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The Corporate Conspiracy Vacuum (Formerly "Corporate Conspiracy: How Not Calling A Conspiracy A Conspiracy Is Warping The Law On Corporate Wrongdoing"), J.S. Nelson Sep 2015

The Corporate Conspiracy Vacuum (Formerly "Corporate Conspiracy: How Not Calling A Conspiracy A Conspiracy Is Warping The Law On Corporate Wrongdoing"), J.S. Nelson

J.S. Nelson

The intracorporate conspiracy doctrine immunizes an enterprise and its agents from conspiracy prosecution based on the legal fiction that an enterprise and its agents are a single actor incapable of the meeting of two minds to form a conspiracy. The doctrine, however, misplaces incentives in contravention of agency law, criminal law, tort law, and public policy. As a result of this absence of accountability, harmful behavior is ordered and performed without consequences, and the victims of the behavior suffer without appropriate remedy.
This vacuum at the center of American conspiracy law has now warped the doctrines around it. Especially in …


The Risk Intelligence Conundrum And Its Impact On Governance., Mark F. Loves Dec 2007

The Risk Intelligence Conundrum And Its Impact On Governance., Mark F. Loves

Mark F Loves

This paper looks at intelligence led strategic planning, specifically within the context of an operational private sector corporate security unit which the author managed from 1994 to 2005. It examines the role, mission and objectives of the unit, with specific emphasis on management models, planning frameworks, policy and strategy, client relations and performance measuring. It develops the concept that risk assessment and intelligence development are in fact the same process, acting to direct governance and informing decision making at both tactical and strategic levels.


Federal Courts — Proposed Changes To The Ninth Circuit And The Federal Courts Of Appeals — Final Report Of The Commission On Structural Alternatives For The Federal Courts Of Appeals; And S. 253, The Ninth Circuit Reorganization Act, Josephine Sandler Nelson Dec 1999

Federal Courts — Proposed Changes To The Ninth Circuit And The Federal Courts Of Appeals — Final Report Of The Commission On Structural Alternatives For The Federal Courts Of Appeals; And S. 253, The Ninth Circuit Reorganization Act, Josephine Sandler Nelson

J.S. Nelson

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