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Agenda: Managing Oil And Gas Development In Colorado: The New Cogcc Rules, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Managing Oil And Gas Development In Colorado: The New Cogcc Rules, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Managing Oil and Gas Development in Colorado: The New COGCC Rules (December 16)
NRLC Hot Topic held on December 16, 2008 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. at the offices of Hogan and Hartson, Denver, Colorado.
Panelists from COGCC, the oil & gas industry, and environmental community, will present their perspectives on the soon-to-be-issued rules on oil and development in Colorado. Discussion and questions from attendees will follow.
How Should The Financial Markets Be Regulated?, Tamar Frankel
How Should The Financial Markets Be Regulated?, Tamar Frankel
Faculty Scholarship
The financial markets should be regulated mostly by examinations, not by prosecution. And examinations should be far more intense when prices rise, not after a crash.
Private Investment Funds: Hedge Funds' Regulation By Size, Tamar Frankel
Private Investment Funds: Hedge Funds' Regulation By Size, Tamar Frankel
Faculty Scholarship
This Article focuses on hedge funds-a species of private investment funds. These funds appeared in the 1950s and remained active but small. Then, in a fairly short period, they grew enormously to over $1.5 trillion, although the estimates vary.1 Hedge fund managers engage in more than twenty-five different categories of investment strategies.2 Since 2002, the number of hedge funds has more than doubled to an estimated 9,000 funds,3 and their assets have grown by 400% to an estimated $1.4 trillion since 1999.4 Other estimates are higher, suggesting current hedge fund assets at $2 trillion and their …
Capture, Accountability, And Regulatory Metrics, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor
Capture, Accountability, And Regulatory Metrics, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A "New Approach" To Standards And Consumer Protection, Jane Winn, Nicolas Jondet
A "New Approach" To Standards And Consumer Protection, Jane Winn, Nicolas Jondet
Articles
As consumer use of information and communication technology (ICT) products grows, the importance of ICT standards in consumer markets also grows. While standards for manufactured products were once developed at the national level in formal standards bodies, standards for ICT products today are more likely to be developed by informal standards bodies that target global markets, creating new challenges for national consumer protection laws.
As part of the process of creating a single market, the EU developed an innovative and successful form of “coregulation” known as the “New Approach” that coordinated the work of legislators and standards developers to reduce …
Time To Start Over On Deferred Compensation, Michael Doran
Time To Start Over On Deferred Compensation, Michael Doran
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Government regulators would do well to follow simple heuristics like that. Writing good regulations--"good" in the sense of promoting the public interest--always presents challenges. Regulators must hit a small but important target where private conduct is brought within appropriate government control, but unnecessary compliance burdens and other deadweight costs are minimized. Even if they see the government's objectives clearly, regulators often have only a limited understanding of the underlying private activities. Moreover, regulators may be unaware of how their rules disrupt or distort those activities in socially harmful ways.
Regulators occasionally hit the target exactly. More often, they miss--though not …