Syracuse University College of Law
Government employee health and retirement benefits have come under a likely unprecedented critique, some may say attack, during the difficult economic times, particularly for state and local governments, during the beginning of the second...
“If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, ‘[w]hy did this have to happen?’”[1] Indeed, many people across the country asked this very question after the events that took place on February 18,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, arguably, one of the great cultural institutions of our time. Visitors come from all over the world to indulge in its timeless collection spanning five thousand years of...
Take a trip back: the year is 1991, and First Hawaiian, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii (“Applicant”) has applied for Federal Reserve Board (“Fed”) approval to acquire First Interstate of Hawaii, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, (“FIH”) which...
Once the sole province of chief executive officers and hedge fund managers, swap agreements (or “swaps”), most notably credit default swaps,[1] came to the forefront of politicians’ and regulators’ minds with the near-collapse of...
A recent breakthrough in contract theory identified the practice of braiding, in which parties weave informal and formal elements of contract together to overcome uncertainty. These contracts are especially prevalent in the context of...
