Vol. 87:2
Categories: In Print, In Print - Table of Contents, Volume 87, Volume 87-2, Volumes | Posted: February 16, 2010
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Bailouts, Bonuses, And The Return Of Unjust Gains
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In March 2009, ailing insurance giant American International Group (AIG) triggered a national outcry when it paid out $165 million in government bailout funds for employee bonus incentives. President Obama called the bonus payments an “outrage” and promised that his administration would “pursue every single legal avenue to block these bonuses and [...]
Elderly Drivers: Balancing Public Safety with Permanent Personal Mobility
Anna Badaracco, twenty-three years old, was walking along the sidewalk at two o’clock on a Monday afternoon in August 2006, when a white Lexus suddenly veered off the road, jumped up onto the sidewalk, and struck Anna from behind, killing her. The driver of the Lexus was an eighty-four-year-old woman who, according to Anna’s [...]
Criminal Liability for Internet Culprits: The Need for Updated State Laws Covering the Full Spectrum of Cyber Victimization
On October 16, 2006, Tina Meier found her thirteen-year-old daughter, Megan, hanging from a belt inside her closet. The situation was a tragedy from the start for Tina and her husband, Ron, who pieced together what had seemingly pushed Megan to her unexpected suicide. Megan had only gotten to know sixteen-year-old Josh Evans through [...]
Regulating Complexity in Financial Markets
As the financial crisis has tragically illustrated, the complexities of modern financial markets and investment securities can trigger systemic market failures. Addressing these complexities, this Article maintains, is perhaps the greatest financial-market challenge of the future. The Article first examines and explains the nature of these complexities. It then analyzes the regulatory and [...]
Is There a Law Instinct?
The widely held view is that legal systems develop in response to purposeful efforts to achieve economic, political, or social objectives. An alternative view is that reliance on legal systems to organize social activity is an integral part of human nature, just as language and morality now appear to be directly shaped by innate [...]
