Chris Odinet, Andrea Tosato, & Yesha Yadav
Yesha Yadav
Abstract
Money is omnipresent. Yet defining its fundamental character proves surprisingly difficult. Functional descriptions tell us what money does, not what money is, and they certainly do
We are empty nesters now. Do we really need eighteen rolls of paper towels or 660 napkins? Well, no, probably not. But we do still need forty or so pounds of cat litter on the regular? Absolutely! Our nest isn’t
Until the current administration, there were laws in place that protected federal workers’ tenure in office. The upside of such laws is that the country has a cadre of trained specialists who cannot be deprived of their jobs for political
We have posted here before about law review contracts — that is, the largely adhesive contracts that journals seek to impose on authors after the authors have committed to publishing a work of scholarship in a particular journal. Dave Hoffman
I am a boomer. I grew up with federal agencies empowered to maintain a level playing field in securities markets and with federal and state laws that regulate gambling, including bets on criminal acts such as assassinations and bets on
Ryan H. Nelson
Abstract
While legal scholars debate the merits of mandatory arbitration, a more insidious barrier to justice has quietly proliferated beneath their radar. I call that barrier “pre-arbitral red tape”—that is, procedural condition precedents to
In October, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its new click-to-cancel rule. As I noted in a blog post entitled “The FTC Has Made Its Decision, Now Let It Enforce It”:
The rule requires sellers to make it as
Amy Wisner taught in the business school at Michigan State University (MSU) in 2022-23. According to the complaint in the case against her brought by two of her students that year, she required students to buy a $99 subscription to
I wanted to cheer on the little guy in this one, but no. I don’t blame the plaintiff for his choosing to believe an offer that was too good to be true. I have some questions for the attorneys who
