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The Governance Of The Imf: The Need For Comprehensive Reform, Daniel Bradlow

Working Papers

This article argues that IMF's current governance arrangements suffer from being non responsive to key stakeholders, lack of accountability, non-representative decision making, lack of transparency, and poorly defined relations with other international organizations. These deficiencies have arisen because the IMF has failed to adapt its decision-making structure and procedures to its changing functions and role in the global economy. They have caused distortions in the IMF's relations with its member states, with non-state actors, and with other international organizations and problems with some of the IMF's interpretations of its articles. The article argues that the IMF cannot perform effectively until …

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2006.09, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

Lecture Examines U.S. Foreign Policy, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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The Judicial Application Of The Causation Test Of The False Statement Doctrine In Securities Litigation In China, Ling Dai

Washington International Law Journal

As part of the reform of China’s centrally planned economy, one of the primary purposes in establishing a stock market was to help state-owned enterprises raise sufficient capital from the public. The protection of investors’ interests was not essential in the initial contemplation of securities laws, though the listed companies have a duty of disclosure under the 1998 Securities Law. After the Supreme People’s Court promulgated its judicial interpretation of the false statement doctrine in civil securities cases in 2002, the lower courts started to interpret and apply the elements of the false statement doctrine in securities cases brought by …

Aiming Straight: The Use Of Indigenous Customary Law To Protect Traditional Cultural Expressions, Meghana Raorane

Washington International Law Journal

Globalization has led to the propagation of traditional cultural expressions of indigenous peoples outside their communities. Consequently, the question of how these expressions should be protected has acquired heightened significance. Commentators have proposed using existing intellectual property regimes and sui generis solutions. This Comment advocates a third solution, the use of indigenous customary laws of indigenous peoples to protect their particular traditional cultural expressions. Indigenous customary laws ensure effective protection of the traditional cultural expressions of indigenous peoples. The assumption that existing intellectual property regimes provide the only available protection is erroneous and constrains the development of effective solutions. Western …

Constitutional Adjudication In Post-1997 Hong Kong, Albert H.Y. Chen

Washington International Law Journal

In July 1997, the British colony of Hong Kong was returned to the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”). It became a Special Administrative Region (“SAR”) of the PRC in accordance with the concept of “one country, two systems” embodied by the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984. The constitutional instrument of Hong Kong’s new legal and political system is the Basic Law of the SAR of Hong Kong, enacted by the National People’s Congress of the PRC and effective as of July 1997. Under colonial rule, Hong Kong inherited a British-style legal system. English common law formed the foundation, and the …

Shaffer's Footnote 36, Arístides Díaz-Perosa

West Virginia Law Review

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A Taking Without Just Compensation? The Constitutionality Of Amortization Provisions For Nonconforming Uses, Julie R. Shank

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Institutional Professionalism For Lawyers: Realizing The Virtues Of Civic Professionalism, Steven K. Berenson

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Internet Filtering And The Adolescent Gay/Lesbian Patron, David Brian Holt

Law Librarian Scholarship

With the recent passage of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), and its constitutionality subsequently affirmed by the Supreme Court, libraries are faced with challenges presented by Internet filtering, and the obstacles to access it poses for disadvantaged patron groups. This paper discusses the ramifications of Internet filtering at public libraries on sexual minority youth and how this may translate into a negative health impact on this community and a restriction on intellectual freedom. Topics discussed include filtering technology, the risks it presents to equitable access, the disproportionate effect on the gay/lesbian community, and how filtering impairs the creation of …

Track Two Diplomacy: The Work Of Healing History, Joseph V. Montville

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

First Lady Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy Activism Of First Lady Clinton, Glenn P. Hastedt, Anthony J. Eksterowicz

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Address To Seton Hall University: Robert E. Andrews (D-Nj), Robert E. Andrews

Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

No abstract provided.

Aisr Connections, Fall 2006 (2006-2007 Orientation Issue)

The AC's Research Support Newsletter (Formerly AISR Connections)

No abstract provided.

Annotations, Cwbr_Editor

Civil War Book Review

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Searching For Social Capital In U.S. Microenterprise Development Programs, Nancy C. Jurik, Gray Cavender, Julie Cozogill

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper focuses on the claims and efforts of U.S. microenterprise development programs (MDPs) to build social capital among poor and low income entrepreneurs. MDPs offer business training and lending services to individuals operating very small businesses (with five or fewer employees and less than $20,000 in start-up capital). Advocates suggest that MDPs help promote economic development by building social capital defined as networks among small entrepreneurs and between entrepreneurs and their larger community. We begin our paper with a short review of the varied definitions and claims about the role of social capital in promoting civic and economic empowerment. …

Review Of When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community In Chicago. J. S. Fuerst. Reviewed By John Q. Hodges., John Q. Hodges

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of J. S. Fuerst, When Public Housing Was Paradise Building Community in Chicago. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005. $20.00 papercover.

Review Of Unequal Chances: Family Background And Economic Success. Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis And Melissa Osborne Groves. (Eds.). Reviewed By Larry Nackerud., Larry Nackerud

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne, (Eds.), Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. $35.00 hardcover.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, September, 1, 2006, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

September

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Hastings Community (Autumn 2006), Hastings College Of The Law Alumni Association

Hastings Alumni Publications

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Paying Ceos In Bankruptcy: Executive Compensation When Agency Costs Are Low, M. Todd Henderson

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Conventional wisdom suggests that high agency costs explain the (excessive) amounts and (inefficient) forms of CEO compensation. This paper offers a simple empirical test of this claim and the reform proposals that follow from it, by looking at pay practices in firms under financial distress, where agency costs are dramatically reduced. When a firm files for Chapter 11 or privately works out its debt with lenders, sophisticated investors consolidate ownership interests into a few large positions replacing diffuse and disinterested shareholders. These investors, be they banks or vulture investors, effectively control the debtor during the reorganization process. In addition, all …

Capstone Courses In Mass Communication Programs, Jack Rosenberry, Lauren Vicker

Media and Communication Faculty/Staff Publications

Many colleges and universities emphasize helping students make the transition into higher education. But transition to post-graduation life through approaches such as capstone courses has not received much attention. A survey of mass communication programs indicated that capstones are commonly used for both integration of prior learning and for transition to what students may face after graduation, and that mass communication programs appear to be meeting the challenge of blending these somewhat incongruous approaches. Mass communication capstones employ a wide variety of methods and content, but teachers and administrators appear satisfied with how the courses serve their programs. The survey’s …

Review: Americanization And Anti-Americanism In Europe, Gerd Horten

CUP Faculty Research

A review of the books Americanization and Anti-Americanism: The German Encounter with American Culture After 1945 by Alexander Stephan (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005) and The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism After 1945 by Alexander Stephan (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006)

Advocate, September 2006, Vol. [18], No. [1], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Graduate Center Set to Go Wireless: 1^st Phase Done by End of Spring ‘07, IT Provost says. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff (p. 1)

CUNY’s Iraq Vets Seeking New Purpose in Activism. Marriah Star (p. 1)

BoT Buys Baruch Prez a House. Advocate Staff (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: Our Fashionable Cynicism (p. 2)

GC Technology: New Tech Chief Faces Thankless Role. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff (p. 2)

Academic Repression in the First Person: Two Plus Two Make Four – and Substantiate It. Kevin Barrett (p. 3)

Dispatches from the Front: First-Person Essays on Teaching. The Politics and …

Franklin Pierce Law Center: Leading The Way In Legal Education For New Hampshire, John D. Hutson

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "This issue of the Pierce Law Review is the first devoted entirely to the practice of law in New Hampshire. This venture is appropriate because the Franklin Pierce Law Center is the only law school in the State. We are truly New Hampshire’s law school. Our Trustees, faculty, staff, and students feel this responsibility profoundly. Pierce Law serves as both a state law school and a national and international school. While we send a greater percentage of our graduates out of state than any other law school in the country except one, our alumni comprise fully one-third of the …

An Evaluation Of Library Instruction Delivered To Engineering Students Using Streaming Video, Jack M. Maness

University Libraries: Faculty Scholarship

This paper evaluates the use of streaming video applications in the delivery of information literacy instruction to engineering students. It describes the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) Engineering Library's implementation of streaming video to support graduate distance programs in the Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology Education (CAETE), and reviews library literature regarding the use of streaming technology. As an initial evaluation of the project, the preliminary results of a survey (n=27) comparing satisfaction levels and learning outcomes between students who attended library instruction sessions in-class versus via streaming video are given. The results reveal no significant difference in …

Acuta Enews September 2006, Vol. 35, No. 9

ACUTA Newsletters

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From ACUTA Headquarters: Looking Ahead...................... Jeri A. Semer, CAE, ACUTA Executive Director

Tech Talk: As a Framework, lTlL Leads the Way................ Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR

DC Update................ Jeanne Jansenius, University of the South

Wiretaps: lnterpreting the Constitution Becomes a Controversy.............. Pat Scott, ACUTA Comm. Mgr.

Board Report............... Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ. ACUTA Sec./Treasurer

ACUTA One-Day Workshop: Making Convergence Work

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Ssi News, Volume 2006, No. 2, September 2006, Gianni Benedetti, Mila Bottegal, Enrico Fratnik

SSI News: Notiziario della Società Speleologica Italiana

Contents: Editoriale -- Vita in SSI -- Dalle Commissioni -- Manifestazioni, corsi, convegni, congressi, incontri… -- Convocazione Assemblea ordinaria -- Verbale Assemblea Ordinaria del 8 aprile 2006

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 23, No. 3 (Fall 2006), Sharon Chamard, Antonia Moras, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics

Vols 21-30 (2004-2014)

The Fall 2006 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum features articles on the history and use of crime mapping by American police departments, an overview of Alaska and national figures on immigration, and findings from the Bureau of Justice Statistics on mental health and treatment in federal and state prisons and jails.

The Family History Artworks Of Valerie Atkisson, Josh E. Probert

BYU Studies

Valerie Atkisson, an artist who lives in the Bronx, New York, exemplifies a generation of Mormon artists who are at home navigating the world of Contemporary art while maintaining their personal and spiritual identity. Family history, transgenerational inquiry, and relatedness have been the majority subjects of Atkisson’s work thus far. “What began as an interest in my ancestors has turned into an insatiable desire to know as much about them as possible,” she says. “[My work] is a continuation of them, not just that my flesh and blood are a part of them, but the remembrance is also an extension …