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Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only
an icon in political, managerial, and administrative discourse but
also the object of much scholarly analysis across a broad range of
social and administrative sciences. This handbook provides a state
of the art overview of recent scholarship on public accountability.
It collects, consolidates, and integrates an upsurge of inquiry
currently scattered across many disciplines and subdisciplines. It
provides a one-stop-shop on the subject, not only for academics who
study accountability, but also for practitioners who are designing,
adjusting, or struggling with mechanisms for accountable
governance. Drawing on the best scholars in the field from around
the world, The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability showcases
conceptual and normative as well as the empirical approaches in
public accountability studies. In addition to giving an overview of
scholarly research in a variety of disciplines, it takes stock of a
wide range of accountability mechanisms and practices across the
public, private and non-profit sectors, making this volume a
must-have for both practitioners and scholars, both established and
new to the field.
Mass-tort lawsuits over products like pelvic and hernia mesh,
Roundup, opioids, talcum powder, and hip implants consume a
substantial part of the federal civil caseload. But multidistrict
litigation, which federal courts use to package these individual
tort suits into one proceeding, has not been extensively analyzed.
In Mass Tort Deals, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch marshals a wide array
of empirical data to suggest that a systematic lack of checks and
balances in our courts may benefit everyone but the plaintiffs -
the very people who are often unable to stand up for themselves.
Rather than faithfully representing them, plaintiffs' lawyers may
sell them out in backroom settlements that compensate lawyers
handsomely, pay plaintiffs little, and deny them the justice they
seek. From diagnosis to reforms, Burch's goal isn't to eliminate
these suits; it's to save them. This book is a must read for
concerned citizens, policymakers, lawyers, and judges alike.
The Unabridged Twelfth Edition offers detailed information on
corporate law and covers new principal cases, text, and explanatory
materials designed to illustrate the development of corporate law.
In preparing this edition, Professors Cox and Eisenberg reviewed
all the principal cases and, where appropriate, re-edited them to
tighten the writing while preserving a full-bodied presentation of
the facts and discussion. The book contains rich note material
synthesizing case developments, empirical data bearing on important
corporate topics, and competing approaches to corporate issues.
Written by the Reporters who drafted UCC Article 9 and its Official
Comments, this casebook focuses on real-life problems and
transactions. The Problems focus the students' attention on the
relevant statutory language and its application to common patterns
of secured financing. They emphasize counseling, planning,
drafting, and litigation skills. Many of the Problems are based
upon two Prototype transactions that feature actual transaction
documents. One Prototype provides the foundation for a discussion
of basic Article 9 concepts. The other forms the basis for
financing secured by receivables and other intangible property and
inventory. The extensive Notes help students understand what
Article 9's provisions are designed to accomplish and how they fit
together, while encouraging students to evaluate the choices made
by the drafters. The Sixth Edition fully integrates the 2010
amendments and reflects recent developments in the case law,
including the Motors Liquidation and Duckworth opinions dealing
with the sometimes drastic consequences of mistakes made by secured
parties.
BPP Learning Media is an ACCA approved content provider. Our suite
of study tools will provide you with all the accurate and
up-to-date material you need for exam success.
A hands-on guide to the most pertinent and critical legal issues
facing those who lead and manage tax-exempt colleges and
universities
Nonprofit Law for Colleges and Universities is a practical,
accessible guide to nonprofit law as it is specifically applicable
to exempt colleges and universities, and their related entities,
such as fundraising foundations, endowment funds, supporting
organizations, for-profit subsidiaries, and limited liability
companies. Topics discussed will include governance, endowment
funds management, the annual reporting requirements, and the
unrelated business rulesWritten by the country's leading
authorities on tax-exempt organizationsFeatures essential,
practical legal information in easy-to-understand EnglishPresented
in question-and-answer format, divided according to major topic
areas that are of interest to those who lead and manage tax-exempt
colleges and universities
Designed for the management and leadership of colleges and
universities, as well as others working in the higher education
field, such as lawyers, accountants, and fundraising/development
personnel, Nonprofit Law for Colleges and Universities allows
readers to easily search for and find answers to questions, putting
all the information they need right at their fingertips.
In todays' highly competitive global market, fashion designers,
entrepreneurs and executives need state, federal, and international
laws to protect their intellectual property-their brands and the
products by which their customers recognize them. Fashion Law
provides a concise and practical guide to the full range of legal
issues faced by a fashion company as it grows from infancy to
international stature. Updated to reflect recent legal decisions
and regulatory developments, this revised edition covers such a
vital issues as intellectual property protection and litigation,
licensing, anti-counterfeiting, start-ups and finance, commercial
transactions, retail property leasing, employment regulations,
advertising and marketing, celebrity endorsements, international
trade. Features of the text help to make legal concepts accessible
to the lay reader. More than 25 leading attorneys practicing in the
emerging legal specialty of fashion law contributed the chapters
for this authoritative text, and their expertise provides a
foundation for fashion professionals and their legal advisors to
work together effectively. New to this Edition~Expanded section on
Intellectual Property protection, including an all new Chapter 6 on
Litigation~All new Chapter 10 on Fashion Finance Features~Box
Features provide real-life examples that demonstrate the role that
law plays in the fashion business, including landmark court cases
and current events~Practice Tips discuss legal issues that should
be considered as fashion designers and executives establish
procedures for conducting their business~Sample Clauses familiarize
readers with the legal language that covers the rights and
responsibilities of the parties to agreements. Instructor's Guide
and PowerPoint presentations available.
This text provides a reader-friendly, accessible overview of
unincorporated business associations. While emphasizing the
doctrinal issues taught in today's unincorporated business
associations classes, it places significant emphasis on economic
analysis of the major issues in that course. The third edition has
been comprehensively updated. It includes extensive new treatment
of the now final Restatement (Third) of Agency and amendments to
the various uniform acts governing unincorporated business
associations. The coverage has been expanded to include additional
topics, especially in the chapter on limited liability companies,
so as to reflect their continually growing popularity as a choice
of form for small businesses. Among these new topics are extended
coverage of the Restatement (Third) of Agency and the 2013 versions
of the Uniform Partnership Act and the Uniform Limited Liability
Company Act.
Volume 2 uses the economic and legal concepts/theories of Volume
1 to (1) analyze the U.S. and E.U. antitrust legality of mergers,
joint ventures, and the pricing-technique and
contractual/sales-policy distributor-control surrogates for
vertical integration and (2) assess related positions of scholars
and U.S. and E.U. antitrust officials. Its analysis of horizontal
mergers (1) delineates non-market-oriented protocols for
determining whether they manifest specific anticompetitive intent,
would lessen competition, or are rendered lawful by the
efficiencies they would generate, (2) criticizes the U.S. courts'
traditional market-share/market-concentration protocol, the
HHI-oriented protocols of the 1992 U.S. DOJ/FTC Guidelines and the
European Commission (EC) Guidelines, and the various
non-market-oriented protocols the DOJ/FTC have increasingly been
using, (3) argues that, although the 2010 U.S. Guidelines and
DOJ/FTC officials discuss market definition as if it matters, those
Guidelines actually reject market-oriented approaches, and (4)
reviews the relevant U.S. and E.U. case-law. Its analysis of
conglomerate mergers (1) shows that they can perform the same
legitimate and competition-increasing functions as horizontal
mergers and can yield illegitimate profits and lessen competition
by increasing contrived oligopolistic pricing and retaliation
barriers to investment, (2) analyzes the determinants of all these
effects, and (3) assesses limit-price theory, the toe-hold-merger
doctrine, and U.S. and E.U. case-law. Its analysis of vertical
conduct (1) examines the legitimate functions of each type of such
conduct, (2) delineates the conditions under which each manifests
specific anticompetitive intent and/or lessens competition, and (3)
assesses related U.S. and E.U. case-law and DOJ/FTC and EC
positions. Its analysis of joint ventures (1) explains that they
violate U.S. law only when they manifest specific anticompetitive
intent while they violate E.U. law either for this reason or
because they lessen competition, (2) discusses the meaning of an
"ancillary restraint" and demonstrates that whether a joint-venture
agreement would be illegal if it imposed no restraints and whether
any restraints imposed are ancillary can be determined only through
case-by-case analysis, (3) explains why scholars and officials
overestimate the economic efficiency of R&D joint ventures, and
(4) discusses related U.S. and E.U. case-law and DOJ/FTC and EC
positions. The study's Conclusion (1) reviews how its analyses
justify its innovative conceptual systems and (2) compares U.S. and
E.U. antitrust law as written and as applied."
This book articulates and explores the realities of contemporary
international anti-corruption law. As corruption has increasingly
become a major topic in international affairs, Liu analyzes the
global collaboration against transnational bribery. As China's
economic reforms are increasingly articulated in a language of law,
governmentality, and anti-corruption, it is essential that
scholars, policymakers and legal theorists around the world
understand the issues at stake. In this elegant text, Liu lays out
the issues clearly, establishes methodologies for analysis, and
provides policy proposals for the years to come.
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