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Cross-Country Adoption: A Call To Action, Anthony D'Amato
Cross-Country Adoption: A Call To Action, Anthony D'Amato
Faculty Working Papers
Although a free press is an integral part of democratic governance, intercountry adoption is one case in which the media makes it virtually impossible for governments to send children abroad for adoption. A country (State A) which gives up a child for intercountry adoption should receive a "credit" for that child which will entitle any other family within State A that may want to adopt a child to priority on the list at the Vatican. The second major function for the Intercountry Adoption Agency might be called the "annual report" function. All adoptive parents who take a child from the …
Obama's Equivocal Defense Of Agency Independence, Kevin M. Stack
Obama's Equivocal Defense Of Agency Independence, Kevin M. Stack
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
You can't judge a President by his view of Article II. At the very least, only looking to a President's construction of Article II gives a misleading portrait of the actual legal authority recent Presidents have asserted.
President Obama is no exception, as revealed by his defense of the constitutionality of an independent agency from challenge under Article II in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board' (PCAOB) in the Supreme Court this term. The PCAOB is an independent agency, located inside the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), created to regulate accounting of public companies in the wake of …
Agency And Partnership Law [2009], Pearlie Koh, Stephen Bull
Agency And Partnership Law [2009], Pearlie Koh, Stephen Bull
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The laws relating to the creation of an agency, implied authority, holding out and apparent authority, duties of the agent in relation to Agency law are discussed. The laws relating to partnership law and issues such as relationship of partners to third parties, relationships of partners between themselves and capacity to be a partner are highlighted.