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The Changing Context, Denise Fort, Helen Ingram, David Feldman, Nathan Mantua, Katharine L. Jacobs, Nancy Beller-Simms
The Changing Context, Denise Fort, Helen Ingram, David Feldman, Nathan Mantua, Katharine L. Jacobs, Nancy Beller-Simms
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Faced with mounting pressures from a changing climate, an increasing population, a transitory populace, and varying access to available natural resources, decision makers, scientists, and resource managers have an immediate need to understand, obtain, and better integrate climate forecasts and observational data in near- and long-term planning. Reducing our societal vulnerability to variabilities and changes in climate depends upon our ability to bridge the gap between climate science and the implementation of scientific understanding in our management of critical resources, arguably the most important of which is water. Our ability to adapt and respond to climate variability and change depends, …
Directors Personal Liability For Corporate Fault In The United States, Erik Gerding
Directors Personal Liability For Corporate Fault In The United States, Erik Gerding
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This book chapter outlines sources in U.S. law of personal liability for directors of corporations, with a focus on liability for wrongdoing by the corporation. The chapter surveys director liability: to creditors for violations of state corporation statutes (e.g., liability for defective incorporations, ultra vires corporate acts, and improper dividends, loans to directors, or dissolution); under common law veil piercing theories; under common law and statutes applying agency and director participation theories; and the responsible corporate officer' doctrine. The chapter provides a brief case study of potential director liability under CERCLA (the Superfund statute). The chapter briefly examines why U.S. …
American Sovereigns: The People And America's Constitutional Tradition Before The Civil War, Christian G. Fritz
American Sovereigns: The People And America's Constitutional Tradition Before The Civil War, Christian G. Fritz
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American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory, and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity -- the people -- would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. …
Teaching A New Dog The Same Old Trick, Michelle Rigual
Teaching A New Dog The Same Old Trick, Michelle Rigual
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This product provides strategies for teaching legal research skills and fostering the transition from law school to law firm. Topics include maximizing legal research, evaluating library resources, managing staff, and meeting law school expectations. Advice is given on harnessing student/faculty relationships, navigating new legal materials, managing the library budget, and monitoring student progress. This book also discusses addressing challenges, responding to change, and implementing new technologies.