Litigation of government contract claims is a detailed and specialized world. In a variety of ways, government contracts differ from those between private parties. A contractor's breach of contract with the government may, for example, have significance far beyond that associated with breach of a private contract. Perhaps most important,...
This paper reviews the existing private legal regime governing credit derivatives and its interaction with the sovereign debt restructuring process. The standard contract terms governing credit derivatives, if properly interpreted by participants and the courts, adequately address many of the legal uncertainties arising from sovereign restructurings. Nevertheless, from a broader...
The experience of private equity funds in the developing world pose many interesting issues, which have been little explored in academic research to date. In this paper, we will focus on one of these dimensions: the types of transaction structures employed in the developing world. Using a sample of 167...
The growing popularity of hedge funds among new sorts of investors raises a host of questions for regulators. This paper investigates whether there is any real value to allowing the mass market access to hedge funds and does that value outweigh the many possible risks that inhere in these little-understood,...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation CCMR, an independent and nonpartisan research organization formed to improve the regulation of the U.S. capital markets, announced today a new study -- "Fundamental Issues in the Securitized Debt Markets" -- designed to produce recommendations to restore...
DALLAS, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Denyse Clancy, an attorney and shareholder with the Dallas-based law firm Baron & Budd, P.C., spoke at the International Mesothelioma Program's First Annual Harvard Medical School Course, entitled Surgery-Based Multimodality Therapy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma. The program was held in Dallas on June...
Dare we hope that Barack Obama shares the ‘libertarian paternalism’ of two of his former University of Chicago colleagues? Barack Obama is a “choice architect” aiming to implement “libertarian paternalism.” He might not know that he is; he might embrace the practice without understanding the theory. It is...
Corporate Board Member highlights legal leaders at awards dinner in New York City NEW YORK, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, June 19, Corporate Board Member hosted its first Legal Recognition Dinner honoring the top 20 law firms nationally and the top local firm in 25 major...
TORONTO -- The Hon. George W. Adams, Q.C., former Justice of the Ontario Superior Court, will mediate the claims asserted in a proposed class proceeding initiated in June 2007, by two Canadian franchisees against Midas Canada Inc. of Markham, Ontario and Midas International Corporation (NYSE: MDS) based in Itasca, Ill....
Some of the most important issues in technology are being debated -- and defined -- in a yellow wood-frame house on the edge of Harvard Law School's campus. Inside the 3,100-square-foot cottage, technology executives and academics gather to argue, debate and set policy about the Internet's toughest questions....
HE has named Martin Luther King and Edward Kennedy among his political heroes, but presidential candidate Barack Obama was also influenced by the Scottish mentor who helped him achieve his law degree. Ian Macneil, a 79-year-old academic with dual British and US citizenship, was one of Obama's...
"B&B might not be a big investment in the whole scheme of things, but you can be sure as hell he will shake things up over there." That's the assessment of a former colleague of David Bonderman, the man behind buyout group TPG. With an estimated 1.7bn...
Morris W. Hirsch to Be Named General Counsel SAN FRANCISCO -- UnionBanCal Corporation (NYSE: UB) today announced that Executive Vice President Morris W. Hirsch will succeed Senior Executive Vice President John H. McGuckin, Jr., as general counsel and corporate secretary on July 1, 2008. McGuckin has served as...
SAN DIEGO -- Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a leading California business and real estate law firm, announces the addition of Michael R. Adele as senior counsel in the firm's Del Mar Heights office. Adele joins Allen Matkins' technology and intellectual property and litigation practice...
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, Along with Professor G. Robert Blakey the World's Leading Authority on RICO, and U.S. Federal Appellate Judge George C. Pratt to Provide Expert Testimony Against the Bank of New York MOSCOW, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of the nation's top legal...
* Gary Hamel with Bill Breen * Harvard Business School Press * RRP $40.99 As management thinkers go, Gary Hamel is one of the most thoughtful, and The Future of Management illustrates this superbly. His basic premise this time? We must re-think the laws...
Psychiatric genetics; applications in clinical practice. Ed. by Jordan W. Smoller et al. American Psychiatric Pub. 2008 323 pages $55.00 Paperback RC455 For practitioners, this volume explains the clinical applications of genetics in psychiatry....
Meltdown Paul D. Lunde 700 South Dakota Ave, Unit 212--Ames, Iowa 50014-7931 author iUniverse 2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100, Lincoln, NE 68512 9781595482245, $12.95, www.iuniverse.com Real solutions to real problems that's what Harvard Law School Graduate Paul...
In partnership with National Heritage AcademiesNHA, BELL Building Educated Leaders for Life today announced itsexpansion into Detroit, beginning in July with the BELL Summer program.BELL currently serves more than 10,000 students in summer and afterschoolprograms in Baltimore, Boston and New York City. The Detroit program willserve more than 750 students...
Just four years ago, when Barack Obama was an obscure Illinois state senator running a long-shot campaign for the U.S. Senate, he quipped regarding his then-largely unfamiliar name, "Just call me Alabama." That same year he was invited to give the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, and he...
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