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The David R. Tillinghast Lecture - What's Source Got to Do with it - Source Rules and U.S. International Taxation
(New York University, 2002)
Arguably, the largest problem in international income taxation is the proper treatment of income that is subject to the legitimate taxing claims of two or more countries. A source country's jurisdiction to tax foreign ...
Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from Hershey's Kiss-Off
(Columbia Law Review Association, Inc., 2008)
In July 2002 the trustees of the Milton Hershey School Trust announced a plan to diversify the Trust's investment portfolio by selling the Trust's controlling interest in the Hershey Company. The Company's stock jumped ...
Submajority Rules: Forcing Accountability upon Majorities
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
Legal and political theory have paid a great deal of attention to supermajority rules, which require a fraction of votes greater than 1/2+1 to reach a decision, and thus empower a minority to block change. In this paper I ...
Corporate Political Speech, Political Extortion, and the Competition for Corporate Charters
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)
This article explores the policy bases for, and the political economy of, the law's long-standing discrimination against corporate political speech. This Article also explores the relevance of state law regulation of ...
Trust Law, Corporate Law, and Capital Market Efficiency
(University of Iowa, 2003)
In both the publicly-traded corporation and the private donative trust a crucial task is to minimize the agency costs that arise from the separation of risk-bearing and management. But where the law of corporate governance ...
The Effect of Globalization on Domestic Legal Services
(2000)
Globalization, in the context of this panel, refers to international, trans-border processes which are not regulated by the international legal framework, either private law or public international law. These processes, ...
The Politics of the Invisible College: International Governance and the Politics of Expertise
(Sweet and Maxwell LTD, 2001)
Securities Litigation and the Housing Market Downturn
(University of Iowa College of Law, 2009)
This paper addresses one of the key issues – the foreseeability of the housing market downturn that began in September of 2007 and intensified in the fourth quarter of 2007 – that must be addressed in assessing the extensive ...
Humanities and Human Rights: Critiques, Language, Politics
(The Association, 2006)
Papers from a conference held on 21–22 October 2005 at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Includes summaries of presentations by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im, David Kennedy, Kenneth Roth, and Shibley Telhami.
Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials, Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
(Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, 2005)