Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

Notre Dame Law School

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Notre Dame, IN 46556-0780

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1.

Politics and the Public’s Right to Know

Election Law Journal, Vol. 13, p. 138, 2014, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1465
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 04 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 17 May 2014
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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election law, campaign finance, independent expenditures, disclosure, privacy

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Taxing Social Enterprise

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 66, p. 387, 2014, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1311
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 26 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2015
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer and Joseph Ganahl
Notre Dame Law School and Tax Division
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tax, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit, philanthropy, charitable, L3C, benefit corporation, flexible purpose corporation

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Politics at the Pulpit: Tax Benefits, Substantial Burdens, and Institutional Free Exercise

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 89, p. 1137, 2009, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 08-30
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 26 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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charity, church, tax-exempt organization, political, election, IRS, first amendment, free exercise, religion, religious freedom restoration act, RFRA, church autonomy, ministerial exception

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NGO Standing and Influence in Regional Human Rights Courts and Commissions

Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, p. 911, 2011, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-61
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2014
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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human rights, human rights commissions, human rights courts, nongovernmental organizations, nonprofit

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Regulating Charities in the 21st Century: An Institutional Choice Analysis

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, p. 479, 2010, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 09-41
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 05 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2011
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer and Brendan M. Wilson
Notre Dame Law School and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.
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nonprofit corporation, governance, fiduciary duties, institutional choice, institutional design, tax-exempt organization, IRS

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What is This 'Lobbying' That We Are So Worried About?

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 26, p. 485, 2008, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 07-42
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 05 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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Disclosures About Disclosure

Indiana Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 255, 2010, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 10-17
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2011
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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campaign finance, disclosure, election law, Citizens United v. FEC

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Charities and Lobbying: Institutional Rights in the Wake of Citizens United

Election Law Journal, Vol. 10, p. 407, 2011, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 10-39
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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campaign finance, charity, charitable, Citizens United v. FEC, election law, elections, first amendment, free speech, IRS, lobbying, nonprofit, political, taxation, tax-exempt organization

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Limits on State Regulation of Religious Organizations: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1521
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2015
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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church, religious, nonprofit, state regulation, attorney general

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Breaching a Leaking Dam?: Corporate Money and Elections

Charleston Law Review (Supreme Court Preview edition), Vol. 4, p. 91, 2009, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 09-36
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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campaign finance, election law, BCRA, Citizens United v. FEC, WRTL v. FEC, Buckley v. Valeo

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Grasping Smoke: Enforcing the Ban on Political Activity by Charities

First Amendment Law Review, Vol. 6, p. 1, 2007, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 07-38
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2015
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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Charity, Tax-Exempt Organization, Political, Election, IRS, Tax Compliance, Tax Enforcement

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'The Better Part of Valour Is Discretion': Should the IRS Change or Surrender Its Oversight of Tax-Exempt Organizations?

7 Columbia Journal of Tax Law 80 (2016)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2016
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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nonprofit, tax-exempt, tax law, compliance

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The Much Maligned 527 and Institutional Choice

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 87, p. 625, 2007, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-15
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2009
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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527, Institutional Choice, Institutional Design, Campaign Finance, Tax-Exempt Organization, Political Organization, FEC, IRS

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What Is Caesar's, What Is God's: Fundamental Public Policy for Churches

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 200211, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 44, 2021
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 17 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2020
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer and Zachary B. Pohlman
Notre Dame Law School and Notre Dame Law School
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nonprofit, tax-exempt, church, religion, free exercise, First Amendment

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Fiduciary Principles in Charities and Other Nonprofits

Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller, and Robert H. Sitkoff, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Oxford University Press, 2018 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Feb 2018
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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charities, nonprofits, fiduciary duties, duty of loyalty, duty of care, tax law

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The ‘Independent’ Sector: Fee-for-Service Charity and the Limits of Autonomy

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 65, p. 51, 2012, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 10-21
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 29 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2012
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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charitable, nonprofit, taxation

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Nonprofits, Politics, and Privacy

Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 62, p. 801, 2012, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-60
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2013
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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campaign finance, Citizens United v. FEC, disclosure, election law, elections, IRS, nonprofit, political, taxation, privacy, tax-exempt organization

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Charitable Crowdfunding

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 200904
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 04 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2020
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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charity, solicitation, fundraising, crowdfunding, consumer protection

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Fragmented Oversight of Nonprofits in the United States: Does It Work? Can It Work?

91 Chicago-Kent Law Review 937 (2016), Notre Dame Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1613
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2016
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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nonprofit, tax, tax exemption, fiduciary duties, governance, charitable solicitation

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When Soft Law Meets Hard Politics: Taming the Wild West of Nonprofit Political Involvement

45 J. Legis. 194 (2019), Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1929
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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nonprofits, election law, tax law, disclosure, churches

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The Promises and Perils of Using Big Data to Regulate Nonprofits

94 Washington Law Review 1281 (2019), Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1928
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2019
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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nonprofit, tax, IRS, big data

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A (Partial) Defense of Section 501(C)(4)'s 'Catchall' Nature

21 NYU J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 439 (2018), Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1836
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2019
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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nonprofit, tax-exempt, social welfare, tax, private foundation, cooperative

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Nonprofits, Speech, and Unconstitutional Conditions

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 46, p. 1045, 2014, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1407
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2015
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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constitution, rights, First Amendment, speech, nonprofit, unconstitutional conditions

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Globalization Without a Safety Net: The Challenge of Protecting Cross-Border Funding of NGOs

102 Minnesota Law Review 1205 (2018)
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 15 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2018
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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nonprofit organizations, nongovernmental organizations, international investment treaties

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Creating a Tax Space for Social Enterprise

The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law (Cambridge University Press 2018) 157 (J. Yockey & B. Means eds.), Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1724
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 26 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Notre Dame Law School
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tax, social enterprise, hybrid, benefit corporation