US Quarterly Fee Differential Ruled Unconstitutional
: On May 25, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reaffirmed the U.S. Constitution’s requirement of uniformity in bankruptcy legislation and rulemaking.
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Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and the Law
Temple Law’s Professor Tom Lin discusses risks in financial artificial intelligence and recommendations for the future.
Blowing the Whistle (Part 2): A Primer on the SEC’s Whistleblower Program
Second in a series of four primers on the key legal regimes incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers who report fraud: the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower programs.
China Passes Landmark New Foreign Investment Law
Professor Tarrant Mahony discusses the recent passage of the “Foreign Investment Law of the People’s Republic of China” (the “FIL”). The FIL consolidates many recent changes to China’s foreign investment regime, allows for the establishment of foreign investment projects without prior government approval, and addresses issues of intellectual property rights protection and forced technology transfer.
Dana Trier: 2019 Fogel Lecture
In the 2019 Fogel Lecture, Dana Trier, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, urged the audience to give the “grand experiment” of §199A of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (which provides a deduction for qualified business income from pass-through entities) a chance, despite potentially troubling ambiguities.
Highlights from California’s New Privacy Law
Karilynn Bayus (LAW ’06), Partner @SaulEwing, discusses the California Consumer Privacy Act, and how it will affect businesses in the US. #Temple10-Q #Cybersecurity #Consumerprotection