Taxation & Estate Planning

Pozen on Norm Entrepreneurs
David Pozen (Yale Law) has posted We Are All Entrepreneurs Now on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A funny thing happened to the entrepreneur in legal, business, and social science scholarship...

Bulman-Pozen & Gerken on Uncooperative Federaism
Jessica Bulman-Pozen & Heather Gerken (Yale) have posted Uncooperative Federalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract:his essay addresses a gap in the federalism literature. Scholars have offered two distinct visions of federal-state relations...

David Pozen: The Irony of Judicial Elections
In an article just published in the Columbia Law Review, Yale Law School Heyman Fellow David Pozen writes about what he calls "the irony of judicial elections." The central irony, according to Pozen, is that as judicial elections achieve greater legitimacy as elections, they will increasingly undermine the judiciary's distinctive role and our broader democratic processes...

Hidden Treasures
The British Library has launched a competition to reveal treasures hidden away in Britains regional public libraries. The winners will digitised and given the Turning the Pages 2.0 treatment...

"The Irony of Judicial Elections"
Introduction to The Irony of Judicial Elections by David E. Pozen in Columbia Law Review: Judicial elections in the United States have undergone a dramatic transformation. For more than a century, these state and local elections were relatively dignified, low-key...

The Irony of Judicial Elections
David Pozen’s “The Irony of Judicial Elections” is forthcoming at the Columbia Law Review and is available on SSRN here. The abstract is available below the fold. Abstract: Judicial elections in the United States have undergone a dramatic transformation...

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Schwan's Frozen Chicken
Recalled for Foreign Materials

Signal International
allegedly lured foreign workers to US shipyards with false promises of permanent resident status.

Prepaid Debit Card
alleging hidden prepaid debit card fees.