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Codes Of Ethics In Business, Michael Davis

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, October 26, 1988.

Do Professors Need Professional Ethics As Much As Doctors And Lawyers?, James W. Nickel

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers Published by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University.

The "Nexus Of Contracts" Corporation: A Critical Appraisal, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Biomedical Ethics In The Soviet Union, Richard T. De George

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

*This is an abbreviated version of a paper presented first at a joint MIT-Harvard Faculty Seminar on the humanistic dimensions of Soviet Science on November 20, 1987, and then at the Western Michigan University Ethics Center on February 10, 1988. An expanded, fully documented version, under the title "Soviet Biomedical Ethics" will appear in a volume edited by Loren Graham, and tentatively entitled The Human Side of Soviet Science, Harvard University Press, 1989.

Affirmative Action Defended, Laurence Thomas

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper is based on a presentation made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society October 14, 1987.

Thoughts On Keeping My Mouth Shut, David H. Smith

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper is based on a presentation made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, April 4, 1986.

Uncertainty, Efficiency, And The Brokerage Industry, Michael S. Knoll

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Workable Antitrust Law: The Statutory Approach To Antitrust, Thomas Arthur

Faculty Articles

This Article will demonstrate the superiority of the statutory approach for producing more stable and consistent antitrust law. Part I details the development of the constitutional approach to antitrust, demonstrating how the rise of the pragmatic and instrumentalist view of law led to the displacement of the original statutory approach to antitrust. Part II illustrates that the constitutional approach fundamentally cannot produce workable antitrust law. It summarizes both the doctrinal disarray that continues to plague each major area of antitrust law and the irreconcilable policy prescriptions of the contending antitrust "schools." Part III presents an alternative, statutory approach to antitrust …

Ethics In Academia, Diether H. Haenicke

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper is based on a presentation made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, April 4, 1986.

"All Cretans Are Liars": The Fight Against Corporate Crime, John Flood

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Mystery And Myth Of "Ostensible Ownership" And Article 9 Filing: A Critique Of Proposals To Extend Filing Requirements To Leases, Charles W. Mooney Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ethical Norms In Science, Rachelle D. Hollander

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers Presented to the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University.

Rethinking The Rules Against Corporate Privacy Rights: Some Conceptual Quandries For The Common Law, Anita L. Allen

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Duties To Offset Competitive Advantages, Richard B. Dagen, Michael S. Knoll

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Developments In Law - Toxic Waste Litigation, Howard F. Chang

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Discipline And Due Process In The Workplace, Edwin B. Dean

Hospitality Review

In the article - Discipline and Due Process in the Workplace – by Edwin B. Dean, Assistant Professor, the School of Hospitality Management at Florida International University, Assistant Professor Dean prefaces his article with the statement: “Disciplining employees is often necessary for the maintenance of an effective operation. The author discusses situations which require discipline and methods of handling employees, including the need for rules and due process.”

In defining what constitutes appropriate discipline and what doesn’t, Dean says, “Fair play is the keystone to discipline in the workplace. Discrimination, caprice, favoritism, and erratic and inconsistent discipline can be costly …

In Search Of The Role Of The Private Producer In The Argentine Petroleum Industry, Stephen L. Snow

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Speculations On The Role Of Context In Boycott Cases, Robert H. Heidt

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Judge Friendly's Contributions To Securities Law And Criminal Procedure: "Moderation Is All", Frank Goodman

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Interpretation Of Contracts Governing Corporate Debt Relationships, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Economics And Jurisprudence Of Convertible Bonds, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

Professor Bratton examines judicial regulation of issuer-bondholder conflicts of interest within three different, but closely related doctrinal frameworks: neoclassical contract interpretation; contract avoidance; and corporate law fiduciary restraint. After discussing the elements of convertible bond valuation and their interaction with issuer actions giving rise to conflicts of interest, he evaluates the case for judicial intervention to protect bondholder interests. He concludes that ·bondholder protective intervention is fair and tolerably efficient, provided it is kept within the bounds of contract interpretation. But he finds that more aggressive judicial intervention under the frameworks of contract avoidance and fiduciary restraint carries an unnecessary …

Utah's Business Name Statutes: "An Open Invitation To Litigation", Richard E. Turley Jr.

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Business Planning For Hazardous Waste Management: Requirements, Risks. And Strategies, David W. Tundermann

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Accounting And Business Law, Ludwik Kulas

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

The Insurance Classification Controversy, Regina Austin

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Dismissing Derivative Suits Under The Business Judgment Rule: Zapata Corp. V. Maldonado, J. Brad Wiggins

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Summary Of Labor Impacts During Construction : Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project, Edward C. Jordan Company, Inc.

Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project

This study is to assess the effects or impacts of construction and operation of the Dickey-Lincoln hydroelectric project upon the people in the St. John Valley, Maine, and New England. Having determined the effects of the project, a second objective is to discuss mitigation of defined adverse impacts. More specifically, this study attempts to identify adverse impacts and deal with how to minimize such impacts if at all possible.

A Systems Study Of Oil Pollution Abatement And Control For Portland Inner And Outer Harbor, Casco Bay, Maine, Arthur D. Little, Inc.

Maine Collection

A Systems Study of Oil Pollution Abatement and Control for Portland Inner and Outer Harbor, Casco Bay, Maine

to State of Maine, Department of Environmental Protection, State House Augusta, Maine 04330

Appropriation Number 4320-4001

by Arthur D. Little, Incorporated, 20 Acorn Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 (March 15, 1976).

Contents: Executive Summary / 1. Introduction / 2. Identification of Vulnerable Resources / 3. Potential Oil Spill Locations / 4. Oil Spill Movement / 5. Containment and Disposal Systems / 6. Oil Monitoring Systems / 7. Marine Navigation In Portland Inner and Outer Harbors / Appendices

Book Review. The Corporation In Modern Society. Edited By Edward S. Mason, Thomas Ehrlich

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Law, Attempts To Monopolize A Method Of Doing Business, Daniel U. Livermore Jr.

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.