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Fintech Regulation: A Framework for Emerging Technologies
As financial technology reshapes lending, payments, and investment, regulators face a difficult question: adapt existing rules or build new ones from scratch?
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The Socratic Method at Its Best—and Worst
The Socratic method remains the dominant pedagogical form in American law schools, but it is widely misunderstood—both by its defenders and its critics.
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Welcome to the Blog
A brief introduction to this blog—what it is, who it is for, and what kinds of ideas will find a home here.
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Fintech Regulation: A Framework for Emerging Technologies
As financial technology reshapes lending, payments, and investment, regulators face a difficult question: adapt existing rules or build new ones from scratch?
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The Socratic Method at Its Best—and Worst
The Socratic method remains the dominant pedagogical form in American law schools, but it is widely misunderstood—both by its defenders and its critics.
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Equity Crowdfunding After the JOBS Act: Lessons Learned
More than a decade after the JOBS Act, equity crowdfunding has found a niche but not yet fulfilled its original promise of democratizing startup investment.
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Why Civil Society Matters to Lawyers
Lawyers spend most of their training learning about the state and the market. But much of human life takes place in a third sector that legal education largely ignores.