Why Do Retail Investors Make Costly Mistakes? An Experiment on Mutual Fund Choice
Congress has recently acknowledged the need for a better understanding of investor behavior. In the Dodd–Frank Act, Congress instructed the… Continue reading →
2014
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The Divided States of America: Reinterpreting Title VII’s National Origin Provision to Account for Subnational Discrimination Within the United States
From the marginalization of Native Americans to the bitter rivalry between the North and the South, discrimination within the United… Continue reading →
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Putting Plea Bargaining on the Record
More than a decade ago, Rolando Stockton rejected a plea bargain that came with a ten-year prison sentence, opting instead… Continue reading →
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Collateral Compliance
As most of us are aware, noncompliance with the tax law can lead to tax penalties, which almost always take… Continue reading →
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Insider Trading via the Corporation
A U.S. firm buying and selling its own shares in the open market can trade on inside information more easily… Continue reading →
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Bureaucracy at the Boundary
The traditional view of the federal administrative state imagines a bureaucracy consisting entirely of executive agencies under the control of… Continue reading →
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“I’ll Take Form Over Substance for $800, Trebek”: Why Blueford Was Too Rigid and How States Can Properly Provide Double Jeopardy Protection
In August 2009, Arkansas tried Alex Blueford for the murder of a one‐year‐old child. Blueford was charged with capital murder,… Continue reading →
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The Constitutional Standing of Corporations
Are corporations “persons” with constitutional rights? The Supreme Court has famously avoided analysis of the question, while recognizing that corporations… Continue reading →
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Dodd-Frank Orderly Liquidation Authority: Too Big for the Constitution?
The Dodd–Frank Act, enacted in the wake of the U.S. financial crisis of 2007 to 2009, is the federal government’s… Continue reading →
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The Duryodhana Dilemma: United States v. A 10th Century Cambodian Sandstone Sculpture and a Proposed Code of Ethics-Based Response to Repatriation Requests for Auction Houses
On March 24, 2011, Sotheby’s New York unexpectedly removed its showcase lot, the Duryodhana, from its Indian & Southeast Asian… Continue reading →