Vol. 40 No. 1, January 2017

Index

• Dear reader.
• Implications of offset agreements.
• Cross-border domestic violence: the global pandemic and the call for uniform enforcement of civil protection orders.
• Hate or civic pride? The speech of symbols in the United States, Germany and Japan.
• Heads or tails: how Europe will become the global hub for Bitcoin business if the United States does not reexamine its current regulation of virtual currency.
• Police oversight: civilian oversight boards and lessons learned from our neighbors to the north.
• Trademark law - extraterritorial application of the Lanham Act saves an American brand from a Canadian retail pirate.
• Constitutional law - foreign commerce clause sucks the life from Dracula through giving restitution to foreign sex trafficking victims.
• Statutory interpretation - plain language reading of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act precludes terrorist victims from retribution.