For centuries, defaulting governments were immune from legal action by foreign creditors. This paper shows that this is no longer the case. Building a dataset covering four decades, we find creditor lawsuits have become an increasingly common feature of sovereign debt markets. The developments strengthened hands creditors and raised cost default for debtors. We show disputes in US UK disrupt go...

This commentary offers an analysis of the implications US Women’ National team Collective Action lawsuit against Soccer Federation. The players filed based on two grounds: first, that Federation violated Equal Pay Act by paying them less than men’s national and second, federation discriminated under Title VII Civil Rights 1964, specifically in regard to workplace conditions. In this article, we...

Among Richard Epstein’s influential contributions to legal scholarship over the years is his writing on common-law intellectual property. In it, we see attempt meld innate logic of common law’s conceptual structure with realities modern information economy. Common-law property refers different judge-made causes action that create forms exclusive rights and privileges in intangibles, interferenc...