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• Pressure Rising: Health Care Businesses Face Tougher Fraud Enforcement Amid Increased Criminal Presence in the Industry
• Red Flags in the Morning, Directors Take Warning...
• Greetings from the Editor
• Guiding Foreign Governments Through the Complex Intersection of Business, Law, and Foreign Policy: The Rising Importance of Washington Counsel
• Keynote Remarks for Symposium on The Changing Business Landscape Sponsored by the Business Law Brief American University Washington College of Law, March 15, 2010
• Understanding the Federal Preemption Debate and a Potential Uniformity Solution
• United States v. Skilling, 554 F.3d 529 (5th Cir. 2009)
• Essay: Do Lawyers and Law Professors Have Any Comparative Advantages In Opining on Financial Regulation Reform?
• Tax Penalties on Executive Compensation: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?
• Where the Rubber Meets the Road: What Chinese Tires Mean for Obama's Trade Policy

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• Guiding Foreign Governments Through the Complex Intersection of Business, Law, and Foreign Policy: The Rising Importance of Washington Counsel
• Understanding the Federal Preemption Debate and a Potential Uniformity Solution
• Pressure Rising: Health Care Businesses Face Tougher Fraud Enforcement Amid Increased Criminal Presence in the Industry
• Microfinance in Emerging Markets: The Effects of the Current Economic Crisis and the Role of Securitization

  I. Introduction. II. What is Microfinance? III. The Barriers Inhibiting Microfinance. IV. Does Microfinance Work? V. Will Microfinance Endure the Economic Crisis? VI. What is Securitization? VII. Securitization and Microfinance. VIII. Securitization’s Role in the Current Recession. IX. Conclusion....

• Brazil's WTO Challenge to U.S. Cotton Subsidies: The Road to Effective Disciplines of Agricultural Subsidies

  Background and relevancy - Lessons learned for future litigation of serious prejudice claims -...

• Essay: Do Lawyers and Law Professors Have Any Comparative Advantages In Opining on Financial Regulation Reform?
• The Judiciary Strikes Back: OFAC's Blocking of Assets in Light of KindHearts v. Geithner

  I. What is OFAC? - II. Kindhearts humanitarian Charitable Org. v. Geithner - III. Miscellaneous issues - IV. What does it all mean? -...

• Tax Penalties on Executive Compensation: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?
• Oil Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics Why We Are Confused About Oil "Facts"

  Lost in Translation Sources, Bias & Fudge Factors Barrels, Gallons, Liters, Tons & Tonnes Confusion Why Be Concerned About Minor Differences? Aberrations &...

• Clean Tech Opportunities in Green Building Legislation

  Introduction. I. Why Buildings Matter. Building Impacts. Building Turnover and New Construction. Gains from Building Efficiency. Spillover Effects of Land Use Policy. II. A Review of Recent Green Building Legislation. A. LEED-Based Zoning Ordinances. Boston. Chicago. Dallas. Los Angeles. San Diego. ...