Author Archives: jberman1

Barter, Bearer, and Bitcoin: The Likely Future of Stateless Virtual Money

Cara R. Baros, Barter, Bearer, and Bitcoin: The Likely Future of Stateless Virtual Money, 23 U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. 202 (2014). Over the past few years, virtual money has emerged via the Internet. Although currently unregulated, Internal Revenue System Notice 2014-21 will most likely cause virtual money to lose its mass appeal in the […]

Export Control Proliferation: The Effects of United States Governmental Export Control Regulations on Small Businesses–Requisite Market Share Loss; A Remodeling Approach

Jared A. Borocz-Cohen, Export Control Proliferation: The Effects of United States Governmental Export Control Regulations on Small Businesses—Requisite Market Share Loss; A Remodeling Approach, 23 U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. 226 (2014). Made in the USA. This phrase, stamped on the bottom of many domestic items, is becoming increasingly difficult to find abroad. The United […]

Molly and the Crack House Statute: Vulnerabilities of a Recuperating Music Industry

Jacob A. Epstein, Molly and the Crack House Statute: Vulnerabilities of a Recuperating Music Industry, 23 U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. 95 (2014). The normalcy of “club drug” use in today’s live music culture makes concert promoters and venue managers particularly vulnerable to prosecution under the “crack-house statute,” 21 U.S.C. § 856. Section 856(a)(2) makes it […]

The Price of Education: The Relative Dischargeability of Debts under Bankruptcy Law

KELSEY PAINE–“So you used the department store as an ATM machine?” the bankruptcy trustee asked looking up from his papers at the debtor sitting across the table for the first time. She looked confused, “No, I just returned things that I had bought using the store credit card and they gave me cash for it.” […]