Category: Volume 68, Issue 3
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The Deregulation of Private Capital and the Decline of the Public Company
[et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Elisabeth de Fontenay Volume 68, Issue 3, 445-502 From its inception, the federal securities law regime created and enforced a major divide between public and private capital raising. Firms that chose to “go public” took on substantial disclosure burdens, but in exchange were given the exclusive right to raise capital from the general…
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“Strangers in a Strange Land”: Chinese Companies in the American Tax System
[et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Ji Li Volume 68, Issue 3, 503-540 Foreign direct investment (“FDI”) from emerging economies generally exhibits two distinct characteristics: (1) most of the investors thrive in poor regulatory environments, and (2) the visible hand of the state exerts a powerful influence. Due to these two features, emerging market FDI poses novel questions to…
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Law in Hiding: Market Principles in the Global Legal Order
[et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Odette Lienau Volume 68, Issue 3, 541-608 Standing in the background of the global legal order are a range of what might be called “market principles” or “market givens”collective presentations or beliefs about how markets workwhich are treated as objective descriptions at a particular time and place. This Article argues that such market…
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Migration Emergencies
[et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Jaya Ramji-Nogales Volume 68, Issue 3, 609-656 Migration emergencies are a commonplace feature in contemporary headlines. Pundits offer a variety of causes provoking these emergencies. Some highlight the deadly risks of these journeys for the migrants. Many more express alarm at the potential threats these mass influxes pose to their destination countries. But…
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Making It Up: Lessons for Equal Protection Doctrine from the Use and Abuse of Hypothesized Purposes in the Marriage Equality Litigation
[et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Steve Sanders Volume 68, Issue 3, 657-710 To survive rational basis scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause, a law must serve a governmental purpose which is at least legitimate. It is well established that legitimate purposes can sometimes be found through speculation and conjecturethat is, they may be hypothesizedin order to avoid the difficulties…
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The Modern Legal Status of Frozen Embryos
[et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Alyssa Yoshida Volume 68, Issue 3, 711-730 With the help of modern technology, people today have more flexibility than ever before in the realm of family planning and conceiving children. An increasing amount of couples are opting to go through in vitro fertilization to create and then freeze embryos for use at a later…