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Give Gorsuch a 21st Century Litmus Test

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Introduction The United States Senate began confirmation hearings on March 20 to vet Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated to succeed the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Lawmakers are expected to apply litmus tests, probing him on issues such as abortion. They should also delve into his views on technology. As Wired’s political reporter Issie […]

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No Country for Cybersecurity Arbitrage

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Introduction On October 28, 2016, regulations issued by the Copyright Office exempted a wide swath of cybersecurity research from the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). These regulatory exemptions were motivated by assertions that the DMCA anti-circumvention prohibitions hinder cybersecurity research and practice. This article investigates the accuracy of these claims by […]

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What Shareholder Proposals on Proxy Access Tell Us About its Value

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Introduction Proxy access is the ability of certain privileged shareholders to have their own slate of director nominees included in the company’s proxy materials whether or not the board of directors (“Board”) approves. These materials include a proxy statement used to solicit shareholder votes and a voting card allowing shareholders to vote without having to […]

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Navigating Conflicting Roles: The Ethical Obligations of an Organization’s Lawyers Post-Wells Fargo

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Introduction Government-initiated enforcement actions aimed at exposing white-collar crime have proliferated considerably following the recent financial crisis. To get ahead of these investigations, many organizations hire in-house or external counsel to conduct their own preliminary investigations. These internal investigations create significant issues for lawyers who must provide to employees they interview an “Upjohn warning”—a disclosure […]

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Iterative Energy Policy: Resisting An Apology (Book Review)

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Book Review Steve Isser, Electricity Restructuring in the United States: Markets and Policy from the 1978 Energy Act to the Present (Cambridge Univ. Press 2015) Most energy law scholars have a general sense of the piecemeal fashion in which energy law and policy have unfolded in the past several decades. Notwithstanding the lack of a […]

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How King v. Burwell Creates Tax Problems for Consumers and What The Treasury Can Do About It

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After the Supreme Court agreed to hear King v. Burwell, a case addressing whether taxpayers can receive Section 36B premium tax credits for health insurance policies purchased on federally established exchanges (“federal policies”), commentators have expressed concerns about a potential death spiral in the health insurance market. Under the worst case scenario, the absence of […]

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Abstinence in the Face of the Mutual Fund Debt Elixir: In Response to Professor John Morley

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In recent years, a combination of bruising market losses, increased correlation among asset classes, unexpected illiquidity and high-profile scandals has left the investment management industry reeling. In the wake of the Great Recession, asset managers find themselves scrambling to respond to significant shifts in investor behavior and an evolving regulatory landscape. Two of the most […]

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What Do Subprime Securitization Agreements Say About Mortgage Modification?

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This paper presents the results of the only publicly available empirical study of what agreements governing subprime securitized mortgages say about mortgage modifications. The mortgage and foreclosure crisis continues to transfix the nation, even as housing markets across the country show signs of improvement. The government has tried to promote mortgage modifications to allow homeowners […]

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The Need for New Federal Anti-Spam Legislation

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The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was passed in an attempt to stop “the extremely rapid growth in the volume of unsolicited commercial electronic mail” and thereby reduce the costs to recipients and internet service providers of transmitting, accessing, and discarding unwanted email. The Act obligates the senders of commercial email to utilize accurate header information, […]

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Expanding the Prosecutor’s Purview: Interpreting the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act

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Introduction The question of when a war exists has been extensively considered in international law, but the subject is greatly important in the regulation of government contracting because of the little-known Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act (WSLA). The Act declares that when the nation is “at war,” the statute of limitations on fraud committed against […]

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Essay Responding to Brian H. Potts, “The President’s Climate Plan for Power Plants Won’t Significantly Lower Emissions”

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Critics of the Obama Administration’s recently announced efforts to control climate pollution seek to discredit the idea of existing power plant greenhouse gas emissions limits based on legal arguments that are both shortsighted and unfounded. These arguments have most recently appeared in an essay posted on the Yale Journal on Regulation Online by attorney Brian […]

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Antitrust Enforcement in Private Equity: Target, Bidder, and Club Sizes Should Matter

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This Comment argues that plaintiffs have painted “club deals” with a broad brush as anticompetitive, whereas applying the facts alleged plaintiffs themselves to the antitrust regulators’ measurement of market concentration—the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index—implies a more nuanced conclusion: consortium bidding can be pro-competitive for large targets, small bidders and small clubs. “We will have to trust [K]inder […]

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Moving Forward with Regulatory Lookback

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President Obama has rightly called on government agencies to establish ongoing routines for reviewing existing regulations to determine if they need modification or repeal. Over the last two years, the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has overseen a signature regulatory “lookback” initiative that has prompted dozens of federal agencies to review […]