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Non-Investment Finance in an NFT World
No full textRecent years have witnessed the rise of NFTs as vehicles for non-investment finance, including in nonprofit and political fundraising. As with other financial sectors in which NFTs have a role, the use of NFTs in financing nonprofits and political campaigns and committees has revealed gaps and ambiguities in existing legal regulatory systems. Appetite exists to evolve legal frameworks to complete and clarify applicable bodies of law and regulation.
This chapter undertakes to illuminate and reflect on the use of NFTs in financing nonprofits, political campaigns, and political committees. It begins by reviewing general aspects of the non-investment Internet finance environment and then describes and illustrates the use of NFTs in nonprofit and political fundraising. The chapter also offers guidance and reflections on core issues under applicable law and regulation and reflections on legal and regulatory questions and approaches relevant to non-investment finance using NFTs.https://ir.law.utk.edu/book_chapters/1043/thumbnail.jp
Climate Change Laws of the World
No full textClimate Change Laws of the World and Climate Change Litigation Databases compile several years of data collection by both the Grantham Research Institute and the Sabin Center, including the collaboration of Grantham Institute with GLOBE International on a series of Climate Legislation Studies. Climate Change Laws of the World includes national-level climate change legislation and policies globally. The database covers climate and climate-related laws, as well as laws and policies promoting low carbon transitions, which reflects the relevance of climate policy in areas including energy, transport, land use, and climate resilience
Caselaw Access Project
No full textThe Caselaw Access Project (CAP) digitized the entirety of the Harvard Law School Library’s physical collection of American case law available through online and transformed over 40 million pages of U.S. court decision into a dataset of over 6.7 million cases that represent 360 years of U.S. legal history.
The scope of CAP includes all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The earliest case is from 1658, and more volumes are continuously added through 2020.
Each volume has been converted into structured, case-level data broken out by majority and dissenting opinion, with human-checked metadata for party names, docket number, citation, and date
Alleged Rent-Fixing of Apartments Nationwide Draws More Legal Scrutiny
No full textThe Wall Street Journal interviewed and quoted Professor Maurice Stucke in its article “Alleged Rent-Fixing of Apartments Nationwide Draws More Legal Scrutiny about algorithmic collusion in the real estate market
Virtual Tribunals: International Criminal Tribunal Records (1945-present)
No full textA collaboration with the Stanford University Libraries, the Virtual Tribunals project is a major initiative of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. The scope of the Virtual Tribunals is international criminal tribunal records, from the post-WWII cases through the contemporary tribunals, fully digitized, and rendered searchable through a single online portal. The Virtual Tribunals platform would facilitate public access to the single most comprehensive database of archival material from the tribunals and truth commissions established in the wake of mass atrocities around the globe. The search function in the Virtual Tribunal would make the discovery of multilingual and multimedia materials far easier and more efficient for both legally trained and non-expert users, so these historic collections could have a much wider impact on educational institutions and lay-audiences, including populations directly affected by conflict or living in relevant diaspora communities. This project takes seriously the question of how temporary institutions might leave behind a legacy that will be of lasting value for scholars, experts, and international students, as well as for the people of the post-conflict societies in whose name these tribunals have been pursuing justice
Mastering Appellate Advocacy and Process
No full textMastering Appellate Advocacy and Process clearly and concisely covers all aspects of appellate practice. The book first addresses appellate procedures in use across the United States, beginning with a compendium of federal and state appellate court systems, then covering preserving error below and on appeal, initiating an appeal, and compiling the record, as well as appealable orders and judgments, proper parties on appeal, and appellate jurisdiction. It then delves into legal analysis, drafting, and advocacy techniques used in preparing appellate briefs, as well as oral advocacy techniques in a discussion that is useful to both novice and experienced attorneys.
Written for practicing lawyers as well as students, the book also includes a chapter devoted to law school moot court competitions, identifying how typical moot court competitions are like, and unlike, real-world appellate practice. The authors delve into technical waters while maintaining an accessible tone and structure, taking nothing for granted in terms of pre-existing knowledge or experience in the appellate field. The second edition has been updated to reflect developments in appellate court systems and procedure, legal practice, research, citation, and technology.https://ir.law.utk.edu/utk_lawfacbooks/1066/thumbnail.jp
Labor Law: Collective Bargaining in a Free Society - Eighth Edition
No full textThis new edition (formerly Nolan, Bales, & Gely’s Labor Law casebook) takes a distinctive approach to the topic. The first quarter provides a mini-course in American labor law history, describing the development of labor law in the U.S. This section provides students with the social, political, and economic context necessary to appreciate the doctrinal material presented in the remaining book. Unlike most labor law casebooks, this one remains lean: cases are tightly edited, notes are brief, and the text hews closely to major points. The streamlined presentation is ideal for professors who wish to supplement the material with simulations or other experiential learning exercises.https://ir.law.utk.edu/utk_lawfacbooks/1067/thumbnail.jp
From CSR and TBL to ESG and the SDGs: Roots from Resistance to Regularization
No full textIn 2021, the New Republic published an article entitled The End of Friedmanomics that described the rise and fall of the influence of 1976 Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman.1 Most recall Friedman’s normative shareholder primacy theory, which posited that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits and maximize returns to shareholders; most forget that Friedman heaped particular scorn on the precursor to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), the doctrine of social responsibility, calling it a “‘fundamentally subversive doctrine’ in a free society.”2 Despite Friedman’s opinion on corporate social responsibility (CSR), many have expressed strong reservations regarding his version of shareholder capitalism.3 This brief Article will consider the roots and longevity of ESG-related concepts among scholars and in the public discourse, the similarly persistent resistance thereto, and the importance of regularization-standardization of ESG norms