Full Faith and Credit to Foreign Land Decrees

Blockchain Cryptocurrency Backed with Full Faith and Credit

The major advantages of blockchain based cryptocurrencies are the independent verifiability of transactions and the anonymity that they allow. Blockchains can also process transactions at much lower cost than banks and credit card companies. On the other hand, the value of cryptocurrencies is quite volatile. In addition, the crypto-ecosystem is not easy to access for many less technologically s...

Land titles , credit markets and wealth distributions

Does the existence of formal title to land and real estate matter for the distribution of wealth? This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impact of land and real estate administration systems across countries. This paper argues that a functioning credit market for secured credit is necessary to realize the full benefits of legal title to private real estate. This paper also ...

Del Monte Dunes, Good Faith, and Land Use Regulation

The U.S. Supreme Court’s property rights jurisprudence always has had a Delphic quality. During this century, its seminal expressions have been Justice Holmes’ enigmatic “too far” language in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon and Justice Brennan’s reliance on the amorphous conception of “investment-backed expectations” in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York. The Court’s 1999 decisi...

Keeping the Faith: Corporate Governance After the Credit Crisis

Dearborn-Detroit Michigan: Ethnography of Faith and the U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy Axis

The relationship between ethnic and faith communities in the United States and domestic forces relating to a converging and diverging social contract on the one hand, and US foreign, security and military policies in national, regional and global contexts on the other hand, constitutes the key focus of this paper and the ongoing research upon which it is based. Theories related to American ethn...