This paper aims to outline the layman's understanding of technology within the financial services industry and its uses for compliance and monitoring with federal and state regulation, as an example of achieving financial stability through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protect...

This paper analyses J.S. Mill's theory on the relationships between individual autonomy and State powers. It will be argued that there is a significant discrepancy between Mill's general liberal statements aimed to secure individual largest possible autonomy and the specific examples which...

In contrast to financial arbitrage, which causes prices of economically equivalent transactions to converge in the direction of one price, regulatory arbitrage does not lead to such price convergence. In contrast, regulatory arbitrage tends to produce two different prices for economically...

In 2011 the Department of Treasury issued regulations that, for the first time, empowered the IRS to regulate the practice of preparing tax returns. Naturally, many tax return preparers were not happy about being regulated by the Feds. In 2013 a federal district judge nuked the regulations,...

This paper presents a multi-stakeholder approach for developing an appropriate privacy regulation in the age of big data. We develop our argument in five steps, starting (1) with a review of the current academic debate on privacy regulation. We analyze a dysfunctional mutual excludability...

In an ongoing dispute, FDA asserts that autologous cultured stem cells used in treatments for orthopedic conditions are drugs and biological products subject to licensing and good manufacturing practice requirements, while the company providing the treatments claims FDA has no authority over its...

Richard's whole academic career has been devoted to the concepts of 'information' and 'informatics' in relation to the law. In my contribution I will concentrate on the first. My question will be: what is the information society and can we still regulate it by law? The size of this article...

This chapter was presented at a conference in Dublin on the (then) new Rome I Regulation of the European Union in the fall of 2009. It contrasts the Rome I rules on party autonomy with those in the United States. In particular, it considers the rules in the Rome I Regulation that ostensibly...

This comprehensive paper looks at various developments in the regulation of new media in Europe, such as copyright and intellectual property, liability of Internet intermediaries, net neutrality in Europe, Google and the Commission competition investigation, Public Service Broadcasters' online...