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Law and Finance in Britain c.1900
Over the past two decades, a series of influential papers in economics and finance have found institutions to be powerful…
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The Valuation and Governance Bubbles of Silicon Valley
The rise and fall of The We Company IPO bubble is one of those events that, like the subprime mortgage…
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Who Owns Bitcoin? Private (International) Law Facing the Blockchain
The widespread use of virtual currencies and other crypto assets may lead to problems that have been well-known for centuries…
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Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem in India, Brazil, and China
Our forthcoming Article in the Harvard International Law Journal (Spring/Summer 2020) addresses an important but understudied topic of relevance to academics from…
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Consumer Law Myopia
The consumer credit market for low-income households in the United States is characterized by high interest rates, harsh default terms,…
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Welcome to Vilnius: Regulatory Competition in the EU Market for E-Money
If you google ‘Lithuania e-money’, the auto-fill function will suggest that you search for ‘Lithuania e-money license’. If you accept…
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Bankruptcy and teams
Corporate bankruptcies constitute an important mechanism for the economy to purge itself of obsolete firms and allocate their constituent parts…
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Back to the Future: Waves of Legal Scholarship on Artificial Intelligence
In the past years, legal scholarship on technology matters has become ubiquitous. Topics such as self-driving cars, predictive policing or…
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A Functional Law and Economics Analysis of the Restructuring Directive
From a functional law and economics perspective, the recent European restructuring directive (the ‘Directive’) brings both welcome innovations and multiple…
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Do UK Companies Make Use of Corporate Mobility Instruments to ‘Escape’ Brexit?
Is there an impact of Brexit on corporate mobility in the form of companies incorporated in the United Kingdom making…
