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No Competition: How Radio Consolidation Has Diminished Diversity And Sacrificed Localism, Gregory M. Prindle
No Competition: How Radio Consolidation Has Diminished Diversity And Sacrificed Localism, Gregory M. Prindle
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
A Tribute To Retiring Senator Ernest Fritz Hollings, James E. Clyburn
A Tribute To Retiring Senator Ernest Fritz Hollings, James E. Clyburn
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Provincial Entitlement To Gas Trunk Line Ownership - Enforceability And Constitutionality, Dufferin Harper
Provincial Entitlement To Gas Trunk Line Ownership - Enforceability And Constitutionality, Dufferin Harper
Dalhousie Law Journal
The author discusses the interpretation of section 40 of the Nova Scotia Accord Act (Canada) and the Nova Scotia Accord Act (Nova Scotia). The section provides that the Government of Nova Scotia be given "a reasonable opportunity" to acquire on a "commercial basis" up to a fifty percent ownership in the Nova Scotia trunkine in certain circumstances. He points out that even though the dispute between the Federal and Provincial governments regarding the ownership of the offshore appears to be on hold, the issue is relevant to the application of section 40.
Consuming Government, Richard Schragger
Consuming Government, Richard Schragger
Michigan Law Review
In his ambitious new book, William Fischel, a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, gives us a new political animal: "The Homevoter." The homevoter is simply a homeowner who votes (p. ix). According to Fischel, she is the key to understanding the political economy of American local government. By implication, she is the key to understanding state and national government as well. Homeowners warrant special attention because "residents who own their own homes have a stake in the outcome of local politics that make them especially attentive to the public policies of local government" (p. ix). That is because local …
Myth Of Ownership / Myth Of Government, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Myth Of Ownership / Myth Of Government, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Indisputably, the lives of all individuals, now and throughout history, have not been commensurate in every respect. No individual has the most of everything at all times - net worth, love, happiness, security, companionship, fame, food, land, grandchildren, or whatever else he or she values.1 Nevertheless, a utopian strain in intellectual thought, emanating as the Enlightenment afterglow,2 continues to place its faith in the public construction of an ersatz equality that has never existed naturally.3 The Myth of Ownership, a recent book by two New York University law/philosophy professors, Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, is a striking exemplar of this …
Controlling Controlling Shareholders, Ronald J. Gilson, Jeffrey N. Gordon
Controlling Controlling Shareholders, Ronald J. Gilson, Jeffrey N. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
The rules governing controlling shareholders sit at the intersection of the two facets of the agency problem at the core of public corporations law. The first is the familiar principal-agency problem that arises from the separation of ownership and control. With only this facet in mind, a large shareholder may better police management than the standard panoply of market-oriented techniques. The second is the agency problem that arises between controlling and non-controlling shareholders, which produces the potential for private benefits of control. There is, however, a point of tangency between these facets. Because there are costs associated with holding a …