Supreme Court Decides Extraterritorial Reach of Civil RICO Claims in Case Involving Foreign Arbitral Award
In a much-discussed decision, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted a Russian judgment creditor’s claims that a U.S. resident had violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by evading payment of a U.S. judgment enforcing a foreign arbitral award to go forward.
Wrongs To Us
In this Article, I suggest that consortium claims may have a natural place in a rights-based picture of tort law, so long as we have the right picture of rights (and rightsholders) in view.
The Small Agency Problem in American Policing
While hardly immune from the various problems that plague modern policing, research has largely overlooked the thousands of small departments that serve rural areas and small towns. This paper begins to fill this gap by blending together empirical analysis with in-depth case studies that add much-needed texture to the patterns that the data reveal.
Property and Sovereignty in America: A History of Title Registries & Jurisdictional Power
This Article tells an untold history of the American title registry—a colonial bureaucratic innovation that, though overlooked and understudied, constitutes one of the most fundamental elements of the U.S. property system today.
Are Children’s Rights Enough?
This Article analyzes case law on custody and family separation from a jurisdiction that uses a strong children’s rights approach, the European Court of Human Rights. These cases provide a valuable comparator by which to test whether children’s rights framing changes the way that courts reason about children.
Building Cross-disciplinary Bridges: Advancing Evidence-Based Legal Protections for Children in Cyberspace
The article identifies a systemic policy failure, where lawmakers have fallen behind the private sector in understanding and incorporating scientific findings on children’s unique attributes, needs and vulnerabilities into policies that regulate these technologies.
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