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Hearing On Telecommunications - Long Distance Competition And Equal Access, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities
Hearing On Telecommunications - Long Distance Competition And Equal Access, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities
California Senate
No abstract provided.
Interim Hearing On Emerging Utility Trends: Competition And Diversificaiton, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities
Interim Hearing On Emerging Utility Trends: Competition And Diversificaiton, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities
California Senate
No abstract provided.
Informational Hearing On Computers And Warranty Protection For Consumers, California State Assembly
Informational Hearing On Computers And Warranty Protection For Consumers, California State Assembly
California Assembly
No abstract provided.
Petroleum Violation Escrow Account Funding Proposal Process, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities
Petroleum Violation Escrow Account Funding Proposal Process, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities
California Senate
No abstract provided.
Hearing On Telephone Divestiture - One Year After: Impact On State Consumers And Providers, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities
Hearing On Telephone Divestiture - One Year After: Impact On State Consumers And Providers, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities
California Senate
No abstract provided.
New Video Technologies In The United States: Regulatory And Intellectual Property Considerations, Michael Botein
New Video Technologies In The United States: Regulatory And Intellectual Property Considerations, Michael Botein
Articles & Chapters
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Western Ideology, Japanese Product Safety Regulation And International Trade, David S. Cohen
Western Ideology, Japanese Product Safety Regulation And International Trade, David S. Cohen
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
For the purposes of this paper, the barriers to an open Japanese market will be divided into two categories: Direct Official Barriers, and Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs). The first category consists of positive restraints on imports such as tariffs and quotas. In response to Western criticism the Japanese government has, since the early 1960s, undertaken measures to dismantle gradually the aggressive protectionist wall which may have been necessary to revive the Japanese economy after the Second World War. In fact, in terms of quotas and tariffs, many observers presently consider Japan to be less protectionist than many North American and European …
Review Of The Regulation Of Quality, Products, Services, Workplaces And The Environment, David S. Cohen
Review Of The Regulation Of Quality, Products, Services, Workplaces And The Environment, David S. Cohen
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Market Incentives For Safety, W. Kip Viscusi
Market Incentives For Safety, W. Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In the heated atmosphere generated by inch-high headlines and multimillion-dollar liability suits, two important facts often get lost. First, society's awareness of what ensuring reasonably complete safety would cost rarely matches the intensity of its demands for such assurance. And second, the most powerful forces working to make products and workplaces safer are not the edicts of government but the dynamics of the market. True, there are situations in which the market cannot by itself create effective incentives for safety, but in the vast majority of cases it can-and does. Drawing on his extensive research into the regulation of risk, …
Coercive Appointments Of Counsel In Civil Cases In Forma Pauperis: An Easy Case Makes Hard Law, William B. Fisch
Coercive Appointments Of Counsel In Civil Cases In Forma Pauperis: An Easy Case Makes Hard Law, William B. Fisch
Faculty Publications
The power to appoint an unwilling attorney, whether judicial or statutory in origin, has been challenged in principle on three grounds, founded in the Federal Constitution and its state counterparts: (i) that to require the lawyer to serve constitutes involuntary servitude, within the meaning of the thirteenth amendment;' (ii) that it constitutes an unlawful taking of property, or at the very least constitutes a taking for a public use which requires just compensation, under the fifth amendment;8 and (iii) that to subject attorneys as a class to such an obligation constitutes discrimination which would deny them equal protection of the …