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British Home Stores Collapse: The Case For An Employee Derivative Claim, Neshat Safari, Martin Gelter
British Home Stores Collapse: The Case For An Employee Derivative Claim, Neshat Safari, Martin Gelter
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British Home Stores collapsed led 11,000 employees to lose their jobs and faced substantial cuts to their pension with a £571 million pension deficit. In light of the BHS scandal, the UK Government has proposed a set of corporate governance reforms to strengthen the employee voice. Although the government’s approach towards strengthening the employees’ protection is well intentioned, we argue that without providing a derivative claim right for employees, these measures will likely have little impact in practice. Hence we suggest that to safeguard the employees’ interest in the company and to enhance the overall protection of the company, in …
Of Trauma And Power: Celebrity Sexual Misconduct Tribunals, Noa Ben-Asher
Of Trauma And Power: Celebrity Sexual Misconduct Tribunals, Noa Ben-Asher
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In fall 2018, shortly after his nomination to the United States Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault. That same year, Professor Avital Ronell was the subject of a Title IX investigation at New York University (NYU), where she served as chair of the Department of German. Both were harshly scrutinized in the court of public opinion. Within several months of each other, these two individuals, at the peak of their prolific careers, were investigated for sexual misconduct by non-judicial tribunals that would determine their fate. Both scandals appeared in the midst of the #MeToo era, during …