W.C. Bunting

Stetson University College of Law

Assistant Professor

1401 61st Street South

Gulfport, FL 33707

United States

http://www.stetson.edu/law/faculty/home/will-bunting.php

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (26)

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At America's Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly

At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly, American Civil Liberties Union, June 2012 , NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-38, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-19
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 30 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2018
New York University School of LawNew York University (NYU) - Brennan Center for Justice, Stetson University College of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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mass incarceration, elderly prisoners, aging prisoners, sentencing reform, parole reform, criminal justice, fiscal analysis, state budgets

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A Better Legal Definition of Gambling: With Applications to Synthetic Financial Instruments and Cryptocurrency

86 ALBANY LAW REVIEW 257 (2023).
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 27 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2023
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Gambling, Speculation, Derivative Contracts, Synthetic Instruments, Cryptocurrency

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Unlocking the Housing-Related Benefits of Telework: A Case for Government Intervention

Real Estate Law Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3, Winter 2017
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 30 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2021
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Housing, Telework, Incentives, Government Intervention

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The Trouble with Investment Banking: Cluelessness, Not Greed

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 48, 2011
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 18 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2016
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Behavioral Finance, Investment Banking Partnerships, Proprietary Trading, Volcker Rule

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Why Localism is Bad for Business: Land Use Regulation of the Cannabis Industry

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
W.C. Bunting and James Lammendola
Stetson University College of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 201 (321,288)
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Local Land Use Regulation, Preemption, Cannabis, Zoning, Due Process

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How the Law Can Better Protect Small Business Owners against Location Risk in the Brick-and-Mortar Retail Sector

American Business Law Journal, Spring 2022
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 09 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2021
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Location Risk, Percentage Rent, Vacancy Trap, Externalities, Nudge Unit

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Against Corporate Activism: Examining the Use of Corporate Speech to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility

Oklahoma Law Review, Vol. 74, 2022
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 27 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 09 May 2022
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Speech, Agency Costs, Corporate Activism, Ideological Conflict, Communications

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Resolving Conflict over Scarce Resources: Private versus Shared Ownership

99 Marquette Law Review 893 (2016)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2016
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Private property rights, Conflict resolution mechanisms, transaction costs, settlement

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Lobbying by Brief: Unveiling the Dominance of Amicus Lobbying in the Development of Business Law

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 12 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2024
W.C. Bunting and Tomer Stein
Stetson University College of Law and University of Tennessee College of Law
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Amicus Curiae, Lobbying, Litigation, Business Law

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Silencing Corporate Political Speech

Maryland Law Review (Forthcoming 2025)
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 18 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2024
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Commercial Speech, Political Speech, First Amendment, Shareholder Oppression, Partisanship

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A Simple Model of Corporate Fiduciary Duties: With an Application to Corporate Compliance

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2021
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Corporate Governance, Fiduciary Duties, Corporate Compliance, Asymmetric Information

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Does Increased Access to Home Mortgage Money Decrease Local Crime Rates? Evidence from San Diego County

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2020
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Neighborhood Crime, Mortgage Lending, Community Capital Investment, Bartik Instrument

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Punishing Vandalism Correctly in an Access Economy

34 NOTRE DAME J.L. ETHICS & PUB. POL’Y 123 (2020)
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 11 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2020
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Vandalism, Economics of Crime, Street Art, Resistance Art, Access Economy, Shared Goods, Broken Windows Theory of Crime

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INVESTOR PRIMACY

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 14 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2025
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Corporate Law, Fiduciary Duty, Corporate Purpose, Corporate Governance, Zone of Insolvency, Agency Costs, Creditor Rights

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A Simple Unifying Framework for Classifying Disparate Risk Transactions: Securities Investments, Insurance, Gambling, and Derivative Contracts

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Forthcoming, Stetson University College of Law Research Paper No. 2023-7
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2023
W.C. Bunting and Stetson Law RPS Submitter
Stetson University College of Law and Stetson University - College of Law
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Securities Investments, Insurance, Gambling, Derivatives, Synthetic Positions

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Ductile Rights

Kentucky Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2023
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights, Positive Rights, Conflict Resolution, Ideological Conflict

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The Impact of Data Mining on Information Disclosure by Regulatory Agencies: With an Application to Redlining

56 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 355 (2019)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2020
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Data Mining, Multiple Hypothesis Testing, Redlining, Information Disclosure

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In Defense of a Liberal Choice-Based Approach to Residential Segregation

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 19 Mar 2020
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Housing, Residential Segregation, Self-Segregation, Gentrification

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Consumer Voice and Optimal Firm Size

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Aug 2023
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Consumer Voice, Agency Law, Consumer Complaining Behavior, Antitrust Law, Consumer Harm

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Lobbying Judges Motivated by Countermajoritarian Concerns

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Aug 2010
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Countermajoritarian Difficulty, Statutory Interpretation, Judicial Deference, Judicial Diversity, Lobbying, Dynamic Analysis

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Curbing the Anticompetitive Impact of Commercial Land Use Regulation: An Administrative Approach

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2021
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 28 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2021
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Land Use Regulation, Antitrust Law, Due Process, Zoning Power

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The Regulation of Sentencing Decisions: Why Information Disclosure Is Not Sufficient, and What To Do About It

NYU Annual Survey of American Law, Vol. 70, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2016
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Sentencing, Information Disclosure, Fiscal Impact, Budget Systems

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The Optimal Allocation of Scarce Resources: Three Fundamental Theorems in Property Law

Stetson University College of Law Research Paper No. 4940555
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 30 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2025
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Property Law, Coase Theorem, Transaction Costs, Public Choice Theory, Labor Markets

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Litigated Conflict Over Fundamental Rights: A Static Model

The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2013
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Aug 2016
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Conflict, Litigation, Constitutional Rights

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Election-by-Lot as a Judicial Selection Mechanism

NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2006
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Aug 2016
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law
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Election by Lot, Judicial Selection Mechanisms

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The War on Marijuana in Black and White

American Civil Liberties Union, June 2013
Posted: 11 Aug 2016
W.C. Bunting, Lynda Garcia and Ezekiel Edwards
Stetson University College of Law, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

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Other Papers (1)

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The Fearon Corollary: Private Property Rights as War

Posted: 14 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2018
W.C. Bunting
Stetson University College of Law

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Private property rights, Transaction costs, Settlement, Conflict resolution