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In the Teeth of Opposition: Improving Public Company Auditing Standards in the United States

-SETTING PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY .................. 106 D. HYPER-STRINGENT STANDARDS ................................................... 108 E. POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS OF THE PCAOB ... less efficient audits that incentivize less competent auditors. Moreover, the political motivations of the PCAOB subject the standard-setting process to undue political pressures. The net impact of the

Toward a Political Theory for Private International Law

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 ... outside these relationships. This article examines these issues from the standpoint of contractualist moral and political philosophy. How can private international law be justified from a moral point of

Providing Judicial Review for Decisions by Political Trustees

PROVIDING JUDICIAL REVIEW FOR DECISIONS BY POLITICAL TRUSTEES HENRY H. PERRITT Chaos in Iraq, controversy over U.S. unilateralism, and skepticism about “nationbuilding” have unsettled ground rules ... political trustees1 exercise temporary legislative, executive and judicial authority; yet in no case to date have they structured their judicial authority so as to provide for judicial review of either the

An Introduction to Anti-ESG Legislation

objectives; (3) a form of rent-seeking; (4) a form of green-washing; (5) a manifestation of the agency problem whereby managers prioritize their personal political preferences over NPV; (6) a manifestation of ... , thereby giving too much discretion to managers. When one expands the forms of selfdealing beyond the taking of financial gains and includes the satisfaction of political ambitions, the problem is magnified

Addendum- Right to Repair: Whose Right is it Anyway?

as long as local Farm Bureaus hold political power. All parties involved likely understand that the MOUs will eventually be challenged, and at that point, federal legislation will likely be needed to

Comment on Rethinking Insider Trading Compliance Policies in Light of the SEC’s New “Shadow Trading” Theory of Insider Trading Liability

Court has rejected agency claims of regulatory authority when (1) the underlying claim of authority concerns an issue of “vast ‘economic and political significance,’” and (2) Congress has not clearly

Political Risk and International Investment Law

POLITICAL RISK AND INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW JASON WEBB YACKEE 0 1 0 Copyright © 2014 by Jason Webb Yackee 1 JD, Duke University School of Law , 2004; PhD, Political Science , University of ... difficulties related to measuring political risk and to international law’s arguably rather limited promise to provide meaningful protections against that risk. Part I explores the concept of political risk

The Fiduciary-ness of Business Associations

business with each other. That is the essence of business entity law: it acts as a catalyst for collaborative business associations between and among individuals and entities. When political forces act ... that feature of business entity law will endure. That is a good thing. Economic, social, political, and other forces often presage or encourage legal change. And legal change has the capacity to foster

Development and Validation of the Youth Sociopolitical Action Scale for Social Media (SASSM)

young people are building movements that change norms and policies at national and global levels (Anyiwo et al., 2020) and can transcend structural barriers to political participation, such as the ... , in which youth learn about the root causes of systems of inequity; political efficacy, in which youth become empowered to create sociopolitical change; and sociopolitical action, where youth resist

Interactive Antitrust Federalism: Antitrust Enforcement in Tennessee Then and Now

antitrust law when political and legal limitations preclude one of the methods of enforcement from adequately punishing behavior that harms consumer welfare within states while also discouraging inefficient ... 28, 2014). foreign corporations engaged in local or [s]tate trade.”152 In contrast to the statecentric political philosophy of Tennessee’s congressional delegation, other legislators emphasized the

A Comparative Analysis of Public and Private Political Risk Insurance Policies with Strategic Applications for Risk Mitigation

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE POLITICAL RISK INSURANCE POLICIES WITH STRATEGIC APPLICATIONS FOR RISK MITIGATION JAMES J. WATERS 0 1 0 Copyright © 2015 by James J. Waters 1 Associate ... , an experience that exposed him to the importance of political risk management in global business operations. 1. See infra Part I , USA INTRODUCTION Any business with global operations is bound to

TOTALITARIAN NUDGES, ILLUSORY EXTERNALITIES, AND UTOPIAN BENEFITS: REFLECTIONS ON THE 34TH ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR LAW PROFESSORS

” philosophers. The self-declared purpose of the CLS movement was “to provide a critique of liberal legal and political philosophy” that would show the “liberal embrace of the rule of law is actually incompatible ... Robson, Explaining Cross-National Variations in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Protection and Political Culture, 28 Comp. LAB. L. & POL’Y J. 863, 890 (2007); Ruta Aidis et al., Institutions and

The Past, Present and Future of M&A - Assessing How the Lean Process and Artificial Intelligence Can Remedy the Pitfalls of Traditional M&A

: “Just-in-Time” and “Jidoka.”128 Further, TPS is “based on the philosophy of achieving the complete elimination of all waste in pursuit of the most efficient methods.129 i. Just-in-Time Arguably the most ... ., Company Information, Vision & Philosophy, https://global.toyota/en/company/vision-and-philosophy/production-system/ (last visited Sept. 15, 2022). 128 Id. 129 Id. 130 See TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEMS HANDBOOK

Student Note: The Department of Labor's Hidden Ball in Cup Game: ESOP Trustees' Ever-Changing Duties in ESOP Transactions

points of bi-partisan support in our current political landscape.168 However, ESOPs are still an underappreciated tool by the public and legal community.169 While considering how the Department of Labor

Galligan's Philosophy of Keep It Simple

- TRANSACTIONS: THE TENNESSEE JOURNAL OF BUSINESS LAW GALLIGAN’S PHILOSOPHY OF KEEPING IT SIMPLE When I was first asked to give this little talk, the topic was: “how to survive the first year of

Political Parties in China’s Judiciary

POLITICAL PARTIES IN CHINA'S JUDICIARY ZHU SULI 0 0 Professor of Law, Dean of Peking University Law School. L.L.B. (Peking University , 1982); L.L.M. (McGeorge School of Law, University of the ... of a linear version of modernization theory,”2 a criticism that I will not address in this essay; and second, my “greatest flaw,” “the absence of politics and political power.” My work, he says, “is

Captive or Criminal?: Reappraising the Legal Status of IRA Prisoners at the Height of the Troubles under International Law

For the citizens of Ireland and Great Britain, the second half of the twentieth century represents a period of great political struggle. The historical debate concerns the constitutional status of ... belong to Ireland or to the United Kingdom. The late 1960s through the early 1990s is referred to commonly as “The Troubles,” a time rife with political struggle, violence, and reactionary laws aimed at

Critical Consciousness and Wellbeing in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Systematic Review

(sometimes termed political efficacy, agency, or empowerment), or, perceptions of one’s ability to enact change, and (3) critical action, or participation in efforts to change inequalities (Rapa et al., 2020 ... the political process. Critical action may also extend beyond political engagement to include actions like service (Tyler et al., 2020) and social media engagement (Wilf et al., under review) aimed at

The Choice-Based Perspective of Choice-of-Law

-of-law to that which is presently known as the "vested rights" theory. This understanding is based on the legal philosophy of perhaps the greatest expositor of the rightsbased concept, Immanuel Kant ... between litigating parties and as providing the juridical (as opposed to political) manifestation of this interaction. In this way, CBP joins the very few commentators who did not take the sovereignty axiom

Commercial Peace and Political Competition in the Crosshairs of International Arbitration

COMMERCIAL PEACE AND POLITICAL COMPETITION IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION THOMAS E. CARBONNEAU This article examines the mixed effect of arbitration upon the generation of ... by a commercial ethos.5 Arbitration, however, cannot transcend the essential character of the disputes submitted to it. The nature of sovereign relations makes resolution of political disputes