In 1999, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) approved the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), and a year later Congress enacted similar legislation. These laws allow for both parties involved in ...

It’s been a while since I last did an case and ruling update. So, today’s post is one of several that I will post in the coming weeks. Some recent developments in the courts and IRS – it’s the topic ...

Using data on four large mergers in the U.S. airline industry, we find consistent and significant effects of mergers on peripheral markets (i.e. those in which neither of the merging firms currently ...

Earlier in the year I devoted a blog post to a few current developments in the realm of agricultural law and taxation. That post was quite popular with numerous requests to devote a post to recent ...

Earlier this week, in Cook v. Bennett, 2015 WL 4086148 (11th Cir. 2015), the Eleventh Circuit held that Florida's teacher evaluation system was constitutional. Florida statute required schools to ...

Tens of thousands of young people — single people, in particular — have left states with near-total abortion bans. A new paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit economic ...

If you got a chance to watch the Ways and Means hearing last week regarding nonprofits and politics, you saw a fairly informative mostly nonpartisan discussion by some good witnesses. The discussion ...

We invite scholars in history, law, and related fields to submit articles for a symposium issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History on "U.S. Queer Constitutional History," to be edited ...

Here are some strategies to successfully bring former partners together for the holidays, from co-parenting experts and blended families who have made new traditions. One common warning they had: The ...

The committee considered ethics opinions from other states, particularly California on a judge's proposed grow license as well as its own prior opinion The Committee concluded that as long as “federal ...

When a user shares her data with online platforms, she reveals information about others. In such a setting, externalities depress the price of data because once a user's information is leaked by ...

Arian Simone, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Ayana Parsons, general partners at Fearless Fund. A few days ago, we blogged about the Council on Foundations and Independent Sector's Amicus Brief arguing that ...