Search for: "Simon Lester"
Results 141 - 160
of 178
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
5 Apr 2011, 6:49 pm
WorldTradeLaw.net's Simon Lester offers some good commentary on the CAFC decision, and the WSJ rightfully applauds it: "thanks to statistical sleight-of-hand, American consumers have paid billions of dollars more over the years in higher prices either because antidumping duties raised prices on imports or because those duties sheltered domestic companies from downward price competition. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 5:04 am
The paper cited the case of journalist Simon Singh who spent £200,000 defending himself against the British Chiropractors Association. [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 6:37 am
“A conversation with class action objector Ted Frank” [American Lawyer] Reviews of new Lester Brickman book Lawyer Barons [Dan Fisher/Forbes, Russell Jackson] Plus: interview at TortsProf; comments from Columbia legal ethicist William Simon [Legal Ethics Forum] “Collective Bargaining for States But Not for Uncle Sam” [Adler] Examples of how Wisconsin public-sector unionism has worked in practice [Perry] Wisconsin cop union: nice business you got… [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 7:22 pm
Simon Lester absolutely dismantles the latest trade-skeptical piece from Princeton's Uwe Reinhardt, which bizarrely characterizes the free trader's view of the world as "a giant cattle farm to be managed in ways that maximize the collective weight of the cattle. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 11:32 am
It has a forward by Richard Epstein, and Lester is a habitué of conservative think tanks. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 6:49 am
WorldTradeLaw.net's Simon Lester lays out several good reasons for this conclusion here: First off, it's no doubt true that it's easier to reach agreement among just a couple countries than it is among 153. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 5:48 pm
And Simon Lester adds some helpful anonymous commentary. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 8:04 am
In the discussions around Lord Lester’s proposed libel reform bill, he had been struck by the ‘missing voice’ of the public – it was a bill for journalists, a bill for the media, and Marsh was not convinced by Lester’s denial of this. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 5:20 pm
UPDATE: Looks like Simon Lester over at the IELP blog is pondering the same thing (and beat me to the punch by a few hours!). [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 4:33 pm
Finally, GMU's Don Boudreaux takes to xtranormal to create a nice little cartoon explaining the idiocy of protectionism (h/t Simon Lester): That should keep y'all busy for a while. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 7:15 am
Costs For Razi Mireskandari, partner, Simons, Muirhead & Burton, cost is the central issue. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 7:49 am
Leading libel lawyers, academics and reform campaigners will gather at City University London on Thursday 4th November 2010 for a symposium chaired by Lord Anthony Lester, to discuss the issues around libel reform in England & Wales. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 8:04 am
The CRS' latest report (h/t Simon Lester) is a very significant revision to previous versions, so I highly recommend giving the entire thing a skim. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 2:40 am
Lester Brickman, Anatomy of an Aggregate Settlement: The Triumph of Temptation over Ethics. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 1:05 am
Clause 2 re-names the defence of fair comment “honest opinion” but, as everyone knows, the defence had already been re-baptised by no less than the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in the Simon Singh case ([2010] EWCA Civ 350). [read post]
27 Jun 2010, 9:13 am
”, taking up the familiar themes from the Simon Singh and Peter Wilmshurst cases. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 1:13 am
The Simon Singh case – one of the catalysts for the campaign – is illustrative. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 4:43 am
Speakers include Professor Gavin Phillipson, John Whittingdale MP, Mark Thomson, Professor Alastair Mullis, Lord Lester, Simon Singh and John Kampfner. 17 June 2010, Lexis Conference, “Privacy, Defamation and the Media”, The Royal Horse guards, One Whitehall Place. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 7:50 am
The libel reform proposals in Lord Lester’s Defamation Bill have continued to be the subject of press discussion this week. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 9:59 am
Lord Lester recently proposed a private members’ bill with many radical amendments; I approve of the majority of these. [read post]
