Consent Model: Contractarianism, Creditors' Bargain, and Corporate Liquidation

The Catch-22 in Prison Privatization: The Problem with the Solution

The Cocaine Vaccine

The Continuing Showdown over Who Should Regulate Amusement Attraction Safety: A Critical Analysis of Why Fixed-Site Amusement Attraction Safety Should Remain State-Governed.

The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime, & Sovereign Power

The Democratic Public Domain: Reconnecting the Modern First Amendment and the Original Progress Clause (a.k.a. Copyright and Patent Clause)

The Dividend Problem

The Effect Of Judicial Ideology In Intellectual Property Cases

The Ethics of Cause Lawyering: An Examination of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Cause Lawyers

The Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights by International Agreement: A Case Study Comparing Chile and Australia’s Bilateral FTA Negotiations With the U.S.

The Floating Charge – An Elegy

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: A Synopsis and Recent Legislative History

The (Intellectual Property Law &) Economics of Innocent Fraud: The IP & Development Debate

The Manifestation of Belief and the Display of Ostentatious Religious Symbols in France

The New Japanese Law Schools

The Partnership: Preserving Capital Gains on Real Estate Investments

The Right to Roam

The Rise and Fall of Israel's Senior Citizens’ Law

The Search for Someone to Save: A Defensive Case for the Priority of Secured Credit

The Semi-Sovereign Corporation

The Valuation of Distressed Companies - A Conceptual Framework

“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally”: Recent Trends in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Canada

Toward a New Economic Constitution: Judicial Disciplines on Trade Politics

Toward a New Theory of Notice and Deterrence

Towards a New Core International Copyright Norm: The Reverse Three-Step Test

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Turning a Blind Eye: Wall Street Finance of Predatory Lending

When Equality Leaves Everyone Worse Off: The Problem of Leveling Down in Equality Law

YouTube or YouLose? Can YouTube Survive a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Yukos Risk: The Double Edged Sword

Yukos Risk: The Double Edged Sword

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A Paradigm Shift In Assessing/Evaluating the Value and Significance of Hadith In Islamic Thought: From'Ulumu-L-Isnad/Rijal To'usulu-l-fiqh

A Paradigm Shift In Assessing/Evaluating the Value and Significance of Hadith In Islamic Thought: From'Ulumu-L-Isnad/Rijal To'usulu-l-fiqh

Insurance Solutions: The Conduct of Insurance Company Insolvency in the UK

Literature review: Identity construction in the context of being a minority immigrant religion: the case of Western-born Muslims

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Literature review: Identity construction in the context of being a minority immigrant religion: the case of Western-born Muslims

Matevosyan NR. e-Learning in Reproductive Health: Deployment of e-Learning Opens up New Vistas.

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Matevosyan NR. e-Learning in Reproductive Health: Deployment of e-Learning Opens up New Vistas.

Neo-Traditional Salafi Qur'An-Sunnah Hermeneutic and the Construction of a Normative Muslimah Image

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Neo-Traditional Salafi Qur'An-Sunnah Hermeneutic and the Construction of a Normative Muslimah Image

RSRD Proposal/Port of Entry Proposal

Toward a Methodology of Understanding the Nature and Scope of the Concept of Sunnah

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Toward a Methodology of Understanding the Nature and Scope of the Concept of Sunnah

University of Connecticut School of Law, London Market Visit Programme

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Can Our Community “Afford” this Bond Issue for Our School? Proposed Factors for Determining Affordability of School Building Projects, Jeff Abbott

Let Them Eat Smoke: The Case for Exempting the Tobacco Industry from Antitrust, Brian Dean Abramson

The Chimera: Democracy, the Third World, and the Case of Pakistan, Ali Abrar

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Causa de los Actos Jurídicos, Redundancia y Eficiencia, Hugo A. Acciarri

Causa de los Actos Jurídicos, Redundancia y Eficiencia, Hugo A. Acciarri

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On Causal Apportioning and Efficiency in Tort Law, Hugo A. Acciarri, Andrea Castellano, and Fernando Tohme

¿Deben Emplearse Fórmulas Para Cuantificar Incapacidades?, Hugo Alejandro Acciarri

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Delay in Lawsuits and Interest Rate, Hugo Alejandro Acciarri, Andrea Castellano, and Andrea Barbero

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¿Se debe indemnizar el dolor de las víctimas del 11 de septiembre?, Hugo Alejandro Acciarri, Andrea Castellano, and Andrea Barbero

La Fórmula de Hand y el Cheapest Cost Avoider en el Derecho de Daños Argentino, Hugo Alejandro Acciarri and Melisa Romero

La Fórmula De Hand y el Cheapest Cost Avoider en el Derecho de Daños Argentino, Hugo A. Acciarri and Melisa Romero

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La Fórmula De Hand y el Cheapest Cost Avoider en el Derecho de Daños Argentino, Hugo A. Acciarri and Melisa Romero

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Intereses en las Obligaciones de Dinero. Un ensayo sobre clases jurídicas y criterios instrumentales para abordar la cuestión, Hugo A. Acciarri, Pamela Tolosa, and Matias Irigoyen Testa

Intereses en las Obligaciones de Dinero. Un ensayo sobre clases jurídicas y criterios instrumentales para abordar la cuestión, Hugo A. Acciarri, Pamela Tolosa, and Matias Irigoyen Testa