This event is closed to the public.Student Presenters:Jonathon Booth, Harvard University (jonathonbooth@g.harvard.edu) The Birth of Policing in Post-Emancipation JamaicaLauren Feldman, Johns Hopkins University (lauren.feldman@jhu.edu) Constructing Legal Matrimony and the State in New York and the United States: Debating New York's Marriage Act of 1827 and its EffectsJamie Grischkan, Boston University (jgrisch@bu.edu) Banking, Law, and… [read post]

Three of these states—Connecticut, New York, and Wyoming—impose taxes mirroring the old Ohio corporate franchise tax, under which businesses pay the greater of net worth or net income liability.[12] Beginning in 2006, Ohio CFT liability declined in increments of 20 percent a year, with firms responsible for 80 percent of their standard liability that year, 60 percent in 2007, and so on until 2010, when the tax was eliminated. [read post]