Elections, Ideology, And Turnover In The U.S. Federal Government,
2016
Duke Law School
Elections, Ideology, And Turnover In The U.S. Federal Government, Alexander D. Bolton, John De Figueiredo, David E. Lewis
Faculty Scholarship
A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence public sector careers. We describe how elections alter policy outputs and disrupt the influence of civil servants over agency decisions. These changes shape the career choices of employees motivated by policy, influence, and wages. Using new Office of Personnel Management data on the careers of millions of federal employees between 1988 and 2011, we evaluate how elections influence employee turnover decisions. We find that presidential elections increase departure rates of career senior employees, particularly in agencies with divergent …
Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, And The Competence-Control Trade-Off,
2016
Duke Law School
Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, And The Competence-Control Trade-Off, Charles M. Cameron, John De Figueiredo, David E. Lewis
Faculty Scholarship
We model personnel policies in public agencies, examining how wages and promotion standards can partially offset a fundamental contracting problem: the inability of public sector workers to contract on performance, and the inability of political masters to contract on forbearance from meddling. Despite the dual contracting problem, properly constructed personnel policies can encourage intrinsically motivated public sector employees to invest in expertise, seek promotion, remain in the public sector, and develop policy projects. However, doing so requires internal personnel policies that sort "slackers" from "zealots." Personnel policies that accomplish this task are quite different in agencies where acquired expertise has …
Who's Afraid Of The Hated Political Gerrymander?,
2016
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Who's Afraid Of The Hated Political Gerrymander?, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The political gerrymander has few friends among scholars and commentators. Even a majority on the Supreme Court agreed that the practice violates constitutional and democratic norms. And yet, this is one of the few issues that the US. Supreme Court refuses to regulate. The justices mask their refusal to regulate this area on a professed inability to divine judicially-manageable standards. In turn, scholars offer new standards for the justices to consider. This is not only a mistake but also misguided. The history of the political question doctrine makes clear that the discovery of manageable standards has never controlled the Court's …
The Political Economy Of "Constitutional Political Economy",
2016
Columbia Law School
The Political Economy Of "Constitutional Political Economy", Jeremy K. Kessler
Faculty Scholarship
Since the early 1990s, constitutional history has experienced a renaissance. This revival had many causes, but three stand out: the Rehnquist Court's attack on formerly sacrosanct features of the "New Deal agenda"; Reagan-Era reassessments of American political development by political scientists, historians, and historical sociologists; and the frustration of constitutional scholars with the inability of legal process theory or political philosophy to produce "authoritative constitutional principles." Spurred by legal crisis and this mix of disciplinary innovation and stagnation, law professors began to tell new stories about our constitutional heritage. They focused on the sources and significance of the New Deal's …
Toward A Political Theory For Private International Law,
2016
Touro Law Center
Toward A Political Theory For Private International Law, John Linarelli
Scholarly Works
Private international law presents a dilemma for legal and political philosophy. Legal and political philosophers have ignored private international law, with only a few scattered attempts to evaluate its claims. Private international law offers a powerful set of counterexamples that put into serious doubt attempts to link law’s authority only or primarily to relationships between states and citizens. No society, state, or other practice-mediated relationship can serve as grounds for the authority of private international law to persons to whom it applies but who are outside of such relationships. Private international law affects the normative situations of persons entirely outside …
Making Ends Meet: Using A Market-Based Approach To Incentivize Foreign Vessels To Comply With The Air Emission Standards Of Marpol Annex Vi,
2015
Penn State Dickinson Law
Making Ends Meet: Using A Market-Based Approach To Incentivize Foreign Vessels To Comply With The Air Emission Standards Of Marpol Annex Vi, Xiaoxin Shi
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
One More Brick In The Wall: The Impact Of Personal Jurisdiction Of Ex Juris Defendants On The Relationship Between The United States And Canada,
2015
Penn State Dickinson Law
One More Brick In The Wall: The Impact Of Personal Jurisdiction Of Ex Juris Defendants On The Relationship Between The United States And Canada, Matthew Johnson
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
The Protection Of Intellectual Property Licenses In Insolvency: Lessons From The Nortel Case,
2015
University of Toronto
The Protection Of Intellectual Property Licenses In Insolvency: Lessons From The Nortel Case, Anthony Duggan, Norman Siebrasse
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
Judicial Implementation Of South Africa’S New Business Rescue Model: A Preliminary Assessment,
2015
University of Fort Hare
Judicial Implementation Of South Africa’S New Business Rescue Model: A Preliminary Assessment, Patrick C. Osode
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
High-Tech Companies And The Decision To “Go Public”: Are Backdoor Listings (Still) An Alternative To “Front-Door” Initial Public Offerings?,
2015
Tilburg Law School
High-Tech Companies And The Decision To “Go Public”: Are Backdoor Listings (Still) An Alternative To “Front-Door” Initial Public Offerings?, Erik P.M. Vermeulen
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
Commercial Law And The Public Interest,
2015
Penn State Dickinson Law
Commercial Law And The Public Interest, Jay Lawrence Westbrook
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
The Colombian Simplified Corporation: An Empirical Analysis Of A Success Story In Corporate Law Reform,
2015
Los Andes University School of Law
The Colombian Simplified Corporation: An Empirical Analysis Of A Success Story In Corporate Law Reform, Francisco Reyes
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
The Natural Person, Legal Entity Or Juridical Person And Juridical Personality,
2015
Penn State Dickinson Law
The Natural Person, Legal Entity Or Juridical Person And Juridical Personality, Elvia Arcelia Quintana Adriano
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
Justifications For Ucc Article 9’S Treatment Of Deposit Accounts: A Comparative Note,
2015
McGill University
Justifications For Ucc Article 9’S Treatment Of Deposit Accounts: A Comparative Note, Catherine Walsh
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Party Autonomy In The Enforcement Of Secured Creditor’S Rights: International Developments,
2015
University of Teramo
The Role Of Party Autonomy In The Enforcement Of Secured Creditor’S Rights: International Developments, Anna Veneziano
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
Party Autonomy And Consumer Arbitration In Conflict: A “Trojan Horse” In The Access To Justice In The E.U. Adr-Directive 2013/11?,
2015
Penn State Dickinson Law
Party Autonomy And Consumer Arbitration In Conflict: A “Trojan Horse” In The Access To Justice In The E.U. Adr-Directive 2013/11?, Norbert Reich
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
Arbitration clauses in consumer contracts have been subject to controversy in many jurisdictions; recent U.S. and Canadian Supreme Court case law have been used as examples. European Union (E.U.) law, which originally excluded arbitration in general from the Brussels/Rome regimes, has recently taken a mixed, and to some extent limited, approach by including Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) entities “imposing” a solution in its recent ADR Directive 2013/11. There seems to be an indirect encouragement to develop consumer arbitration schemes in E.U. Member States as a second route to justice. It is too early to evaluate this new and somewhat clandestine …
Lessons And Best Practices For Designers Of Fast Track, Low Value, High Volume Global E-Commerce Odr Systems,
2015
Penn State Dickinson School of Law
Lessons And Best Practices For Designers Of Fast Track, Low Value, High Volume Global E-Commerce Odr Systems, Louis F. Del Duca, Colin Rule, Brian Cressman
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
The momentum behind development of global online fast track low value high volume dispute resolution (hereafter ODR) continues to accelerate. Consumer and business groups around the world are promoting fair, proportionate, effective, online, fast track redress for low value high volume cross border e-commerce disputes. As a result, there will continue to be increasing demand for a variety of effective ODR systems design and procedural rules. Best practices developed by entities like eBay and lessons learned from the work of UNCITRAL Working Group III can be helpful in developing framework models for fast track low value high volume e-commerce ODR …
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly In Distribution Contracts: Limitation Of Party Autonomy In Arbitration?,
2015
Carlos III University of Madrid
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly In Distribution Contracts: Limitation Of Party Autonomy In Arbitration?, Pilar Perales Viscasillas
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
Limits On Party Autonomy In International Commercial Arbitration,
2015
University of Oslo
Limits On Party Autonomy In International Commercial Arbitration, Giuditta Cordero-Moss
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
An Institutional Approach To The Creation Of Innovation Ecosystems And The Role Of Law,
2015
Kyushu University
An Institutional Approach To The Creation Of Innovation Ecosystems And The Role Of Law, Toshiyuki Kono, Kazuaki Kagami
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)
No abstract provided.
