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The Scope Of Volunteer Activity And Public Service, Eleanor Brown
The Scope Of Volunteer Activity And Public Service, Eleanor Brown
Law and Contemporary Problems
Brown offers an overview of the scope of volunteering in the US, beginning with a definition of volunteers. She then considers the purposes to which volunteer labor is put, and examines some determinates of volunteering, paying particular attention to factors shaping the volunteer activities of the young and the old.
Community Service Programs In High Schools, Sally A. Raskoff, Richard A. Sundeen
Community Service Programs In High Schools, Sally A. Raskoff, Richard A. Sundeen
Law and Contemporary Problems
Raskoff and Sundeen examine youth socialization and civic participation through community service among high school students, with special focus on California. The look at high school community service programs --their practices, their collaborative relations with community organizations for which the students volunteer, and the perspectives of students regarding their participation in these school-sponsored programs.
Comment: Volunteering And Community Service, Steven Rathgeb Smith
Comment: Volunteering And Community Service, Steven Rathgeb Smith
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Comment: On Defining And Measuring Volunteering In The United States And Abroad, Emmett D. Carson
Comment: On Defining And Measuring Volunteering In The United States And Abroad, Emmett D. Carson
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Why “Amateurs”?, Charles T. Clotfelter
Why “Amateurs”?, Charles T. Clotfelter
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
The Constitutionality Of Mandatory Public School Community Service Programs, Rodney A. Smolla
The Constitutionality Of Mandatory Public School Community Service Programs, Rodney A. Smolla
Law and Contemporary Problems
Constitutional challenges to community service programs may be divided into two generic types--those raised by students or parents who object to the requirement of community service, and those raised by students, parents, organizations, or agencies who object to the selection criteria used to include or exclude organizations or agencies eligible to participate in community service programs.
Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers And The War On Poverty, Robert R. Korstad, James L. Leloudis
Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers And The War On Poverty, Robert R. Korstad, James L. Leloudis
Law and Contemporary Problems
During the summers of 1964 and 1965, more than 300 college students fanned out across the state of North Carolina in a bold campaign to defeat poverty and, as they saw it, to uplift the poor. Korstad and Leloudis trace the history of the North Carolina Fund's Volunteers program, provide an analysis of the contribution that those students made to fighting poverty in the state, and evaluate the impact of that experience on the lives of the Volunteers themselves.
Making The Most Of Volunteers, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Kathryn Furano
Making The Most Of Volunteers, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Kathryn Furano
Law and Contemporary Problems
Grossman and Furano discuss the elements that experience has shown need to be in place to allow volunteers to be most effective. Drawing from research on mentoring and youth service over the past twenty years, they explore effective volunteer practices, illustrating them with evaluation data and practical examples.
The Effects Of Volunteering On The Volunteer, John Wilson, Marc Musick
The Effects Of Volunteering On The Volunteer, John Wilson, Marc Musick
Law and Contemporary Problems
Wilson and Musick review some of the research on the supposed benefits of volunteering and describe briefly some of the results of their own work in this area. There is little doubt that there are individual benefits to be derived from doing volunteer work that reach far beyond the volunteer act itself and may linger long after the volunteer role is relinquished.
The Effective Use Of Volunteers: Best Practices For The Public Sector, Jeffrey L. Brudney
The Effective Use Of Volunteers: Best Practices For The Public Sector, Jeffrey L. Brudney
Law and Contemporary Problems
Brudney posits a relationship between the best practices and the benefits realized from volunteer involvement. A volunteer program in the public sector is sponsored by a government agency and, thus, occurs in an organizational context; remuneration is not provided for volunteers' contributions, but reimbursement for their expenses is permitted; the time is given freely, yet volunteers may certainly benefit as well, and the work fulfills ongoing responsibilities of the host agency.
Volunteering In Cross-National Perspective: Initial Comparisons, Helmut K. Anheier, Lester M. Salamon
Volunteering In Cross-National Perspective: Initial Comparisons, Helmut K. Anheier, Lester M. Salamon
Law and Contemporary Problems
Anheier and Salamon shed some light on volunteering in different parts of the world by exploring the conceptions and patterns of voluntary action cross-nationally. As a cultural and economic phenomenon, volunteering is part of the way societies are organized, how they allocate social responsibilities, and how much engagement and participation they expect from citizens.
Comment: Enabling Public Service, James Clotfelter
Comment: Enabling Public Service, James Clotfelter
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Anatomy Of A Governance Transformation: The Case Of Daimler-Benz, Dennis E. Logue, James K. Seward
Anatomy Of A Governance Transformation: The Case Of Daimler-Benz, Dennis E. Logue, James K. Seward
Law and Contemporary Problems
Logue and Seward examine the evolutionary transformation in the corporate governance structure of Daimler-Benz AG, the largest German industrial company. Over the last several years, Daimler-Benz has taken numerous steps toward prioritizing shareholder value more intensely than ever before.
The Purposes And Accountability Of The Corporation In Contemporary Society: Corporate Governance At A Crossroads, Michael Bradley, Cindy A. Schipani, Anant K. Sundaram, James P. Walsh
The Purposes And Accountability Of The Corporation In Contemporary Society: Corporate Governance At A Crossroads, Michael Bradley, Cindy A. Schipani, Anant K. Sundaram, James P. Walsh
Law and Contemporary Problems
Little attention has been paid to how the governance structures of public corporations adapt to structural changes in the social, political, economic and legal environments in which they operate. Bradley et al chronicle the recent changes in the conduct of business enterprise and establish the necessary conditions for a system of corporate governance capable of accommodating these changes.
Comment On Dunfee, A. A. Sommer Jr.
Comment On Dunfee, A. A. Sommer Jr.
Law and Contemporary Problems
Sommer comments on the framework provided by Dunfee in which managers can make rational--and rationalized--decisions as to when ethical considerations may supersede shareholder interests.
Banded Contracts, Mediating Institutions, And Corporate Governance: A Naturalist Analysis Of Contractual Theories Of The Firm, Timothy L. Fort, James J. Noone
Banded Contracts, Mediating Institutions, And Corporate Governance: A Naturalist Analysis Of Contractual Theories Of The Firm, Timothy L. Fort, James J. Noone
Law and Contemporary Problems
Fort and Noone relate business ethics to notions of transcendence found in nature and anthropology. They address the notion of contracts within corporate legal theory because contracts are used as a model both by those who advocate minimalist, agency business duties and by others who propound a broad business ethic.
The Figure In The Landscape: A Comparative Sketch Of Directors’ Self-Interested Transactions, Deborah A. Demott
The Figure In The Landscape: A Comparative Sketch Of Directors’ Self-Interested Transactions, Deborah A. Demott
Law and Contemporary Problems
Focusing on Part X of the UK's Companies Act 1985, DeMott draws contrasts with corporate law in the US. Part X has a style and feel that is distinctly different from counterpart provisions in the US corporate statutes.
Foreword, Michael Bradley, Cindy A. Schipani, Anant K. Sundaram, James P. Walsh
Foreword, Michael Bradley, Cindy A. Schipani, Anant K. Sundaram, James P. Walsh
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Required Disclosure And Corporate Governance, Merritt B. Fox
Required Disclosure And Corporate Governance, Merritt B. Fox
Law and Contemporary Problems
Little scholarly attention has been paid to the corporate governance effects of required disclosure. In analyzing these effects, Fox concludes that required disclosure can improve corporate governance in important ways.
Corporate Governance In A Market With Morality, Thomas W. Dunfee
Corporate Governance In A Market With Morality, Thomas W. Dunfee
Law and Contemporary Problems
Dunfee analyzes the implications for corporate governance of the existence of morality within consumer and capital markets. Analysis of the role of moral desires within markets represents a new way of looking at the long-standing debate concerning the social responsibility of corporations.
Preemption And Federalism In Corporate Governance: Protecting Shareholder Rights To Vote, Sell, And Sue, Robert B. Thompson
Preemption And Federalism In Corporate Governance: Protecting Shareholder Rights To Vote, Sell, And Sue, Robert B. Thompson
Law and Contemporary Problems
Thompson examines the changed roles of the state and federal governments since the enactment of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998. He notes that these changes have created a greater dependence on federal law, a greater emphasis on the voting function of shareholders, and the likelihood of additional argument over traditional corporate issues.
Decline Of The “Little Parliament”: Juries And Jury Reform In England And Wales, Sally Lloyd-Bostock, Cheryl Thomas
Decline Of The “Little Parliament”: Juries And Jury Reform In England And Wales, Sally Lloyd-Bostock, Cheryl Thomas
Law and Contemporary Problems
Lloyd-Bostock and Thomas take a historical look at the English jury and place the jury and jury reform in the context of the English legal and political system.
The Canadian Criminal Jury: Searching For A Middle Ground, Neil Vidmar
The Canadian Criminal Jury: Searching For A Middle Ground, Neil Vidmar
Law and Contemporary Problems
Vidmar discusses the history of the Canadian jury and develops a profile of the Canadian jury today. The law and rationale behind the procedures involved in the "Bernardo" trial are also described.
The Scottish Criminal Jury: A Very Peculiar Institution, Peter Duff
The Scottish Criminal Jury: A Very Peculiar Institution, Peter Duff
Law and Contemporary Problems
Duff describes and discusses the Scottish criminal jury. While the exact origins of the Scottish criminal jury are obscure, it is clear that it developed in tandem with, although in a different fashion from, its English counterpart.
The Civil Jury In America, Stephan Landsman
The Civil Jury In America, Stephan Landsman
Law and Contemporary Problems
Landsman explores several questions about the function of the modern civil jury in America, including why juries have been given so important a place in the judicial process and how the jury ought to be constituted to carry ought its work.
Criminal Trial Juries In Australia: From Penal Colonies To A Federal Democracy, Michael Chesterman
Criminal Trial Juries In Australia: From Penal Colonies To A Federal Democracy, Michael Chesterman
Law and Contemporary Problems
The recent history of juries in Australia reveals an interesting clash between the endeavours of state and territory governments to reduce the costs associated with jury trial by various means and the determination of the High Court of Australia to reassert the traditional values and features of jury trial.
Foreword, Neil Vidmar