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Giving Every Child A Chance: The Need For Reform And Infrastructure In Intercountry Adoption Policy, Rachel J. Wechsler

Rachel J. Wechsler

This essay is both descriptive and normative in nature. Its purpose is to describe the current intercountry adoption regime along with its problems, and to propose a much-needed solution. At the outset, the paper explains the great need for intercountry adoption, highlighting empirical research on child development. Secondly, it gives an overview of past and present international adoption policy. Thirdly, the essay describes the problems in the current policy regime. Finally, it proposes an international agency and Family Court as a new approach to intercountry adoption that will solve many of the failures of the current system.

Worldwide Corporate Governance Convergence Within A Pluralistic Business Legal Order---Company Law And Independent Director System In Contemporary China , Chi-Wei Huang

Chi-Wei Huang

Worldwide Corporate Governance Convergence within A Pluralistic Business Legal Order—Company Law and Independent Director System in Contemporary China

Chi-Wei Huang, S.J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School March 29, 2007

Abstract:

A deeper tendency across developed market jurisdictions has been a convergence toward a single, standard corporate structure. The essential legal features of a shareholder-oriented ideology are well established among those developed market jurisdictions and noticeably dominate the development of worldwide corporate forms. Striving to increase long-term shareholder value has become the most competitive corporate governance theory among developed economies. A series of examinations of worldwide corporate governance and ownership have …