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Communicating Governance: Will Plain English Drafting Improve Regulation?, Steven L. Schooner
Communicating Governance: Will Plain English Drafting Improve Regulation?, Steven L. Schooner
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
It should come as no surprise that the Bush administration showed little interest in adopting Vice President Gore's ambitious, high profile National Performance Review (NPR) agenda. One area, however, where the Bush administration would do well to embrace the NPR's efforts is the plain language initiative. While it would be hyperbole to suggest that the NPR's efforts dramatically improved the clarity of the government's written communication (including statutes, regulations, policies, instructions, etc.), some progress was made. Yet it will take some time before a commitment to writing in plain, clear, precise English becomes a cultural (or governmental) norm. Even though …
Fear Of Oversight: The Fundamental Failure Of Businesslike Government, Steven L. Schooner
Fear Of Oversight: The Fundamental Failure Of Businesslike Government, Steven L. Schooner
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This article discusses the National Performance Review's (NPR's) broad-reaching effort to reinvent government by making it more businesslike, focusing on its successful effort to reform the Federal procurement process. The article shows that the reformed system couples greatly increased buyer discretion with dramatically reduced oversight of government spending - both internal and external. This article asserts that this combination erodes the public's confidence in the procurement system, violates established norms, and is antithetical to a host of Congressional mandates and policies. More particularly, the article provides empirical evidence of the dramatic, sustained reduction in government contract related litigation during the …
Accounting Standards And German Supplementary Pensions: The Emerging Framework Underpinning Global Finance, Daniel I. Gordon
Accounting Standards And German Supplementary Pensions: The Emerging Framework Underpinning Global Finance, Daniel I. Gordon
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
In this paper we focus on the current status of German employer-sponsored supplementary pensions in the context of moves towards the harmonization of international accounting standards. We emphasize the changing standards used to measure pension liability, and the consequences of these changes for (firstly) corporate management discretion and (secondly) German under-funded systems of defined benefit pensions. In combination, we show that claimed historical differences between the Anglo-American market for corporate control and the German system of entrenched management within interlocking boards of supervision are now less compelling than assumed. Adoption of international and US financial accounting standards by leading German …
German Social Market In The World Of Global Finance: Pension Investment Management And The Limits Of Consensual Decision Making, Daniel I. Gordon, Daniel Mansfield, Adam Tickell
German Social Market In The World Of Global Finance: Pension Investment Management And The Limits Of Consensual Decision Making, Daniel I. Gordon, Daniel Mansfield, Adam Tickell
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
In a previous paper we emphasised the changing national and international accounting standards used to measure net pension liability. Beginning with the implications of this analysis for the financing of German employer-sponsored pensions, in this paper we focus upon the internal management of corporate pension assets and liabilities. Two issues drive the analysis. One has to do with the emerging coalescence of interests joining corporate management and shareholders in relation to the management of pension assets and liabilities. The second issue has to do with the allocation of risk and uncertainty between social partners when negotiating the financing and final …
The Ftca Discretionary Function Exception And Accounting Malpractice, Steven L. Schooner
The Ftca Discretionary Function Exception And Accounting Malpractice, Steven L. Schooner
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
These two short pieces discuss General Dynamics Corp. v. United States, in which the Ninth Circuit reversed what appeared to be the first successful use of the Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA) by a government contractor to pursue a professional malpractice claim against a federal agency, awarding more than $25 million in damages due to professional malpractice committed by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). The latter piece: (1) briefly summarizes the history of the case, explaining how a routine contractual compliance audit lead to a $25 million malpractice award; (2) introduces the discretionary function exception to the FTCA; (3) …
What Next? A Heuristic Approach To Revitalizing The Contract Disputes Act Of 1978, Steven L. Schooner
What Next? A Heuristic Approach To Revitalizing The Contract Disputes Act Of 1978, Steven L. Schooner
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This essay, included in a 1999 special issue examining the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) of 1978 at its twentieth anniversary, begins from the premise that the statute's critics have valid reason to perceive that the CDA fails to provide a "fair and balanced system of administrative and judicial procedures for the settlement of claims and disputes." The essay suggests a framework for a meaningful debate over what an improved and invigorated CDA should look like but, in the end, raises more questions than it answers. Its purpose is heuristic; to frame a debate (which many feel is long overdue) as …
A Modest Proposal To Enhance Civil/Military Integration: Rethinking The Renegotiation Regime As A Regulatory Mechanism To Decriminalize Cost, Pricing, And Profit Policy, William E. Kovacic, Steven L. Schooner
A Modest Proposal To Enhance Civil/Military Integration: Rethinking The Renegotiation Regime As A Regulatory Mechanism To Decriminalize Cost, Pricing, And Profit Policy, William E. Kovacic, Steven L. Schooner
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Neither Congress, the procuring agencies, the media, nor the public will condone government contractors reaping what are perceived as excessive profits. Accordingly, the procurement process employs an unduly complex, burdensome, risk-laden, and ineffective mechanism that erects significant barriers to civil/military integration. This paper (presented at the 1999 Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) Acquisition Research Symposium) examines certain policy implications associated with the Truth In Negotiations Act (TINA), the existing audit regime, and the use of criminal and civil anti-fraud measures to scrutinize deviations from these complex cost, pricing, and profit policies and controls. It re-visits the long-extinct Renegotiation Act and …