Coal Law From The Old World: A Perspective On Land Use And Environmental Regulation In The Coal Industries Of The United States, Great Britain, And West Germany, 2011 Boston College Law School
Coal Law From The Old World: A Perspective On Land Use And Environmental Regulation In The Coal Industries Of The United States, Great Britain, And West Germany, Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Zygmunt J.B. Plater
America’s reentry into the Coal Age has been one of the major consequences of the Mideast oil-producing nations’ discovery of their collective marketing power, and in this new emphasis on coal the United States is not alone. Like the United States, many industrialized nations with domestic coal reserves had allowed their coal industries to languish under the influence of low-priced, petroleum based energy economy and are now hastening to strengthen their coal production. Different nations approach the regulation of their resurgent coal industries in varying ways, however, and these differences can be instructive to American observers, particularly as they relate …
Reflected In A River: Agency Accountability And The Tva Tellico Dam Case, 2011 Boston College Law School
Reflected In A River: Agency Accountability And The Tva Tellico Dam Case, Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Legal history is usually written from one of two time perspectives: as a narrative of events and changing conditions over a span of years or as an extended exploration of one fertile moment in time. In examining the intriguing entity known as the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), this article draws upon that chronological history to some extent. To a greater extent, however, it focuses upon revealing moments in the last six years of the long-running battles over completion of the TVA’s Tellico dam, which finally flooded the last remaining stretch of the Little Tennessee River Valley in the spring of …
Law, Media, & Environmental Policy: A Fundamental Linkage In Sustainable Democratic Governance, 2011 Boston College Law School
Law, Media, & Environmental Policy: A Fundamental Linkage In Sustainable Democratic Governance, Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Zygmunt J.B. Plater
The functional linkages between law and media have long been signficant in shaping American democratic governance. Over the past thirty-five years, environmental analysis has similarly become essential to shaping international and domestic governmental policy. Environmentalism—focusing as it does on realistic interconnected accounting of the full potential negative consequences as well as benefits of proposed actions, policies, and programs, over the long term as well as the short term, with careful consideration of all realistic alternatives— provides a legal perspective important for societal sustainability. Because environmental values and norms are often in tension with established industrial interests that resist public interest …
Facing A Time Of Counter-Revolution: The Kepone Incident And A Review Of First Principles, 2011 Boston College Law School
Facing A Time Of Counter-Revolution: The Kepone Incident And A Review Of First Principles, Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Zygmunt J.B. Plater
The Kepone contamination episode of 1966-75 was a milestone that focused an entire nation’s attention on environmental hazards and our need to do better in recognizing and avoiding them. We have learned a great deal from that unfortunate story. The evolution of American environmental law since the Kepone debacle has repeatedly used the incident as a touchstone in identifying environmental pollution’s causes, effects, and potential solutions. This essay offers four propositions, about two things that have changed, and two things that have not, in the years since Kepone, taking account of where we are, and seeking some points of consensus.
The Three Economies: An Essay In Honor Of Joseph Sax, 2011 Boston College Law School
The Three Economies: An Essay In Honor Of Joseph Sax, Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Zygmunt J.B. Plater
How does one evaluate the important public values and impacts of things that do not have a market price and then integrate them into the fabric of our system of social governance? That question lies within most or all of Joseph Sax's work over the years. The first part of this article represents an attempt to distill some of Joseph Sax's intellectual dimensions, beyond those already chronicled in the comments of other contributors to this symposium, with some linked themes and observations drawn from Sax beyond his writings. The second part, instigated by several of Sax's articles, presents "The Three …
Europe's Challenge. Indifference, Disenchantment, Indignation, 2011 Tor Vergata University
Europe's Challenge. Indifference, Disenchantment, Indignation, Michele Faioli
Michele Faioli
No abstract provided.
An Overview Of The U.S. Retirement Income Security System And The Principles And Values It Reflects, 2011 University of Kentucky College of Law
An Overview Of The U.S. Retirement Income Security System And The Principles And Values It Reflects, Kathryn L. Moore
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article is designed to provide an overview of the U.S. retirement income security system from a comparative law perspective. Like many countries, the U.S. has a three tier pension or retirement income system, with the three tiers consisting of (1) Social Security, (2) employment-based pensions, and (3) individual savings. Thus, superficially, the U.S. retirement income security system resembles that of many around the world. Yet, in other ways, such as its focus on individual rights and responsibility, the U.S. system is unique.
The article begins by discussing the nine guiding principles of the U.S. Social Security system as identified …
Art. 8 Dl 138/2011 - Contrattazione Decentrata - Seminario 22 Settembre 2011, 2011 Tor Vergata University
Art. 8 Dl 138/2011 - Contrattazione Decentrata - Seminario 22 Settembre 2011, Michele Faioli
Michele Faioli
Il Seminario è parte di un progetto di ricerca interdisciplinare della Facoltà di Economia – Sapienza Università di Roma, volto alla comparazione tra sistema italiano e altri sistemi europei (Francia e Germania). I relatori affronteranno i profili più significativi dell’Accordo interconfederale del 28 giugno 2011. Verranno, inoltre, analizzate alcune tra le tematiche più rilevanti della contrattazione decentrata (organizzazione del lavoro, orario, conflittualità e welfare aziendale). Tra i relatori si segnalano: Tiziano Treu, Giorgio Usai, Giorgio Santini, Maurizio Franzini, Angelo Pandolfo, Pasquale Sandulli, Michele Faioli, Luciano Pero, Angelo De Filippo, Enrico Mastinu.
Generalidades De La Propiedad Intelectual En México, 2011 ITESM Campus Puebla
Generalidades De La Propiedad Intelectual En México, Bruno L. Costantini García
Bruno L. Costantini García
Presentación de las Generalidades de la Propiedad Intelectual en México (Propiedad Industrial y Derechos de Autor), legislación que la rige, aplicación y modalidades
Nobreza De Espírito - Um Ideal Republicano, 2011 Universidade do Porto
Nobreza De Espírito - Um Ideal Republicano, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
República não significa massificação. Nenhuma democracia pode sobreviver sem elites. Não grupos oligárquicos, plutocráticos, ensimesmados e snobs, mas eleites demofílicas, integradas no global espírito e ambiente democrático. O livro Nobreza de Espírito, de Rob Rieman, recordando Thomas Mann e as suas posições sobre o problema, é um importante alerta, e um memorando a considerar.
Welfare Reform In Mississippi: Tanf Policy And Its Implications, 2011 American University Washington College of Law
Welfare Reform In Mississippi: Tanf Policy And Its Implications, Pearson Lidell Jr., Steve Watson, William D. Eshee Jr.
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Equal Justice, 2011 American University Washington College of Law
The Politics Of Equal Justice, Robert A. Hornstein, Daniel G. Atkins, Treena A. Kaye
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
The Central American Constitutional Identity. A Study Of The Constitutional Imitation Phenomenon In The Integration Process Of The Region, 2011 University of Salento
The Central American Constitutional Identity. A Study Of The Constitutional Imitation Phenomenon In The Integration Process Of The Region, Prof. Michele Carducci
Michele Carducci Prof.
No abstract provided.
The Central American Constitutional Identity, 2011 University of Salento
The Central American Constitutional Identity, Prof. Michele Carducci
Michele Carducci Prof.
No abstract provided.
Lavoro E Produttività Nell'economia Globale. La Contrattazione Collettiva Decentrata Dopo La Manovra Di Ferragosto 2011, 2011 Tor Vergata University
Lavoro E Produttività Nell'economia Globale. La Contrattazione Collettiva Decentrata Dopo La Manovra Di Ferragosto 2011, Michele Faioli, Angelo Pandolfo
Michele Faioli
No abstract provided.
La Jurisprudencia En México, 2011 ITESM Campus Puebla
La Jurisprudencia En México, Bruno L. Costantini García
Bruno L. Costantini García
Breve presentación de la jurisprudencia en México, su aplicación, objetivos y fines para el Derecho Mexicano. ¿Por qué es util para el derecho? ¿Quién la emite?
Notariado Y Correduria Y Su Registro En México, 2011 ITESM Campus Puebla
Notariado Y Correduria Y Su Registro En México, Bruno L. Costantini García
Bruno L. Costantini García
Introducción al Derecho Notarial y Registral en México, cuyo objeto es conocer los elementos de las figuras del notario y del corredor público, la formalización de sus actos y su registro.
Universidade Sem Cultura? A Propósito De Um Manual De Filosofia Do Direito, 2011 Universidade do Porto
Universidade Sem Cultura? A Propósito De Um Manual De Filosofia Do Direito, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Que fazer? Resistir à massificação, tecnocracia, economicismo. A existência da Filosofia do Direito é já símbolo de resistência, dir-se-ia mesmo de contra-ataque. Como ensinar, porém, para todos, esta matéria exigente e complexa? Vacinando-os com minudências e preciosismos para que nunca mais queiram pensar no assunto? Ou cativando-os sem baixar o nível?
Is “Transnational” Constitutional Law Possible?, 2011 University of Salento
Is “Transnational” Constitutional Law Possible?, Prof. Michele Carducci
Michele Carducci Prof.
No abstract provided.
Harsanyi 2.0, 2011 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Harsanyi 2.0, Matthew D. Adler
All Faculty Scholarship
How should we make interpersonal comparisons of well-being levels and differences? One branch of welfare economics eschews such comparisons, which are seen as impossible or unknowable; normative evaluation is based upon criteria such as Pareto or Kaldor-Hicks efficiency that require no interpersonal comparability. A different branch of welfare economics, for example optimal tax theory, uses “social welfare functions” (SWFs) to compare social states and governmental policies. Interpersonally comparable utility numbers provide the input for SWFs. But this scholarly tradition has never adequately explained the basis for these numbers.
John Harsanyi, in his work on so-called “extended preferences,” advanced a fruitful …