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Royal C. Gardner, International Environmental Law, 49 American Bar Association Section of International Law Year in Review 339 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Kristen R. Moore et al., Managing Disruptive Patron Behavior in Law Libraries: A Grey Paper, 107 Law Libr. J. 491 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Nearly all law library staff have encountered, and likely will encounter, some measure of challenging patron behavior. This white paper, dubbed by the authors a "grey paper" as it attempts to analyze and contend with a fundamentally dynamic phenomenon, was written at the request of the AALL RIPS-SIS Executive Board with the hope of providing a jumping off point for further inquiry and discussion on current best practices in managing difficult, challenging or disruptive patron behavior in law libraries. In lieu of a traditional white paper solution, the authors have included a collection of best practices largely developed based on common themes which emerged from a 2014 online survey of law library staff; follow-up correspondence with several survey respondents; and a review of case law and relevant literature within law librarianship and other fields. The solutions to the problems of disruptive patron interactions can most nearly be found by providing a library atmosphere of safety for patrons and staff; equality in the staff treatment of all library patrons; consistency and predictability in staff responses accomplished by flexibility not rigidity; and communication and transparency of both policies and service limitations. This paper provides practical strategies for attaining that ideal.
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Stacey-Rae Simcox et al., Understanding TBI in Our Nation’s Military and Veterans: Its Occurrence, Identification and Treatment, and Legal Ramifications, 84 UMKC L. Rev. 373 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Corporate Democracy from Say on Pay to Say on Politics, 30 Const. Comment. 431 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The President of the Business Roundtable once infamously said that “corporations were never designed to be democracies…” American courts respectfully disagree and have repeatedly held that the democratic rights of shareholders are sacrosanct. The context for the Business Roundtable President’s comment was the battle over say on pay — a battle the Business Roundtable lost in the United States with the passage of the financial reform legislation known as Dodd-Frank.
As I will explain in this piece, courts’ robust conception of corporate democracy rights for shareholders should protect both shareholders’ ability to have a say on pay and say on politics. Say on pay is the practice in United States, among other nations, of mandating a non-binding shareholder vote on executive compensation at publicly traded firms. A shareholders’ say on politics does not yet exist in America. But theoretically, just as say on pay mandates shareholder democracy in the case of executive remuneration, say on politics would require shareholders to vote on corporate political spending. Binding say on politics votes already exist in the U.K.
Critiques of say on pay and say on politics have been couched as constitutional objections based on either the Tenth or First Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. But at their heart, these objections seem less rooted in the text of the Constitution and more inspired by a cribbed conception of shareholders’ corporate voting rights. To untangle who has the stronger legal argument requires a review of how American courts have conceptualized “corporate democracy.” I conclude that as framed by key courts such as the U.S. Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Delaware state courts, “corporate democracy” is a capacious enough concept to justify both shareholders’ say on pay and say on politics.
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Ashley Krenelka Chase and Ellen Frentzen, Leadership, Management, and Professional Development: Selecting and Planning for a Leadership and Management Development Course, 19 AALL Spectrum 22 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Royal C. Gardner et al., Science and Policy of U.S. Wetlands, 29 Tulane Envtl. L. Journal 31 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Kristen David Adams and Candace Zierdt, United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 2015 Bus. L. Today 1 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Anne E. Mullins, Team-Based Learning: Innovative Pedagogy in Legal Writing, 49 U.S.F.L. Rev. 53 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Andrew D. Appleby and Leah Robinson, A Complete Guide to New York’s New Manufacturer Incentives, Tax Analysts: State Tax Notes (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy et al., Compliance Costs and Disclosure Requirement Mandates: Some Evidence, 27 Research in Accounting Regulation 83 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.