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A Paper Tiger? Prosecutorial Regulators in China’s Civil Environmental Public Interest Litigations

environmental violations. Three factors that influence regulatory motivation are employed to analyse the change in regulatory models: the ambiguity of the law, the top-down political pressure for regulation, and ... 2003 to 2018: ambiguity of the law (legal factor), top-down political pressure for regulation (political factor), and organizational cost of regulation (organizational factor). We find that the vertical

Appointments, Innovation, and the Judicial–Political Divide

political sphere, figuring in a number of congressional–presidential confrontations. Such simultaneous top billing in the judicial and political spheres is hardly coincidental. After all, it was President ... APPOINTMENTS, INNOVATION, AND THE JUDICIAL-POLITICAL DIVIDE GILLIAN E. METZGER 0 1 0 Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law, Columbia Law School 1 Copyright © 2015 Gillian E. Metzger The federal

Integrating risk management concepts into the drilling non-productive time

a sound technique to evaluate operational losses or wastes of many resources, including time. This paper presents an attempt to couple RM techniques with NPT philosophy together with other concepts ... professional development conference and exposition , Seattle, Washington, 11 - 14 June, ASSE- 06 -544E Pareto V , Page A ( 1971 ) Translation of manuale di economia politica “manual of political economy”, A.M

Shale gas: a step toward sustainable energy future

factors such as political matters, wars, social and economic aspects, and exploration techniques. Depending on the recoverable reserve (RR), production of shale gas entails different methods and with a ... prevailing in that particular region. As the administration introduces new policies, this can lead to political and economic turmoil. Therefore, widespread corruption, weak institutional and government support

A Tale of Two Trade Powers: Balancing Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Environmental Risk Between the European Union and United States in a Changing Political Climate

Press (bepress). https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/elr ? A TALE OF TWO TRADE POWERS: BALANCING INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK BETWEEN THE EU AND US IN A CHANGING POLITICAL CLIMATE ... for the provisions? inclusion, and then examine the risks associated with the evasion of regulation by investors, faults in political insulation, and flaws within the arbitration process. It will also

The Political Turn in American Administrative Law: Power, Rationality, and Reasons

and legitimating force of Reason, or rationality, but several recent developments signal a political turn in understandings of administrative justification. First, in upholding the decision of the ... DUKE LAW JOURNAL THE POLITICAL TURN IN AMERICAN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: POWER, RATIONALITY, AND REASONS JODI L. SHORT 0 1 0 Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center. For their generous

A Case Study of Legislation vs. Regulation: Defining Political Campaign Intervention Under Federal Tax Law

The rules that should govern political campaign intervention by social welfare organizations exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code have been the subject of recent ... experts on the topic, under the auspices of two wellknown nonprofit groups, undertook the task of clarifying the rules regarding tax-exempt political activity. In light of the issues becoming national news

Who Cares How Congress Really Works?

philosophy of action, it contends that Congress has no collective intention, not because of difficulties in aggregating the intentions of individual members, but rather because Congress lacks the sort of ... (2014). 9. See generally Matti Eklund, Fictionalism, STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY (2015), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/fictionalism [https://perma.cc/WA9KDVH6] (providing an

Liquidation of Constitutional Meaning Through Use

when writing about liquidation. By using the tools of history and philosophy, this Note combines two interpretive modalities in service of strengthening the legitimacy of scholarly and judicial ... Jeff Powell for their guidance and insightful comments, to the participants in the Fall 2015 Philosophy for Constitutional Lawyers seminar at Duke Law School, and to my colleagues on the Duke Law Journal

Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences: The Japanese Supreme Court and the Chaos of 1993

independence similar to that of U.S. federal judges, I use judicial outcomes to ask whether Japanese premiers from different parties have appointed justices with different political preferences. Although the ... LDP can appoint to the supreme court justices who share its political philosophy. Through that Chief Justice, it can monitor and control the Secretary General of the Secretariat. Through the secretary

Political Control of Federal Prosecutions: Looking Back and Looking Forward

J. AM. JUDICATURE SOC'Y POLITICAL CONTROL OF FEDERAL PROSECUTIONS: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD DANIEL RICHMAN 0 1 0 Professor, Columbia Law School. Thanks to Sam Buell, Deborah Denno, and the ... identified—the attorney general who had barely a clue of what was 18. See Daniel C. Richman & William J. Stuntz, Al Capone’s Revenge: An Essay on the Political Economy of Pretextual Prosecution, 105 COLUM. L

Riser and well casing analysis during drift-off: a coupled solution in the time domain

casing during drift-off, additional calculations were performed with the inclusion of a Production Adapting Base (height = 2.22 m), using Philosophy 2. The tension used in these calculations was 1,600 kips ... % 7.3% 7.3% 7.1% 0.9% 2.8% 2.6% 2.4% 2.6% 3.5% 3.5% 3.3% 2.6% 3.5% 3.5% 3.3% 37 104 100 96 67 119 120 115 67 119 119 114 As it can be seen on Table 2, the results obtained with philosophy 1 (quasi-static

A Response to Professor Ramseyer, Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences

A RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR RAMSEYER, PREDICTING COURT OUTCOMES THROUGH POLITICAL PREFERENCES MICHAEL BOUDIN 0 1 0 Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; Lecturer, Harvard ... Law School. 1. J. Mark Ramseyer, Predicting Court Outcomes Through Political Preferences: The Japanese Supreme Court and the Chaos of 1993, 58 D 1 Copyright © 2009 by Michael Boudin Two quotations

“Advice and Consent” in Historical Perspective

political party, and, sometimes, even when the President comes from the same party but there are ideological objections to the nominee. That the appointments process has, at times, been difficult and ... make law and that the political and judicial attitudes of nominees matter. Under such circumstances, the Senate’s inquiry quite naturally goes beyond the simple question of whether a nominee is qualified

Responsible Shale Gas Productions: Moral Outrage vs. Cool Analysis

The relatively sudden boom in shale gas production in the United States using hydraulic fracturing has provoked increasingly intense political conflict. The debate over fracking and shale gas ... necessary to guide policymaking. Recognizing this, policymakers must resist political pressures and work that much harder to ground their decisions in empirically-demonstrated facts – namely, those produced

The Political Question Doctrine: Suggested Criteria

Whether there should be a political question doctrine and, if so, how it should be implemented continue to be contentious and controversial issues, both within and outside the Court. This Article ... DUKE LAW JOURNAL THE POLITICAL QUESTION DOCTRINE: SUGGESTED CRITERIA JESSE H. CHOPER Copyright © 2005 Jesse H. Choper. † Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, University of California, Berkeley

Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law

ethical development. This process is true now in a set of emerging issues: the law of food systems, animal rights, and climate change. This Article draws on philosophy, history, and psychology to develop an ... ” would depend on “metaphysics,” which he defined as “a theory of the natural order and our place in it.”4 A towering figure in political philosophy, Rawls had a gift for seeing the heart of an issue. Yet

Abandonment and Reconciliation: Addressing Political and Common Law Objections to Fetal Homicide Laws

ABANDONMENT AND RECONCILIATION: ADDRESSING POLITICAL AND COMMON LAW OBJECTIONS TO FETAL HOMICIDE LAWS DOUGLAS S. CURRAN 0 1 0 Duke University School of Law, J.D. expected 2009. Georgetown University ... because they do not wish to protect the life of a fetus, but because the issue implicates the politics of reproductive rights.22 Similar to this political objection to legislative recognition of fetal

Evaluating E-Rulemaking: Public Participation and Political Institutions

premature to settle on that VOLUME 55 MARCH 2006 NUMBER 5 THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW ISSUE EVALUATING E-RULEMAKING: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS STUART MINOR BENJAMIN ... FOR POLITICAL RENEWAL THROUGH THE INTERNET 155, 155 (Peter M. Shane ed., 2004) (“Accompanying the last decade’s enthusiasm for the Internet economy were equally extravagant expectations about

Paleoclimate quantitative reconstruction and characteristics of continental red beds: a case study of the lower fourth sub-member of Shahejie Formation in the Bonan Sag

relative’ (NLR) philosophy provides the fundamental methodology to describe climatic parameters based on fossil sporopollen data (Dhakal et al. 2022; Gibson et al. 2022; Mosbrugger and Utescher 1997