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This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
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This seminar will explore legal issues relating to the regulation of psychoactive drugs. We will review the standard arguments for and against legalization, decriminalization, and other regulatory models. We will consider the challenges of assessing drug dangerousness and scheduling drugs. We will discuss emerging controversies involving the international drug control system, the commercialization of the domestic cannabis industry, and psychedelic patents. And we will study in particular depth whether and how constitutional values such as liberty and equality might help guide U.S. drug policy.
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A central issue of our time is the strength of democracy in an era of mounting threats of authoritarianism, rising inequality, and deep insecurity and precarity for working people. This seminar will probe the relationship between labor, inequality, and an inclusive, multiracial democracy from a variety of perspectives in law, political science, sociology, history, and economics. Our discussions will address questions as varied as: Can political democracy thrive when people spend the bulk of their time in workplaces that are autocratic? What is the connection between workplace democracy and political democracy? How have global trade, outsourcing, contracting, on-call and contingent employment arrangements, monopolistic business practices, and technology shaped labor markets while contributing to rising inequality and an erosion of democracy? How does racial and gender stratification in labor markets interact with ethnonationalism and growing threats of authoritarianism—and what role does labor organizing play in countering ethnonationalism and authoritarianism? How can labor law be reformed to achieve greater workplace, economic, and political democracy and what are new hooks and opportunities for labor organizing? During several sessions we will be joined by policy makers and labor organizers or by academics who will present works-in-progress for discussion.
This seminar is a “deep dive” into market manipulation, with an emphasis on the securities markets and extensions to commodities and futures as well. We begin with the history of prohibitions on market manipulation and literature on the conditions under which manipulation is expected to be profitable. We then critically appraise enforcement actions and criminal prosecutions for specific types of manipulation: wash trading / matched orders, spoofing and layering, “open-market” strategies like banging the close and cross-market manipulation, as well as “pump and dump” and “short and distort” cases. We consider jurisprudence on private damages claims under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodities Exchange Act and issues like standing, class certification and damages. We also consider manipulation claims under the antitrust laws. Finally, we conclude by considering to what extent traditional academic critiques of securities class actions apply to market manipulation cases.
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