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Comment on Professor Schwarcz’s Article “Controlling Financial Chaos”

Emilios Avgouleas This piece is Professor Emilios Avgouleas's response to Professor Steven L. Schwarcz's article, Controlling Financial Chaos: The Power and Limits of Law. Professor Schwarcz's article is available here. With the devastating impact of the Global Financial Crisis still reverberating around the globe, the Eurozone sinking ever deeper into a sovereign debt and banking crisis, and the developed countries struggling to climb out of the recession trap they have fallen into since 2008, original thinking, like that offered by Professor Steven Schwarcz in his Wisconsin Law Review article[note]Steven L. Schwarcz, Controlling Financial Chaos: The Power and Limits of Law, 2012 Wis. L. Rev. 815.[/note] is very welcome and timely. The academic and policy-making communities share an unusually widespread consensus regarding the causes of the Global Financial Crisis. However, views on the right policies that will restore stability to the global financial system tend to differ sharply. Professor Avgouleas holds the chair in international banking law and finance at the University of Edinburgh.

Volume 2012, Issues 4 and 5 Now Available

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Volume 2012, No. 1

  Article First Amendment Architecture By Marvin Ammori The right to free speech is meaningless without some place to exercise it. But constitutional scholarship generally overlooks the role that judicial doctrine plays in ensuring the availability of spaces for speech. Indeed, scholarship generally characterizes doctrines that are concerned with speech spaces, such as public forums …

Volume 2012, No. 2

Symposium: The Changing Role and Nature of In-House Counsel In Memory of Larry E. Ribstein The Wisconsin Law Review dedicates this Symposium issue to Larry E. Ribstein. Before he passed away in December 2011, he was the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair, Associate Dean for Research, and Co-Director of the Illinois Business Law and Policy …

Volume 2012, No. 3

  Article Thinking Outside the (Tax) Treaty By Adam H. Rosenzweig While the legal literature contains numerous discussions on how to increase cooperation and resolve disputes in trade, investment, environment, intellectual property, and other areas, there has been remarkably little written on how to utilize these mechanisms to increase multinational cooperation for tax purposes. Rather, …

Volume 2012, No. 4

Address Bridging the Divide between Congress and the Courts By Barbara B. Crabb Most people give little thought to the relationship between Congress and the federal courts. It is the divide between Congress and the White House that provides headlines and engages pundits—and for good reason. The intransigent, in-your-face, high-stakes standoff between the two branches …

Volume 2012, No. 5

  Articles An Invisible Union for an Invisible Labor Market: College Football and the Union Substitution Effect By Michael H. LeRoy Should college football players have collective bargaining rights? The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) contractual relationship with student-athletes provides scholarships while limiting the athletes’ earnings. This model is premised on the belief that players …

2012 Senior Editorial Board Election Results

The Wisconsin Law Review would like to congratulate and welcome the 2012-2013 Senior Editorial Board. 2012-2013 Senior Editorial Board: Editor in Chief: Brian J. Bohl

Volume 2012, No. 6

Article Selective Disclosure by Federal Officials and the Case for an FGD (Fairer Government Disclosure) Regime By Donna M. Nagy & Richard W. Painter This Article addresses a problem at the intersection of securities regulation and government ethics: the selective disclosure of market-moving information, by federal officials in the executive and legislative branches, to securities …