Transnational Law Blog
"A study of law regulating actions or events transcending national frontiers."
Author: Travis Hodgkins is a 2008 law school graduate and this blog's founding managing editor. John Dermody is conducting rule-of-law research as a Fulbright Fellow in Sierra Leone; Derek Deavenport is a graduate research fellow at University of California's Hastings College of the Law; Christine Ngo is a 2L at Hastings.
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Recent Posts from Transnational Law Blog
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Sri Lanka and Trade Policy: Concession or Sanction?
The European Union last week produced an official notice derived from its year-long investigation on human right violation in Sri Lanka. Here are the Commission's final report, and the independent expert's report. Given the Commission's…
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New Wave of Insider Trading Charges as Judge Approved Wiretaps for White Collar Crime Investigation
It’s all over the news, and I should not be caught by surprise. Yet here I am becoming very disturbed by the loopholes in our financial institutions, which gave rise to an unprecedented amount of…
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America's Third Nobel Peace Prize In A Decade
At 4am, the news that president Obama received the Nobel peace prize came to me just as unexpected at it was for all of us. However, as the dust settled, and president Obama finally responded…
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A Proposed Solution for California Budget Crisis
People pointed to California's divided government and the supermajority law, which requires the legislature to adopt a budget with a two-third vote as reasons that cause the ongoing budget crisis in the Golden State over…
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The Case Of Ben Bernanke
Last week, most news applauded Obama’s reappointment of Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Of the few commentators who opposed the reappointment, Morgan Stanley Asia's Stephen Roach lists three critical mistakes that…
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Sheehan is out of Retirement
I've talked about Cindy Sheehan before and was under the impression she had given up her war protest. I'm glad to read that Sheehan has once again taken up her charge and is dogging Obama…
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Posner v. Macroeconomists
This week brings a heated debate between Judge Posner and some prominent economists including Brad DeLong of UC Berkeley. The debate comes at the heart of my recent discussion with a lawyer who is also…
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The Transnational Law School
Much to my surprise and fascination, Peking University ("Bei Da") opened a School of Transnational Law in the Fall of 2008 that has a curriculum nearly identical to that of a U.S. juris doctor (JD)…
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Trapped in the Middle-Income Class, Malaysia Is Finding Its Way Out
Once considered one of the Asian dragons, foreign investors have largely forgot Malaysia in the decade following the 1998 Asian financial crisis. However, there have been some important recent reforms in business law in Malaysia…
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Do You Really Own That E-Book?
"Control At A Distance" is a very interesting article over at Balkinization about Amazon.com using the internet to delete copies of George Orwell's books 1984 and Animal Farm from various people's Kindles after learning that…