Recently added articles from Vanderbilt Law Review:
The Dragon in the Room: China's Anti-Monopoly Law and International Merger Review
Oct 01, 2009; ... Whether a cat is black or white makes no difference. As long as it catches mice, it is a good cat. - Deng Xiaoping He who treads softly goes far. * Chinese proverb I. INTRODUCTION In a world where mergers affect every corner of the planet, any government ...
The Hidden Second Amendment Framework within District of Columbia v. Heller
Oct 01, 2009; ... COMMENT A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. U.S. CONST, amend. II I. INTRODUCTION The Second Amendment has always been shrouded in constitutional mystery ....
Star Creation: The Incubation of Mutual Funds
Oct 01, 2009; ... Mutual fund incubation is a process by which new funds are initially operated out of public view. The high-performing funds are then marketed to investors, and the low-performing funds are quietly terminated. This selection process is not revealed to investors, thus creating the illusion that ...
On the Limits of Supremacy: Medical Marijuana and the States' Overlooked Power to Legalize Federal Crime
Oct 01, 2009; ... Using the conflict over medical marijuana as a timely case study, this Article explores the overlooked and underappreciated power of states to legalize conduct Congress bans. Though Congress has banned marijuana outright, and though that ban has survived constitutional scrutiny, state laws ...
The Hidden Dimension of Nineteenth-Century Immigration Law
Oct 01, 2009; ... This Article challenges the conventional wisdom that the law had little to say about immigration before 1875. Instead, it offers a reframing of immigration law history as including what scholars have previously thought of as "settlement history": the immigration of whites to the western ...