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Full-Text Articles in Law
La Privatización, La Desregulación Y El Interés Público: Un Análisis Comparado, Alfred C. Aman
La Privatización, La Desregulación Y El Interés Público: Un Análisis Comparado, Alfred C. Aman
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This Spanish-language paper analyzes the structural elements of Administrative Law in the United States of America, such as deregulation and privatization, which define the particular relationship between State and Society in that country. The analysis focuses on the limits to privatization in some sectors (prisons, water, health care) using a comparative approach with Spain. From a critical position with the marketization and hegemony of economics, alternatives are proposed for a reform of the Administrative Law that allows a more democratic and inclusive functioning of the governmental institutions.
Constitutionally Unaccountable: Privatized Immigration Detention, Danielle C. Jefferis
Constitutionally Unaccountable: Privatized Immigration Detention, Danielle C. Jefferis
Indiana Law Journal
For-profit, civil immigration detention is one of this nation’s fastest growing industries. About two-thirds of the more than 50,000 people in the civil custody of federal immigration authorities find themselves at one point or another in a private, corporate-run prison that contracts with the federal government. Conditions of confinement in many of these facilities are dismal. Detainees have suffered from untreated medical conditions and endured months, in some cases years, of detention in environments that are unsafe and, at times, violent. Some have died. Yet, the spaces are largely unregulated. This Article exposes and examines the absence of a constitutional …
Private Government And The Transparency Deficit, Alfred C. Aman, Landyn W. Rookard
Private Government And The Transparency Deficit, Alfred C. Aman, Landyn W. Rookard
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Modern government is comprised of a complex admixture of public and private actors. From the provision of public services, to growing movements to sell off national parks, to the very task of legislating, the public is unlikely to encounter an area of government that is untouched by privatization. But public transparency mechanisms, including the seminal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), rely upon an outdated, rigid conception of the private-public dichotomy. They fail to provide the public with any meaningful access to what we call the “private government,” which includes the private actors who bear an increasing responsibility for performing governmental …
The Human Side Of Public-Private Partnerships: From New Deal Regulation To Administrative Law Management, Alfred C. Aman, Joseph C. Dugan
The Human Side Of Public-Private Partnerships: From New Deal Regulation To Administrative Law Management, Alfred C. Aman, Joseph C. Dugan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
During the New Deal era, Congress created a then-unprecedented program of economic and regulatory reforms, establishing independent agencies, and empowering them to shape and enforce pragmatic industrial policies. Twenty-first century regulation looks strikingly different from the New Deal vision. While New Deal agencies continue to perform some regulatory functions, market approaches have replaced many traditional command-and-control formulations, with private entities stepping in to perform tasks historically reserved to government.
Though government-by-contract is becoming the new normal, neither the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA") nor many of its state equivalents provide adequate guidance to ensure that individual rights are protected and democratic …
Prison Privatization And Inmate Labor In The Global Economy: Reframing The Debate Over Private Prisons, Alfred C. Aman, Carol J. Greenhouse
Prison Privatization And Inmate Labor In The Global Economy: Reframing The Debate Over Private Prisons, Alfred C. Aman, Carol J. Greenhouse
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The pragmatics of privatization offer terrain for a critical understanding of the relationship between government and business under the conditions associated with the globalization of neoliberal capitalism. Prison privatization is especially significant in this context, given the fact that—for privatization advocates and critics alike, in the United States and elsewhere—prisons represent a bellwether for broader questions about the scope of government. We review the recent history of prison privatization in the United States from the vantage point of the policy responses to the privatization movement more generally, to highlight the various factors that, over time, made private prisons iconic of …
Plugging The Democracy Drain In The Struggle For Universal Access To Safe Drinking Water, Tara Paul
Plugging The Democracy Drain In The Struggle For Universal Access To Safe Drinking Water, Tara Paul
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Privatization of water delivery services has become a global trend as states seek ways to shift both political and economic costs to private actors. The advantage of privatization is that it relieves governments of the daunting expense of repairing and expanding water infrastructure in order to improve quality and reach marginalized communities. But water privatization has also been deeply criticized for corrupt practices, increasing prices to the poor, undermining human rights objectives, and dodging accountability. This note aims to find middle ground, acknowledging that privatization is an important tool to increase freshwater access, but that treating water as a human …
Globalization And The Privatization Of Welfare Administration In Indiana, Alfred C. Aman
Globalization And The Privatization Of Welfare Administration In Indiana, Alfred C. Aman
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article explores the relationship of globalization to domestic law in the context of privatized welfare services in Indiana. It examines the ways that privatization can affect vulnerable populations such as welfare recipients by, in effect, partially dis-embedding the market from the state. It applies Karl Polanyi's conception of a double movement to illustrate how the political process can, in effect, re-embed the market in the state. Utilizing Indiana's recent experiences with welfare administration privatization, this article shows that re-embedding is not a simple question of reversing decisions already taken, but rather a complex sequencing of political and legal engagements. …
Private Actors And Public Governance Beyond The State: The Multinational Corporation, The Financial Stability Board, And The Global Governance Order, Larry Cata Backer
Private Actors And Public Governance Beyond The State: The Multinational Corporation, The Financial Stability Board, And The Global Governance Order, Larry Cata Backer
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Transnational corporations are at the center of extraordinary and complex governance systems that are developing outside the state and international public organizations and beyond the conventionally legitimating framework of the forms of domestic or international hard law. Though these systems are sometimes recognized as autonomous and authoritative among its members, they are neither isolated from each other nor from the states with which they come into contact. Together these systems may begin to suggest a new template for networked governance beyond the state, but one in which public and private actors are integrated stakeholders. This provides the source of the …
Who's Responsible For This? The Globalization Of Healthcare In Developing Countries, Joshua P. Reading
Who's Responsible For This? The Globalization Of Healthcare In Developing Countries, Joshua P. Reading
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
One aspect of globalization in the developed world is the privatization of services once provided by government. This trend is also arising in developing countries, albeit for different reasons, and an area where this privatization is occurring is healthcare. Despite this privatization, the standard of healthcare in many developing countries is unacceptably low. This Note provides an analysis of this phenomenon in one country-Pakistan, a developing country that has increasingly come to rely on private providers, nongovernmental organizations, and international relief groups for the provision of healthcare-in order to draw conclusions that can be applied elsewhere. While this privatization does …
Privatizing Labor Law: Neutrality/Card Check Agreements And The Role Of The Arbitrator, Laura J. Cooper
Privatizing Labor Law: Neutrality/Card Check Agreements And The Role Of The Arbitrator, Laura J. Cooper
Indiana Law Journal
William R. Stewart Lecture given at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington on November 13, 2007.
Introduction: Private Ordering In A Globalizing World: Still Searching For The Basics Of Contract, Peer Zumbansen
Introduction: Private Ordering In A Globalizing World: Still Searching For The Basics Of Contract, Peer Zumbansen
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Governing Contracts - Public and Private Perspectives, Symposium. Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, November 9-10, 2006
Privatization, Prisons, Democracy, And Human Rights: The Need To Extend The Province Of Administrative Law, Alfred C. Aman
Privatization, Prisons, Democracy, And Human Rights: The Need To Extend The Province Of Administrative Law, Alfred C. Aman
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, Symposium. University of Trento, Italy, June 11-12, 2004.
Globalization, Democracy, And The Need For A New Administrative Law, Alfred C. Aman
Globalization, Democracy, And The Need For A New Administrative Law, Alfred C. Aman
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Globalization and Governance: The Prospects for Democracy, Symposium
Acquisitions By Partially Privitized Firms: The Case Of Deutsche Telekom And Voicestream, J. Gregory Sidak
Acquisitions By Partially Privitized Firms: The Case Of Deutsche Telekom And Voicestream, J. Gregory Sidak
Federal Communications Law Journal
A recent phenomenon in competition policy is the acquisition of a private firm by an enterprise that is either wholly owned by government or in the midst of privatization. Such an acquisition poses the question of how public ownership may alter the incentives of a firm to engage in anticompetitive conduct. It also prompts one to examine the process by which such altered incentives revert, as the level of government ownership declines, to the same incentives that face purely private firms. Using Deutsche Telekom's acquisition of VoiceStream Wireless as a case study, this Article presents the economic questions relevant to …
Privatization And The Democracy Problem In Globalization: Making Markets More Accountable Through Administrative Law, Alfred C. Aman
Privatization And The Democracy Problem In Globalization: Making Markets More Accountable Through Administrative Law, Alfred C. Aman
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Privatization And The Freedom Of Information Act: An Analysis Of Public Access To Private Entities Under Federal Law, Craig D. Feiser
Privatization And The Freedom Of Information Act: An Analysis Of Public Access To Private Entities Under Federal Law, Craig D. Feiser
Federal Communications Law Journal
Congress drafted the Freedom of Information Act to ensure that the public would always be able to keep track of the events happening behind governmental agency doors. In an age of privatization of governmental services in the name of efficiency, the Act needs to be adapted to ensure that its original purpose remains sound. Thus far, courts have not kept pace with this purpose by interpreting agency and agency record under the Act too narrowly. This may very well result in government secrecy as services are farmed out to entities not covered under the Act. This Article analyzes the various …
Globalizing The Rule Of Law: Some Thoughts At And On The Periphery, Maxwell O. Chibundu
Globalizing The Rule Of Law: Some Thoughts At And On The Periphery, Maxwell O. Chibundu
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
Clearing The Air: Four Propositions About Property Rights And Environmental Protection, Daniel H. Cole
Clearing The Air: Four Propositions About Property Rights And Environmental Protection, Daniel H. Cole
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Body As Commodity: The Use Of Markets To Cure The Organ Deficit, David E. Jefferies
The Body As Commodity: The Use Of Markets To Cure The Organ Deficit, David E. Jefferies
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
International Law And Private Foreign Investment, Elihu Lauterpacht, C.B.E., Q.C.
International Law And Private Foreign Investment, Elihu Lauterpacht, C.B.E., Q.C.
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
Stop Stomping On The Rest Of Us: Retrieving Publicness From The Privatization Of The Globe, Zillah Eisenstein
Stop Stomping On The Rest Of Us: Retrieving Publicness From The Privatization Of The Globe, Zillah Eisenstein
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Professor Eisenstein's article discusses the effects of globalization on the
relationship between privatization and public responsibility and how this
dynamic impacts the future of women across the globe. She argues that the
global growth of privatization in the North and West has disseminated around
the world to the detriment of women. Privatization, she contends, has been
accepted as the agenda of politicians for the late twentieth century, and public
responsibility has been lost as a result.
According to Professor Eisenstein, globalization has been essentially an
economic process in which a global economy surfaces without differences or
borders. The global economy, …
Globalization, Privatization, And A Feminist Public, Susan H. Williams
Globalization, Privatization, And A Feminist Public, Susan H. Williams
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
Private Justice And The Federal Bench, Lauren K. Robel
Private Justice And The Federal Bench, Lauren K. Robel
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Private Exercise Of Governmental Power, David M. Lawrence
Private Exercise Of Governmental Power, David M. Lawrence
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.