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Faculty Salary Compression: A Model For Response, Elizabeth Reilly, Chand Midha, Thomas Calderon, Richard Steiner

Thomas Calderon

This paper describes a process used by The University of Akron to address salary compression. The process allocates salary adjustment resources to disciplines based on relative salary ratios derived from benchmarks. Amounts earmarked for specific disciplines are then distributed to departments for allocation to individual faculty based on merit. The process also invokes concepts of fairness and equity, and includes a component distributed to productive faculty members based on rank and experience. Outcomes, challenges, and implications of the process are examined.

How Applicable Is The Dominant Firm Model Of Price Leadership, Bart Wilson

Bart J Wilson

No abstract provided.

Introduction To The Civil Procedure Puzzle, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.

Appointed To The Scientific Committee Of The European Centre For Life Sciences, Health, And The Courts At The Collegio Ghislieri At The University Of Pavia, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

Normativity And Biomedicine In The United States Of America, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

De Quinlan À Schiavo: Le Droit À La Mort Et Le Droit À La Vie En Droit Américain, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

Texas Family Law: A Focus On Property Issues, Sydney Beckman, Heather King, Bruce Beverly, Randall Wilhite

Bruce L. Beverly

No abstract provided.

Courts Should 'Send Message' To Prosecutors, Timothy O'Neill

Timothy P. O'Neill

What’S Wrong With An International Labor Market?, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.

Journalism Ethics In Wartime, Erik Ugland, Karen Slattery

Erik Ugland

No abstract provided.

Data, Detention, And Girls, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.

Group Justice? Legal Moves That Lump Pharma Cases Together Are Bad For Justice And Bad For The Industry, William Janssen

William M. Janssen

This article critiques the judicial penchant for combining drug and device tort cases together for adjudication, and posits that the functional challenges encountered with such efficiencies compromise the essential truth-finding process of such litigation.

The Many Legal Institutions That Support Contractual Commitment, Gillian K. Hadfield

Gillian K Hadfield

One of the fundamental contributions of transaction cost theory and institutional economics has been to focus attention on opening the "black box" of contract enforcement, drawing attention to the institutions required to achieve effective and low-cost contract enforcement. The idea that the effectiveness of contract law is critical to the growth of economic activity is widespread in the literature on development and transition economies. Recent studies attempting to document toe relative strength of contract enforcement in different settings (La Porta, et al., 19982; Djankov, et al., 2003), however, have focused on relatively abstract notions of "courts" and "legal systems" and …

Unsettling Efficiency: When Non-Class Aggregation Of Mass Torts Creates Second-Class Settlements, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Abstract: The potential for attorneys to collude in reaching a settlement agreement arises in any large-scale aggregation of mass torts. In the 1990s, attorneys settled seventy-four percent of the mass tort cases consolidated for transfer by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Even though most mass tort litigation settles, the judicial system ensures the fairness and integrity of settlements only in the bankruptcy and class action contexts. Consequently, the fairness of the settlement can vary depending on how the judicial system aggregates the claims. Only thirty-nine percent of aggregated claims resulted in class action settlements. Two percent received bankruptcy protections. …

Help Is On The Way, Gail A. Partin, Mary Ann Neary, Jennifer Murray

Gail A. Partin

No abstract provided.

The Normativity Of Law In Law And Economics, Péter Cserne

Péter Cserne

This paper is about some theoretical and methodological problems of law and economics. I will use game theoretical insights to address an issue which is relevant both for law and economics and legal philosophy: How should a social scientific analysis of law account for the normativity of law, i.e. the non-instrumental reasons for rule-following while retaining the observer’s (explanatory or descriptive) perspective. My goal is to offer a constructive critique of both traditional law and economics scholarship and mainstream analytical legal philosophy in this respect. I will try to find out how law and economics has to account for the …

Advanced Judicial Opinion Writing, Gerald Lebovits

Hon. Gerald Lebovits

No abstract provided.

“Mediation Presents Opportunities To Meet Objectives”, Abraham Gafni

Abraham Gafni

No abstract provided.

Conduct, Results And Knowledge, Timothy O'Neill

Timothy P. O'Neill

Mgm V. Grokster, Brief Amici Curiae Of The Computer & Communications Industry Association And Internet Archive, In Opposition To The Writ Of Certiorari, To The United States Supreme Court, Laura Quilter, Peter Jaszi

Peter Jaszi

War, Responsibility, And The Age Of Terrorism, John C. Yoo

John C Yoo

This Article questions the widely-held view, expressed most clearly by John Hart Ely's War and Responsibility, that Congress must provide ex ante approval for all uses of force. It critiques Ely's approach, both his method of constitutional interpretation and his substantive goals for the war-making process. It proposes a different vision for war powers that provides more flexibility to the political branches. It then argues that a Congress-first process does not produce its desired substantive outcomes, and questions whether the costs and benefits of different war-making processes are sufficiently clear to cement one into place as a matter of constitutional …

Appointed To The Scientific Committee Of The European Centre For Life Sciences, Health, And The Courts At The Collegio Ghislieri At The University Of Pavia, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

Jobs, Christian Johnson

Christian A. Johnson

Debate Club: Should The Ninth Circuit Be Divided?, Jennifer Spreng, Carl Tobias

Jennifer E Spreng

No abstract provided.

Clarifying The Law On Post-Employment Covenants, E. Joan Blum

E. Joan Blum

No abstract provided.

Six Tips For Making Briefs More Persuasive, Susan Duncan

Susan Duncan

This short bar article suggests several techniques for improving briefs.

Case Comment On F. Hoffman-Laroche Ltd. V. Empagran S.A. In 'The Supreme Court 2003 Term: Leading Cases. Iii Federal Statutes And Regulations: E. Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act', Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

No abstract provided.

The Consolidated Maritime Labour Convention: A Marriage Of The Traditional And The New, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

No abstract provided.

Inadvertent Disclosure: A Cautionary Tale Of A Speakerphone And A Voicemail Message , Grace M. Giesel

Grace M. Giesel

No abstract provided.

Write The Cites Right—Part Ii, Gerald Lebovits

Hon. Gerald Lebovits

No abstract provided.