HOW COURTS HELP YOU HELP YOURSELF

This note is the result of an in-depth analysis of existing state judiciary websites and how they have and will continue to affect self-represented divorce litigants in the United States. It surveys all existing state court websites and examines what resources they provide to pro se litigantsd. It also touches on private divorce-related websites and offers some comments about their utility to pro se litigants as an alternative and a supplement to court-based websites. This note calls for courts to adopt programs and policies that facilitate the process of getting a divorce for those who choose to represent themselves, and make those programs and policies available to the pro se litigant via the Internet.     

WHEN CAN REGULATION DEFER TO COMPETITION FOR CONSTRAINING MARKET POWER?: COMPLEMENTS AND CRITICAL ELASTICITIES

When can regulation defer to competition for imposing pricediscipline? We show that high price–cost margins, reflectingscale/scope economies, in combination with demand complementaritiesserve to constrain the market power of the (de)regulated firm.Because price increases that produce even small reductions indemand can generate significant losses in contribution to joint/commoncosts, relatively modest amounts of competition may be sufficientfor deregulation. To assist policymakers in their deliberations,a comparison of firm-specific price elasticities and criticalprice elasticities can be used to determine whether the (de)regulatedfirm would have incentives to raise prices post-deregulation.     

YOU HAZE, I SUE: A FRATERNITY STEW

A male student who was bound with duct tape and barricaded in a room was rescued from a fire early Saturday morning at the Sigma Nu fraternity house at Washington State University. No one was injured in the fire, which left the residence uninhabitable…. The student was found by firefighters who were checking that everyone had left the building, and was not in a wing of the house where the blaze began. [A university spokesperson]… said that hazing was 'strictly against the rules' and that the student appeared to be the victim of 'someone playing a prank.'     

IT'S 10 p.m., DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?

Over the past several decades, parent-child abduction has turned from a national into an international problem. To try and minimize this problem, The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was adopted on October 1980. The goal of the Convention is to ensure that abducted children are promptly returned to their homes. While the goal has been met, the overwhelming use of the Convention's exceptions must be limited so that the purpose of the Convention is not damaged.