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Apr. 2012, Vol. 64, No. 2
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Category Archives: Securities Law
Steven L. Schwarcz, Compensating Market Value Losses: Rethinking the Theory of Damages in a Market Economy
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1053 (2011)| | | ARTICLE :: The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Toyota car recalls have highlighted an important legal anomaly that has been overlooked by scholars: judicial inconsistency and confusion in ruling whether … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Contract Law, Securities Law, Tort Law
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Adam Denver Griffin, The Federal Sentencing Guidelines’ Abuse of Trust Enhancement: An Argument for the Professional Discretion Approach
63 Fla. L. Rev. 457 (2011)| | | | INTRODUCTION :: In a national issue of first impression for the circuit courts, the Eleventh Circuit, in United States v. Louis, held that a federally licensed firearm dealer who knowingly sells … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Liability Law, Securities Law
Tagged 1993 Amendment, Abuse of trust Enhancement, authority, circuit split, Discretion, Eleventh Circuit, enhancement, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal Government, Federal Sentencing Guidelines, firearm dealers, Firearms, Griffin, Guidelines § 3B1.3, illegal firearm disbursement, licensed dealers, Professional Discretion Approach, Starnes, Third Circuit, U.S. Sentencing Commission, United States v. Louis
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Sung Hui Kim, Naked Self-Interest? Why the Legal Profession Resists Gatekeeping
63 Fla. L. Rev. 129 (2011)| | | | ABSTRACT :: This Article asks and answers the following question: why does the legal profession resist gatekeeping? Or, put another way, why do lawyers resist duties that require them to act … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Evidence, Governments and Legislation, Securities Law, Tort Law, Uncategorized
Tagged attorney practice, corporate harm, economic self interest, gatekeeping, Kim, legal practice
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Andrew Brady Spalding, Unwitting Sanctions: Understanding Anti-Bribery Legislation as Economic Sanctions Against Emerging Markets
62 Fla. L. Rev. 351 (2010) | | | | ABSTRACT :: Although the purpose of international anti-bribery legislation, particularly the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), is to deter bribery, empirical evidence demonstrates a problematic collateral … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Securities Law, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, Anti-Bribery Legisltaion, Central Asia, Economic Sanctions, Emerging Markets, Empirical Evidence, FCPA, Latin America, Poverty Reduction, Sanctioning Effects, Spalding, U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Unwitting Sanctions
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Brent J. Horton, In Defence of Private-Label Mortgage-Backed Securities
61 Fla. L. Rev. 827 (2009) | | | | ABSTRACT :: The House Financial Services Committee recently concluded that lack of regulation of private-label mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is to blame for the unsustainable housing bubble that peaked in mid-2006-and … Continue reading
Dustin G. Hall, The Elephant in the Room: Dangers of Hedge Funds in our Financial Markets
60 Fla. L. Rev. 183 (2008) | | | | INTRODUCTION :: Hedge funds are our modern titans of industry, and like their predecessors they now represent the best and the worst of the new global economy. These minimally regulated … Continue reading
Posted in Securities Law, Uncategorized
Tagged European Exchange Rate Mechanism, Financial Markets, fohfs, funds of hedge funds, global economics, Goldstein v. SEC, Hall, hedge Funds, insider trading, Long-Term Capital Management, LTCM, Malaysian Prime Minister, regulatory stances, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Soros Fund Management LLc
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