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22 Apr 2016, 2:11 pm by D. Daxton White
In general, limited partnerships are more complex, often lack liquidity and are considered high risk speculative investments which makes them better suited for sophisticated and institutional investors. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 6:07 am
Inspired by these studies, Guerriero (2016a) documents that in a cross-section of 155 transplants, which are countries that received their legal tradition externally, 25 reformed their lawmaking institution and 95 reformed at least one among their lawmaking and adjudication institutions. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 6:06 am
Marcogliese, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Tags: Board composition, Board dynamics, Board independence, Board turnover, Boards of Directors, CalPERS,Director qualifications, Disclosure, Diversity, Entrenchment, Institutional Investors, Pension funds, Regulation S-K,Shareholder voting, Succession Aligning the Interests of Credit Rating Agencies, Proxy Advisors, and Investors Posted by Asaf Eckstein, Bar-Ilan University, on Wednesday, April… [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 3:37 am by Broc Romanek
Soon thereafter, on July 30, 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted, which covers the responsibilities of a public corporation’s board of directors, adds criminal penalties for certain misconduct, and addresses issues such as auditor independence, corporate governance, internal control assessment, and enhanced financial disclosure. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 3:37 am by Broc Romanek
Soon thereafter, on July 30, 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted, which covers the responsibilities of a public corporation’s board of directors, adds criminal penalties for certain misconduct, and addresses issues such as auditor independence, corporate governance, internal control assessment, and enhanced financial disclosure. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 3:01 am
How Judges in International Criminal Courts Perceive International Human Rights Law Marie O’Leary, Compelling Fair Trials: The Necessity of Effective Court Powers to Ensure a Defendant’s Right “to examine, or have examined, the witnesses against him or her” Masha Fedorova, Disclosure of Information as an Instrument Ensuring Equality of Arms in International Criminal Proceedings Eleni Chaitidou & Elisa Hoven, The Person’s Liberty at Stake – A Tour… [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
.#1 Brazil’s Automatic 180-day Removal From Duty ProvisionOne very interesting provision of Brazil’s constitution requires that, as soon as the Federal Senate institutes proceedings in an impeachment trial (which in Rouseff’s case could be as early as next month), the president “shall be suspended from his [or her] duties” for a period of 180 days or until the end of the trial, whichever comes first. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
Judges reviewing the acts of political institutions were to be guided in their decisions, not by turning the aphoristic text of the Constitution into enforceable rules, but by judicial precedents and the maxims of justice and equality implicit in the structure and text of the Constitution, maxims expressed more fully in state constitutions and the Declaration of Independence. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 2:27 pm by Jeremy Malcolm
The TPP allows authors, performers and producers to control the broadcast of their work, but it does not bestow any independent powers over those works upon broadcasters. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 6:48 am by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
At the regional level, a broad array of non-profit organizations, bar associations, community economic development organizations, and institutions of higher education support the USPTO in matching low-income inventors with experienced patent professionals. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 3:04 am by Amy Howe
” The National Federation of Independent Business urges the Court to grant review in Dibbs v. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 12:01 am
A transgovernmental NHRI network operating a system of independent monitoring of NHRIs is an important part of the explanation. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 5:25 pm by Ilya Somin
The Migration or Importation Clause is one of several parts of the Constitution that illustrate how the integrity of the Founding was in some ways perverted by the evil institution of slavery. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 12:21 pm by Wage & Hour Blogger
  In addition, conducting wage and hour audits of the workforce at this time, either using an independent consultant or legal counsel, will help in this effort. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 6:25 am
Institutional investors, proxy advisory firms, shareholder activists and governance advocates have all been publicly weighing in on the debate. [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
News via Virgin Islands Free Press on move to quash subpoena] “Federal law makes it a felony ‘for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).'” It doesn’t exempt state attorneys general [Glenn Reynolds, USA Today] … [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 1:23 pm by Diana Lutz
National flags mark the entrance to the 21st Conference of the Nations on climate change in Paris.On Dec. 12, 2015,  Cameron Pulley, a graduating senior at Washington University in St. [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 12:32 pm by Lee H. Little
One proposed solution for Georgia hospitals is to expand Medicaid eligibility, according to Tim Sweeney, deputy director of policy for the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 12:32 pm by Lee H. Little
One proposed solution for Georgia hospitals is to expand Medicaid eligibility, according to Tim Sweeney, deputy director of policy for the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. [read post]