Research Directory

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• Hornbooks:
  • Bogart. Trusts
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  • Story. Bailments
  • Story. Equity
• Becraft on Treaties
• Moses on Bailments
• Legal Groups
  • ABA America Bar Association
  • ABA American Bankers Association
  • ALI American Law Institute
  • Uniform Law Commission
  • Honourable Society of Inner Temple
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  • Cato Institute
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  • NAAG National Association of Attorneys General
  • GFOA
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  • FINRA
  • CFTC
  • SEC
  • OCC
  • FRS/FRBG/FRBs
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  • DTCC/DTC/Cede & Co.
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  • SIPC
  • UN
  • IMF/World Bank
  • ANSI
  • ISO
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  • WWF
  • G7
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• Police Groups:
  • State Sheriffs Associations
  • Fraternal Order of Police
• Federal Judiciary History
  • Judiciary Act
  • Judicial Code
  • Title 28
  • Federal Crimes Acts
  • Federal Criminal Code Title 18
• Major Acts in Finance:
  • UCC
  • FDIC Act
  • FRA
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  • IRC
  • CFTC
  • SA
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• Major Acts/Treaties/Cases in Technology
  • Radio Convention
  • Radio Act
  • Communications Act (FCC)
  • NBC Antitrust
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  • AT&T Antitrust
  • Edison Movie Trust
• Family Law
  • VAWA
  • Juvenile Codes
  • Juvenile Due Process Cases
  • Federal Grants Influencing:
• Parks
  • The Big Bad Bank. George W. Hunt.
  • WWF World Wildlife Fund
  • IUCN
  • Global Debt Facilities
  • CAFRs
• New Deal Era:
  • Hoover Dam
  • S.E.C.
  • Stock in FDIC
  • Court Packing
  • Erie
  • FRCP Law Equity Merger
• English Courts History
  • Judicature Acts
  • Common Law Procedure Act
  • Statute of Uses
  • Statute of Mortmain
  • Statute of Enrollment
  • Statute de Bonis
  • Debt
  • Assumpsit
  • Ejectment
  • Detinue
  • Trover
  • Replevin
• Short Selling
  • The Uptick Rule of 1938-2007.
  • Regulation SHO
  • National Coalition Against Naked Shorting NCANS
  • Patrick Byrne’s Deep Capture and the Story of Deep Capture
  • Bob O’Brien articles, a.k.a. “Easter Bunny”.
  • Cato Institute. Regulation. John Welborn. The Phantom Shares Menace. Spring (2008). Vol. 31 No. 1.
  • The Pollack Study. Short-Sale Regulation of NASDAQ Securities. (1986).
  • Uniform Commercial Code Article 8 Investment Securities.
    • Policy Perspectives on Revised U.C.C. Article 8. James S. Rogers. CLA Law Review (1996).
    • Father Knows Best: Revised Article 8 and the Individual Investor. Francis J. Facciolo. (2000).
    • UCC Article 8: Will the Indirect Holding of Securities Survive the Light of Day. Russell A. Hakes. 35 Loyola L.A. L. Rev. 661 (2002).
  • Law of Bailments.
  • Joanna Benjamin. Interests in Securities. A Proprietary Law Analysis of the International Securities Markets. (2001).
  • Duel v. Hollins. Duel v. Hollins and Wiener Levy & Co. v. Hollins. 241 US 523 – Supreme Court of the United States. (1916).
  • Gorman v. Littlefield, 229 US 19. SCOTUS. (1913).
  • The Chandler Act bankruptcy amendments of 1938.
  • SIPC. Securities Investor Protection Corporation. The SIPC Act as amended. 15 USC Ch. 2B-1. Pub. L. 91–598, Dec. 30, (1970), 84 Stat. 1636.
  • The U.S. Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended. US Code Title 11.
  • Bucket Shop entry in Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • The South Sea Company fiasco.
  • Stock Jobbing Act of 1733.
  • Gaming Acts.
  • The Dutch East India Company regulations.
  • USSEC approved National Market System Plan.
  • USSEC SRO page for Depository Trust Company Rules.
  • Articles of Partnership for Cede and Company.
• History of the Federal Reserve Act. 12 US Code Ch-3.
  • Federal Reserve Act of 1913 : with amendments and laws relating to banking / compiled by Gerard P. Walsh, Jr.
  • William Greider. Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country.
  • G.E. Griffin. The Creature from Jekyll Island.
  • Murray Rothbard. The Case Against the Fed.
  • Eustace Mullins. Secrets of the Federal Reserve.
  • Norman Dodd. Researcher for Reece Committee. Interview on Carnegie Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, and other Nonprofits.
  • Louis McFadden speech in Congressional Record.
  • Lindbergh, Charles. Banking, Currency, and the Money Trust.
  • Edwin Vieira. Pieces of Eight.
  • Universal Postal Union (1874). Treaty of Berne.
  • Metre Convention (1875).
  • International Meridian Conference (1884)
  • Herbert Joyce. History of the Post Office. from Its Establishment Down to 1836. (1893).
  • Pujo Committee.
  • Bank of the United States.
  • Rothbard, Murray. The Panic of 1819.
  • Second Bank of the United States.
  • National Banking Act
  • Legal Tender Cases
    • Hepburn v. Griswold.
    • Knox v. Lee.
    • Parker v. Davis.
    • See also Scott Credit River incident.
    • See also Justice Joseph Story’s Hunter v. Martin’s Lessee case for precedent of federal power over land within States.
  • McCulloch v. Maryland.
  • Postal Savings program.
  • Aldrich-Vreeland Act.
  • Federal Reserve Act (1913).
  • Securities Act of 1933
  • International Labour Organization ratification.
  • Social Security Act.
  • Helvering v. Davis.
  • Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
  • Glass-Steagall Act
  • Chandler Bankruptcy Act (1938)
  • FDIC Act.
  • Trust Powers for National Banks.
  • Bretton Woods.
  • Community Reinvestment Act.
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act
  • FDIC Plaque Full Faith and Credit claim ~(2006)
• Abolitionism and Reconstruction
  • Noah’s Covenant. Gen 9.
  • Calvin’s Case. Edward Coke decision. Scottish right to own land in England via personal union of Crowns.
  • Virginia Company Charters
  • Earl of Oxford’s Case. King James allows Chancery Court of Equity to overrule Courts of Law.
  • Articles / Treaty between Britain and Virginia recognizing trading rights.
  • Trial of King Charles. English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell Revolution.
  • Royal African Company Chartered (1660) by King Charles II. Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa. Transports more than 200 thousand people in bondage before 1752.
  • Bank of England Charter (1694).
  • Declaratory Act against Ireland
  • Declaratory Act against American Colonies
  • Stamp Act
  • Currency Act of 1764
  • Navigation Acts
  • Declaration of Independence enters all State constitutions.
  • Concerning the Reception of Common Law in each State.
  • Articles of Confederation
  • All State Constitutions. Thorpe.
  • Constitution for the United States of America of 1788.
  • Federal Bill of Rights enacted 1791, declaratory of existing state common law.
  • Slave Trade Act of 1807. (UK) An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
  • Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. (UK)
  • Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. (1807) 2 Stat 426. Approved by President Thomas Jefferson.
  • Barron v. Baltimore. Federal courts refuse to enforce Bill of Rights against States, and interpret such that States courts would not be bound either.
  • Somersett’s Case. Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499. King’s Bench.
  • Booth v. Abelman.
  • The Amistad.
  • Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862. Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.
  • Thirteenth Amendment. Rule concerning the illegality of involuntary servitude. Suspicious Congress Shall Enforce clause.
  • Ironclad Oaths. US Attorney General’s Opinion.