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Duke Law @DukeLaw Sep 17, 2024

NEW: Profs. Emily Ryo (Duke Law) & @cmlevesque (@KenyonCollege) explore practice of ‘Immigration Detention as Racialised Wealth Extraction’ in “Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration.” (@MichPeterie, 2024) 👉 duke.is/r/rwhc

Immigration Detention as Racialised Wealth Extraction
in Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration 155-174 (Michelle Peterie ed., 2024) (with Christopher Levesque)

This chapter draws on research on the political economy of punishment and original data on US immigrant detainees to explore how the US immigration detention system may function as a predatory social process that extracts wealth from vulnerable immigrant communities of colour least able to afford such losses. Our conceptualisation of US immigration detention as racialised wealth extraction has three key implications for our understanding of immigration detention. First, the word “racialised” draws attention to the ways that the costs of immigration detention are borne disproportionately by communities of colour. Second, the word “wealth” highlights how the harms of immigration detention are multiplicative – rather than additive – in nature and compound over time.

Duke Law @DukeLaw Sep 11, 2024

NEW: Duke Law’s Shitong Qiao (@QST85) & Peking U’s Yu Zeng offer a unique mixed-methods look at the formation of neighborhood communities in China’s megacities in “Communities Built on Political Trust: Theory and Evidence from China” (@USJ_online, 2024) 👉 duke.is/6/ddjn

Communities built on political trust: Theory and evidence from China
This study offers a unique mixed-methods investigation on the formation of neighbourhood communities in China’s megacities. We find that the local government helps homeowners overcome prevalent collective action problems and govern themselves more effectively. Neighbourhoods that have established homeowners’ associations (HOAs) enjoy better governing outcomes than those without HOAs, as evidenced by homeowners wielding greater control over neighbourhood affairs, showing heightened respect for democratic principles, and maintaining a stronger sense of community identity. Owing to these positive outcomes, and as compared to their counterparts in neighbourhoods without HOAs, homeowner activists in neighbourhoods with HOAs develop a deeper trust in their local government.

Duke Law @DukeLaw Sep 9, 2024

NEW: “The Rise of Private Equity Continuation Funds” by Profs. Yaron Nili (@ynili, Duke Law) & @KobiKastiel (@Harvard_Law) is the first comprehensive study of this emerging practice and major segment of investment activity in the U.S. (@PennLRev, 2024) 👉 duke.is/r/j6rn

ARTICLE THERISEOFPRIVATEEQUITYCONTINUATIONFUNDS KOBI KASTIEL† & YARONNILI†† This Article provides the first comprehensive examination of an emerging practice within the private equity sector: continuation funds. Continuation funds break from the traditional private equity model by allowing sponsors to hold on to assets beyond the typical fund term and, instead of selling the assets to third parties, sell them to their own newly established fund. Lauded by the private equity industry as providing “optionality” to investors by allowing them to cash out or roll over, continuation funds have grown to represent a major segment of investment activity in the United States. Despite their surging popularity among private equity sponsors, they are subject to

Duke Law @DukeLaw Sep 3, 2024

Prof. Elisabeth de Fontenay’s new paper argues that the $1.5 trillion private credit market is having negative effects on the economy 🔗 bloom.bg/3TeOe6d

Duke Law @DukeLaw Sep 3, 2024

Prof. Steven Schwarcz’s new paper offers systematic framework for regulating fintech-driven innovations 🔗 bit.ly/4e3n1eI