For lawyers, virtual currency projects have challenged
traditional legal categories and definitions of what constitutes a security or a commodity.
Not content merely to question the legitimacy of particular rulings, theorists like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Robert Lee Hale pointed to the example of the lottery and liquor decisions to argue that
traditional legal categories like «commerce,» «due process,» «police power,» or «public» were essentially meaningless.
Not exact matches
The territories are devided into four
categories of
legal recognition: «
Traditional occupation without
legal recognition», «Proposed territorial reserve», «Territorial reserve or intangible zone» and «Recognized indigenous land».
Look, globalization information technology and what I often call the kind of blurring together of
traditional categories like law versus business, or global versus local, or public versus private, these three things are reshaping everything about our world and as lawyers of course we should think they're going to reframe us about what it means to be a lawyer, the market for
legal services, how we connect with our clients, the kinds of things that we do and how we do them.
Young Conaway of Wilmington, DE, and Jaffe PR have won the Promotional / Collateral Materials Announcement
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Alan Krueger, a former economist with the Obama administration, recently released a paper, where he argues for the creation of a new
legal category in employment law called independent workers, who are less independent than contractors, but more independent than
traditional employees,
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