Education law is a broad topic that encompasses several legal subjects. Education exists as a government function, which is administered through the public school system by the Department of Education. The states,...
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efficiency
A result that yields the largest possible net benefit. To find the most efficient decision or legal rule, a cost-benefit analysis should be done for every available option. The strength of any argument about efficiency largely boils down to the...
efficient breach
An efficient breach is a breach of contract in which the breaching party finds it cheaper to pay damages than to perform under the contract. Unlike accidental breaches of contract, efficient breaches are intentional decisions not to uphold...
efficient breach theory
Efficient breach theory is the idea that parties should feel free to breach a contract and pay damages because doing so is more economically efficient than performing under the contract.
Under efficient breach theory,...
egregious
Egregious, from the Latin egregius, meaning “illustrious” or literally “standing out from the flock” is a term used to describe a conduct that is flagrant, or outrageous in comparison to a normal standard of conduct. In general, the term...
emergency powers
Emergency powers broadly refers to the authority given to individuals in the executive to act outside the traditional bounds of their authority in order to react to a danger that normal channels for approval could not address. The most...
emerging growth company (EGC)
Emerging growth company (EGC) is a category of issuer for which the disclosure and gun-jumping regulations are relaxed.
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 created the category emerging growth companies...
empirical legal studies
Empirical legal studies, sometimes abbreviated as ELS, refers to scholarly research undertaken by law professors using empirical social science research methods, but ELS research focuses more on purely legal issues. The two leading journals...
enjoin
Enjoin is the verb form of the term injunction, which means prohibit someone from doing something by issuing an injunction, in other words, a court enjoins something when it issues an injunction against it.
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enumerated powers
Enumerated powers are the powers granted to the Federal government, and specifically Congress, which are mostly listed in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. Namely the power “to lay and collect taxes”, duties, impost and excises,...