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Legitimacy, Accountability, And Partnership: A Model For Advocacy On Third World Environmental Issues, David A. Wirth
Legitimacy, Accountability, And Partnership: A Model For Advocacy On Third World Environmental Issues, David A. Wirth
David A. Wirth
To date, there has been little effort to define the characteristics of responsible environmental reform efforts by private citizens and organizations in the United States on foreign environmental problems, such as the quality of foreign aid. Moreover, there have been virtually no attempts to identify a principled role for American lawyers in Third World environmental issues. This Essay will respond to these lacunae by articulating a new approach to advocacy based on a partnership model. In Part I, this Essay identifies the need for American public interest advocates to establish partnerships with directly affected groups on Third World environmental issues. …
The Role Of Science In The Uruguay Round And Nafta Trade Disciplines, David A. Wirth
The Role Of Science In The Uruguay Round And Nafta Trade Disciplines, David A. Wirth
David A. Wirth
The central theme of this article is the necessity for deference to decision-making processes of national regulatory authorities in the application of these new trade disciplines and the need for trade-based reviews of national regulatory measures to operate within clearly defined limits. Accordingly, this article first examines and summarizes the relevant texts, including the original 1947 GATT, the Uruguay Round, and the NAFTA texts on standards. Next, the article considers the role of science in the standard-setting process with reference to the copious literature on this topic. Finally, the article takes up the difficult question of the application of the …
Consensual Amorous Relationships Between Faculty And Students: The Constitutional Right To Privacy, Elisabeth A. Keller
Consensual Amorous Relationships Between Faculty And Students: The Constitutional Right To Privacy, Elisabeth A. Keller
Elisabeth Keller
Surveys of college students in the United States revealed that a significant number of students thought they had been victims of some form of sexual harassment. Growing awareness of the magnitude, dimensions, and effects of sexual harassment at educational institutions and the potential for institutional liability have prompted educators to adopt policies to avert such problems. The policies typically prohibit sexual harassment of employees and students and alert the university community to the serious effects of sexual harassment and the potential for student exploitation. Some universities have gone beyond establishing regulations directed at widely litigated problems of sexual harassment and …
Emerging Models For Alternatives To Marriage, Sanford N. Katz
Emerging Models For Alternatives To Marriage, Sanford N. Katz
Sanford N. Katz
Perhaps one of the most important changes in family law in the past thirty years has been the inclusion of certain kinds of friendships in the range of relationships from which rights and responsibilities can flow. Domestic partnership laws, a phenomenon of the 1990s, may be seen as a natural development from the judicial recognition of contract cohabitation and the legislative and judicial response to same-sex couples who, unable to meet statutory requirements for marriage, have sought official recognition of their relationships. This essay discusses an aspect of certain kinds of domestic partnership laws-their formal requirements and the extent to …
Marriage As Partnership, Sanford N. Katz
Marriage As Partnership, Sanford N. Katz
Sanford N. Katz
In this essay honoring Professor Mary Ann Glendon, the author discusses the contract of partnerships concept of marriage as it applies to antenuptial agreements, cohabitation contracts, and property settlement agreements, the three contexts about which Professor Glendon has written in her books The New Family and the New Property (1981) and The Transformation of Family Law (1996).
Tefra Audits And Refund Claims, Robert D. Probasco
Tefra Audits And Refund Claims, Robert D. Probasco
Robert Probasco
No abstract provided.
Codifying Bankruptcy Law's Fastpass: New Value And The Absolute Priority Rule, David P. Hamm Jr
Codifying Bankruptcy Law's Fastpass: New Value And The Absolute Priority Rule, David P. Hamm Jr
David P Hamm Jr
The notion behind the absolute priority rule is not novel to any of us. We all learned at a very young age that if someone is in front of you in line—they get served first. This basic notion of fairness affects our lives in several everyday contexts—including bankruptcy. The people in the “bankruptcy” line are the holders of interests in the debtor. If the interest held by party A is “senior” to that of party B, then party A is in front of party B in line. The absolute priority rule essentially provides that the party A must be paid …
Gender And Partner Compensation At America's Largest Firms, Marina Angel
Gender And Partner Compensation At America's Largest Firms, Marina Angel
Marina Angel
Abstract
This study compiled the largest research sample on the gender gap in compensation at the 200 largest law firms by combining two large databases to examine the compensation disparities between men and women partners. The analysis elucidates the question of whether the difference is because women are less productive than men partners or because they are women. The Am Law 100 and 200 studies include gross revenue, profits, number of equity and non-equity partners, and the total number of lawyers at each firm. The Vault/MCCA Law Firm Diversity Programs study (Vault/MCCA) includes the gender ratios at each Am Law …
The Allure And Illusion Of Partners' Interests In A Partnership, Bradley T. Borden
The Allure And Illusion Of Partners' Interests In A Partnership, Bradley T. Borden
Bradley T. Borden
Favorable tax treatment and management flexibility make tax partnerships very popular. For starters, tax partnerships, unlike tax corporations, are not subject to entity-level taxes. Partnership taxable income flows through to the partners, and the partners report their shares of partnership taxable income on their individual tax returns. Partnership tax allocation rules determine the partners’ shares of partnership taxable income. Those rules rely upon the alluring concept of partners’ interests in a partnership. It seems intuitive that partners would know their interests in a partnership and be able to allocate partnership taxable income accordingly. This Article illustrates, however, that the concept …
A Radical Route To Funding Urban Revitalization: Profitable Philanthropy Through Limited Liability Companies And A Market-Based Return On Investments, Roger M. Groves
A Radical Route To Funding Urban Revitalization: Profitable Philanthropy Through Limited Liability Companies And A Market-Based Return On Investments, Roger M. Groves
Roger M. Groves
This article provides an incentive-laden model for increasing equity investments into urban communities. As stated in the article: “The issue posed in this article is simple. Why should we restrict the return on investment of those we beg to invest in charitable causes? The answer is far more complicated.” This involves the creative use of limited liability companies as joint venture vehicles between private foundations and for-profit entities and individuals. Specific amendments to existing regulations are also crafted. From research to date, there is no scholarly publication that uses such a model to suggest nonprofit organizations should have the ability …