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Oral history interview with Tony Eonas (SOH-052)
Get PDFAnthony “Tony” Eonas, Suffolk University Professor Emeritus, discusses his forty-eight-year career at the university in the Marketing and Business Law and Ethics Departments. He discusses his early life; including his transition into academia after working in sales, then teaching at Northeastern University and Bentley College. He discusses the evolution of the business school, the camaraderie of the faculty, and his focus on developing students. He recounts one of his major accomplishments, securing the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation for the Sawyer Business School which elevated the reputation and ranking of the school. Professor Eonas also reminisces about his travels, both internationally, on behalf of Suffolk, and also across the United States, on regular motorcycle trips. He talks proudly about his family, and shares memories of his friends and students at Suffolk.https://dc.suffolk.edu/soh/1038/thumbnail.jp
Counter-Intuitive Climate Forcing: Post Paris Agreement Corporate Incentives
Get PDFThis article applies a micro-level lens to details of disincentives embodied in the new U.S. tax law effective in 2018, affecting corporate action to address climate change, and applies a macro-level assessment of how corporate action is affecting U.S. realization of its climate change goals and requirements. The article examines and offers several state law options that can substitute as alternative incentives, and an unrelated ‘Opportunity Zone’ provision in the new federal tax law, all of which can provide alternative legal paths
The Sharing Economy and the Allocation of Urban Space
Get PDFThis short essay uses four interrelated issues as a framework for examining recent challenges posed by the sharing economy, particularly for urban areas. First, in the realm of short-term rentals there is increasing concern – and a growing set of studies that support it – that as these rentals proliferate across municipalities they are moving existing housing off of the long-term rental market, exacerbating affordability crises in many cities. Second, there is a related concern that short-term rentals are changing the character of existing neighborhoods and undermining the goals of local planning and zoning. Third, in the realm of transportation network companies, a growing body of research links Uber and Lyft to increased traffic congestion in dense urban areas. And fourth, ridesharing services threaten to pull riders away from public transportation, further exacerbating congestion while simultaneously harming cash-strapped transportation systems. The essay considers these challenges in light of the contributions to the recently published Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy, of which the author is a co-editor, drawing on insights from those contributions and highlighting chapters within the volume of most relevance for zoning and planning law. It then surveys potential responses to these challenges, drawing both on the Handbook and on recent developments in a small number of representative jurisdictions
Culture of Mobile Phone Novels in Japan: A Comparison of Cultural Particularities of Mobile Phone Novels and Service Providers
Get PDFHonor thesis on the Culture of Mobile Phone Novels in Japan: A Comparison of Cultural Particularities of Mobile Phone Novels and Service Providers
Financial Regulation - Regulating a New Sector: How Should Regulatory Agencies Classify and Regulate Virtual Currencies - Commodity Futures Trading Comm\u27n (CFTC) v. McDonnell et al., 287 F. Supp. 3D 213 (E.D.N.Y. 2018)
Get PDFCivil Rights - Medical Marijuana Recognized as Facially Reasonable Accommodation under Handicap Discrimination Claim in Massachusetts - Barbuto v. Advantage Sales and MKTG., LLC, 78 N.E.3D 40 (Mass. 2017)
Get PDFConstitutional Law - Let Them Eat Cake - Masterpiece Cakeshop, LTD. v. Colo. Civil Rights Comm\u27n, 138 S. Ct. 1719 (2018)
Get PDFAgainst the Wind—Sustainability, Migration, Presidential Discretion
Get PDFThe weekend before Christmas 2018, the United States government began its longest shutdown in history, which extended well into the new year. The crisis was the result of the ongoing legal controversies surrounding migratory rights and U.S. immigration policy, and following the shutdown, President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border. The executive branch has a constitutional responsibility to enforce all U.S. laws. However, while the Trump administration has focused pointedly on executive branch enforcement of immigration and migratory laws at the southern border, it has made no effort to enforce an international treaty and three long-standing U.S. statutes protecting migratory birds.More than one thousand species of birds are legally protected by U.S. law, making it a criminal felony, punishable by up to two years jail time and fines of up to one-quarter million dollars, for killing even a single migratory bird. Despite these harsh penalties, hundreds of thousands of these statutorily protected birds are killed by wind power turbines in the U.S. each year.Wind power, however, is an indispensable tool to address global climate change for a multitude of reasons. For instance, wind power is an essential technology to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to meet the goals the U.S. previously pledged as part of the international Paris Agreement of 2016. Wind power does not emit either carbon-dioxide (“CO2”) or methane into the atmosphere, nor does it contribute to climate change. Further, wind power has been the leading source among all new electric power technologies installed in the U.S. for the past decade, and wind power is now cost-competitive with most other means of power generation. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has also identified sixteen critical infrastructure sectors in the United States, each of which depends fundamentally on a stable power supply, a requirement that can be bolstered, if not achieved, by wind.Creating legal and economic implications for the power sector, the Trump administration announced its unilateral executive policy not to enforce the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”), a century-old statute that implements an eponymous treaty protecting migratory birds. The cessation of legal enforcement of the MBTA will decrease the costs of wind facilities, as the MBTA makes the killing of a single bird on any day a felony crime.There is now a yin and yang for wind power. Civil law is populated with important state and federal economic and legal incentives for wind power generation and infrastructure transition. Yet, federal investment tax incentives are currently being phased out and the newest tax regime is not nearly as supportive. In a parallel legal realm, criminal law creates an elevated risk for the decidedly modest number of wind turbines that kill an estimated one-quarter million protected birds annually in the U.S. There is a temporal mismatch between these federal criminal statutes, a transitory policy which does not enforce those laws, and civil law incentives for the industry.However, this criminal risk for wind facilities is not static; it changes with different occupants of the executive branch which enforces federal criminal law. There is an added dimension when the technology involved is not a mere substitute commodity, but is critical to mitigate global climate change. This confluence of competing factors requires reconciliation by legislative change, regulatory clarification, or judicial determination. This Article navigates several layers of this emerging technology- species conflict and its counterposed statutory objectives to chart a new direction in U.S. law