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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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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.
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Kathy Fogel 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.
This note contributes to the discussion on the compliance costs of disclosure requirements for publicly traded companies. Prior research tends to focus on audit cost increases when disclosure requirements are stricter. We add some evidence from the point of views of shareholders. Particularly, we contrast stock market reaction to the 2002 Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) Act which significantly enhanced public company disclosure requirements, with the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act which alleviated disclosure requirements for small firms. Contrary to popular belief that more disclosure rules impose regulatory burdens on firms and are costly to implement, we find that the stock market reacted positively toward rules that require more disclosure; whereas it reacted negatively toward rules that require less disclosure, even though those disclosure rules were initially designed to reduce the costs of compliance.
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Robyn Powell, Federal Agencies Say State Cannot Discriminate Against Parents with Disabilities, 34 Child Law Practice 46 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This article provides an overview of the DOJ/HHS findings and their anticipated wide-ranging impact on parents with disabilities in the child welfare system. It briefly discusses the investigation and findings, and the expected impact of the Departments’ involvement as it relates to parents with disabilities, and provides information on how to file similar complaints.
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Grant Christensen, Selling Stories or You Can’t Own This: Cultural Property as a Form of Collateral in a Second Transaction under the Model Tribal Secured Transactions Act, 80 Brook. L. Rev. 1219 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The Model Tribal Secured Transactions Act was recently proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. This article takes the position that the model act, if adopted, will encourage economic development in Indian Country by creating a set of uniform rules which both non-Indians and Indians can utilize to promote lending. Critically – before it is widely adopted, this article implores the NCCUSL to consider including in the model act – language that would protect tribal cultural property; and in the absence of such language, encourages tribes to modify the act to accomplish this protection. The stakes include the potential loss of priceless real and personal, tangible and intangible, cultural property which itself form the linchpin of both tribal identity and cultural expression for many indigenous communities in the United States and beyond.
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Rebecca C. Morgan, An Essay on Reform: Guardianship in the United States, Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Mokoto Arai (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.