Category Archives: Public policy
Meera Sossamon, ‘Private Policy: The Role of Private Remedies in Protecting Public Interest in Civil Law Jurisdictions’
ABSTRACT For civil law jurisdictions – those that base their tradition on Roman law – the distinction between private law and public law is a foundational principle. Meanwhile, those legal systems based on the Anglo-American common law tradition are not so anathema to the mixing of public and private remedies – see, eg, the proliferation […]
Eric Boot, ‘The Public Interest: Clarifying a Legal Concept’
ABSTRACT Appeals to the public interest in law are commonplace, but typically made without clarifying what the public interest is and how it can be determined. In law, this has led to ad hoc applications of the public interest and, consequently, to ‘judicial idiosyncrasy’, posing a threat to legal certainty. This paper aims to remedy […]
‘What Does Sex Have To Do With Contract?’
Albertina Antognini and Susan Frelich Appleton, ‘Sexual Agreements’, 99 Washington Law Review 1807 (2022). This thought-provoking article analyzes the interaction between contract and sex. Seemingly they belong to two utterly different and separate worlds, with no connection between the two. As the authors show, the conventional wisdom is that a contract for sex is unenforceable, […]
‘The FTC Abolishes Non-Complete Clauses’
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission enacted one of the most significant regulations of the Biden years: a comprehensive ban on non-compete clauses. The final rule prohibits new non-compete clauses for all workers, regardless of line of work or income, and makes existing non-competes null and void for everyone except senior executives. A neurologist making […]
Athul Mohan, ‘Public policy and restraints on transfer’
ABSTRACT Property is one of the most important factors that influences an individual’s social status and mobility. It’s ownership and free transfer has significant impact on an individual’s life. Law generally supports free transfer and is against the restrictions on free transfer of property. Section 10 of the TPA has tried to avoid these types […]
Philip Sales, ‘Exploring the interface between the common law of tort and statute law’
Twenty years ago, Professor Jack Beatson attacked what he termed the ‘oil and water’ approach to the relationship between common law and statute, which sees them as separate sources of law which do not intermingle. But as he said: ‘Why should statutory manifestations of principle … not be part of the armoury of the common […]
Kenneth Dau-Schmidt and Jozie Barton, ‘Non-Compete Covenants’
ABSTRACT In this chapter, we outline the current problems posed by employee non-competes and possible solutions. We first discuss the theory and empirical evidence on employer labour market power and the way in which non-competes aggravate this problem. We then present a brief outline of the current law on employee non-competes in the United States, […]
Christopher Sullivan and Justin Ritter, ‘Banning Noncompetes in Virginia’
ABSTRACT The past decade has seen a nationwide wave of reform in noncompete law, specifically the limitation of noncompete agreements. Since 2016, ten states – including Virginia in 2020 – banned the use of noncompete agreements against certain ‘low wage’ employees. In order to stay ahead of this curve and ensure Virginia remains and grows […]
María Guadalupe Martínez Alles, ‘Punitive Damages in Argentina and Mexico: Rethinking the Scope of the Public Policy Exception’
ABSTRACT The current status of punitive damages in Latin America, particularly in Argentina and Mexico, is tending towards acceptance and incorporation, yet remains highly fluid and dynamic. Because of the unresolved uncertainties regarding implementation and tensions inherent between the punitive institution and other established elements of those countries’ legal systems, it could follow any of […]
Marcus Ho, ‘The Question of Autonomy, Liability Attribution and Black Boxes Decision Making’
ABSTRACT This paper canvasses the legal consequences of AI Development, and dives deep into the domain of Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Contract to reveal a myriad of unresolved legal questions in the Law of Tort (Civil Wrongs) and the Law of Contract. In the first part, this paper examines interlocking regimes in Tort governing liability […]