Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development
The article presents and discusses opportunities for advocacy that lie at the intersection of the legal and creative community. Economists have identified a shift from in the economy where the most valued quality for stimulating the economy is creativity. This shift will force lawyers to reorient their legal services to survive and better responds to their clients. The article examines the challenges facing a subset of artists and the link between the creative economy and strengthening regional and local U.S. economies, focusing on the development of microenterprises.
The Creation and Destruction of Price Cartels: An Evolutionary Theory
Why are gas stations able to charge price premiums above competitive price and how are companies arrive at identical supracompetitive price? The article describes the causes and effects of supracompetitive pricing, explains the inability of antitrust law to suppress some instances of supracompetitive pricing, establishes the importance of trust between firms as a necessary condition for supracompetitive pricing, and illustrates how the strategic exchange of information is crucial to the creation and destruction of trust and thus to the evolution and devolution of price cartels.
Plus Ultra: Third-Party Preservation In A Cloud Computing Paradigm
This note analyzes problems of electronic document preservation in the context of cloud computing. Such document storage policies pose special problems when a litigant’s data is subject to discovery but stored on the network of a third-party vendor. Without contractual preservation obligations, these third parties are likely to escape sanctions even when crucial data is destroyed.
High-Frequency Trading And The Flash Crash: Structural Weaknesses In The Securities Markets And Proposed Regulatory Responses
This note will illuminate the relatively unknown highfrequency trading industry. First, it will examine the state of the industry, in context with the flash crash of May 6, 2010when a single trader in Kansas City sent the U.S. securities markets into a tailspin. Next, it will explain why the hodgepodge of regulations struggling to control this industry isentirely inadequate to prevent another crash. Finally, the authors suggest a better solution—relatively noninvasive controls that could be put in place to prevent future flash crashes and restore investor confidence.
