From the late 1970s to the end of the 1990s, electricity producers modified and operated coal-fired power plants in violation of the Environment Protection Agency’s (EPA) permitting requirements, creating widespread air quality degradation. The EPA’s policy of lax oversight ended in 1999...

Part I of this article is the first empirical examination of the Chinese social media universe. We develop a typology of twenty-five of China's most popular social media sites and compare terms of use from these social media with their U.S. counterparts. Part II compares the contracting...

Our systematic examination of 329 of the world's largest social media providers reveals that 29 percent of these providers require users to submit to predispute mandatory arbitration as a condition of using their services. Forced consumer arbitration clauses are principally a U.S. phenomenon....

This Article is a new audit of parens patriae public health lawsuits in which government attorneys address grave public health problems not resolved by either private tort litigation or administrative regulations. Our argument is that public health lawsuits are justified when the states have a...

The future of e-commerce for Armenia depends in large part upon increasing the number of personal computers as well as businesses opening opportunities on the Internet. Armenia's Minister of Economics hopes to achieve the goal of connecting seventy percent of all Armenian households to the...

Decades from now, we will remember 2010 for the BP oil spill and the year 2011 because of a slow recovery from the steepest economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Nevertheless, it is reasonably certain that intellectual property (IP) lawyers will still remember some of the...

This Article presents the results of the first empirical study of the role that punitive damages have played in redressing consumer injuries during the first decade of Internet-related litigation. This article examines the case characteristics of Internet lawsuits where plaintiffs initiated...